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Volume 10, No. 4 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT TABLE OF CONTENTS It is a pleasure and an honor to have been elected to serve the crystallographic community as President of the IUCr. LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT ............... 1 Now, more than at any other time in history, it is important XX CONGRESS AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY .. 2 that we set aside national interests and embrace the prin- EDITORIAL ..................................... 4 ciples of the International Union. Those principles include RECENT ARTICLES IN IUCR JOURNALS ..... 6 free circulation of scientists, education of the new generation IUCR ACTIVITIES ............................. 7 Photo Courtesy of HWI Graphics Graphics HWI of Courtesy Photo of scientists everywhere, and assistance to emerging nations. XIX CONGRESS AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY11 Emerging nations can benefit from the use of the power- MEETING REPORTS ......................... 17 William L. Duax NOTICES, AWARDS, ELECTIONS........... 18 ful techniques of X-ray crystallography in order to analyze, FUTURE MEETINGS.......................... 20 understand and use the unique natural resources within their LETTERS TO THE EDITOR................... 24 countries whether mineralogical, chemical, or biological in nature. CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC MEETINGS CALENDAR24 It is noteworthy that the Union consistently uses its financial resources to INDEX TO ADVERTISERS .................... 24 support countries in need and students everywhere. I urge you to support all of the activities of the IUCr. Consider publishing some of your best work in Acta or Judith L. Flippen-Anderson starting a personal subscription to an Acta Journal. Establish a collaboration with Editor a research scientist on another continent in order to advance science and support international communication. Consider volunteering to assist one of the Com- Patricia Coley Newsletter Design & Production missions of the Union in achieving its objectives. If you have ideas, concerns or opinions about the activities of a Commission of the Union, please express them. Jane Griffin If you think that there are areas vital to crystallography and crystallographers that Andrea Sharpe Assistant Editors might be served by a new commission, a new publication, or a new volume of the International Tables, address your ideas to me or the individuals you consider best Tammy Colley Copy Production qualified to evaluate and implement your requests. The Regional Affiliates of the IUCr have become powerful resources to advance Send Contributions to: P. Coley the goals and principles of the Union. The European Crystallographic Assn has a Hauptman-Woodward Med. Research Inst. 73 High St., Buffalo, NY 14203, USA vital African Initiative, the American Crystallographic Assn has a Latin American Tel.: 716-856-9600 FAX: 716 852-4846 initiative and the more advanced countries in the Asian Crystallographic Assn are e-mail: [email protected] helping to strengthen crystallography in their region. When you travel to another Matters pertaining to advertisements should be addressed to P. Coley at the above address. country, consider yourself an ambassador for crystallography. Contact crystallogra- phers in the cities you visit and find out what they are doing and, where appropriate On the Cover: The cover images were and feasible, offer your support and assistance. This is especially important if you provided by keynote speakers at the XIX Congress. Keiichi Namba provided the visit a country that is not now a member of the Union. Presently, 38 countries center image modelling the self-assembly are members of the IUCr and are listed on the IUCr website. Other international process of bacterial flagellum. The images scientific societies have membership of as many as 90 countries. Many of these in the upper right corner were provided by Zbigniew Daughter. The left image is the other countries would benefit from IUCr membership. The easiest way to spread experimental map of phospholipase at 1 the word about the IUCr is to have the IUCr Newsletter distributed to individu- Å resolution obtained by /ACORN/ from als who may be interested in crystallography and science libraries in nonmember the position of a Ca atom found from its countries. If you have friends, colleagues, or collaborate in countries that are not anomalous signal by /SHELXD/ in the data collected with 1.54 Å radiation. The right now members of the IUCr, please send these names and address to the IUCr office image is a superposition with the correct so that they can be added to the mailing list. model showing that all peaks in the electron Perhaps the best thing each of you could do for yourself, your science and others density map are accounted for. would be to volunteer for a leadership role in a scientific organization, work for Contributors: P.D. Adams, E. Antipov, R. Bakker, international cooperation, and encourage young people to become involved. S.V. Borisov, C. Branden, I.D. Brown, I. Bytheway, G.S. Chandler, C. Chidester, B. Craven, J.-C. Daran, Bill Duax G. Dodson, K. El-Sayed, B.N. Figgis, E. Garman, [email protected] I. Goncharenko, C.H. Görbitz, R.W. Grosse-Kunst- leve, J.M. Guss, M. Guss, A.J. Howard, L.-W. Hung, T.R. Ioerger, B.R. Kaafarani, S. Kegley, J.A. Krause, C.H. Lake, M. Lutz, A.J. McCoy, N.W. Moriarty, D.C. Neckers, R. Nelmes, A.G. Oliver, E.F. Pai, P. Paufler, R. Read, J.C. Sacchettini, N.K. Sauter, N.L. Speziali, P. Suortti, T.C. Terwilliger, M. Vijayan, B. Wex. The IUCr Newsletter is distributed to 587 libraries and 15,000 crystallographers and other IUCr Executive Secretary: interested individuals in 39 countries. The IUCr also runs Crystallography Online, available at Michael Dacombe ([email protected]) www.iucr.org, as a complement to the IUCr print newsletter. Feature articles, meeting announce- ments and reports, information on research or other items of potential interest to crystallog- The IUCr Newsletter (ISSN 1067-0696; coden IUC- raphers should be submitted to the editor at any time. Submission of text by electronic mail NEB) Volume 10, Number 4. Published quarterly and graphics, slides or photographs by express mail is requested. Items will be selected for (4x) by the International Union of Crystallography. publication on the basis of suitability, content, style, timeliness and appeal. The editor reserves Members receive the IUCr Newsletter by virtue of the right to edit. Cost of distribution in Australia, Colombia, Croatia, Cuba, Czech Republic, country membership in the IUCr. Periodical postage France, India, Italy, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Switzerland, rates paid at Buffalo, NY and additional mailing of- fices. POSTMASTER: Please send changes of address Taiwan, The Netherlands, Thailand, and Venezuela is borne by crystallographic associations or to IUCr Newsletter Editorial Office, c/o Hauptman- institutions or by individual crystallographers in these countries. Address changes or corrections Woodward Medical Research Institute, 73 High St., and requests to be added to the mailing list should be addressed to the editorial office. Buffalo, NY 14203 USA. If you would like to see a copy of the IUCr Newsletter in your college or university library, send the address to the Newsletter office so that we can add it to our mailing list. IUCr Newsletter ♦ Volume 10, Number 4 ♦ 2002 1 XX IUCR CONGRESS AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY EDITORIAL XX IUCr Congress and General Assembly Why Florence? The international fame Florence, Italy, August 23 - 31, 2005 of Florence as an art city, the Scientific Program Committee worldwide interest in its artistic Chairperson: Carlo Mealli (CNR, Firenze) heritage and its cultural tradi- tions, its geographic position, Local Organizing Committee the famous “green” region of Chairperson: Paolo Dapporto (U. of Florence) Tuscany, Florence also has the P. Rossi (U. of Florence) advantage of having Congress facilities right in the middle of the city’s busi- A. Guerri (U. of Florence,) ness centre, near all the major hotels and tourist attractions and at a stone’s S. Ciattini (U. of Florence) throw from the railway station and from the airport terminal. Florence has C. Faggi (U. of Florence) all the necessary facilities: an airport with daily flights from the most impor- M. Ferraroni (U. of Florence) tant European capitals, an important railway junction which links Florence C. Bazzicalupi (U. of Florence) to Rome and Milan, a motorway which connects Florence with Siena, San M. Di Vaira (U. of Florence, Firenze) Gimignano, Arezzo, Pisa and Lucca and the famous Chianti area, an efficient F. Cecconi (CNR, Firenze) train connection system and motorway from Pisa airport. D. Masi (CNR, Firenze) Florence also hosts an important University and many renowned research D. M. Proserpio (U. of Milan) centers. A major renovation of the scientific infrastructures is under develop- M. Mellini (U. of Siena) ment. A new big Campus (Polo Scientifico) is about to be fully operative. S. Mangani (U. of Siena) Congress Secretariat P. Paoli (U. of Florence, Firenze) A. Ienco (CNR, Firenze) www.iucr2005.it e-mail: [email protected] 2 IUCr Newsletter ♦ Volume 10, Number 4 ♦ 2002 IUCr Newsletter ♦ Volume 10, Number 4 ♦ 2002 3 EDITORIAL 2003 promises to be a year of new begin- Correction: nings and exciting challenges for me. On a Volume 10#3. The photo on pages 15-16 was courtesy personal note I have left the Naval Research of Caroline Duax (not W.L. Duax) Laboratory to take a position with the Protein Data Bank (PDB) - quite a leap for a dyed-in- the-wool small molecule crystallographer. to our community (IUCr Commission activities, what’s happen- Even from the small molecule perspective ing in the various crystallographic associations, election results, I have always viewed the PDB as a critical awards, obituaries, book reviews, letters to the editor, relevant international resource. I am pleased to be joining the team web-sites, future meeting announcements, new resources, etc). responsible for its maintenance and growth. Please continue to submit articles you feel would be of interest My second new beginning is that I am one of the new co- to our readers.
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