We would like to invite all UK members to attend the ninth CCPN meeting from Wednesday 22 – Friday 24 July 2009 at the University of Cumbria, Ambleside Campus, (formally St Martin’s College, Ambleside) in the Lake District, England.  (http://www.cumbria.ac.uk/AboutUs/VisitingUs/AmblesideCampus.aspx)

The Conference starts at 12 noon on day one and will finish at 14.00 hours on day three.

We are planning to dedicate this years meeting to the topic of ‘Leads, Speed & Shifts’ with sub-topics of  Pharmacological NMR including ligand screening; NMR in practice, time saving and resolution enhancing methods; and Chemical shifts in practice, where they come from, how to use them, SHIFTX, DANGLE, homology assignment.   

Speakers include:

Bill Broadhurst, NMR Spectroscopy, University of Cambridge
Alessio Ciulli, Yale University, USA
Ben Davis, Vernalis, Cambridge
Victoria Higman, FMP Berlin, Germany & University of Bristol
Ewen Lescop (Institut de Chimie des Substances Naturelles - CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France) & Bernhard Brutscher (Institut de Biologie Structurale - CNRS/CEA/Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France)
Jakob Lopez, University of Frankfurt, Germany
Rinaldo Montalvao, Crystallography & Bioinformatics, University of Cambridge
Guido Pintacuda, Ecole Normale Superieure, Lyon, France
Brian Smith, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Martin Vogtherr, AztraZeneca, UK
David Wishart, University of Alberta, Canada

The meeting will be the ninth in a series modeled on the annual CCP4 study weekend for X-ray Crystallography.  The aims of these meetings are to present current best practice for all aspects of macromolecular structure determination by NMR.  The meeting is particularly aimed at PhD students and PostDocs, (mainly in the UK Biomolecular NMR community), and we have invited speakers who can discuss in detail the pros and cons of the different approaches that they are using.  Through discussion, we hope to come up with ideas as to how future NMR structural projects might best be tackled.

CCPN wants to encourage everyone to come and we will provide accommodation and meals for all UK participants from non-profit-making organisations.  We hope that attendees will be able to find their own transport costs to the meeting.

We plan to hold three sessions of about four speakers each, with ample time for discussion, over the course of the meeting, and will also include time for a poster session.  This year the meeting will be held at the University of Cumbria in Ambleside, which is in the Lake District, a very attractive part of the country.  We also, therefore, plan to organize a nice walk.

There will be a registration fee of 50.00 GBP per person (25 for those presenting a poster, which will be limited to 45 posters).

Poster size:  A1 portrait (84 x 59 cms).

Last year we were oversubscribed so please register early and send your registration fee promptly to guarantee a place.  Registration will close on the 22^nd May.

Additional accommodation is available the night before the meeting, this will not be covered by the CCPN and is offered at a cost of £29.00 per person per night, payable in advance.

For the walk you will need to bring - suitable walking boots, warm clothing, waterproofs, sun cream, a snack, 2L bottle of water.  Please note participation in the walk is entirely at your own risk.

The CCPN (Collaborative Computing Project in NMR) is a project funded by the UK BBSRC with the aim of establishing data formats, promoting production, sharing and interfacing of software, and arranging meetings and seminars on best practice, in the domain of macromolecular NMR spectroscopy.

We look forward to seeing you in Ambleside.


Please click here to register.

 
Should you have any problems please contact jfs31@mole.bio.cam.ac.uk