Table of Contents
President's Column
Roster - ACA
Roster - U.S. National Committee
Nominations for Patterson Award
Awards
Ewald Prize Nomination
Daniel Appleman 1931-1998
Coordinate Holds and the PDB
ACA Meeting Moves to Crystal City
Workshops and Schools
ACA Corporate Members
ACA Summer School
Polycrystal Book Service
Calendar of Meetings
Contributors to this issue
Employment Information
Contributions to the ACA Newsletter should be sent to either of the Co-Editors:
Ron Stenkamp
Dept. of Biol. Structure
Box 357420
U. of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-7420
tel. 206-685-1721
fax 206-543-1524
stenkamp@u.washington.edu
Judith L. Flippen-Anderson
Code 6030
Naval Research Labatory
Washington, DC 20375
tel. 202-767-3463
fax 202-767-6874
flippen@harker.nrl.navy.mil
Articles by e-mail are especially welcome. Deadlines for newsletter contributions
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President's Column
This promises to be an interesting year for the ACA and I am honored
to serve as President this year. With the arrival of 1998, Carol Huber completed
her three years on Council. Carol provided exceptional service to the organization
over the period and through some substantial changes in her life. We wish
her good health and know that she maintains a keen interest in the organization.
Jon Clardy will continue to serve the ACA as Past-President and as representative
to the US National Committee on Crystallography. I look forward to enjoying
Jon's wise counsel for another year. Council is pleased to welcome Abe Clearfield
as Vice-President; Abe expands the technical expertise of the Council and
I look forward to his leadership.
We are all indebted to the people in Buffalo, including Marcia Colquhoun,
Patti Coley, Sally Lunge, and Bill Duax. They all contribute a great deal
to the organization, as do our newsletter editors, Ron Stenkamp and Judy
Flippen-Anderson. The success of the ACA depends on the contributions of
many excellent volunteers like these. I hope each of you will find an opportunity
to contribute to the organization.
If the rest of 1998 measures up to the events of January, this could be
quite a year. As you will learn elsewhere in the newsletter, we had to move
the site of our July meeting at very short notice. The Meetings Committee,
Judy Flippen-Anderson, S.N. Rao, and Marcia Colquhoun, in consultation with
the local organizers, acted very quickly to move the meeting to the Hyatt
Regency Crystal City conveniently located near the Washington National Airport.
The date of the meeting remains the same, July 18 - 23 and we hope to see
you there. Program Chair, Louis Delbaere, and the Special Interest Groups
have planned a full program of scientific sessions covering the range of
interests in the ACA, including a Transaction Symposium on Crystal Engineering
and the Fankuchen Memorial Award lecture. A special symposium will be held
at the meeting to honor the 50th anniversary of the IUCr; it is organized
by Henk Schenk and the IUCr Executive and will be presented at each Regional
Affiliate meeting this year. Council hopes to award a second Elizabeth Wood
Science Writing Award at the Washington, D.C. meeting.
Please contact any member of Council with your suggestions and concerns.
We hope to provide the service and meetings you need.
Penny Codding
Roster - ACA - 1998
OFFICERS
PRESIDENT
Penelope Codding
Vice-Pres. Acad. & Provost
University Of Victoria
PO Box 1700
Victoria BC V8W 2Y2
CANADA
tel. 250-721-7010
fax 250-721-7216
pcodding@uvic.ca
VICE PRESIDENT
Abraham Clearfield
Dept. of Chemistry
Texas A & M University
P.O. Box 300012
College Station, TX 77842
tel. 409-845-2936
fax 409-845-2370
clearf@acxrd.chem.tamu.edu
PAST PRESIDENT
Jon Clardy
Dept. of Chemistry
Baker Lab
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853-1301
tel. 607-255-7583
fax 607-255-1253
jcc12@cornell.edu
TREASURER
Jane F. Griffin
Dept. of Molec. Biophysics
Hauptman-Woodward Med. Res. Inst.
73 High St.
Buffalo, NY 14203-1196
tel. 716-856-9600 ext. 363
fax 716-852-4846
griffin@hwi.buffalo.edu
SECRETARY
Virginia Pett
Department of Chemistry
The College of Wooster
Wooster, OH 44691
tel. 330-263-2114
fax 330-263-2386
pett@acs.wooster.edu
CANADIAN REP
George Ferguson
Dept. of Chemistry
University of Guelph
Guelph ONT N1G 2W1
CANADA
tel. 519-824-4120 ext. 3548
Fax 519-766-1499
ferguson@chembio.uoguelph.ca
APPOINTMENTS
IUCr REP
Philip Coppens
Dept. of Chemistry
SUNY, Buffalo
732 Nat. Sci. & Math Complex
Buffalo, NY 14260-3000
tel. 716-645-6800 *2217
fax 716-645-6963
CHE9990@UBVMS
FINANCIAL ADVISOR
S.N. Rao
Admin. Bldg. Room 218
Box 0175
University of Central Oklahoma
100 North University Dr.
Edmond, OK 73034-0175
tel. 405-341-2980 ext. 2524
fax 405-330-3830
snrao@aix1.ucok.edu
EXECUTIVE OFFICER
William L. Duax
Hauptman-Woodward Med. Res. Inst.
73 High St.
Buffalo, NY 14203-1196
tel. 716-856-9600 ext 308
fax 716-852-4846
duax@hwi.buffalo.edu
ADMINISTRATIVE MANAGER
Marcia Colquhoun
ACA
P.O. 96 Ellicott Station
Buffalo, NY 14205-0096
tel. 716-856-9600 ext 321
fax 716-852-4846
marcia@hwi.buffalo.edu
NEWSLETTER EDITORS
Judith Flippen-Anderson
Code 6030
Naval Research Laboratorie
Washington, DC 20375
tel. 202-767-3463
fax 202-767-6874
flippen@harker.nrl.navy.mil
Ronald Stenkamp
Box 357420
Dept. of Biological Structure
Seattle, WA 98195-7420
tel. 206-685-1721
fax 206-543-1524
stenkamp@u.washington.edu
CANADIAN DIVISION OFFICERS
Lynn Howell, Chair
Dept. of Biochemistry
Hosp. For Sick Children
555 University Ave.
Toronto, ONT M5B 1X8
tel. 416-597-5933
fax 416-813-5022
howell@sickkids.on.ca
James F. Britten, Secretary
Dept. of Chemistry
McMaster University
1280 Main St. West
Hamilton, ONT ABB-417
tel. 905-525-9140 ext. 23481
fax 905-522-2509
xman@xraysg.chemistry. mcmaster.ca
ACA SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
AMORPHOUS MATERIALS
John Kieffer, Chair
Dept. of Matl. Sci. & Eng.
U. of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
1304 W. Green St., MC-246
Urbana, IL 61801
tel. 217-244-4364
fax 217-244-6917
johnk@uiuc.edu
Ronald Cappelletti, Chair elect
Dept. of Physics
Ohio University
Athens, OH 45701
fax 614-593-0433
cappltti@helios.phy.ohiou.edu
Woitek Dmowski, Sec/Treas.
Dept. of Matl. Sci. & Eng.
U. of Pennsylvania
3231 Walnut St. LRSM
Philadelphia, PA 19104
tel. 215-898-9045
dmowski@pdfvax.1rsm.upenn.edu
BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Judith Kelly, Chair
Dept. of Mol. & Cell Bio.
Univ. of Connecticut
75 N Eagleville Rd Box U125
Storrs CT 06269-3125
tel. 860-486-4353
fax 860-486-4331
kelly@uconnvm.uconn.edu
William Stallings, Chair-elect
Monsanto BB4k
700 Chesterfield Village Pkwy
Chesterfield, MO 63198
tel. 314-537-7236
fax 314-537-7425
wcstal@ccmail.monsanto.com
Kathryn Ely, Sec./Treas.
Dept. of Structural Biology
Burnham Institute
10901 N. Torrey Pines Rd.
LaJolla, CA 92037-1062
tel. 619-455-6480 ext 591
fax 619-455-0249
ely@ljcrf.edu
FIBER DIFFRACTION
Wade Adams, Chair
425 Dayton Towers #12F
Dayton OH 45410-1161
tel. 513-255-6652
fax 513-255-1128
adamsww@ml.wpafb.af.mil
Greg Beaucage, Chair-elect
Materials Science & Eng.
Univ. of Cincinnati
498 Rhodes Hall ML12
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0172
tel. 513-556-3063
gbeaucage@uceng.uc.edu
Gerald Stubbs, Sec/Treas.
Dept. of Mol. Bio.
Vanderbilt Univ.
Box 1820 Station B
Nashville, TN 37235-1820
tel. 615-322-2018
stubbsgj@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu
GENERAL INTEREST
Carolyn Brock, Chair
Dept. of Chem.
U. of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506-0055
tel. 606-257-1959
fax 606-323-1069
cpbrock@ukcc.uky.edu
Bryan Craven, Chair-elect (NEW ADDRESS)
Dept. of Chemistry
Indiana Univ.of Penn
Indiana, PA 15705
412 357 5784
craven@vms.cis.pitt.edu
Robert Blessing, Sec/Treas.
Hauptman-Woodward MRI
73 High St.
Buffalo, NY 14203
tel. 716-856-9600 ext 335
fax 716-852-6086
blessing@hwi.buffalo.edu
Margaret Kastner, Member-at-Large
Dept. of Chem.
Bucknell U.
Lewisburg, PA 17837
tel. 717-524-1452
fax 717-524-1739
kastner@bucknell.edu
MATERIALS SCIENCE
Jim Kaduk, Chair
Amoco Res Ctr.-Amoco Corp.
PO Box 3011
Naperville IL 60566-7011
tel. 708-420-4547
fax 708-420-5252
kaduk@amoco.com
David E Cox, Chair-elect
Physics Department 510B
Brookhaven National Lab
Upton, NY 11973-5000
tel. 516-344-3818
fax 516-344-2739
cox@bnlx7a.nsls.bnl.gov
Dick Harlow, Sec/Treas.
7 Shull Dr. Devon
Newark DE 19711
tel. 302-695-2097
fax 302-695-1351
harlow@esvax.dnet.dupont.com
Douglas A. Keszler, Member- at-Large
Dept. of Chemistry
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR 97331
tel. 503-754-6736
fax 503-737-2072
keszlerd@ccmail.orst.edu
NEUTRON SCATTERING
Robert Von Dreele, Chair
Los Alamos Natl. Lab.
Los Alamos, NM 87545
tel. 505-667-3630
fax 505-665-2656
vondreele@lanl.gov
Raymond G Teller, Chair-elect
BP America Inc.
4440 Warrensville Center Rd
Cleveland, OH 44128-2837
tel. 216-586-5953
fax 216-586-5621
tellerg@chqp01.usachem.msnet.bp.com
J. Richardson, Sec/Treas.
IPNS Div.
Argonne National Lab
9700 S. Cass Ave.
Argonne, IL 60439
richardson@anlpns.anl.gov
SERVICE CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
Philip Fanwick, Chair
Dept. of Chem.
Purdue University
W. Lafayette, IN 47907-1393
tel. 317-494-4572
fax 317-494-4572
fanwick@xray.chem.purdue.edu
Victor G Young, Chair-elect
Dept. of Chem.
Univ. of Minnesota
207 Pleasant St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
tel. 612-625-6897
fax 612-626-7541
young@chemsun.chem.umn.edu
Doug Powell, Sec/Treas.
Dept. of Chem.
U. of Wisconsin, Madison
1101 Univ. Ave.
Madison, WI 53706-1322
tel. 608-262-3182
fax 608-262-0381
powell@chem.wisc.edu
SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING
Jill Trewhella, Chair
1417 Big Rock Loop
Los Alamos, MN 87544
tel. 505-667-2031103
fax 505-494-4572
jtrewhella@lanl.gov
Benjamin S Hsiao, Chair-elect
Central Res. & Dev.
E I DuPont De Nemours
PO Box 80302 ES
Wilmington, DE 19880-0302
tel. 302-695-4668
fax 302-695-1717
hsiao@esvax.dnet.dupont.com
Greg Beaucage, Sec/Treas.
Matl. Science & Engineering
Univ. of Cincinnati
498 Rhodes Hall ML12
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0172
tel. 513-556-3063
gbeaucage@uceng.uc.edu
Paul Schmidt, Member-at-Large
503 S Garth
Columbia, MO 65203
tel. 314-882-8241
SMALL MOLECULES
Bart Kahr, Chair
Dept. of Chemistry
Univ. of Washington
Box 351700
Seattle, WA 98195-1700
tel. 206-616-8195
fax 206-685-8665
kahr@chem.washington.edu
Richard Harlow, Chair-elect
7 Shull Drive Devon
Newark, DE 19711
tel. 302-695-2097
Fred Hollander, Sec/Treas.
Dept. of Chemistry
Univ. of California-Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
tel. 510-642-8444
flieg@socrates.berkeley.edu
SYNCHROTRON RADIATION
Steven Burley, Chair
Rockefeller Univ.
1230 York Ave. Box 78
New York NY 10021
tel. 212-327 8336
fax 212-327-8337
burley@rockvax.rockefeller.edu
Thomas Koetzle, Chair-elect
Dept. of Chemistry
Brookhaven National Lab
Upton, NY 11973-5000
tel. 516-282-4384
fax 516-282-5815
koetzle@chm.chm.bnl.gov
Angus Wilkinson, Sec/Treas.
Dept. of Chem. & Biochem.
Georgia Inst. of Tech.
Atlanta GA 30332-0400
tel. 404-874-4036
fax 404-894-7452
angus.wilkinson@chemistry. gatech. edu
YOUNG SCIENTIST
Matt Redinbo, Chair
Biomol. Struct. Ctr.
University of Washington
Box 357742
Seattle, WA 98195
fax 416-926-6529
redinbo@u.washington.edu
Jeffrey Habel, Chair-elect
Dept. of Chem. & Biochem.
Georgia Inst. of Tech.
Atlanta, GA 30332
tel. 404-894-4075
fax 404-894-7452
jhabel@mindspring.com
Bianca Hovey, Sec/Treas.
Dept. of Biochemistry
Univ. of Washington
Box 357350
Seattle, WA 98195-7350
tel. 206-685-7047
tel. 206-685-7002
bhovey@u.washington.edu
ACA STANDING COMMITTEES
APPARATUS & STANDARDS
Ethan Merritt, Chair (96-98)
Box 357420
Dept. of Biological Structure
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195-7420
tel. 206-543-1421
fax 206-865-7002
merritt@u.washington.edu
Bernie Santarsiero (97-99)
MCB 504 Stanley Hall
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
tel. 510-643-8234
fax 510-643-9290
bds@neuron1.berkeley.edu
Alan A. Pinkerton (98-00)
Dept. of Chemistry
Univ. of Toledo
2801 W Bancroft St.
Toledo, OH 43606-3390
tel. 419-530-4568
fax 419-530-4033
apinker@uoft02.utoledo.edu
CRYSTAL DATA & COMPUTING
Lee Brammer, Chair (96-98)
Dept. of Chemistry
University of Missouri
8001 Natural Bridge Rd
St. Louis MO 63121-4499
tel. 314-516-5345
fax 314-516-5342
lee.brammer@umsl.edu
Christophe Verlinde (97-99)
Biomolecular Structure Center
Box 357742
University of Washington
Seattle WA 98195-7742
tel. 206-543-8865
fax 206-685-7002
verlind@gouda.bmsc.washington. edu
Robert Von Dreele, (98-00)
LANSLE, MS H805
Los Alamos National Lab
Los Alamos, NM 87545
tel. 505-667-3630
fax 505-665-2676
vondreele@lanl.gov
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Douglas Ho, Chair (96-98)
Dept. of Chemistry
Princeton Univ. Frick Lab
130 Washington Rd
Princeton NJ 08544-1009
tel. 609-258-3160
fax 609-258-6746
ho@chemvax.princeton.edu
J. Krause Bauer, (97-99)
Dept. of Chemistry
University of Cincinnati
P.O. Box 210172
Cincinnati OH 45221-0172
tel. 516-556-9226
fax 513-556-9239
jeanette.krause@uc.edu
Raymond E Davis, (98-00)
Dept. of Chemistry
Univ. of Texas Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1167
tel. 512-471-4440
fax 512-471-8696
redavis@mail.utexas.edu
PUBLICATIONS
Stanley Cameron, Chair (96-98)
Dept. of Chemistry
Dalhousie University
Halifax NS B3H 4J3
CANADA
tel. 902-479-3506
fax 902-494-1310
cameron@ac.dal.ca
Ron Stenkamp (97-99)
Box 357420
Dept. of Biological Structure
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-7420
tel. 206-685-1721
fax 206-543-1524
stenkamp@u.washington.edu
Douglas C Rees (98-00)
Dept. of Chemistry
California Inst. of Technology
147-75 CH
Pasadena, CA 91125
tel. 818-395-8393
fax 818-568-9430
rees@citray.caltech.edu
ROSTER - U.S. NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR CRYSTALLOGRAPHY
Judith L. Flippen-Anderson, Chair (1999)
Lab. for the Structure of Matter
Naval Research Laboratory
Code 6030
Washington, DC 20375
tel. 202-767-3463
fax 202-767-6874
flippen@harker.nrl.navy.mil
Marvin Hackert, Vice-Chair (2002)
Dept. of Chem. & Biochem.
University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712
tel. 512-471-1105
fax 512-471-8698
m.hackert@email.utexas.edu
James A Kaduk, Secretary/Treasurer (2000)
Amoco Corporation
Amoco Research Center
150 W. Warrensville Road
P.O. Box 3011, MC F-9
Naperville, IL
tel. 630-420-4547
fax 630-420-5252
kaduk@amoco.com
Cele Abad-Zapatero (1999)
Abbott Laboratories, Inc.
46Y, AP-10, L-07
100 Abbott Park Rd.
Abbott Park, IL 60064-3500
tel. 847-937-0294
fax 847-937-2625
abad@mozart.pprd.abbott.com
Lonny E. Berman (1999)
Natl. Synch. Light Source
Brookhaven National Lab.
Bldg. 725D, P.O. Box 5000
Upton, New York 11973
tel. 516-344-5333
fax 516-344-3238
berman@bnl.gov
Lee Brammer (2000)
Dept. of Chemistry
Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis
8001 Natural Bridge Road
St. Louis, MO 63121-4499
tel. 314-516-5345
fax 314-516-5342
lee.brammer@umsl.edu
Charles W. Carter, Jr. (1998)
University of North Carolina
Dept. of Biochem. & Biophys.
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7260
tel. 919-962-8326
fax 919-966-2852
carter@med.unc.edu
Connie Chidester (1998)
The Upjohn Company
301 Henrietta Street
Kalamazoo, MI 49007
tel. 616-385-7624
fax 616-385-7522
cgchides@am.pnu.com
Douglas L. Dorset (1998)
Electron Diffraction Dept.
Hauptman-Woodward Med. Res. Ins.
73 High Street
Buffalo, NY 14203-1196
tel. 716-856-9600
fax 716-852-4846
dorset@hwi.buffalo.edu
Howard M. Einspahr (2000)
Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharm. Res. Inst.
PO Box 4000 H23-03
Princeton, NJ 08543-4000
tel. 609-252-5267
fax 609-252-6030
einspahr@bms.com
Gary Gilliland (2000)
Chem. Sci. Tech. Lab.
Natl. Inst. of Stand. & Tech., Gaithersburg, MD
and Center for Adv. Res. in Biotech.
9600 Gudelsky Dr.
Rockville, MD 20850
tel. 301-738-6272
fax 301-738-6255
gary.gilliland@nist.gov
Richard L. Harlow(1999)
Central Res. and Dev.
E228/316d
E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., Inc.
Wilmington, DE 19880-0228
tel. 302-695-2097
fax 302-695-1351
harlow@esvax.dnet.dupont.com
Rick P. Millane (1998)
Whistler Center for Carbohydrate Res. and
Com. Sci. and Eng. Prog.
Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1160
tel. 765-494-9272
fax 765-494-7953
rmillane@purdue.edu
Mark L. Rivers (1999)
The University of Chicago
Center for Adv. Rad. Sources
5640 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
tel. 312-702-2279
fax 312-702-5454
rivers@cars3.uchicago.edu
Robert M. Sweet (2000)
Biology Department
Brookhaven National Lab
Upton, NY 11973
tel. 516-344-3401
sweet@bnl.com
Ex-Officio Voting Members
Philip Coppens, IUCr Past-President (1999)
Department of Chemistry
SUNY Buffalo
732 Natural Sci. and Math. Complex
Buffalo, NY 14260-3000
tel. 716-645-6800 ext. 2217
fax 716-645-6963
coppens@acsu.buffalo.edu
Michael Hart (1999), IUCr Executive Committee
Nat. Synch. Light Source
Brookhaven National Lab.
Upton, NY 11973
tel. 516-344-5939
fax 516-344-5842
hart1@bnl.gov
Jon Clardy, ACA Past-President (1998)
Abe Clearfield, ACA Vice-President (2000)
Jane F. Griffin, ACA Treasurer (2000)
Subcommittee on Interdisciplinary Activities (non-voting members)
Alex A. Chernov (1999)
Representing the American Assoc. for Crystal Growth
NASA/George C. Marshall Space Flight Center
Mail Code ES75
Marshall Space Flight Center AL 35812
tel. 205-544-9196
fax 205-544-8762
alex.chernov@msfc.nasa.gov
Gerald G. Johnson, Jr. (1998)
Representing the ICDD
IMRL - Penn. State Univ.
123 ROB/MRL.PSU
Univ. Park, PA 16802-4800
tel. 814-865-1637
fax 814-863-7845
johnson@psumrl1.psu.edu
NRC Staff Officer
Tamae Wong
National Research Council
2101 Constitution Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20418
tel. 202-334-2156
fax 202-334-2154
wong@nas.edu
Liason to the Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology
Joseph G. Gordon II
IBMResearch Division
K34/80-3Almaden Res. Cent.
650 Harry Road
San Jose, CA 95120-6099
tel. 408-927-1266
fax 408-927-2100 (BoxK34)
gordon@almaden.ibm.com
Call for Patterson Award Nominations
The generally triennial presentation of the A. L. Patterson Award will
be made at the Buffalo, NY, meeting of the American Crystallographic Association
in May, 1999. The A. L. Patterson Award, established in 1980, is to recognize
and encourage outstanding research in the structure of matter by diffraction
methods. This may include one or more of the following: (i) significant
contributions to the methodology of structure determination, (ii) innovative
application of diffraction methods, (iii) elucidation of biological, chemical,
geological or physical phenomena using new structural information. There
are no restrictions as to nationality, race, sex, religion, or membership
of the ACA. The award is given in memory of Arthur Lindo Patterson, Senior
Member, Institute for Cancer Research, Philadelphia, 1949-1966, whose most
important contribution to crystallography was the function named after him.
Previous recipients were: Wayne A. Hendrickson, 1981; Jerome Karle and Herbert
Hauptman, 1984; David and Liselotte Templeton, 1987; Michael Woolfson, 1990;
George Sheldrick, 1993; and Christer E. Nordman, 1997. The Award is for
$3000, consisting of a monetary award of $1500, and $1500 in travel expenses
to accept the award at an ACA Annual Meeting.
Nominations are invited from throughout the crystallographic community.
They should be submitted in writing to any member of the committee. The
major contributions of the nominee should be identified, with supporting
documentation.
The closing date for nominations is July 1st, 1998; earlier nominations
would be welcomed. The members of the 1999 Patterson Award Committee are:
Dr. Lee Brammer (Chair)
Dept. of Chemistry
Univ. of Missouri-St. Louis
8001 Natural Bridge Road
St. Louis, MO 63121-4499
lee.brammer@umsl.edu
Dr. Helen M. Berman
Dept. of Chemistry
Wright & Rieman Labs
Rutgers University
PO Box 939
Piscataway, NJ 08855-0939
berman@adenine.rutgers.edu
Dr. Charles W. Carter
Dept. of Biochem. & Biophys.
University of North Carolina - CB7260
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7260
carter@pasteur.med.unc.edu
Dr. Judith A. Kelly
Dept. of Molec. & Cell Biol.
University of Connecticut
75 N. Eagleville Road
Box U125
Storrs, CT 06269-3125
kelly@uconnvm.uconn.edu
Call for Nominations for the USNCCr
The USNCCr will be electing 4 new regular members in 1998 to serve for
the 3 year period 1999-2002. If you would like to nominate someone, including
yourself, to serve on the Committee, please contact one of the following
USNCCr members:
Lonny Berman, Chair berman@bnlx17.nsls.bnl.gov
Cele Abad-Zapatero: cele.abadzapatero@abbott.com
Dick Harlow: harlow@esvax.dnet.dupont.com
Mark Rivers: rivers@cars3.uchicago.edu
International Union of Crystallography - Nominations for the Ewald
Prize
The International Union of Crystallography is pleased to invite nominations
for the Ewald Prize for outstanding contributions to the science of crystallography.
The Prize is named after Prof. Paul P. Ewald in recognition of his significant
contributions to the foundations of crystallography and to the founding
of the International Union of Crystallography. Professor Ewald was the President
of the Provisional International Crystallographic Committee from 1946 to
1948, the first Editor of the IUCr publication Acta Crystallographica from
1948 to 1959 and the President of the IUCr from 1960 to 1963.
The Prize consists of a medal, a certificate and a financial award, and
is presented once every three years during the triennial International Congresses
of Crystallography. The recipients to date are as follows: 1987 Prof. J.M.
Cowley and Dr. A.F. Moodie, 1990 Prof. B.K. Vainshtein, 1993 Prof. N. Kato,
1996 Prof. M.G. Rossmann. The fifth Prize, for which nominations are now
being invited, will be presented at the XVIII Congress in Glasgow, UK, in
August 1999.
Scientists who have made contributions of exceptional distinction to the
science of crystallography are eligible for the Ewald Prize, irrespective
of nationality, age or experience. The Selection Committee will give careful
attention to the nominations of outstanding scientists who have not yet
won a major prize. Either an exceptionally distinguished scientific career
or a major scientific accomplishment may be recognized. Current members
of the Selection Committee and the President of the IUCr are not eligible.
No restrictions are placed on the time or the means of publication of the
nominee's contributions. The Prize may be shared by more than one contributor,
but not more than three, to the same scientific achievement.
Nominations for the Ewald Prize should be submitted in writing, preferably
using the Ewald Prize Nomination Form and accompanied by supporting documentation,
to the Executive Secretary of the International Union of Crystallography,
2 Abbey Square, Chester CH1 2HU, England, from whom copies of the Nomination
Form and the names of the Selection Committee may be obtained. The closing
date for nominations is 31 August 1998.
Isabella Karle Wins ACS Award for Peptide Chemistry
The American Chemical Society has presented the Ralph F. Hirschmann
Award in Peptide Chemistry to Isabella L. Karle, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory.
The award is sponsored by Merck Research Laboratories and will be given
in March at the 215th national ACS meeting in Dallas.
International Centre for Diffraction Data Announces Crystallography Scholarship
Award Recipients
The International Centre for Diffraction Data is pleased to announce the
awarding of five Crystallography Scholarships for 1998. They are: Ekaterina
Anokhina from Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; Nathalie
Audebrand from the Universite de Rennes I, Rennes, France; Susanne C. Feil
from St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Victoria, Australia; Christopher
D. Theis from The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania;
and K. Scott Weil from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Ekaterina Anokhina's studies focus on "Niobium Oxochloride Cluster
Compounds: a Quest for Correlations between Configuration of the Clusters,
Framework Topology and Properties." Nathalie Audebrand will continue
her research of "Structure, Microstructure and Temperature-dependent
Diffraction Studies of New Cerium-based Precursors and Related Oxides."
The exploration of "Structural and Functional Aspects of Pore-forming
Proteins by X-ray Crystallography and Molecular Biology" will be conducted
by Susanne Feil. Christopher Theis will study "Ferroelectric Superlattices
and Higher n Aurivillius Phases Grown by MBE". "Investigation
of the Formation, Structure, and Magnetic Behavior of Compounds in the Nickel-
Molybdenum-Nitrogen System" will be researched by K. Scott Weil.
Wayne Hendrickson Receives Hollaender Award
The National Academy of Sciences has selected 15 individuals to receive
awards for their outstanding contributions to science. Presentations will
be made on April 27 at a ceremony in Washington, D.C., during the Academy's
135th annual meeting. The Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics - a prize
of $15,000 awarded every three years for outstanding contributions in biophysics
- goes to Wayne A. Hendrickson, investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
and professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City. Hendrickson
was chosen "for his contributions to macromolecular crystallography,
in the development of robust methods of phasing and refinement, and in determination
of complex and biologically important structures." The award will be
presented for the first time this year.
Daniel Everett Appleman 1931-1998
Daniel Appleman died at age 66 on January 2, 1998. Thus is ended an
extraordinary career in mineralogy, crystallography, and museum design.
He leaves behind his wife Peggy and his daughter Rebecca.
Daniel was born April 11, 1931, in Berkeley, California. He and his two
brothers grew up in a professional environment (his father was Professor
of Botany at UCLA). In this stimulating background, Daniel earned his Bachelor
of Science degree at California Institute of Technology in 1953. He then
entered graduate school in the Department of Geology at Johns Hopkins University.
While working on a thesis for a Ph.D. degree (awarded 1956) he joined the
U. S. Geological Survey in 1954, where he stayed until 1974. In this laboratory
he carried out crystal structure and crystal chemical studies in uranium
mineralogy, comprehensive structural studies of the pyroxene-type minerals,
among other topics. An accomplished computer programmer, he is noted for
the creation (with Evans) of the Appleman program for the refinement of
unit cell parameters by least-squares analysis of X-ray powder diffraction
data, which is still used today world-wide.
In 1974 he moved to the Smithsonian Institution where he became Chairman
of the Division of Mineral Sciences. While there he substantially improved
the staff and facilities of this laboratory, and continued his mineralogical
investigations. Among his outstanding achievements here was the refinement
(with John Konnert) of the structure of low-temperature tridymite, with
240 unique atoms, 732 parameters in space group F1 (with interatomic distance
restraints and fourfold twinning, R = 0.064). In his last years at the Natural
History Museum he served as Associate Director for Science. In this capacity
he initiated a complete renovation of the Mineral Hall. After two years
of construction the exhibit was reopened September 17, 1997 as the Hooker
Hall of Geology, Gems and Minerals, which has since attracted enormous attention.
In 1993 Daniel was called to serve as Vice-President of the Cranbrook Institute
in Bloomfield Hills in Michigan (near Detroit) to direct the Science Institute.
This famous liberal arts school has an outstanding science museum, and Dan
set to work to design and build a new wing. It must have given Daniel much
satisfaction to sit in his office and look out of the window across the
courtyard and watch the building take shape (as well as to attend the opening
of the Hooker Hall at the Smithsonian!). It is a tragedy that cancer, which
he fought heroically for a year, overtook him before it was completed.
The spectacular Hooker Hall at the Smithsonian Institution and the Science
Museum at the Cranbrook Institute are both well worth a visit, and anyone
who does visit these places should give a silent prayer of thanks to Daniel
Appleman for making these marvelous displays possible.
Howard T. Evans, Jr.
Petition Concerning Coordinate Holds in the PDB
Alex Wlodawer is circulating the following petition to generate comments
and support for changes in the Protein Data Bank's policy on withholding
coordinates for up to a year after submission. Any supporting or opposing
messages should be sent to him at: wlodawer@ncifcrf.gov or faxed to 301-846-6128.
If he finds sufficient support, he will submit the petition to the Commission
on Biological Molecules of IUCr.
To: Commission on Biological Molecules, IUCr
We, the undersigned, would like to request a revision of the IUCr policy
on publication and deposition of data from crystallographic studies of biological
macromolecules (Acta Cryst. A45, 658 (1989). It is our intention that if
the policy gets revised, the new rules will be communicated to granting
agencies and to scientific journals, in order to be universally accepted.
The current policy has been implemented on the basis of the discussions
which had taken place a decade ago. In the meantime, there has been an incredibly
rapid increase in the rate of determination of 3D structures of biomacromolecules,
as reflected by the deposition of a new structure in the Protein Data Bank
(PDB), on average, every five hours. Unfortunately, in parallel, an increasing
proportion of depositors take advantage of the PDB's policy of allowing
structures to be kept 'on hold' for up to a year after coordinate deposition.
Consequently, as many as 45% of newly deposited structures are not available
when the relevant papers are published.
When the issue of deposition was debated by the community ten years ago,
the time needed to solve a macromolecular structure was often measured in
years, and was rarely less than one year. The time needed for detailed analysis
of such structures was also fairly long. The one-year hold on coordinates
was therefore instituted to allow the authors to reap the fruit of their
tremendous investment of time and effort. Due to recent advances in protein
expression and purification, crystallization procedures, X-ray instrumentation,
and computer software, the time needed to solve a structure is often shorter
than the allowed hold period. In light of such developments, it is very
difficult to justify withholding coordinates for any period once the paper
has been published.
Biomolecular structure analysis has indeed succeeded in bringing 3D structures
to the forefront of molecular biological research. This success has expanded
both the interest in and utility of the information being deposited in the
PDB. The molecular modeling community has grown and evolved considerably
due to the expansion of this source of experimental data. The value of the
data rests in their availability to the broader community. Methods are continuously
being developed to analyze new structures and their relationships to the
collection of existing structures. New uses for these data, such as statistical
potentials for folding and threading calculations, and interface recognition
tools, are evolving rapidly. No single research group can fully exhaust
this wealth of information. The value of the resource grows proportionally
to the timeliness of the data and to the number of scientists who have access
to them. 3D structural information is also a crucial link elucidating the
role of a translated region of a DNA sequence of unknown function.
We feel most strongly that the time has come to change the rules of deposition
so as to ensure that the coordinates are released concomitantly with publication
of the paper(s) describing the structure. We are convinced that without
access to the coordinates, the structures cannot be utilized for comparison
with other proteins, for theoretical analysis or, more and more importantly,
for drug design. We propose that coordinates deposited at the PDB should
be marked as either "for immediate release" or "to be released
upon publication". We also recommend that the maximum hold for primary
data, i.e., X-ray structure factors, and NMR-based restraints, be reduced
from 4 years to 1 year. These changes would bring macromolecular crystallography
into line with the requirements of other fields, such as gene sequencing,
which have never allowed extended hold periods.
Dr. Alexander Wlodawer
Macromolecular Structure Laboratory
NCI-FCRDC, P.O. Box B
Frederick, MD 21702
wlodawer@ncifcrf.gov
Phone (301) 846-5036 fax -6128
Vote For or Against the One-Year Hold on the Web
To further the discussion concerning the one-year hold, Nature Structural
Biology is hosting a vote on the issue at its website. If you have missed
the flurry of electronic notices and discussion and you wish to participate
in the vote, please investigate the website. The URL for the site of the
vote is:
http://us.nature.com/survey/nsb_poll.nclk
Guy Riddihough (Editor) and Nature Structural Biology deserve our thanks
for providing an opportunity for increased public input on this policy.
Meeting Site Changes for ACA 98
Due to circumstances beyond our control, the site of the 1998 ACA Annual
Meeting has been changed. The meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency
Crystal City, in Arlington, Virginia. The Hyatt Regency is adjacent to and
offers free shuttle service to Washington National Airport and the METRO
subway. It is 32 miles from Dulles International Airport. Overlooking the
Potomac River, it is 5 minutes from historic Old Town Alexandria, and the
Pentagon, and 10 minutes from downtown Washington, the US Capitol, the Smithsonian,
the White House and Georgetown. The scientific program for the meeting will
remain the same. Room rates at the Hyatt will be $115 (single, double, triple
or quad) per night + 9.875% tax. A hotel reservation form is available on
our web site. All ACA members should have received a revised Call for Papers.
Contact the ACA's Buffalo office if you need one. Please check the meeting
web site for periodic updates concerning the meeting: http://www.hwi.buffalo.edu/ACA/.
Mid-Atlantic Protein Crystallography Workshop
The Mid-Atlantic protein crystallography workshop will be held June
11-13, 1998 at Johns Hopkins University. For further information, please
contact Cynthia Wolberger, Department of Biophysics/HHMI, Johns Hopkins
School of Medicine, 725 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205-2185. tel.
410-955-0728, fax 410-955-0637.
Summer School on Neutron Scattering
A Summer School on Neutron Scattering will be held at Chalk River Laboratories,
Ontario, Canada, 22-26 June 1998. For further information, see http://neutron.nrc.ca/SS98.htm
or contact Zin Tun, Neutron Program for Materials Research (NRC), Chalk
River Laboratories, Chalk River, Ontario, Canada, K0J 1J0. tel. 613-584-8811,
ext. 3994 fax 613-584-4040 e-mail zin.tun@nrc.ca.
We gratefully acknowledge the continued support from our ACA CORPORATE
MEMBERS
Area Detector Systems Corporation, Poway, California
B. A. Frenz & Associates, College Station, Texas
Biblotek Technische Hochschule, Hannover, Germany
Blake Industries, Inc., Scotch Plains, New Jersey
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York
Bruker Analytical X-Ray Instruments, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin
Charles Supper Company, Inc., Natick, Massachusetts
Crystal Logic, Inc., Los Angeles, California
Cyberlab, Brookfield, Connecticut
Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts
Diversified Scientific, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama
Fuji Medical Systems USA, Inc., Stamford, Connecticut
Hampton Research, Laguna Hills, California
HHMI/Sigler Lab, New Haven, Connecticut (new member for 1998)
J. Schneider Electrotechnik Gmbh, Offenburg, Germany
Luxel Corporation, Friday Harbor, Washington
Molecular Structure Corporation, The Woodlands, Texas
Nonius Company, Bohemia, New York
Osmic, Inc., Troy, Michigan
PerSeptive Biosystems, Inc., Framingham, Massachusetts
Protein Solutions, Charlottesville, Virginia
Scientific Information Service Inc., Larchmont, New York
NSLS Workshop on Using Powder Data to Solve Crystal Structures: May
18th, 1998
The ab-initio solution of unknown crystal structures from powder diffraction
data is a rapidly evolving field that has seen many exciting advances during
the past few years. High-resolution synchrotron powder techniques have played
a major role in this area, especially for framework structures such as zeolites,
fullerene derivatives and other molecular compounds, and small organic molecules
of pharmaceutical significance. Analysis by traditional Patterson and direct
methods has been augmented by a variety of other techniques, including methods
based on maximum entropy, Monte Carlo, simulated annealing and genetic algorithms.
This workshop will feature many of the leading experts in Europe and the
USA, and provide a comprehensive, state-of-the art, overview which should
be of outstanding interest to the powder diffraction community. Registrants
are encouraged to submit contributions to a poster session on structure
solution and refinement to be held concurrently with the workshop.
The workshop will be held as part of the NSLS Annual Users' Meeting, which
will begin the following day, and workshop participants should register
separately for this meeting if they wish to attend it as well.
For further information, please contact: D. E. Cox, Physics Department,
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY 11973-5000, tel. 516-344-3818,
fax 516-344-2739, E-mail: cox@bnlx7a.nsls.bnl.gov.
Rietveld Method Short Course May 4 - 6, 1998 Atlanta, Georgia
The Rietveld method is widely recognized to be uniquely valuable for
crystal structure and related analyses of nearly all crystalline materials
not available as single crystals. This 3-day intensive course will be conducted
by Professors R.B. Von Dreele and R.A. Young, both well known in the field.
The course will deal with the principles and techniques of Rietveld analysis
and with avoiding or overcoming problems encountered in the use of it. The
teaching system involves morning lectures, supervised individual hands-on
experience running the Rietveld refinements on PC-type computers in the
afternoon, much student-teacher interaction and discussion, and availability
of the computers at other times for further individual practice. The student
will have a choice of using either of the two most widely used Rietveld
programs, DBWS and GSAS. Both the well grounded beginner and the moderately
experienced user should find the course valuable.
The course is conducted by Georgia Tech Continuing Eduction and costs $896
(includes monograph and copies of computer programs and examples). For more
information: Contact Distance Learning, Continuing Education and Outreach,
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0385, Phone: 404/894-2547,
e-mail: conted@gatech.edu. WWW - http://www.conted.gatech.edu
ACA Course for Crystallographers
The seventh annual ACA Summer Course for Crystallographers will be a
12 day course held from July 5 to July 16, 1998 at the University of Georgia,
Athens GA.
This year the course will be expanded to include more time for macromolecular
crystallography. The first 8 days will be devoted to lectures and laboratory
sessions for basic crystallography. In the afternoon of day 9 the students
will give short presentations on the structures they worked on during the
first part of the course. In the evening of day 9 and continuing through
day 12 there will be lectures and laboratory sessions for macromolecular
crystallography.
The basic crystallography part of the course will include lectures on the
basic mathematics and physics behind structural analysis, the methods of
structure solution, the refinement of atomic parameters and presentation
and analysis of the results of structure determination. The laboratory part
of the course will teach the students to select and mount crystals, determine
unit cell dimensions and collect data on modern diffractometers. They will
learn to use modern software to determine space groups and solve and refine
structures and compare the final structures with previously determined structures.
Finally they will use software to prepare plots and reports of their structures.
The macromolecular part of the course will include lectures on crystallization,
data collection strategies, determination of heavy atom sites, structure
solution by MIR, SIR, MAD, SAS and molecular replacement techniques, chain
tracing and structure model building. Lectures concerning refinement methods
and use of databases will also be included. The laboratory part of the course
will include demonstrations of the methods for crystallization of proteins,
the methods for phase calculations using MIR/SIR/MAD/SAS and the methods
for model building and refinement.
The University of Georgia (UGA) has equipment from all four major vendors
(Enraf Nonius and Bruker diffractometers in Chemistry and Rigaku, MarResearch
and Bruker area detectors in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology). The associated
computers and software are available in each of these departments.
The lecturers will be the two co-organizers: Prof. Bi-Cheng Wang (UGA) and
Dr. Robert A. Sparks (Consultant, Bruker Corp.), together with Dr. John
Rose and Prof. Gary Newton (UGA) and several lecturers from universities
outside of UGA. In addition experienced laboratory instructors will be available
in each of the crystallography laboratories.
A revised set of lecture notes will be given to each student.
Tuition for the course will be $600. Admission will be limited to approximately
35 - 40 students. Six full-tuition and ten half-tuition scholarships will
be provided on a competitive basis. The criteria for these awards are (1)
expected benefits from the course, (2) qualification and (3) motivation.
Accommodations have been reserved at UGA from the evening of July 4; the
rate for these air-conditioned rooms will be $30 per day single, or $19
per day double occupancy. Student housing is only a short walk from where
the lectures will be given and from the laboratories with the X-ray equipment
that will be used.
Applications should be made on forms available from Dr. John Rose, Department
of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
30602. Tel. 706-542-1750; fax 706-542-3077; E-mail: rose@BCL4.biochem. uga.edu.
Electronic application forms are available from the UGA BioCrystallography
WWW server: http://www.uga.edu/~biocryst/ACASC98.html
APPLICATION FORMS MUST BE COMPLETED AND RETURNED TO PROF. WANG NO LATER
THAN MAY 31, 1998.
Bi-Cheng (B.C.) Wang, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Ramsey-GRA Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology
B204A, Life Sciences Building
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602-7229
tel. 706-542-1747
fax 706-542-3077
E-mail wang@BCL1.bmb.uga.edu
Web Site: http://www.uga.edu/~biocryst
Polycrystal Book Service - NEW BOOKS OF INTEREST TO CRYSTALLOGRAPHERS
Likelihood, Bayesian, Interference and Their Application to the Solution
of New Structures, ed. by G. Bricogne & C.W. Carter (ACA, 1996, 166
pages, $25 paper) is Transactions of the ACA, Volume 30, 1994, from the
symposium entitled "Entropy, Likelihood, Bayesian Inference, and Their
Application to Solution of New Structures," at Atlanta, GA, June 25
- July 1, 1994. Full table of contents can be seen at the Polycrystal Website.
Structural Tools in Organometallic and Coordination Chemistry, ed. by L.
Brammer (ACA, 1997, 96 pages, $25.00 paper) is Transactions of the ACA,
Volume 31, 1995, from the symposium of the same name, Montreal, Quebec,
July 23-28, 1995. Full table of contents can be seen at the Polycrystal
Website.
RNA Structure and Function, ed. by R.W. Simons & M. Grunberg-Manago
(Cold Spring Harbor, 1997, 726 pages, $145.00) is CSH Monograph 35, which
encompasses the experimental approaches to define RNA structure and its
influence on functions, in an up-to-date survey of the field.
World Directory of Crystallographers and other scientists employing crystallographic
methods, 10th edition, ed. by Y. Epelboin (Kluwer, 1997, 310 pages, $29.50
paper) has been published and we now have copies. The database is also accessible
via the World-Wide Web.
Time-Resolved Diffraction, by J.R. Helliwell & P.M. Rentzepis (Oxford,
1998, 464 pages, $160.00) is Oxford Series on Synchrotron Radiation Vol.
2, and covers X-ray, neutron and electron time-resolved diffraction from
gases, liquids, amorphous solids, fibers and crystals, using examples from
the disciplines of chemistry, biology, physics and materials science.
Crystallographic Instrumentation, by L.A. Aslanov, G.V. Fetisov & J.A.K.
Howard (Oxford, 1998, 336 pages, $120.00) IUCr Monographs on Crystallography
Vol. 7, is due out in June. It presents fundamentals of radiation, diffraction
experiments, and diffractometry, then details single crystal diffractometry,
data collection & processing, data reduction and error correction, and
defects in crystals and their influence on structure analysis.
Dana's New Mineralogy: The System of Mineralogy of James Dwight Dana and
Edward Salisbury Dana, 8th Edition, by R. V. Gaines, H.C.W. Skinner, E.E.
Foord, B. Mason, & A. Rosenzweig (Wiley, 1997, 1872 pages, $295.00),
offers descriptions of all the more than 3000 recognized mineral species,
emphasizing structure, but also including locations, and has an extensive
cross-index. Yes, it has finally been released!!
The World of Opals, by A.W. Eckert (Wiley, 1997, 464 pages, $75.00) is the
first comprehensive book on opals in some 30 years, and contains 22 color
plates, many tables, an up-to-date survey of the world's opal fields, and
an extensive bibliography and index. The book is especially interesting
for its historical descriptions of this most colorful and least crystalline
of the five precious gemstones - in fact, opal's microstructure was only
initially determined in the 1960's.
Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry, 2nd Printing, with minor corrections,
by F.D. Bloss (Mineralogical Society of America, 1994, 545 pages, $30.00
paper) has only recently come to our attention. This is an inexpensive reprint
of the original edition from 1971 which has been long out of print. It is
especially valuable as a supplemental text for any course in crystallography
and diffraction, especially for mineralogy, materials science, solid state
physics, metallurgy, and chemistry. Bloss's treatment of symmetry beginning
with external symmetry followed by internal symmetry of crystals, and his
treatment of tensors and properties have been described as perhaps the most
understandable yet!
The Many Faces of RNA, ed. by D. Eggleston, C. Prescott & N. Pearson
(AP, 1997, 240 pages, $99.95) is the subject of the 8th SmithKline Beecham
Pharmaceuticals Research Symposia, and emphasizes the interplay among biology,
chemistry, genomics, and molecular biology, exploring RNA as a therapeutic
target and as a tool, along with chemical, computational, and structural
investigations.
Cell Biology: A Laboratory Handbook, 2nd ed., ed by J.E. Celis (AP, 1997,
2400 pages, $179.95) is comb bound in four volumes, in sections entitled
(in part): Cell and Tissue Culture; Viruses; Organelles & Cellular Structures;
Assays; Antibodies; Light Microscopy and Contrast Generation; Electron Microscopy;
Intracellular Measurements; Cytogenetics; Transgenics; Transfer of Macromolecules;
Expression Systems; and Proteins.
Quasicrystals: A Primer, 2nd Edition, by C. Janot (Oxford, 1997, 409 pages,
$55.00 paper) is a more reasonably priced version of the 1994 hardbound
primer, still available for $100.00.
Molecular Symmetry and Group Theory, by R.L. Carter (Wiley, 1997, 320 pages,
$42.95)
Chemical Bonding: A Dialogue, by J.K. Burdett (Wiley, 1997, 172 pages, $45.00
paper) is a question and answer style text which addresses the nature of
the chemical bond, D orbitals, Benzene and the Jahn Teller effect, among
others.
The Theory of Intermolecular Forces, by A.J. Stone (Oxford, 1997, 280 pages,
$50.00 paper) describes the advanced mathematical techniques which have
now surpassed the simple empirical models. International Series of Monographs
on Chemistry Vol. 32.
Physical Chemistry of Surfaces, 6th ed. by A.W. Adamson and A.P. Gast (Wiley,
1997, 784 pages, $79.95) contains a full update with 35% new material.
Computer Modeling and Simulations of Complex Biological Systems, 2nd Ed.,
ed. by S.S. Iyengar (CRC, 1997, 224 pages, $79.95)
Atlas of Immunology, by J.M. Cruse & R.E. Lewis (CRC, 1997, 352 pages,
$69.95) contains over 1000 illustrations of molecular and morphological
structures.
Separation and Purification by Crystallization, ed. by G.D. Botsaris &
K. Toyokura (ACS-Oxford, 1997, 298 pages, $99.95) includes crystallization
of polymorphs, separation of chiral compounds, and crystallization of amino
acids, proteins and pharmaceuticals.
Pearson's Handbook: Desk Edition, ed. by P. Villars (ASM, 1997, 2 Volumes,
$775.00) contains 27,686 entries, the "best" reference for each
phase, and is updated through 1995. It is about half the size and price
of the 1991 four volume 50,000 entry set.
An Introduction to Error Analysis: The Study of Uncertainties in Physical
Measurements, 2nd Edition, by J.R. Taylor (University Science Books, 1997,
327 pages, $44.50 Hardbound, $29.50 paper) is an expanded version of the
very popular 1982 edition, noted by its cover photo of a very distressed
steam locomotive. The new edition includes twice as many problems with level
of difficulty indicated, many new figures, and substantial additions to
the text which was already notable for its clarity.
The Faber Book of Science, ed. by J. Carey (Faber & Faber, 1995, 528
pages, $29.95) has also only recently come to our attention. This collection
of 102 short essays from the past five hundred years of science (and technology)
writing will provide delight for scientists and laypeople for years to come.
The scope is a vast as is science itself, from Leonardo to Azimov, and holds
special interest for crystallographers in several essays: "Chains and
Rings: Kekule's Dreams;" "God and Molecules;" "The Discovery
of X-rays;" "Why Light Travels in Straight Lines;" "Negative
Predictions;" "Seeing the Atoms in Crystals;" and "The
Plan of Living Things," all by authors that will be familiar to ACA
members.
Thermodynamics of Crystals, by D.C. Wallace (Dover, 1998, 512 pages, $14.95
paper) will be out in June as a reprint with minor corrections of the 1972
Wiley text covering equilibrium thermodynamics of perfect crystals in a
form suitable for undergraduates in materials science ands solid state physics.
Natural Art Forms: 120 Classic Photographs, by K. Blossfeldt (Dover, 1998,
128 pages, $10.95) due out in April, is an unabridged reproduction of the
1932 German edition containing 120 full page black-and-white plates of botanical
subjects. His other well-known work, Art Forms in the Plant World, is also
still available as a Dover paperback in its sixth printing for $9.95.
Organizing Scientific Meetings, by A. Epple (Cambridge, 1997, 184 pages,
$14.95 paper) is a very nice compendium of all the details one should consider
before being foolish enough to "volunteer" to organize a scientific
meeting! In concise chapters, tables of check lists, and sample letters,
the author identifies common problems and offers solutions - an indispensable
guidebook.
Career Renewal: Tools for Scientists and Technical Professionals, by S.
Rosen & C. Paul (AP, 1997, 360 pages, $24.95 paper) is a practical guide
to finding a new profession or a better job in your current profession.
It contains career choice exercises, resume guidelines, WWW job search advice,
and resources for networking, mentoring, recruiting, interviewing, and negotiating
salary.
Alternative Careers in Science: Leaving the Ivory Tower, ed. by C. Robbins-Roth
(AP, 1998, 200 pages, $29.95 paper) due out in March.
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Meeting Calendar
In order to conserve space and paper, contact points for most meetings
announced in previous newsletter issues will not be repeated. More complete
information can be found in back issues of the newsletter.
MAY 1998
3-8 Seventh International Conference on Crystallization of Biological
Macromolecules, Granada, Spain . Check the IUCr website for further information.
18 NSLS Workshop on Using Powder Data to Solve Crystal Structures, Upton,
New York. Contact: D. E. Cox, Physics Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory,
Upton, NY 11973-5000, tel. 516-344-3818, fax 516-344-2739, E-mail: cox@bnlx7a.nsls.bnl.gov.
28 - June 7 27th Intl. School of Crystallography. Implications of Molecular
and Materials Structure for New Technologies, Erice, Sicily. Web site: http://www.ccsem.infn.it
JUNE 1998
1-6 Tenth International Summer School on Crystal Growth, Rimini, Italy.
Web site: http://www. maspec.bo.cnr.it/CG/school_cg.html
11-13 Mid-Atlantic Protein Crystallography Workshop, Baltimore Maryland,
Johns Hopkins University. Contact: Cynthia Wolberger, Department of Biophysics/HHMI,
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 725 N. Wolfe Street, Baltimore, MD 21205-2185.
tel. 410-955-0728, fax 410-955-0637.
20-25 Xth International Symposium on Molecular Recognition and Inclusion,
Warsaw, Poland. E-mail: ismri-10@ichf.edu.pl or klatrat@ichf.edu.pl.
22-26 Summer School on Neutron Scattering, Chalk River Laboratories, Ontario,
Canada. Website: http://neutron.nrc.ca/SS98.htm. Contact: Zin Tun, Neutron
Program for Materials Research (NRC), Chalk River Laboratories, Chalk River,
Ontario, Canada, K0J 1J0. tel. 613-584-8811, ext. 3994 fax 613-584-4040
e-mail zin.tun@nrc.ca.
JULY 1998
5-16 Seventh ACA Summer Course on Crystallography, University of Georgia,
Athens, GA. Check the ACA web site for details: http://www.hwi.buffalo.edu/ACA/.
13 - 17 IUPAC Macro 98: 37th International Symposium on Macromolecules.
18-23 ACA'98 Arlington, VA, Program Chair: Louis Delbaere (Univ. of Saskatchewan).
Local Co-chairs: Winnie Wong-Ng (NIST) and John Barnes (NIST). See the call
for papers or ACA website for details.
26-31 Twelfth International Conference on Crystal Growth, Jerusalem,
Israel. Web site: http://www. technion.ac.il/~iccg12
AUGUST 1998
3-8 47th Denver X-ray Conference, Antlers Doubletree Hotel, Colorado
Springs, CO. Contact: Manager, Schools and Conferences, ICDD, 12 Camput
Boulevard, Newtown Square, PA 19073-3273. FAX: 610-325-9823. E-mail: dxc@icdd.com
4-8 Sixth International Conference on Biophysics & Synchrotron Radiation.
Argonne, IL. Contact Keith Moffatt, University of Chicago. E-mail moffat@cars.uchicago.edu
Web site: http://www.aps.anl.gov/conferences/bsr
10-14 IMA'98 17th General Meeting, Int. Mineralogical Assoc., Toronto, Canada.
Web site: http://www:geology. utoronto.can/IMA98
22-25 Sixth European Powder Diffraction Conference (EPDIC-6). E-mail: ungar@ludens.elte.hu
DECEMBER 1998
6-10 Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society 1998 International Meeting.
Contact: P. Graber, The Scripps Research Inst. MB-5, 10550 N. Torrey Pines
Rd, La Jolla CA 92037, 619-784-2526; mgms98@ scripps.edu. Web site: http://www.mgmsoa.org.
MAY 1999
22-27 ACA'99. Buffalo, NY. Local Chair: David Smith (HWI) smith@hwi.buffalo.edu,
Program Chair: Steve Ealick (Cornell) see3@cornell.edu.
AUGUST 1999
4-13 18th IUCr General Assembly and Intl. Congress of Crystallography.
Glasgow, Scotland. Contact: C. J. Gilmore, Dept. of Chem, U. of Glasgow,
Glasgow G128QQ, Scotland. FAX: 41-330-4418, e-mail iucr99@chem.gla.ac.uk
Check the IUCr website for further details.
JULY 2000
22-27 ACA '00 St. Paul, MN Local Chair: Bill Gleason (UMN), Program Chair:
Doug Ohlendorf (UMN).
JULY 2001
21-26 ACA '01 Los Angeles, CA
AUGUST 2002
6-15 19th IUCr General Assembly and Intl. Congress of Crystallography.
Jerusalem, Israel. Contact:J. Bernstein, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva,
Israel
Contributors to This Issue
Wade Adams, Lee Brammer, Penny Codding, Marcia Colquhoun, Dave Cox, Lee
Daniels, Howard Evans, Judy Flippen-Anderson, Isabella Karle, Sally Lunge,
Guy Riddihough, Ron Stenkamp, Zin Tun, B.C. Wang, Alex Wlodawer, Cynthia
Wolberger.
Positions Available
It is expected that the employers listed in this publication are equal
opportunity employers who wish to receive applications from qualified persons
regardless of age, national origin, race, religion, sex or physical handicaps.
Please inform the Editor when the positions are filled, and of any positions
that do not give opportunities to all applicants. Ads will appear in two
successive newsletters unless the Editor is notified that the advertisement
should be continued longer or discontinued earlier.
For the most up-to-date listings check the ACA Home Page under the Positions
Vacant heading. http://www.hwi.buffalo.edu/ACA/
Protein Crystallography
A position in protein crystallography is available for structure analysis
of several enzymes involved in bacterial antibiotic resistance (see Chem.
& Biol. 3:937 and Biochemistry 36:2531). Experience with crystallization,
low-temperature data collection, synchrotron facilities, and phasing methods
is desirable. The University is located in a pleasant rural area only 1
1/2 hr from Boston and less than 1 hr from recreation areas along Long Island
Sound. Applicants should send their resume and names of 3 references by
May 15, 1998, to: James Knox, Department of Molecular Biology, The University
of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3125. Additional information is available
at 860-486-3133 or knox@uconnvm.uconn.edu.
Post Doctoral Fellow
A post-doctoral vacancy is available for a person with interest in crystallography,
electron microscopy, biochemistry and molecular biology. The research will
be primarily in cryo EM reconstructions for ongoing projects in the laboratories
of Timothy Baker, Richard Kuhn, Michael Rossmann and Thomas Smith. Some
experience in cryo EM data collection and analysis is particularly desirable,
but in its absence we would be ready to teach these techniques to a person
with interest and a suitable background. The focus of the work will be on
virus structures and their complexes with antibodies and receptors. Please
send applications to: Michael Rossmann, Hanley Professor of Biological Sciences,
Dept. of Biological Sciences, Tel: 765-494-4911, Purdue University, fax
765-496-1189, West Lafayette, IN 47907, e-mail: mgr@indiana.bio.purdue.edu,
website http://www-structure.bio.purdue.edu/.
Postdoctoral Positions: Structural Studies of Proteins and Viruses
Relevant to AIDS and Other Human Diseases
HIV Reverse Transcriptase: Structure Determination of Complexes with
Substrates and Inhibitors and of Drug-Resistant Mutants; Structure-Based
Drug Design/Viral Polymerases/Cellular Polymerases/Polymerase Mechanisms/Protein
and Vaccine Engineering Using Combinatorial Mutagenesis. Highly motivated
postdoctoral researchers are sought to participate in crystallographic structure
determination and refinement of proteins and viruses, including HIV-1 reverse
transcriptase with bound nucleic acids and drugs at high resolution (in
collaboration with Stephen Hughes' laboratory at NCI-Frederick). Structures
of HIV-1 RT complexed with a variety of nucleic acid template primers (DNA/DNA
and RNA/DNA) and numerous inhibitors are under study, and we are pursuing
structural and biochemical studies of drug-resistant mutants of HIV-1 RT
to understand the obstacles these mutants pose to successful treatments.
Another major project in the laboratory (co-directed by Dr. Gail Ferstandig
Arnold) consists of vaccine engineering via combinatorial mutagenesis of
human rhinoviruses to display immunogens from other pathogens. Crystals
of human rhinovirus:HIV chimeras have been obtained and are being analyzed.
A strong background in crystallography, chemistry, biochemistry, virology,
or molecular biology is required. For the structure analysis projects, experience
in macromolecular or synchrotron crystallography would be particularly helpful.
State-of-the-art facilities are available in our laboratory at the Center
for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine (CABM) for crystallography, protein
chemistry, molecular biology, virology, and molecular modeling. Send CV
and names and addresses of three references to: Eddy Arnold, CABM and Rutgers
University, 679 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ, 08854-5638, Tel: 732-235-5323;
fax 732-235-5788, E-mail: arnold@cabm.rutgers.edu, Lab website: http://www.cabm.rutgers.edu/~arnold.
Protein Crystallographers
Postdoctoral crystallographic research in the labs of Elizabeth Getzoff
or John Tainer. Project topics include bacterial pili, superoxide dismutases
and nitric oxide synthases in control of reactive oxygen species, protein
photoreceptors and clocks, DNA-repair, metalloenzyme structure and design,
and cell cycle. Minority applicants encouraged. Superb facilities and environment.
For recent project details see http://www.scripps.edu/~edg/ and http://www.scripps.edu/~jat/.
Send letter stating interests with c.v. and names of three references to
Angela Walker, Molecular Biology MB4, The Scripps Research Institute, La
Jolla, CA 92037. E-mail: alwalker@scripps.edu.
Positions Previously Listed
Postdoctoral Position - Electron Microscopic Study of Two Dimensional
Crystals of Protein Kinase C . Several lattice forms of PKC-a and PKC-d
are available for cryoelectron microscopy and other studies. Contact Robert
Kretsinger (rhk5i@virginia.edu) Department of Biology, University of Virginia,
Charlottessville, VA 22903 (804)982-5764 or Julie Sando (jjs@virginia.edu)
Department of Pharmacology 924-5020 for further information.
Single Crystal X-ray Diffraction: Bruker AXS Inc, Madison, Wisconsin, industrial
postdoctoral position. Contact: Sue Byram at 1-800-234-XRAY (1-608-276-3041)
or sbyram@bruker-axs.com. Qualified applicants should send their resume
tce to: Human Resources, Bruker Analytical X-ray Systems, 6300 Enterprise
Lane, Madison, WI 53719-1173.