Sunday, October 09

18:00 - 22:00

Registration

Monday, October 10

 8:00

Registration

9:45-10:00

Introduction and welcome

10:00-10:30

Coffee

Lectures

 

10:30-11:15

Introduction to Nucleation and Crystal Growth of Biological Macromolecules [Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz]

11:15-12:00   

Protein Crystallization Techniques: How do they work? [Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz]

13:00-14:00   

 Lunch

15:00-15:45   

Protein modifications for crystallogenesis [Lubica Urbanikova]

15:45-16:30

Conventional crystallization methods and their modifications (using oils) [Jeroen Mesters]

16:30-17:00

Coffee

17:00-18:15

Prediction of macromolecular units and optimum crystallization conditions by static and dynamic light scattering [Thomas Klupsch]

19:00

Dinner

20:00

Welcome party

Tuesday, October 11

Lectures

 

8:30-10:00

Understanding the protein solubility: classical concepts and novel ideas [Thomas Klupsch]

10:00-10:30

Coffee

10:30-11:15   

Additives in crystal nucleation and growth  [Rolf Hilgenfeld]

11:15-12:00

Principles of crystallography [Jeroen Mesters]

13:00-14:00

 Lunch

14:00

Meeting of the comitee for international study program Biophysics for Erasmus Mundus [coordinator: Dalibor Stys]

15:00-17:00   

Exercises for interested people

16:30-17:00   

Coffee

17:00

Trip to Teresa Valley and dinner outside (19:00)

Wednesday, October 12

Lectures

 

8:30-9:15

Diffraction theory [Jeroen Mesters]

9:15-10:00

Crystal manipulation and handling [Jose A. Gavira]

10:00-10:30

Coffee

10:30-11:15

Cryocrystallography [Pavlina Rezacova]

11:15-12:00

Data collection [Jiri Brynda]

12:00-13:00

Open discussion

13:00-14:00   

Lunch and departure