Past and ongoing activities

2009

April 20-24: BIOXHIT workshop with five visiting teachers (Manfred Weiss, Hamburg; Santosh Panjikar, Hamburg; Wolfgang Kabsch, Heidelberg; Andrew Leslie, Cambridge; Sasha Popov, Grenoble) on data collection and processing methods. 

2008

June 23-25: Prof. Wierenga has been a lecturer at the BIOXHIT couse organised by the Crete TID centre (host: Dr. K. Petratos). The theme of the course was "From Crystals to Structures". The title of the lecture was: "The Fourier transform, the Argand diagram and the Reciprocal lattice".

June 18-20: Dr. Rajaram Venkatesan participated the BIOXHIT course organised by the NKI in Amsterdam, Holland on "HTP crystallization and information management".

May 21-23: MSc Sanna Partanen participated the BIOXHIT course organised by the NKI in Amsterdam, Holland, on "Biophysical characterisation of macromolecular complexes".

May 19: A second remote datacollection run was carried out by Antti Haapalainen, Kristian Koski and Gitte Meriläinen (Oulu) and Xavier Thibault (ESRF).

April 21-25: The fourth BIOXHIT course took place with six teachers (Berry, Thibault, Cowtan, Emsley, Murshudov, Winn). The program included a remote datacollection run at the ESRF on Monday april 21. The remaining four days were dedicated to lectures and tutorials on the CCP4 structure determination pipeline. There were 31 registrated participants plus additional researchers from University of Oulu.

April 16-18: Markus Alahuhta and Rik Wierenga attend the fourth annual BIOXHIT meeting as well as the meeting of the TID committee with representatives of each of the four TID centres in Hamburg. Lecture by Rik Wierenga: “The Oulu TID: training and teaching for setting up the structure determination pipeline.”

January 28: A pipeline testrun was done at the ESRF. The usage of eHTPX was also tested. Much appreciated discussions with the ESRF-staff (Drs. Svensson and Thibault) were part of the follow-up on the next day after the datacollection run. Also present were representatives of the Poznan and Crete TID-centres. Four members of the Oulu TID-team participated (Meriläinen, Koski, Haapalainen, Haataja).

2007

November 29-30: Third Biocenter Oulu Workshop on Enzymes took place as a joint event. The programme can be seen in the archives.

September 18: A brainstorming meeting on the use of eHTPX was held at the Department with Dr. Ian Berry (University of Oxford).

September 10: Prof. Rik Wierenga and Dr. Tuomo Glumoff participated the yearly meeting of the four TID centres with the TID committee at the Soleil synchrotron in Paris.

August 13: Dr. Tassos Perrakis (hosted by Prof. Jari Ylänne) gave a talk "High throughput methods in Protein Crystallography" at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Finnish Biological Crystallographers, held at University of Jyväskylä. At the same meeting Dr. Kristian Koski gave a presentation on the subjects and developments of BIOXHIT TID centre Oulu.

May 7-11: Twenty-four scientists from seven countries participated and ten teachers/instructors from five institutes in four countries made it possible to enjoy modern data collection and refinement protocols in Oulu.

March 20: Kristian Koski visited Dr. Svensson at the ESRF for finalizing the DNA-manual and the DNA-video’s, together with Vanja Ekapitaniou from the Crete TID-centre. This information is also presented on our WWW-site.

February 28 - March 2: Ville Ratas participated the Spine-2 / BIOXHIT practical workshop Trends in Crystallization at the EMBL-Hamburg Outstation.

February 19-22: Prof. Rik Wierenga and Markus Alahuhta participated the third annual BIOXHIT meeting at Diamond, Oxford, UK. Rik Wierenga gave a lecture entitled: "The BIOXHIT TID centre in Oulu". They also participated the meeting of the four TID centres with the TID committee, chaired by Dr. Sine Larsen.

January 5-6: Dr. Antti Haapalainen and Dr. Kristian Koski participated the CCP4 Study Weekend in University of Reading, Reading, U.K.

2006

October 18-19: Workshop. Thirteen young scientists from three countries and six universities participated the second workshop, which concentrated on the same topics than the May workshop.

June 17-19: Prof. Rik Wierenga participated the SBnet meeting in Tallberg, Sweden, and presented a poster ”BIOXHIT training, implementation, and dissemination (TID) Centre in Oulu”.

June 15: Dr. Tuomo Glumoff gave a presentation on the subjects and developments of BIOXHIT at the 4th Annual Meeting of the Finnish Biological Crystallographers, held at University of Turku & Åbo Akademi University.

May 2-4: Workshop. Twenty-three participants took the advantage to practise various aspects of data collection and processing with latest software produced in the BIOXHIT projects.

February 28 - March 2: Dr. Kristian Koski and Dr. Antti Haapalainen visitid ESRF Grenoble for testing beamline automatisation in practise at ID23-1 together with the Polish TID centre representatives. The testing included, among other things, the use of sample changer, DNA-software package and ISPyB (Information System of Protein CrystallographY) data base by Dr. Xavier Thibault, Dr. Olof Svensson and Dr. Elspeth Gordon.

January 18-19: Prof. Rik Wierenga participated the 2nd BIOXHIT annual meeting at the ESRF, Grenoble, France.

2005

December 14-16: Ville Ratas participated in BIOXHIT workshop on High-Throughput Macromolecular Crystallisation at the Netherlands Cancer institute (NKI), Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

November 23-25: Dr. Kristian Koski and Prof. Rik Wierenga visited ESRF Grenoble for discussions with Dr. Olof Svensson on the DNA-software package in general and on the demo version of DNA, which can be used for teaching purposes in Oulu.

November 23-24: Dr. Tuomo Glumoff participated the Section 3 Dissemination Meeting at Daresbury Laboratory, UK.

August 17: Prof. Rik Wierenga visited EMBL Hamburg to discuss with Dr. Sasha Popov on how to use BEST in the context of the DNA package. Collecting different data sets for testing is in progress.

June 8: Dr. Tuomo Glumoff, Dr. Antti Haapalainen and Dr. Kristian Koski gave
presentations on the subjects and developments of BIOXHIT at the 3rd Annual Meeting of the Finnish Biological Crystallographers, held at University of Joensuu.

May 5-10: Dr. Kristian Koski and Prof. Rik Wierenga visited ESRF Grenoble for discussions with Dr. Xavier Thibault on the beamline automatization, Dr. Gordon Leonard on various data collection tools and Dr. Darren Spruce and Dr. Olof Svensson on DNA software and on using the automated beamline ID14-3. The visit included one day of practical work at the beamline.

April 17-22: Dr. Antti Haapalainen visited The Medical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology (MRC-LMB) in Cambridge, UK, for learning data processing with MOSFLM under supervision of Dr. Andrew Leslie.

2004

December 1-4: Department of Biochemistry, University of Oulu was accepted as one of the first two BIOXHIT TID Centres in the 1st Annual Meeting of BIOXHIT in Barcelona, Spain. Dr. Tuomo Glumoff attended the meeting as the representative of the Finnish TID Centre.