We are happy to announce that the Workshop and the International School on Macromolecular Crystallization will be held from May 2nd to 5th just prior to the ICCBM12 which will take place from May 6 to 9th 2008. The course will provide the participants with the state of the art advances in practical methods as well as hands on experience of crystallizing biological macromolecules.

Experienced scientists, among them Prof. Garcia-Ruiz, Prof. McPherson, Prof. Chayen, Prof. Ng, Prof. Caffrey, Dr. Bergfors, Dr. Mesters, and many others will teach and demonstrate. The registration fee will cover three days tuition, a longer training time than previous ICCBM workshops. The fee is cheaper compared to other training workshops.

The workshop/school will take place at the Hotel Hilton Cancun Golf & Spa Resort (the same venue of the ICCBM12). This beautiful hotel and resort will provide a great working atmosphere during the workshop.

Registration on May 2nd (all day) and 3rd from 8:00-8:45am (only)

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*This fee does not include the course, only the lectures.

Refunds/Cancellation Fee

Any change or cancellation must be notified in writing to ICCBM12. Refund with remittance charge deducted will be processed after the conference. 75% refund will be credit for cancellation received before April 9th, 2008. No refund is possible after that time.

Title of General Topics

• Nucleation Theory and related topics
• Crystal Growth Theory

• Protein Crystallization
  • Classic methods
  • Counter-diffusion methods
  • High throughput techniques in nano-droplets
  • New approaches
• Membrane Protein Crystallization
  • Solubility problem and phase diagram
  • Methods of protein crystallization
  • Microfluidics and High throughput methods
• Protein Characterization
  • Dynamic light scattering techniques
  • X-Ray diffraction
  • Other approaches