MacCHESS is offering its eighth intensive HOWTO course in BioSAXS. Students will have a day and a half of lectures and hands-on software tutorials on the basics of BioSAXS data collection and processing from expert practitioners in the field. This will be followed by real data collection on MacCHESS beamlines (F1 and G1 stations).
Cost
$200/$300 academic/industrial on-site
$25/$50 academic/industrial remote
Lodging
Please note that you are responsible for your own travel and lodging. Rooms are available at the rate of $95 at the Best Western University Inn for the nights of April 12 and 13 only; click on registration page link in the "Register to Attend in Person" button for info.
Contact Information
Richard Gillilan
Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source
Sr Scientist
MacCHESS
Email: reg8@cornell.edu
While the primary purpose of the course is educational, students may bring a limited number of their own research samples. Prepared standard protein samples will be available to all students for practice.
Remote students are welcome, and will receive digital copies of all lectures, tutorials, and sample data, and will have access to a live stream of the course lectures on the first day. Due to the hands-on nature of the sessions, remote students will not have access to instructors during the software tutorial (though they will receive the tutorial documents). They also will not have data collection time during the course.
Course topics:
- Basic principles and processing methods
- Critical sample preparation and data collection procedures
- Evaluating data quality
- Computing true electron density
- Online size-exclusion chromatography (SEC-SAXS)
- Overview of advanced and emerging methods
- What you need to know for publication
- Hands-on tutorial with data processing software
Students will be assigned into small groups for 6 hour data collection slots starting Friday afternoon and running through Sunday morning. If you are coming as a group or if you need a particular time slot (due to early departing flight), please notify Richard Gillilan (reg8@cornell.edu) for scheduling. Lectures and tutorials are finished by 11:30am on Friday. There are no other officially scheduled activities besides your data collection slot, so you may wish to make your travel arrangements once you know when your slot will be.
Both inline SEC-SAXS and robotically-loaded “flow-cell” BioSAXS are available at G1 and F1 stations. Students may switch between the modes with the push of a button. If you plan to run SEC-SAXS, be advised that buffer changes take time. Please send your buffer requirements (pH range, salt concentration and other additives) to Richard Gillilan (reg8@cornell.edu) so we can try to minimize buffer changes during the course.
Speakers:
- Richard Gillilan (MacCHESS)
- Thomas Grant (Hauptman-Woodward Institute)
- Kushol Gupta (UPENN Medical school)
- Jesse Hopkins (BioCAT)
- Steve Meisburger (Princeton)
SCHEDULE
** Please also specify if you wish to bring your own samples. **
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F1: |
8:00 pm – morning |
TBD |
G1: |
7:30 pm – morning |
TBD |
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F1: |
1:00 pm – 7:00 pm |
TBD |
G1: |
12:00 noon – 6:00 pm |
TBD |
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F1: |
7:00 pm – morning |
TBD |
G1: |
6:00 pm – morning |
TBD |
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F1: |
8:30 am – 2:30 pm | TBD |
G1: |
9:30 am – 3:30 pm |
TBD |
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F1: |
2:30 pm - 8:30 pm |
TBD |