W.M. Keck Foundation
Center for Molecular Structure

"Starry Night" logo created by Dr. Guy Crundwell.

Professor Katherine Kantardjieff, CMolS Director, and Bryden Distinguished Lecturer, Professor Robert Stroud (UCSF). Stroud's lecture, entitled "Crystallography "Bri-dens" Two Billion Years of Transmembrane Biology", discussed his laboratory's crystallographic studies on the ammonia channel and aquaporins.

Bryden Distinguished Lecturers: Professor Robert Bau (USC, 2006) and Professor Robert Stroud (UCSF, 2008)

Upcoming Events

• CEI2008: Cyber-Enabled Instrumentation in Chemistry Strategic Planning Workshop workgroup report is now available at  http://www.CEI2008workshop.org.

• American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting - Toronto, Ontario, CANADA July 25 - 30, 2009. For information and program, see http://www.cins.ca/aca2009/.

• Campus Technology 09 - Boston Convention and Exhibition Center July 27 - 30. For information and schedule of events, please see http://campustechnology.com/microsites/events/campus-technology-conference.aspx.

• American Chemical Society National Meeting and Exhibition - Washington DC August 16 - 20, 2009. Special session on crystallography in chemistry. For information and program, see http://www.acs.org/.

•  CMolS Virtual Tour 2006 - View here.(Windows Media Player format)

• Video of 2006 Bryden Distinguished Lecture. The late Robert Bau's lecture on neutron diffraction as applied to the study of hydrogen bonding in metal hydride complexes and proteins is now available in two formats. To view on the web, click here. To download for your iPod, please go to our Archive, using the menu at the left.

News

• 2009

• January 2009 - Katherine Kantardjieff is the recipient of the Andreoli Faculty Service Award from CSUPERB.

• 2008

• April 2008 - Katherine Kantardjieff is named national "Campus Technology Innovator" and will be featured in Campus Technology, August 2008.

• 2007

• January 2007 -  United States National Committee for Crystallography and American Crystallographic Association release policy document on education and training in crystallography. You may download a copy here.

• 2006

• March 2006 - Check out the CrysCam digital zoom microscope and the movie!

• April 2006 - Check out WORMZ created with the CrysCam digital zoom microscope. Thanks to Dr. Chandra Srinivasan and student, Natalie Rangel, for the "actors".

• June 2006 - IUCr Teaching Commission Newsletter. Features information about training in crystallography from around the world.

• November 2006 - CMolS and SSRL enter partnership. CMolS and the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) will provide CSU faculty and students access to synchrotron radiation for high level x-ray diffraction experiments. Please see the CSUPERB Symposium abstract for details.