[Neutron] Welcome to Neutrons in Biology meeting in Lund, Sweden 22-24 June 2009

[Johan Långberg]

We would like to  draw your attention to Neutrons in Biology 2009 - a  
meeting on recent progress in the application of neutron scattering to  
problems in biological and biomedical science at Palaestra, Lund  
University, Lund Sweden 22-24 June 2009.

As the trend towards interdisciplinarity widens for the study of  
biological systems, neutron scattering approaches are becoming an  
increasingly important part of the powerful array of techniques that  
are needed to study these systems in a genuinely integrated way. The  
programme of the meeting will cover biological problems that are  
currently being addressed by different neutron scattering techniques  
as well as those where there is the potential to do so in the future.  
A conscious effort will therefore be made to involve researchers whose  
activities currently do not exploit these methods. The meeting is  
organized by Physical Chemistry, Lund University and scientists  
associated with neutron facilities around Europe.


REGISTRATION AND DETAILED PROGRAMME AT: http://www.ill.eu/nib2009
THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS  FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS IS 8 JUNE.
A PRIZE, SPONSORED BY BIOCHEMICAL JOURNAL, WILL BE AWARDED TO THE BEST  
POSTER

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT TOMMY NYLANDER (Lund University)  
at: Tommy.Nylander at fkem1.lu.se

We are grateful for the financial support from among others The  
Swedish Research Council, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences  
through its Nobel Institute of Chemistry, NMI3, ESS-Scandinavia, Lund  
kommun and the Skåne region.


INVITED TALKS INCLUDE:

S. Antonyuk (Liverpool, UK): Limitations of X-ray crystallography for  
seeing hydrogens even at sub-atomic resolution

L. Arleth (University of Copenhagen, Denmark): BioXTAS: Combining  
microfluidics and small-angle X-ray scattering to study biomolecules  
in solution with minimal sample consumption.

M. Blakeley (ILL, Grenoble, France): To be announced

J. Cooper (Royal Free and University College Medical School, London,  
UK): Neutron and atomic resolution X-ray studies of the pepsin family:  
implications for mechanism and inhibition

C. Dicko (University of Oxford, UK): Silks: from structure to function

F. Gabel (IBS Grenoble, France): Small angle neutron scattering for  
structural biology in solution

T. Hauβ (TU-Darmstadt HZB, Germany): Beyond steady-state protein  
dynamics

J. Katsaras (NRC-CNRC, Canada): Towards and understanding of  
biological membranes: the recent role of neutron scattering

J. Lakey (Newcastle, UK): Outer membrane proteins of E.coli studied by  
magnetic contrast neutron reflectometry and SANS

P. Langan (Los Alamos Nat. Laboratory, USA): Protein Crystallography  
using Spallation Neutrons: surprising insights into enzyme mechanism

M. Larsson (Lund Univ. Hospital, Sweden): Modeling the first breath  
using neutron reflectometry

K-Y. Lee (University of Chicago, USA): Beyond wrinkles: stress and  
fold localisation in lung surfactant and other thin elastic membranes

S. Linse (Lund University, Sweden): Amyloid protein aggregration and  
the influence of surfaces

F. Mezei (Budapest, Hungary): Inelastic neutron scattering evidence on  
the origin of the "dynamic transition" in proteins

T. Nawroth (Johannes Gutenberg - University, Germany): To be announced

M. Peyrard (ENS Lyon, France): Experimental (and theoretical) studies  
of the fluctuational opening and thermal denaturation of DNA

I. Reviakine (CIC biomaGUNE, Spain):  Studying heterogeneous soft  
films with quartz crystal microbalance: hearing what one can’t see  
and seeing what one can’t hear.

M. Rheinstadter (McMaster University, Canada): Collective Molecular  
Dynamics in Membranes and Proteins

A. Stradner (University of Fribourg, Switzerland): Shedding light on  
eye lens transparency and cataract formation with neutrons

M. Tanaka (University of Heidelberg, Germany): Modulation of  
Biological Interfaces via Oligo- and Polysaccharides

S. Titmuss (University of Oxford, UK): Using small angle neutron  
scattering to uncover stealth viruses

C. Vettier (ESS-Scandinavia, Sweden): To be announced


FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT TOMMY NYLANDER (Lund University)  
at: Tommy.Nylander at fkem1.lu.se
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