13th UK Annual Fibre Diffraction and Non-Crystalline Diffraction Workshop

CCP13

13^th UK Annual Fibre Diffraction and Non-Crystalline Diffraction Workshop

2^nd – 4^th June 2004

Institut Laue Langevin

European Synchrotron Radiation Facility

Grenoble

Programme


Supported by CCP13 (BBSRC & EPSRC) and Daresbury Laboratory (CLRC), ILL and ESRF. Sponsorship from Bruker AXS and Spectra Stable Isotopes also gratefully acknowledged
Posters can be mounted on the 2nd June and left up for the duration of the meeting

Wednesday 2^nd June: morning

1000 – 1200 CCP13 Steering Committee Meeting (Directors Meeting Room 158)

1000 – 1400 Registration outside Chadwick Amphitheatre

1030 – 1130 Coffee

1130 – 1400 Lunch in ILL/ESRF Restaurant

Wednesday 2^nd June: afternoon

Chair: T. Forsyth

1400 -1420	C. Carlile, Director of Institute Laue Langevin and W.G. Stirling, Director of ESRF	Welcome
1420 -1430	J. Squire	Chairman’s Introduction
1430- 1500	D. Svergun	Joint use of small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering from biomacromolecular solutions
1500 - 1530	S. Perkins	Why are joint X-ray and neutron scattering studies useful for studying antibodies?
1530 - 1600	Coffee
1600 - 1630	J. Lawrence	The use of hydrogenated and deuterated DNA in complementary X-ray and neutron studies of DNA-membrane interactions
1630 - 1700	M. Haertlein	Deuteration and labelling for neutron studies of biological molecules
1700 - 1730	P.Timmins	Neutron beam provision at Institut Laue Langevin
1730-1800	A. Hammersley	Likely Future Directions in User Software

1800 - 1930 Posters outside Chadwick Amphitheatre, and on 1^st floor (Room 127/164)

Software demonstrations (Room 127/164)

Wine reception courtesy of Spectra Stable Isotopes

1930 – 2300 Buffet dinner in ILL/ESRF Restaurant

Thursday 3^rdJune: morning

Chair: C. Riekel

0900 - 0930	J. Squire	Low-angle X-ray Diffraction Studies of Muscle using the SRS, ESRF and APS
0930 - 1000	M. Irving	X-ray interference studies of the mechanism of the myosin motor in muscle.
1000 - 1030	M. Ferenczi	The ‘roll and lock’ mechanism of force generation in muscle
1030 - 1100	Coffee
1100 - 1130	P. Callow	Neutron scattering studies of the subunit structure of type I restriction-modification enzymes using selective subunit deuteration
1130 - 1200	S. King	Report from CANSAS-IV on data standards
1200 -1230	G. Stubbs	Fibre diffraction studies of flexible filamentous viruses

1230 – 1400 Lunch in ILL/ESRF Restaurant

Thursday 3^rdJune: afternoon

Chair: M. Irving

1400 - 1430	N. Yagi	Time-resolved X-ray diffraction experiments on muscles using the high-flux beamline at SPring-8
1430 - 1500	R. Millane	Analysis of myosin superlattice in striated muscles.
1500 - 1530	P. Fratzl	Hierarchical Deformation Mechanisms in Collagen and Wood
1530 - 1600	Coffee
1600 - 1630	D. Kirschner	Fibre Diffraction from PolyA and PolyQ Assemblies
1630 - 1700	C. Riekel	Structural Studies at ESRF on Silk Formation by SAXS/WAXS techniques
1700 - 1730	Short poster presentations
1730	Conference photograph

1730 Posters outside Chadwick Amphitheatre, and on 1st floor (Room 127/164)

1930 Coach leaves for Chateau de Sassenage from ILL/ESRF Guest House

2000 – 2300 Conference Dinner at Chateau de Sassenage

Friday 4^th June: morning

Chair: G. Stubbs

0900 - 0930	N. Terrill	Non Crystalline Diffraction on Diamond - I22 and beyond
0930 - 1000	E. Heeley	Micro polymer processing: using scattering techniques to investigate polymer processing
1000 - 1030	R. May	Real-time investigation of protein kinetics using small-angle neutron scattering on instrument D22 at the ILL
1030 - 1100	Coffee
1100 - 1130	T. Irving	Time-resolved X-ray diffraction patterns from indirect flight muscles in living Drosophila during tethered flight
1130 -1200	K. Wakabayashi	X-ray Fibre Diffraction Analyses of Myosin Filaments in Resting and Contracting Skeletal Muscles
1200 - 1230	G. Rajkumar & A. He	General CCP13 software development

1230 – 1400 Lunch in ILL/ESRF Restaurant

Friday 4^th June: afternoon

Chair: J. Squire

1400 - 1430	W. Bras	Reorientation behaviour of smectic liquid crystals due to external fields
1430 - 1500	J. Zaccai	A Small Angle Scattering analysis of Incoherent Elastic Neutron Scattering to study dynamics
1500 - 1530	X. Zeng	Real-Time SANS Study of Transient Phases in Polymer Crystallization
1530 - 1600	Coffee
1600 - 1630	J. Ma	New methods for fibre diffraction refinement
1630 -1700	J. Crawshaw	Fibre Diffraction from Carbon Nanotubes
1700 - 1730	M. Mueller (TBC)	Crystal structure of native cellulose -- Complementary X-ray and neutron experiments
1730	J. Squire	Closing remarks

1930 – 2300 Buffet dinner in ILL/ESRF Restaurant

Saturday 5^th June

0800 Coach leaves Guest House for excursion to Les Grottes de Choranche and Tain L’Hermitage.

Return late afternoon/early evening