Agenda

Biological Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Workshop

 

 

Day 1: September 7, 2022

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Schedule (EST)

Activity

Lead

09:00–09:15 am

Introductions

Hugh O’Neill/ Wellington Leite

09:15–09:30 am

Center for Structural Molecular Biology Overview

Hugh O’Neill

09:30–10:15 am

Introduction to Small-Angle Neutron Scattering

Volker Urban

10:15–10:25 am

Virtual tour of Bio-SANS

Luke Heroux

10:25–10:40 am

Bio-SANS Sample Environments

Luke Heroux

10:40–11:00 am

Break

 

11:00–11:30 am

Bio-deuteration

Kevin Weiss

11:30–12:00 pm

Virtual tour of Biology Laboratories

Kevin Weiss/Qiu

12:00–1:00 pm

Lunch

 

1:00–1:45 pm

Sample Preparation and Experiment Planning

Wellington Leite /Manjula Senanayake Mudiyanselage

1:4–2:30 pm

Experiment Set-up and Data Acquisition

Sai Venkatesh Pingali

2:30–2:45 pm

Break

 

2:45–04:00 pm

Attendee Lightning Talks

Wellington Leite

 

Day 2: September 8, 2022

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Schedule (EST)

Activity

Lead

09:00–09:45 am

Breakout Session 1: Data analysis for solution scattering of biomacromolecular complexes

Breakout Session 2: Data analysis for hierarchical biosystems

Wellington Leite

 

Sai Venkatesh Pingali

09:45–10:00 am

Break

 

10:00–12:00  pm

Hands-on Session 1

Hands-on Session 2

Wellington Leite

Sai Venkatesh Pingali

 

 

Software required for Session 1

Software

Source

Application

ATSAS

EMBL

Program suite for small-angle scattering data analysis from biological macromolecules - https://www.embl-hamburg.de/biosaxs/software.html

RAW

BioXTAS

Program for analysis of Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) data - https://bioxtas-raw.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html

Pymol

Schrödinger

Molecular visualization system - https://pymol.org/2/

Chimera

UCSF

Interactive visualization and analysis of molecular structures - https://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera/

 

Software required for Session 2

Software

Source

Application

Irena

Igor Pro*

Irena package for analysis of small-angle scattering data

https://usaxs.xray.aps.anl.gov/software/irena

SASView

SASView 5+

SASView for small-angle scattering analysis - https://www.sasview.org

 

A free demonstration version of Igor Pro is available at [https://www.wavemetrics.com/downloads/current/Igor%20Pro%209]]. This should be installed prior to installing the Irena package.