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The Gulf Coast Consortium for Protein Crystallography is holding a symposium in honor of the United Nations declaring 2014 the "International Year of Crystallography." 

Registrations and poster abstract submission due no later than February 10, 2014.

 Abbreviated Agenda:

 9:00 am:          Educational booths and posters for local high school AP students. Trainees presenting posters will have a chance to interface with students about science and graduate school.

 11:00 am:        "Crystallography: What It Is and What It Does For You", George Phillips, Ph.D., Rice University

 11:30 am:         Poster Session and Lunch (high school student departures)

 1:30 pm:           "Structural Basis of Cyclic Nucleotide Selectivity in cGMP Dependent Protein Kinases of Human and Malaria Parasites", Choel Kim, Ph.D., Baylor College of Medicine

 2:15 pm:           "Opportunities for Dynamic Protein Crystallography Using X-Ray Lasers", John Spence, Ph.D., Arizona State University

 3:00 pm:          "Genome Packing by RNA Viruses", Jane Tao, Ph.D., Rice University

 3:45 pm:           Break

 4:00 pm:          "Integrative Structural Biology: Role of the Protein Data Bank", Stephen Burley, Ph.D., Rutgers University

 5:00 pm:          Reception