Workshop

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Second Annual Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics Workshop

General Information

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Sponsors

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The structural biology workshop was funded by the following coporate sponsors...

	Aviv Biomedical services academia and pharmaceutical companies, from the largest to the smallest biotech companies, as well as U.S. and foreign government agencies. Aviv has been known, worldwide, to design one-of-a-kind specialized instruments for our loyal scientific investigators.
	Art Robbins Instruments is an industry leader in high quality laboratory automation products & services for the biotech community.
	Formulatrix is the world leader in protein crystallography automation. Our flagship products, Rock Maker and Rock Imager are software and hardware solutions that automate the entire protein crystallization process.
	GE Healthcare provides transformational medical technologies that are shaping a new age of patient care. Our expertise in medical imaging and information technologies, medical diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery, and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies is helping clinicians around the world re-imagine new ways to predict, diagnose, inform and treat disease, so their patients can live their lives to the fullest.
	HORIBA Jobin Yvon is a world leader in the manufacture of instruments for analysis and research using optical spectroscopy and X-Ray technology. They have a long proud history with one of their companies established as long ago as 1819. They are experts in many fields including Microscopic Analysis using Raman, X-Ray and Fluorescence techniques.
	Isotec Sigma-Aldrich is the world's largest producer of enriched stable isotopes. We offer isotopically-labeled products for Protein Structure Determination, Peptide Synthesis, Proteomics, Metabolic Research, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, NMR, Custom Synthesis, cGMP Capabilities, Breath Test Substrates, PET, Agriculture, Gas and Gas Mixes.
	MicroCal, LLC develops and manufactures the most sensitive and reliable microcalorimeters available, primarily for use in the life sciences. With unsurpassed technical and applications support, we have been the world leader for more than 25 years.
	Rigaku is the world's leading resource for single-crystal X-ray diffraction hardware, software and contract services. Rigaku offers fully integrated small and macromolecule solutions, Rigaku microfocus generators, sensitive detectors, integrated variably divergent optics, cryo-cooling devices, peripheral devices and contract services. We also distribute RoboDesign automated protein crystal storage, inspection and analysis products.
	Varian is a leader and innovator in creating solutions that solve a wide range of challenges in life science and industry. In particular, we excel in creating high performance products, often combining our diverse technologies and capabilities to create new ways to meet the evolving needs of our customers. Our instruments, consumable supplies, and solutions are key tools in bio-molecular and academic research, pharmaceutical R&D and manufacturing, and industrial R&D and quality control, and in developing everything from disease-resistant crops to cosmetics to testing drinking water and monitoring quality in the petrochemical industry.

The structural biology workshop was funded by the following academic sponsors...

Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is in the College of Medicine and located on the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus.
Pharmaceutical Sciences	The Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in the College of Pharmacy, in concert with other basic science departments on the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus, is responsible for providing pharmacy students with both a theoretical and a practical knowledge base in the pharmaceutical sciences.
	The Eppley Institute for Cancer Research and Allied Diseases is located on the University of Nebraska Medical Center campus and provides a research center to perform and encourage fundamental studies leading to: A better understanding of the causes of cancer. The improvement of methods for diagnosis of cancer. The improvement of methods for the treatment and prevention of cancer and similar disorders.

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