A plenary talk on RNA polymerase II by Nobel laureate Roger Kornberg is among the highlights of the American Crystallographic Association’s annual meeting this July in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Scheduled for Saturday, 21 July, through Thursday, 26 July, at the Salt Palace Convention Center, the 2007 ACA meeting is expected to draw up to 900 attendees. The talk by Kornberg, who won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is 8:30 to 9:30am Thursday and will address his award-winning studies of the molecular basis of eukaryotic transcription, or the process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to RNA.
The main conference program includes close to 50 sessions organized under 10 headings: materials science, neutron scattering, fiber diffraction, powder diffraction, service crystallography, small-angle scattering, small molecules, synchrotron radiation, special interest, and industry. Some topics to be covered are radiation damage, teaching gadgets and educational tools, advances in data collection,...
