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The Southeast Regional Collaborative Access Team (SER-CAT) is an organization consisting of 26 member institutions, initially formed in 1997 to provide third generation x-ray capabilities to macro-molecular crystallographers and structural biologists in the southeastern region of this country. Emphasis is placed on new structure determinations, high-resolution structural analyses, drug design, protein engineering, site-directed mutagenesis projects, and support of the genome program. SER-CAT is located at the Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, and is operated by the University of Georgia, with Professor Bi-Cheng Wang as Director. Please peruse the pages of our website to find out more about SER-CAT and how we are "shining a new light" on protein crystallography. Have a look at The SER-CAT Spectrum, our biannual newsletter, to learn about recent breakthroughs. As always, your comments and suggestions are welcome. Thank you for visiting! |
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SER-CAT 2008 Symposium and Board Meeting The Fifth Annual SER-CAT Symposium was held on March 7, 2008 at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina. The attendees shared recent, significant crystallographic research discoveries and practical beamline users' tools. SER-CAT would like to thank this year's organizer, Dr. Christopher Davies, and the Medical University of South Carolina for hosting such an outstanding meeting. We also would like to thank each of the contributing vendors noted below, and all of our speakers for their strong participation and support. A full program for the meeting's activities and an abstract booklet may be found at (programs and abstracts). SER-CAT would like to sincerely thank and acknowledge the following Sponsors for their support of the 2008 5th Annual SER-CAT Symposium: South Carolina EPSCoR/IDeA; Rigaku; Qiagen; and MUSC Center for Structural Biology. In addition to having a wonderful array of research information presented at the Symposium, SER-CAT is pleased to recognize the outstanding achievements made by two individuals at the SER-CAT facility. This year's research awards were presented to Dr. Dmitry Vassylyev of University of Alabama at Birmingham who received the SER-CAT Outstanding Science Award; and Dr. Da Jia of Emory University who received the SER-CAT Young Investigator Award. Congratulations to both award recipients for their achievements at SER-CAT!
The SER-CAT Approach!
B.C. Wang Receives the 2008 ACA Patterson Award! We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Bi-Cheng (B.C.) Wang, SER-CAT Director, has been selected as the recipient of the American Crystallographic Association's (ACA) 2008 Patterson Award. As noted in the Summer 2007 ACA newsletter, B.C. was selected, "for (his) significant contribution to the methodology of structure determination from single isomorphous replacement or single-wavelength anomalous scattering data and for its impact on structural biology." The Patterson Award is given every three years to recognize and encourage outstanding research in structural biology methodology. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Wang on receiving this significant award from the ACA and its selection committee!
B.C. Wang Receives the Golden Magnolia Award!
The First Ten Years at
SER-CAT
Gerold Rosenbaum Receives the Compton
Award
Please join us in congratulating Dr. Rosenbaum for his outstanding contributions to biological synchrotron X-ray diffraction, and for providing the community with excellent beamlines at the APS and elsewhere. This award was presented to him during the first science session of the User’s Meeting. More information on the award may be found on the APS web site at http://www.aps.anl.gov/News/APS_News/2007/20070402_b.htm
Congratulations to our
2007 Award Winners!
Dr. Ping Liu of Georgia State University received the SER-CAT
Young Investigator Award in recognition of her work on Geobacillus
sterothermophilus carboxylesterase Est55. Professor Michael
Wiener of the University of Virginia received the SER-CAT
Outstanding Science Award in recognition of his work on the
Structure of the BtuB:TonB Complex.
The SER-CAT Awards were presented at the 4th Annual SER-CAT
Symposium, on Friday, March 16, 2007 in Frederick, Maryland. Both
awardees presented a 20-minute talk on their work at the symposium. Congratulations to our winners!
2008 SER-CAT Young Investigator Award and Outstanding Science Award Nominations Forms
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