Past Events
Included here for historical purposes…
Drug Discovery
UCT Signature Theme in Drug Discovery
DATE: 23 May 2008, 14:30 for 15:00
VENUE: LT A, RW James Building, Upper Campus, UCT – Cocktail Reception
Special Guest Lecturer: Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
Structure of the ß-1 adrenergic receptor and implications for drug design
FASB Conference
The First African Structural Biology (FASB) Conference
(24 – 27 October 2006)
3D EM workshop
Post-conference Three-dimensional Electron Microscopy Image processing Workshop [30 October – 1 November 2006]
Prof. Joachim Frank and Prof. Edward H. Egelman
Crystallising biological macromolecules
Principles and practice in crystallising biological macromolecules [24 – 27 July 2006]
Dr. Gweneth Nneji, Imperial College, London.
- Lecture themes
- Core principles and methods
- Approaches to aid crystallization and non-standard methods
- Designing a crystallization strategy
- Crystallization success stories
- Practical sessions
- Exploring solubility, standard methods with and without oils
- Crystallization in practice – an attempt to crystallize a biological macromolecule
- Optimization methods, nucleants and temperature variation