Circular Dichroism and Linear Dichroism Summer School & CD User Group Meeting
Programme 6th- 8th July 2015
Monday 6th July
Tuesday 7th July
Wednesday 8th July
MOAC Doctoral Training Centre
Top floor Senate House
MOAC Doctoral Training Centre
Top floor Senate House
MOAC Doctoral Training Centre
Top floor Senate House
09:30
Coffee and registration
10:30
Introduction to absorbance, fluorescence and
circular dichroism spectroscopy (including nucleic
acids)
Alison Rodger
Soluble protein CD spectroscopy
12:30
Lunch
14:10
CD theory & Dichrocalc
Bonnie Wallace
Workshops:
Dichroweb
Databases
Data Processing
17:45
Elevator pitches and posters
18:30
Dinner in MOAC
9:50
Is the instrument working OK?
10:30
CD User Group - Registration and Coffee
11:00
Welcome and Introduction to New Developments
Bonnie Wallace (Birkbeck)
11:15
Plenary Lecture: The molecular ruler - the tailor
behind the scene of O-antigen polymerisation
Rohanah Hussain (Diamond Light Source)
12:00
Folding and Insertion of Major Facilitator
Transporters
Nicola Harris (Kings College London)
Introduction to and applications of linear dichroism
Nikola Chmel
10:50
Vibrational spectroscopy for some biomolecules
Alison Rodger
11:30
CD of membrane proteins
12:10
Nucleic acids and metal complexes
Janice Aldrich-Wright
12:50
Introduction to practical sessions
13.00
Lunch
12:15
Lunch and Posters
13:45
Practical session:
14:00
Cytotoxic, structural and biophysical analyses of
polyaromatic platinum(II) complexes
Ben Pages (Univ. of Western Sydney)
14:25
Chaperone-mediated native folding of a B-scorpion
Toxin in the periplasm of Escherichia coli
Andy O’Reilly (Liverpool John Moores University)
15:00
Circular dichroism comparability study for ARBRE
network
Nikola Chmel (Warwick)
15:20
Tea
15:50
PCDDB/Dichroweb Users Forum
Lee Whitmore (Birkbeck)
16:15
Awarding of the RSC ABG Poster Prize
a. Protein CD
Bioinformatics for CD
Bob Janes
16:00
CD and LD with photoelastic modulators
John Sutherland
10:10
Jonathan Hirst
15:00
09:00
Sharon Kelly
10:00
11:30
Good practice
to
b. Instrumentation & calibration
c. LD
d. Metal complexes and DNA
/Pathlength determination
17:30
18:30
e. ROA
Bonnie Wallace
Sharon Kelly
John Sutherland
Nikola Chmel
Janice Aldrich-Wright
Andrew Miles
Meropi Sklepari
BBQ at Grad Deck / Lakeside
Cheese and Wine
Nikola Chmel