Programme
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Wednesday March 9th
11:30 - 13:00 Registration and buffet lunch
13:00 - 13:10 Welcome by Local Organisers
13:10 - 13:30 Setting the Scene for RD9 (Elspeth Garman)
Session 1 - Basic Understanding of Radiation Damage Mechanisms (Chair: Thomas Ursby)
13:30 - 13:55 Ian Carmichael: OH loss from tyrosine – debunking a myth
14:00 - 14:25 Judy Kim: Photogeneration of biological tryptophan radicals
14:30 - 14:55 Robert Thorne: Aspects of radiation damage to biomolecular crystals and solutions
15:00 - 15:25 Dominika Borek: Mapping tunneling reactions with radiation-induced changes of electron density
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session
Session 2 – Biological Studies Affected by Radiation Damage (Chair: Ana Gonzalez)
16:00 - 16:25 Michael Hough: Single crystal serial crystallography to capture redox enzyme catalysis
16:30 - 16:55 Yasufumi Umena: Estimation of the valences and radiation damage of four Mn atoms in photosystem II crystals using anomalous diffraction techniques
17:00 - 17:45 Poster clips
17:45 - 19:00 Poster session
Thursday March 10th
Session 3 – Practical Aspects of Reducing Radiation Damage (Chair: James Holton)
COST Organised Session
8:30 - 8:55 Elspeth Garman: Dose: which dose?
9:00 - 9:25 Philip Roedig: The dependence of radiation damage effects on photon energy
9:30 - 9:55 Gerold Rosenbaum: Radiation decay of thaumatin crystals at three X-ray energies
10:00 - 10:25 Brian Abbey: Coherent studies of radiation damage in micron-sized protein crystals
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session
11:00 - 12:00 Discussion (Discussion leader: Colin Nave)
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch and Poster Session
13:00 - 13:25 Andreas Förster: Dose fractionation on noise-free detectors to maximize anomalous signal while minimizing radiation damage
13:30 - 13:55 Jonathan Brooks-Bartlett: Introducing a state space model representation of the crystallographic data collection experiment
14:00 - 14:25 Gianluca Santoni: Radiation induced non-isomorphism in protein crystals: a systematic study
14:30 - 15:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session
Session 4 - Damage at New Sources - XFEL and New Synchrotrons (Chair: Arwen Pearson)
15:00 - 15:25 Sébastien Boutet: Probing ultrafast damage with an X-ray FEL
15:30 - 15:55 Karol Nass: Radiation damage and phasing in protein crystallography at X-ray free-electron lasers
16:00 - 16:25 Masaki Yamamoto: Towards the next generation of protein micro-crystallography
16:30 - 16:55 Jacques-Philippe Colletier: Characterization of radiation damage at room-temperature using raster-scanning serial crystallography
17:00 Visit MAX IV
19:00 Dinner at MAX IV
Friday March 11th
Session 5 - Radiation Damage in Complementary Fields (Chair: Marjolein Thunnissen)
8:30 - 8:55 Rajmund Mokso: Dose optimization for micrometer resolution in vivo imaging of small animals
9:00 - 9:25 Liz Duke: Towards an understanding of radiation damage in cryo soft X-ray tomography
9:30 - 9:55 Raimond Ravelli: Radiation damage to biological non-crystalline samples
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 - 10:55 Garth Simpson: Possibility of crystal perturbation by X-ray induced local electric fields
11:00 - 11:25 Robert Rambo: Breaking the radiation damage barrier in solution state SAXS
11:30 - 12:15 Discussion (Discussion leader: Sean McSweeney)
12:15 - 12:30 Wrap Up (Martin Weik, Elspeth Garman)
