Dear Colleague,

This year the Synchrotron Radiation (SR) User Meeting will be held from Thursday 13th to Friday 14th September 2007 at Diamond Light Source, Oxfordshire. The objectives of this meeting are to bring together the entire United Kingdom community of users of SR, to act as a showcase for the best SR studies being carried out by the UK community and to challenge the community with world class science. We are holding a satellite session on ‘Systems Biology’ to give scientists a vision for what is going on in biology, especially outside the molecular/structural biology domain. I anticipate the mini-symposium will be most attractive and will be a spur to promote interactions among people in different fields. The programme for Friday 14-09 follows below:

09:30 Professor Tom Kirkwood, Newcastle University, Aging: Systems Biology and the Life Cycle
10:15 Professor Charlie Hodgman, University of Nottingham, Adopting an Integrative Systems Approach to Study Root Gravitropism
11:15 Professor Melvyn Folkard, Gray Cancer Institute, New Insights Into Radiation Damage to Living Cells Using Microbeams
12:00 Professor Mark Sansom, Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems, From Membrane Proteins to Membrane Systems: Insights from Simulations

To register go to
http://www.diamond.ac.uk/ForUsers/SRUser07/Registration.htm

Best Regards,

Jose Brandao-Neto
Staff Scientist
Macromolecular Crystallography Group
Diamond Light Source UK
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ABOUT DIAMOND LIGHT SOURCE

The Diamond synchrotron is the largest UK-funded scientific facility to be built for over 40 years. Located in South Oxfordshire on the Harwell Chilton science campus, this giant machine can be described as a series of “super microscopes”. It is housed in a futuristic doughnut-shaped building which covers the area of 5 football pitches. Diamond will ultimately host up to 40 cutting edge research stations, called beamlines, supporting the life, physical and environmental sciences.

Diamond offers a unique suite of tools to investigate biological systems, starting with macromolecular crystallography and small angle scattering in 2007. Later in the programme, circular dicroism and infrared microscopy stations will complete the life sciences synchrotron light suite. The membrane protein crystallisation and the biophysics laboratories at Diamond add extra facilities for biophysical investigations on site. At the same time, the Diamond Research Complex will be ready in 2009 for research in Biological Imaging counting on 100 life and physical sciences researchers.

Read more:

• Systems Biology : http://www.nature.com/focus/systemsbiologyuserguide/index.html

• Diamond Research Expertise : http://www.diamond.ac.uk/Science/ResearchExpertise/Search.htm

• About Diamond : http://www.diamond.ac.uk/AboutDiamond/default.htm

• Biophysics at Diamond : http://www.diamond.ac.uk/news/latestnews/pressrelease_03.htm

Registration required:

Yes

Free:

No