Crystallography, Drug Discovery, and Crystallization Workshops

Wondering how to get your students, employees or coworkers up to speed in crystallography and structure based drug discovery? Or are you an experienced bimedical researcher wanting to learn more about structure based experimental and virtual drug discovery methods ?

We provide professional crystallography training courses and workshops ranging from small molecule diffraction to high throughput protein drug target crystallography and virtual ligand screening, covering essentials from fundamentals to cutting edge technology training.

Training courses can be conducted at your site, and range from single-day, multi-media and PowerPoint based  introductions to multi-day practical crystallization courses, up to full two-week lecture courses for academic settings and Universities. Specialty lectures by instrument manufactures and providers are easily included. The lectures are supplemented by interactive exercises from our acclaimed Crystallography 101 web course and discount vouchers or a copy of my textbook Biomolecular Crystallography: Principles, Practice, and Applications to Structural Biology are provided. Crystallization courses include supplies for  students, including everything needed to grow protein crystals. Participants can download course materials about 2 weeks before the courses commence.

Examples of current workshops organized or contributed to:

• DGK-AK1 workshop: Diffraction Data Collection Using Synchrotron Radiation, BESSY, Berlin, June 13-15, 2013

• International School on Biological Crystallization, Granada, May 26-31, 2013

• From genes to atomic structure: Introduction to synchrotron-based structural biology, Trieste, Apr 23-27, 2012

• Australian Crystallization Course, CSIRO Melbourne, Dec 12-16, 2011

• High Throughput Methods for Protein Production and Crystallization, Marseille, July 4-13, 2011

• International Symposium on Structural and Infection Biology, Hamburg, July 1-2, 2011

• Crystallography for Chemists (and others), CSU Pomona, June 19-24, 2011

• Drug Target Crystallography and Structure Based Drug Discovery, San Diego, CA (2 days, June 16-17, 2011)

• International School on Biological Crystallization, Granada, May 22-26, 2011

• Cristalografia de proteinas, 1-day workshop at the 20^a Reunião da ABC, Campinas, Brazil, Feb 21, 2011

• CCP4 Study Weekend 2011 - Model Building, Refinement, and Validation, Jan. 5-7 2011, Warwick, UK 

• Advanced Protein Drug Target Crystallography, Florence, Italy (Nov. 8, 2010, Pre-Conference Workshop, one day)

• EMBL PEPC VII course (EMBL Outstation Hamburg, Aug. 23-31, 2010)

• Modern Drug Target Crystallography and Structure Based Drug Discovery, San Diego, CA (2 days, Dec 14-15, 2009)

• Modern Biomolecular Crystallography-II (NSF sponsored, CSUF June 22-27, 2008)

• EMBL PEPC VI course (EMBL Outstation Hamburg, Sept 1-9, 2008)

• Crystallography, Computational Modeling and Simulation in Structure Based Drug Discovery (Palm Springs, CA, January 21-22, 2008 (2-day pre-conference workshop) 

• Modern Drug Target Crystallography and Structure Based Drug Discovery, San Diego (2 days, June 28-29, 2007)

• BioXhit/SPINE Practical Protein Crystallization Course, Hamburg (Feb 28 to Mar 2, 2007)

• Modern Protein Drug Target Crystallography, San Francisco (Jan 23, 2007, Pre-Conference Workshop, one day)

• Modern Drug Target Crystallography and Structure Based Drug Discovery, San Diego (2 days, Nov. 9-10, 2006)

• EMBL PEPC V course (EMBL Outstation Hamburg, August 26 to Sept 5, 2006)

• Modern Drug Target Crystallography and Structure Based Drug Discovery, San Diego (2 days, May 25-26, 2006)

• Modern Protein Drug Target Crystallography (Jan 2006, Pre-Conference Workshop, one day)

• Macromolecular Structure Validation (ACA 2005, one-day)

• Practical protein crystallization course (University of Vienna, 2004, 3 days)

• Modern Biomolecular Crystallography (NSF sponsored, CSUF 2004, 2005)

• EMBL PEPC II-IV courses (EMBL Outstation Hamburg, 2000, 2002, 2004)

• EMBL HTPX inauguration (EMBL Hamburg, 2005)

• BioXHit High Throughput Crystallization Workshop (NKI, Amsterdam, 2005)

Please see our education and teaching summary for further details and references

We would be happy to plan your next crystallography workshop. Linux powered ACER brand laptops with preinstalled CCP4 crystallography software are also available from us. Please contact us for detailed information and a quote.