Preliminary Programme (pdf)


Thursday 13th November 2003


Chairman: Sean McSweeney (ESRF Grenoble)


09:00 - 09:10


Welcome - Sine Larsen (ESRF Director of Research)

09:10 - 09:30

Introduction/Historical Perspective - Elspeth Garman (University of Oxford)


Session (a): Radiation Chemistry

09:30 - 10:00

Chantal Houée-Levin (LCP Orsay)

10:00 - 10:30

Colin Nave (CCLRC Daresbury Lab. Warrington)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break


Session (b): Beam Heating: Modelling and Verification

11:00 - 11:30

Michael Kazmierczak (University of Cincinnati)


Session (c): Temperature Dependence of Radiation Damage (He, Phase Transitions, etc.)

11:30 - 12:00

Martin Weik (IBS Grenoble)


Session (d): Dose/Dose Rate Effects and Limits to Sample Life

12:00 - 12:30

Hanna-Kristi Leiros (ESRF Grenoble)

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch


Chairman: Raimond Ravelli (EMBL Grenoble)


Session (d): Dose/Dose Rate Effects and Limits to Sample Life (continued)

14:00 - 14:30

Clemens Schulze-Briese (SLS Villigen)

14:30 - 15:00

Edgar Weckert (HASYLAB Hamburg)

15:00 - 15:30

Gerd Rosenbaum (University of Georgia Athens)

15:30 - 16:00

Tea break


Session (e): Damage and Data Quality as a Function of Photon Energy

16:00 - 16:30

James Murray (University of Oxford)

16:30 - 17:00

Manfred Weiss (EMBL Hamburg)

17:00 - 17:30

Ana Gonzalez (SSRL Menlo Park)

18:00

Cocktail and Informal Discussions

19:30

Workshop Dinner



Friday 14th November 2003


Chairman: Gerd Rosenbaum (University of Georgia)


Session (f): Lipid/Membrane Biological Perspective

09:00 - 09:30

Martin Caffrey (The Ohio State University Columbus)


Session (g): Specific Sensitivity of Particular Crystals/Heavy Atoms to Damage

09:30 - 10:00

Sean McSweeney (ESRF Grenoble)


Session (h): Use of Free Radical Scavengers

10:00 - 10:30

Elspeth Garman (University of Oxford)

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break


Session (i): Improved Software for Dealing with Radiation Damage

11:00 - 11:30

Zbyszek Otwinowski (UT South Western Medical Center Dallas)

11:30 - 12:00

Vincent Favre-Nicolin (CEA Grenoble)

12:00 - 12:30

Clemens Vonrhein (Global Phasing Ltd Cambridge)

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch


Chairman: Colin Nave (SRS Daresbury)


Session (j): Use of On and Off Line Spectrometry for Radiation Damage Studies

14:00 - 14:30

Dominique Bourgeois (IBS Grenoble)


Session (k): The Use of Radiation Damage for Biological Studies and/or Phasing

14:30 - 15:00

Raimond Ravelli (EMBL Grenoble)

15:00 - 15:30

Gunnar Berglund (Uppsala University)

15:30 - 16:00

Tea break


Session (l): Genome Stability and Radiation Damage

16:00 - 16:30

Peter O'Neill (MRC Didcot)


Chairmen: Sean McSweeney (ESRF Grenoble) and Elspeth Garman (University of Oxford)

Final Discussion