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Life Sciences School 2002, July 7-12
Sponsors of the Life Sciences Summer School include:
Chiron Pharmaceuticals
Celera
NIH NCRR
SSRL
ALS

Overview

The Life Sciences Program 2002 will focus on the structure determination methods in macromolecular crystallography from crystal screening to structure interpretation. A group of outstanding lecturers has been confirmed to teach approximately 40 students in an intensive training program throughout the week. Particular attention will be given to hands-on problems of current structural biology research. The program includes a visit to the Structural Molecular Biology resource at SSRL and demonstrations of automation systems for high-throughput structural biology and structural genomics.

The confirmed lecturers for the school are:
Ana Gonzalez, Stanford University Duncan McRee, Syrrx, San Diego
Andrej Sali, Rockefeller University Elspeth Garman, Oxford University
Andrew Leslie, MRC Cambridge Irimpan Mathews, Stanford University
Ashley Deacon, Stanford University Paul Ellis, Stanford University
Axel Brunger, Stanford University Thomas Schneider, Univ. of Göttingen
Charles Kissinger, Structural Genomics, San Diego Peter Kuhn, Stanford University
 

The draft program for Life Sciences Course includes a combined program with the Physical Sciences Course for Monday morning and Friday all day. The remaining formal sessions are parallel between the Physical and Life Sciences. All students and lecturers are joining for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Program
In preparation.

Local Chair:
Irimpan Mathews, Ph.D., Stanford University/SSRL

Fees
The fee is $800 for double occupancy or $950 for single occupancy. Students have free access to Stanford facilities such as the library, sports facilities, and pool.
Additionally the fee includes:
  • 6 night lodging (July 7-12)
  • Daily breakfast, lunch and dinner including coffee breaks (No dinner Sunday)
  • Refreshments at the Sunday and Friday receptions
  • Five days of instruction
  • Course materials
  • Network connection (wireless) and computer access at the conference center
  • Transportations to and from lecture sites and the two synchrotron radiation facilities for visits.

Commuter packages without lodging is $465 and includes:
  • Daily lunch including coffee breaks with dinner on Monday and Wednesday
  • Refreshments at the Sunday and Friday receptions
  • Five days of instruction
  • Course materials
  • Network connection (wireless) and computer access at the conference center
  • Transportations to and from lecture sites and the two synchrotron radiation facilities for visits.








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