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Crystallography News British Crystallographic Association Crystallography News British Crystallographic Association Issue No. 145 June 2018 ISSI 1467-2790 BCA Spring Meeting Scenes Spring Meeting Reports p6 Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Policy p16 ICDD News p17 IUCr OUP Book Series p19 Summer and Autumn Upcoming p20 PHOTON III – Capture More Reflections The NEW PHOTON III Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure - Aldous Huxley Modern crystallography beamlines use large active area pixel array detectors to optimize the speed and efficiency of data collection. The new PHOTON III offers the same advantage for your home laboratory with an active area of up to 140 x 200 mm². The PHOTON III surpasses any laboratory detector in Detective Collection Efficiency (DCE) and guarantees the best data for your most challenging experiments. Contact us for a personal system demonstration www.bruker.com/photon3 Crystallography Innovation with Integrity Rigaku Oxford Diffraction is pleased to announce our latest release of CrysAlisPro featuring the revolutionary Ewald3D. View your diffraction pattern the way nature intended, in 3D, and never miss crucial sample details again. In Ewald3D identifying indexing problems and sample characteristics is easy, in a fully interactive and visual way. Also in the latest CrysAlisPro release: • New powder tools to generate high-quality, sharp patterns more easily. • Hardware support for the new XtaLAB Synergy line as well as older Rigaku equipment. • Simple workfl ows and fast sample identifi cation in seconds with the “What Is this?” tool. Download it from our user forum today. www.RigakuXrayForum.com BCA CrysAlisPro_advert_en_Ver1_2018.04.12.indd 1 4/20/2018 12:38:33 PM Thank you to all exhibitors at our BCA BCA Spring Meeting 2018 2018 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 1. Anton Paar 6. Excillum AB 11. PROTO/Hiltonbrooks 2. Bruker UK Ltd 7. Incoatec GmbH 12. Rigaku Oxford Diffraction 3. Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre 8. M2M Pharmaceuticals Ltd 13. Scientific Medical Products Ltd 4. Cambridge Reactor Design Ltd 9. Malvern Panalytical 14. Specac Ltd 5. Douglas Instruments Ltd 10. Oxford Cryosystems 15. STOE & Cie GmbH Crystallography News June 2018 Contents From the President. 2 BCA Council 2018. 3 From the Editor. 4 BCA Administrative Office, 4 Dragon Road Harrogate HG1 5DF Puzzle Corner. 5 Tel: +44 (0)1423 529 333 e-mail: [email protected] BCA Spring Meeting 2018. 6 Prizes Awarded at BCA 2018. 15 CRYSTALLOGRAPHY NEWS is published quarterly (March, June, September and December) by the British Crystallographic BCA Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity Policy. 16 Association, and printed by Bowmans, Leeds. Text should preferably be sent electronically as MSword documents (any ICDD Announces its 2018-2020 Board of Directors. 17 version - .docx, .doc, .rtf or .txt files) or else on a PC disk. Diagrams and figures are most welcome, but please send them ICDD Distinguished Fellows. 18 separately from text as .jpg, .gif, .tif, or .bmp files. Items may include technical articles, news about people (eg awards, honours, retirements etc), reports on past The IUCr OUP Book Series; overview and update. 19 meetings of interest to crystallographers, notices of future meetings, historical reminiscences, letters to the editor, book, A Summer and Autumn Upcoming. 20 hardware or software reviews. Please ensure that items for inclusion in the September 2018 issue are sent to the 50 Years of Synchrotron Radiation in the UK and Editor to arrive before 25 July 2018. its global impact. 21 Editor, Carl Schwalbe 15 St Augustine Drive, Droitwich, Worcs WR9 8QR Joint XRF Meeting – Wednesday 13th June 2018. 22 Tel: 01905 775257 e-mail: [email protected] Meetings of Interest. 23 Deputy Editor, Dave Allan e-mail: [email protected] The British Crystallographic Association is a Registered Charity (#284718) As required by the DATA PROTECTION ACT, the BCA is notifying members that we store your contact information on a computer database to simplify our administration. These details are not divulged to any others without your permission. You may inspect your entry during the Annual Meeting, or otherwise by application to This month’s cover: the BCA Administrative Office. We will be happy to amend entries at any time. Honorary Life Membership awards, plenary lecturers, Printed by Bowmans dinner and ceilidh fun, Westland Square, Westland Road, Leeds, LS11 5SS Tel: 0113 272 0088 Web: www.bowmans77.co.uk Warwick scenes Crystallography News June 2018 1 From the President FIRST of all, I would like it say We are soon off to try out the Stanford Linear Coherent Light how honoured and delighted I am Source (LCLS) free-electron laser to see if it can help our to be elected as President of the investigation of catalytic intermediates. I hope to report back BCA, and I would like to thank the on how we got on in my column in the next newsletter. At members for electing me. I was least the weather will be good there in May, although we will not able to attend the AGM, and I probably be underground most of the time. would especially like to apologise to all the members who were there, It’s not every day that you turn on the television to watch the but I was away on an extended, BBC 10 o’clock news and see a crystal structure come up on and long planned, trip to Australia. the screen, but that is exactly what happened to me a few Despite not being there, I hear that the Spring Meeting days before writing this column. It was the PETase, or was a great success and we should thank Leo Brady and “plastic-eating enzyme” as the press would have it, from his colleagues for organizing and delivering it. I would John McGeehan’s lab at Plymouth, where they have a like to extend my thanks to Lee Brammar for his sterling mutant variant with higher activity against the poly(ethylene service as President over the last three years, and it is terephthalate), or PET, commonly used for plastic bottles. The with some trepidation that I will now attempt to fill his natural enzyme was found in a bacterium living in a Japanese shoes. In addition, thanks are also due to the other officers rubbish dump, and happily using plastic bottles as its carbon retiring from Council this year, Mark Senn and Stephen source. The interesting crystallographic angle is that John and Moggach, for their valuable contributions to the running his colleagues used the long-wavelength in vacuo beamline I23 of the BCA. In the same vein, I must congratulate Cheryl at Diamond, with its huge cylindrical detector, to collect data Doherty on her election, Simon Coles on being re-elected, with 2.5 Å X-rays allowing structure solution using the anomalous Hazel Sparkes who has agreed to be co-opted to signal from native sulphur atoms. This was great publicity for complete Stephen’s term, and the Nominating Committee crystallography and its relevance in the modern world. for identifying candidates. I look forward to working with the new Council and the other hard-working committee Congratulations are due to other members in the news, members. including Richard Henderson, for the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, and Andrew Goodwin, for the Blavatnik Award I should, perhaps, introduce myself a little more, in case not 2018. Elspeth Garman and Carl Schwalbe were elevated everyone read the election statements in Crystallography News to be Honorary Life Members, 2018. I should remind readers in all their gory detail. I had a eureka moment as a chemistry here that nominations close for this Honorary Life Members undergraduate at UCL in 1970, at the end of an inspiring 2019 on August 31st. Nominations should be sent to me at week-long practical, starting with mounting our crystals and [email protected], along with a short case ending with preparing a photographic print of an electron for support of not more than 400 words. density map, where I could measure the C-N bond length in I should remind you that there some interesting meetings hexamethylenetetramine with a six-inch ruler (and it was coming up, including a Joint BCA/RSC XRF Meeting at correct!). I have been sold on crystallography ever since, Sheffield Hallam University on 13th June, and a meeting of initially as a small molecule chemical crystallographer working the South-West Structural Biology Consortium at the University on specific recognition of alkali metal ions by small organic of Exeter on 21-22nd June. Further afield the ACA2018 ligands, and topochemical control of photochemically induced meeting is in Toronto 20-24th July and the 31st European reactions of small organic molecules in the crystal. I had a Crystallographic Meeting (ECM31) is in Oviedo, Spain, on long-standing interest in biology, however, and soon moved 22-27th August. Long distance travellers may be interested into protein crystallography, initially in structure determination in the AsCA2018/Crystal32 Conference of the Asian and refinement of oxymyoglobin using both X-ray and neutron Crystallographic Association and the Society of crystallography at low temperature. Since then I have worked Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand in December. on other metalloproteins, including copper oxidases, At least the weather will be better there, with little chance of a magnesium containing nucleases, superoxide dismutase and “Beast from the East”. NiFe hydrogenase. As we all know, crystal structures are essentially static images, or more correctly time and population What about the next three years? It seems a daunting task averages, but function, such as catalysis, often implies now, but I will work to the best of my ability, on behalf of the dynamics. In order to address this, I have used freeze-trapping members, for both the BCA and crystallography, during my methods for observation of catalytic intermediates to try to tenure.
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