3rd EU-NMR Annual User Meeting

Autrans (France)

26-29 January 2009

The 3rd Annual User Meeting of the EU-NMR (I3) will take place at the winter resort of l’Escandille in Autrans, in the French mountains of the Vercors, from Monday January 26th 2008 at 7 pm until the Thursday January 29th 2008 at 1 pm.

The program consists of about 15 invited lectures dedicated to highlights in the field or defining the state of the art in a specific area, plus a Round Table centered on the access provided by the Research Infrastructures of the EU-NMR I3. A representative of the Unit Research Infrastructure, Directorate General for Research of European Commission, will be present.

This year, the program will also incorporate a session where prominent representatives of other (non-NMR) state-of-the-art experimental techniques illustrate their respective advances in challenging macro-biomolecular structural determinations (cryo-EM, X-ray crystallography, MS, ...). We feel that this could trigger an interesting debate, pushing on one side NMR researchers outside the borders of their current activity, and providing on the other hand a substantial, original, "cross-fertilizing" benefit to the many techniques operating in the broad area of structural biology.

The aim of the meeting is to provide an effective forum for discussion, at both a formal and an informal level. The number of participants will be around 200, and the organization of the conference is such as to maximize the time participants spend together. The previous editions of this meeting have proven to be exceptionally high level meetings at the forefront of biologically relevant NMR.

Organizing Committee

Ivano Bertini

Rolf Boelens

Lyndon Emsley (Chair)

Ulrich Guenther

Harald Schwalbe (I3 coordinator)

For information, please write to Guido Pintacuda at: eunmr2009@eu-nmr.eu

Local Organization

Lyndon Emsley

Guido Pintacuda

Bénédicte Elena

Valérie Fromentèze

Host Institution

CNRS - Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon

Speakers

M. Ubbink (Leiden)

D. Kern (Brandeis)

S. J. Matthews (Imperial College)

G. Wagner (Harvard)

A. E. McDermott (Columbia)

C. Dalvit (Basel)

C. Robinson (Cambridge) 

R. Ruigrok (EMBL Grenoble)

C. Seidel (Düsseldorf)

R. Abagyan (Scripps)

K. Nierhaus (Berlin)