NCMI Workshop on Single Particle Reconstruction, Validation and Analysis

Date

Mar. 14, 2011 - Mar. 17, 2011

All Day

Location

TLC^2
University of Houston
Houston, TX

Richard Henderson	Ed Egelman
LMB, MRC Cambridge, UK	Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics University of Virginia

Wah Chiu	Pawel Penczek
NCMI Verma and Marrs McLean Dept. of Biochemistry and Mol. Biol. Baylor College of Medicine	Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology The University of Texas - Houston Medical School

Tom Goddard	Mike Schmid
Computer Graphics Lab UCSF	NCMI Verma and Marrs McLean Dept. of Biochemistry and Mol. Biol. Baylor College of Medicine

Matt Baker	Gunnar Schroeder
NCMI Verma and Marrs McLean Dept. of Biochemistry and Mol. Biol. Baylor College of Medicine	Computational Structural Biology Group Institute of Structural Biology and Biophysics Forschungszentrum Juelich

Cathy Lawson	Yao Cong
PDB Chemistry & Chemical Biology Rutgers University	NCMI Verma and Marrs McLean Dept. of Biochemistry and Mol. Biol. Baylor College of Medicine

Ian Rees	Junjie Zhang
NCMI Verma and Marrs McLean Dept. of Biochemistry and Mol. Biol. Baylor College of Medicine	Dept. of Structural Biology Stanford School of Medicine

Irina Serysheva	Grigory Pintilie
The University of Texas - Houston Medical School	NCMI Verma and Marrs McLean Dept. of Biochemistry and Mol. Biol. Baylor College of Medicine

Steve Ludtke
NCMI Verma and Marrs McLean Dept. of Biochemistry and Mol. Biol. Baylor College of Medicine

ORGANIZERS

Steven Ludtke	Wah Chiu
sludtke@bcm.edu	wah@bcm.edu


Connie Wallace
webadmin@blake.grid.bcm.edu
*administrative contact

SPONSORS Agouron Institute
Texas Learning and Computation Center, University of Houston
JEOL, Inc.
Gatan, Inc.
Direct Electron, LP
The Gulf Coast Consortia
National Center for Research Resources
National Institute of General Medical Sciences

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED

The registration deadline is now past, and registration for the workshop is closed. If you still wish to register, you will need to contact sludtke@bcm.edu, and we can discuss whether it's possible.

SOFTWARE INSTALLATION
For those of you using laptops, or who wish to also have the workshop material installed on your laptop, detailed instructions for the required software and data is available here:

http://blake.bcm.edu/emanwiki/Workshop2011

Please also note that we will not be passing out printed copies of all of the talks during the workshop this year, but will be providing them online in PDF form during the talks. We will provide printouts of the tutorials, since you will be using your laptops for the tutorials themselves, and it would be inconvenient to have to keep switching back and forth.

Welcome to the NCMI's biennial Workshop on Single Particle Reconstruction, Validation and Analysis. This workshop focuses on single particle reconstruction and related techniques, including tutorials for a variety of different computational methods. A full EMAN2 tutorial will remain one central focus of the workshop, however we are expanding the content this year to cover a broader range of current topics, including :

Single particle analysis

Dynamics & Flexibility

Single particle tomography

Iterative helical real space reconstruction (IHRSR)

Map validation

Modeling and structure interpretation

Visualization

The workshop will consist of theory talks each morning followed by a 1/2 day of tutorials, with a research talk to finish up before dinner each day. Tutorials will cover EMAN2, SPARX, Gorgon, Chimera, Rosetta and other tools. Note that many of these software packages are extremely flexible/complicated, so in many cases the tutorials will simply be initial introductions to the software in question. While the workshop will be suitable for beginners, some advanced topics will also be covered.

The workshop is free of charge, including a number of provided meals, but participants are responsible for their own travel and lodging expenses. Unfortunately we do not have funds available to assist with these other expenses. This is historically a very popular event, and space is limited, so please register early.

For the tutorial sessions, participants may use either their own laptop computers or one of the on-site PCs. Slots on the PC's are limited, so if you have an adequate laptop we would urge you to consider this option. A suitable laptop will have : accelerated 3-D graphics (Nvidia or ATI/AMD), at least 2 gigs of ram, at least 20 gigs of free disk space, and preferably a large/high resolution display. You will also need to be comfortable with installing open-source software (a complete list will be available before the workshop). If you have a suitable laptop please select this option when registering.

On the first night of the workshop there will be an opportunity for participants to give short (~10 min) talks about their own research. If you are interested in doing this, please select this option when registering.

NOTE After registering, you should receive an immediate email confirming your registration request. If you do not receive this message within an hour or so, please contact sludtke@bcm.edu, as it means there was some problem with your registration information. Actual acceptance to the workshop may take up to 1-2 days after submission.

NCMI Workshop on Single Particle Reconstruction, Validation and Analysis

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED

To register (or modify your registration details), click here