Publish Date
06 December, 2000
Report on the 2nd SESAME Workshop on
Structural Molecular Biology (SMB)
Meeting held in Nicosia, Cyprus
December 6-7, 2000
Under the Auspices of the SESAME Scientific Committee
(Ercan Alp & Herman Winick - Cochairs)
Date of this Report: March 1, 2001
Support Provided by
UNESCO
The Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation
The Cyprus Planning Bureau
The University of Cyprus
The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics
| 1. | Introduction |
| 2. | Executive Summary |
| 3. | Description of SMB related activities in the Region 3.1 Greece - Metaxia Vlassi 3.2 Morocco - Abdelaziz Soukri 3.3 Palestinian Authority - Said Assaf, Nael Hasan |
| 4. | Other activities and Plans related to SMB 4.1 Workshop/School on Bioinformatics Structural Modeling - Zehra Sayers 4.2 SMB Wkshp for Scientists in Algeria, Morocco, & Tunisia - Abdelaziz Soukri 4.3 Scientific Collaborations on Protein Structure 4.4 Invitation to Work at European Synchrotron Radiation Facility 4.5 Invitation to Israeli Crystallography Association Annual Meeting |
| 5. | An SMB Institute at the SESAME site Pierre Rizkallah and Metaxia Vlassi |
| 6. | Proposed Biological Institute in the Palestinian Authority 6.1 Comment; Ercan Alp & Herman Winick |
| 7. | Synchrotron Radiation Techniques and Applications 7.1 Biological & Medical App. of Synchrotron IR Microspectroscopy - Lisa Miller 7.2 Small Angle x-ray Scattering - Boris Batterman & Zehra Sayers 7.3 X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy - James Penner-Hahn 7.4 Macromolecular Crystallography - Peter Kuhn 7.5 Biological Studies with EXAFS and IR Techniques - Irit Sagi |
| 8. | Performance of SESAME for SMB - Herman Winick Appendices A-Charge to the Workshop - Peter Kuhn B-Workshop Announcement and Application Form C-Workshop Agenda D-First Announcement: Workshop/School on Bioinformatics & Structural Modeling |