A Special Symposium
Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the
Protein Data Bank
October 28 - 30, 2011
Poster Abstract deadline: August 15

This event will begin at 5:30 p.m. with an evening reception, dinner, and oral session on Friday, October 28th and conclude after lunch on Sunday, October 30, 2011. The anniversary symposium will overlap with the last weekend of the CSHL course on X-Ray Methods in Structural Biology, whose faculty and students are anticipated to attend the celebrations.

Posters will be on display throughout the meeting; the Abstract Book is available for download as a PDF. Printed copies will not be made available.

An updated program (as of 10/27) is now available as a PDF

Confirmed Speakers:
Cheryl Arrowsmith (University of Toronto, Canada) Structural and chemical biology of the readers and writers of the histone code 
David Baker (University of Washington) Scientific discovery by protein folding game players   
Ad Bax (NIH/DHHS/NIDDK/LCP) An NMR view of the interaction between viral fusion proteins and phospholipids
Axel Brunger (Stanford University/HHMI) Challenges for structure determination at low resolution 
Stephen K. Burley (Eli Lilly & Co.) Growth, globalization, and future of the PDB       
Wah Chiu (Baylor College of Medicine) CryoEM of molecular machines 
Johann Deisenhofer (UT Southwestern) Remarks
Angela Gronenborn (University of Pittsburgh) Synergy between NMR and CryoEM: Novel findings for HIV capsid function        
Richard Henderson (MRC Lab. of Molecular Biology, UK) What is needed to make single particle electron cryomicroscopy reach its true potential    
Wayne Hendrickson (Columbia University) SLAC1 and the splendor of atomic resolution
Mei Hong (Iowa State University) Membrane protein solid-state NMR: Elucidating the influenza M2 structure and mechanism
So Iwata (Imperial College London, UK) Overcoming challenges of membrane protein crystallography 
 Louise Johnson (University of Oxford, UK) Structural biology: from early days to the present and possibilities for the future
Brian Matthews (University of Oregon) Protein crystallography: Getting in on the ground floor      
Jane Richardson (Duke University Medical Center) Studying and polishing the PDB's macromolecules
Michael Rossmann (Purdue University) The PDB: A historical perspective      
Andrej Sali (University of California, San Francisco) Determining architectures of macromolecular assemblies by aligning interaction networks to electron microscopy density maps   
David Searls (Independent Consultant) Macromolecular linguistics       
Susan Taylor (University of California, San Diego) Evolution of protein kinases: Insights from the structural kinome         
Janet Thornton (EMBL, Hinxton, UK) Abstracting knowledge from protein structures for biology in the 21st century        
Soichi Wakatsuki (Institute of Materials Structure Science, Japan) Coevolution of synchrotron radiation technologies with protein X-ray crystallography    
Kurt Wüthrich (The Scripps Research Institute/ETH Zürich) Structural biology by NMR and the Protein Data Bank  

Posters
The meeting will also host a session of poster presentations. To submit your abstract for consideration, please submit online following the link provided after registration. The status of abstracts will be posted as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.  The deadline for poster submission is August 15, 2011.

Travel Awards for Early Career Scientists
Limited funds are available to help students and early career scientists attend PDB40.  Preference will be given to those who have submitted poster abstracts.  To apply for assistance, download the application form, and email info@wwpdb.org the completed form, a copy of your abstract, and a supporting letter from your research advisor/department chairman.   Funds are non-transferable.  Awards will be distributed after the meeting. Applications are due by August 1, 2011. 

Pricing
Registration with housing, $550 is all inclusive and covers registration, food, and housing.
Registration without housing $350 includes registration and food, but not housing.
Full payment is due 4 weeks prior to the meeting.

The maximum number of participants is 350. Registrations will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. Early registration is strongly encouraged as the meeting is expected to fill quickly.

Industrial sponsors of the 40th anniversary symposium include:

Grateful appreciation to these Funding Agencies
for their support of the 40th Anniversary:

Organizers:
Helen Berman, RCSB PDB, Rutgers University, US
Stephen K. Burley, Eli Lilly & Co., USA
Gerard Kleywegt, PDBe, EMBL-EBI, UK
John Markley, BMRB, University of Wisconsin, US
Haruki Nakamura, PDBj, Osaka University, Japan