UDM 3. The future of (time resolved) room temperature protein X-ray crystallography

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Aim & Scope

In order to mitigate the effects of radiation damage occurring during macromolecular crystallography (MX) experiments at 3^rd generation synchrotron sources samples have been routinely cryo-cooled and data collection carried out at liquid nitrogen temperatures. Recent years, however, have seen a resurgence in both the idea and the practice of room-temperature MX both at synchrotron sources and X-ray free electron lasers. This microsymposium will combine a series of plenary talks from invited speakers with shorter talks selected from submitted abstracts, will examine the current state-of the-art in RT-MX and will look forward to a future in which the extremely intense X-ray beams that will be available at 4^th generation synchrotron sources will, when coupled with ultra-fast detectors, lead to a boom in RT MX and, in particular, the renaissance of time-resolved MX experiments on the micro- to milli-second timescale.