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Both studies are associated with the I hope you are getting ready for the the U.S. crystal growing contest at http://amercrystalassn.org/ X-ray Facility in the Chemistry Department. In addition to development of transition-metal chelators that are bactericidal ACA Annual Meeting and are telling your 2+ documents//newsletter-highlights-2015/USCrystalGrowing- via two different mechanisms. The Fe chelator disturbs the friends about it! The conference will be providing crystal structures for the McMaster Faculty, this position Contest2015.pdf has a major teaching component for Introductory Crystallography iron homeostasis in the bacterium and has a direct antibacterial held in Denver from July 22-26, 2016, effect, whereas the Zn2+ chelator acts to remove the Zn2+ ion If you haven’t already, take a look at the comprehensive His- (at the graduate student level). Since 2009, Jim has been Manager and it is going to be a terrific scientific from the metallo-β-lactamases thereby rendering the carbapenem tory section of the ACA web site (http://www.amercrystalassn. and Scientific Director of the McMaster Analytical X-ray (MAX) and networking meeting. There will be a antibiotics as effective antibacterials. Jim’s contribution to these org/history_home). It has wonderful memoirs from a variety of Diffraction Facility. He has also been a major force behind the wonderful variety of sessions ranging from studies was to define precisely the 3D structures of the Fe2+ and ACA members past and present, videos, and ACA beginnings, design, construction and operation of the Brockhouse Scattering a Transactions Symposium on structural Zn2+ complexes of the spiro-indoline-thiadiazoles that had been Tom Terwilliger dynamics of chemical, biological, and solid as well as a section on Nobel Prize winners in crystallography. and Diffraction Sector at the Canadian Light Source (CLS) Synchrotron Facility in Saskatoon. The Brockhouse Sector at the discovered by high-throughput screens of large chemical databases systems, to methods for macromolecular structure determination, I’ll be looking forward to seeing you in Denver and hearing CLS is named after McMaster physicist Bertram Brockhouse, by the group headed by Eric Brown at McMaster. new sources and instrumentation, to supramolecular chemistry, from you any time! and much more! You can see the full ACA meeting schedule on who was awarded a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1994 for his work In addition to his research in the many areas of material science, All the best, on neutron scattering at the NRU reactor in Chalk River, Ontario. Jim has rendered outstanding service to the crystallographic the meeting web site at http://www.amercrystalassn.org/2016- Tom T meeting-homepage and you can follow the meeting on Facebook Tom Terwilliger ([email protected]) Jim provides his crystallographic expertise to the academic community of Canada. Jim was President of the Canadian National (www.facebook.com/AmerCrystalAssn/) Twitter (twitter.com/ faculty at McMaster and guides the students and postdoctoral Committee for Crystallography (CNCC) for more than 10 years. ACAxtal) and Instagram (www.instagram.com/acaxtal/) with News from Canada fellows in the Departments of Chemistry, Physics and Chemical He served as Chair of the International Program Committee for the hashtag #ACADenver! In this issue of RefleXions, I will be Biology. Not only does he assist in the practical aspects of crystal the 2014 IUCr Congress held in August of that year in Montreal, highlighting the work of two Canadian Canada. Anyone who attended this meeting was duly impressed Each day of the ACA meeting will feature a keynote lecture structure determination, but he also assists in the writing of crystallographers in research and in at the organization and the running of the conference. It was from one of this year’s superb award winners. These will include manuscripts that depend largely on the results of the structural education. These two, Jim Britten from excellent. In addition to this public service, Jim is the Founder the Etter Early Career Award lecture by Jason Benedict of SUNY work. It is the wide range of topics and materials that makes McMaster University and Louise Dawe and Organizer of the Annual Canadian Chemical Crystallography Buffalo, the Trueblood lecture by Axel Brunger of Stanford Jim’s work ‘fun.’ Whether he is examining the diffraction from a from Wilfrid Laurier University, are very Workshop that runs for 4-5 days and is associated with the annual University, the Fankuchen lecture by Elspeth Garman of the quasicrystal or from an incommensurate scatterer or from a protein committed people who have advanced not meeting of the Chemical Society of Canada. These are extremely University of Oxford, and the Bau lecture by Benno Schoenborn he is constantly challenged and maintains a high personal interest only their research into the structures of popular workshops that are pitched at the graduate student and of Los Alamos National Laboratory. in the project. Even though he is not the principal investigator, Michael James small molecules, but also have dedicated it is his knowledge and understanding of diffraction techniques postdoctoral levels to those in chemistry departments who would For networking, in the late afternoons there will be poster their time and energy to advance the teaching of the science of that get the papers published in high-impact journals such as like to enhance their knowledge of X-ray crystallography. Many sessions and concurrent socials alongside the vendor exposi- crystallography. Science. Jim is happy to work closely with his colleagues in MAX are sufficiently excited by these workshops that they are able tion, with many sponsors, vendors and organizations available and the graduate students who will be primary author on these to carry out their own structure determinations. Jim has also to present their newest offerings and capabilities. Additionally papers. He knows that many of the publications would not have served on many committees and groups within the ACA. He there will be evening sessions including a networking mixer, a been possible without his crystallographic input to the research. was Program Chair for the ACA meeting in Toronto in August career-development panel, a diversity and inclusion discussion 2009. He served on Council of the ACA from 2008-2010 and session and the famous Would You Publish This? session. ‘Service’ crystallography is not the only area of science in which as Chair of the Canadian Division of the ACA (2003-2006). It Jim is a major contributor.