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Contact us for a personal system demonstration – seeing is believing! www.bruker.com/d8venture Crystallography Innovation with Integrity D8 Venture TXS Dec-Jan2012 B Print.pdf 1 12/1/11 3:42 PM American Crystallographic Association www.AmerCrystalAssn.org Table of Contents 2 President’s Column ACA Fellows Guidelines for Nominations 3 News from Canada Intense Impact... The Future of CRYSTALS On the cover- see page16 4-5 News from South America - School in Uruguay 6-10 ACA Living History - Jenny Glusker 12-16 News and Awards 16 What's on the Cover Index of Advertisers 18-19 Herb Hauptman (1917-2011) 19 Calls for ACA Nominations 20 Bob Snyder (1941-2011) 22 Hiro Tsuruta (1962-2011) C 24-25 PDB 40th Anniversary Symposium 26 ACA 2011 Workshop on Symmetry Mode Analysis M 27 Puzzle Corner Y Contributors to this Issue CM 28-31 Book Reviews MY 33-35 Election Results for ACA Offices - 2012 ACA 2012 Award Winners CY 36 ACA Corporate Members CMY 37-46 2011 ACA & USNCCr Travel Award Winners K 47-48 Contributors to ACA Award Funds 49-51 ACA 2012 - Boston- Preview 52 Calendar of Future Meetings see things you’ve Announcing: ACA 2012 Small Molecule Course never seen before Election Results Contributions to ACA RefleXions may be sent to either of the Editors: Please address questions pertaining to advertisements, membership inquiries, or use of the ACA mailing list to: Connie (Chidester) Rajnak ....................... 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Puzzle Corner: Frank Fronczek Contact us for a personal system demonstration – seeing is believing! www.bruker.com/d8venture Deadlines for contributions are: February 1 (Spring), May 1 (Summer), August 1 (Fall) and November 1 (Winter) ACA RefleXions (ISSN 1058-9945) Number 4 2011. Published four times per year in the spring, summer, fall and winter for the membership of the American Crystallographic Association, P.O. Box 96, Ellicott Station, Buffalo, NY 14205-0096. Membership in the ACA includes a non-deductible Crystallography charge of $1.75 from membership dues to be applied to a subscription to the ACA RefleXions. Periodicals postage paid at Buffalo, New York. POST- Innovation with Integrity MASTER: Send address changes to ACA, P.O.Box 96, Ellicott Station, Buffalo, NY, 14205-0096. President's Column - Nominations for ACA Fellows Winter 2011 It hardly seems possible, but the Nomination Procedure for ACA Fellows year has just sped by and this is my final column for RefleXions. It’s been a very rewarding year for me, 1. A call for nominations for ACA Fellows will be published highlighted by a number of important in the winter edition of RefleXions and on the ACA website. milestones including our extremely Nominations are solicited from any member (including retired successful meeting in New Orleans members) of the ACA. and the selection of the inaugural 2. Nominations can be submitted at any time to the Buffalo class of ACA Fellows. I have heard office. The closing date for any given year is February 28th. back from a number of our Fellows, 3. After February 28th, current Fellows will be polled for their and they have emphasized how much evaluations of all nominations submitted since March 1st of the they appreciate receiving this honor preceding year. The new class of Fellows will be appointed by from their ACA colleagues. At its Council based on the compiled results. fall meeting the Council finalized procedures for selecting future ACA Fellows (see next column), 4. Self-nominations will not be accepted. and we look forward to welcoming a new class of Fellows each 5. Nominations must include the following information about year beginning in 2012. the nominee: Plans are progressing for our 2012 meeting, which will be a. Name, contact information (address, telephone held in Boston July 28 – August 1, 2012. Program Chairs number, email address), and professional affiliation. Bruce Foxman and Bruce Noll are well along in their endeavors, b. Nominees are expected to be members of ACA in they are planning an outstanding scientific program that will good standing. Under exceptional circumstances kick off with a full schedule of workshops before the opening Council may waive this requirement. reception on Saturday, July 28. Local chair Peter Müller is hard c. Brief educational background. at work behind the scenes to make sure that everything runs like clockwork . The ACA’s major award winners for 2012 – John d. Professional history (positions, appointments, Spence (Buerger), Emmanuel Skordalakes (Etter), Ron Hamlin awards, honors). (Supper), and Paul Fenter (Warren), will be present in Boston e. Membership in other scientific organizations. to deliver their award lectures. Please note that Boston will be f. Service to the ACA and crystallography. our first meeting using the newly adopted Sunday – Wednesday 6. Nominations must include the following information about format for the main scientific program. the sponsor: Breaking News: We will be going back to Hawaii for ACA a. Name, contact information (address, telephone 2013. As we did in 2006 we will be using the Sheraton Waikiki number, email address), and professional affiliation. as the headquarters hotel and rooms for students and postdocs . will be available at the Princess Kaiulani (www.sheraton-waikiki. b. Must be a current ACA member in good standing com). The dates will be Saturday July 20 – Wednesday July 24, The ACA office will confirm the sponsor’s 2013. Mark your calendars now! membership status. ACA Secretary Carrie Wilmot, RefleXions co-editor Judy 7. In addition to that of the sponsor, two further letters of Flippen Anderson, and I recently had the pleasure of attending support must be included. The letters must clearly state how the PDB40 Symposium, which was held at Cold Spring Harbor the nominee’s research over a sustained period of time has had Laboratory from October 28 – 30 to commemorate the 40th a significant impact on his/her field and detail how the nominee anniversary of the Protein Data Bank. Many leading figures in has contributed to the ACA. structural biology attended the meeting and presented fascinating perspectives on the past, present, and future of the PDB. I extended Announcement from the Editors: Our volunteer News & hearty congratulations on behalf of the ACA and our members to Awards Editor, Bomina Yu has resigned to take a new job. Con- the symposium organizers and to the entire Worldwide PDB team. sequently, Judy and Connie find themselves without a volunteer In closing I would like to thank the ACA’s fabulous headquarters for this job. Anyone wishing to apply for this position should staff, Marcia Colquhoun, Crystal Towns, and Kristina Vitale for contact either Judy: [email protected] or Connie: con- their tireless work throughout the year on our behalf. We also owe [email protected]. a great debt of gratitude to Bill Duax, S.N. Rao, and especially all the super volunteers (see page 1) who make RefleXions the premier publication that it has become. Eratta: on page 44 of the Fall issue, Brad Fulfer’s name is Best wishes to you and to your families for a wonderful misspelled twice, once in the figure caption and also in the text. holiday season! It’s Fulfer (with an F), not Fuller. Tom Koetzle 2 News from Canada / CRYSTALS Winter 2011 News From Canada instruments. That’s why I find ACA meetings well worth the time and money, even when both are in short supply. I hope to How do you decide which meetings to see you there! attend? In Canada, as elsewhere, research funding is becoming more and more pre- Note: an update on Canadian politics since my last column in cious. Given the choices we have to make, the summer 2011 RefleXions: the leader of the official opposition travel is probably the first area that gets New Democratic Party, Jack Layton, unfortunately succumbed cut in difficult times, and what travel we to cancer on August 22nd. The NDP made major gains in the do has to be cost-effective in enhancing election, particularly in Quebec, largely fuelled by Layton’s per- our research and teaching. sonality and charisma. The NDP has few MPs with Parliamentary experience, and now both main opposition parties, the Liberals The way I think about it, there are and NDP, have Interim Leaders.