University of Aarhus, Denmark 4-5 December 2008
 
Organizers: Jørgen Kjems,  Victoria Birkedal and Ian Eperon
 Information and registration, please contact Jørgen Kjems jk@mb.au.dk

Topics will generally be covered both by introductory talks and experimental demonstrations:
 
X-ray diffraction  
(Prof. Poul Nissen and Prof. Ditlev Brodersen, University of Aarhus)
 
Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS)  
(Jan Skov Petersen, University of Aarhus)
 
Cryo Electron microscopy  
(Mariola Monika Golas and Björn Sander, Max Planck, Gottingen, Germany)
 
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance  
(To be announced)
 
Fluorescence microscopy
(Ulrik Rahbek and Merete Raarup, University of Aarhus)
 
Single molecule Fluorescence microscopy
(Ian Eperon, University of Leicester and Victoria Birkedal, University of Aarhus)
 
Atomic Force Microscopy
(Wael Mamdouh and Ebbe S. Andersen, University of Aarhus)
 
Single molecule analysis using optical tweezers
(Lene Oddershede, Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen)
 
The workshop starts at 8.45 on the 4th of December – ends 16.00 on the 5th
of December
 
Registration deadline 15 th of November (Limited number of participants)
 
Information and registration, please contact Jørgen Kjems (jk@mb.au.dk)
 
Attendance fee: 100€ to be paid upon arrival

The SIROCCO/RIGHT Symposium for Young Scientists was held at Jesus College Cambridge 16-19 April 2008

The PhD students and postdocs of the SIROCCO/RIGHT consortia came together in the beautiful city of Cambridge to exchange ideas and discuss results during this informal meeting. In the traditional buildings of Jesus College of the University of Cambridge we really enjoyed the atmosphere of the symposium. Not only the discussions were open and relaxed, but also the people got in closer contact with each other during the poster session and the social events after the seminars. It was excellent to see that there is no competition but collaboration between the institutes and the basis for this are these events like the Young Scientist Symposium. As a highlight I would like to mention the keynote lectures by John Rossi and Judy Lieberman that gave us a great overview about what is possible and what is currently being done in their groups to bring RNAi from bench to bedside.
So I would like to thank first of all Aileen and Simone for their excellent organization and for giving us the opportunity to take part in this wonderful symposium. Second, I would like to thank all the people making this symposium a perfect event.

Manuel Koch, PhD student MPI for Infection Biology, Berlin