Experiments and Registration
 

Session 1: Circular Dichroism (CD) Spectroscopy
 

Time	Title	Speaker
Chair:	Sydney Leach
09:00	Opening remarks	Søren Pape Møller,  ISA, Denmark
09:15	Photoelastic modulator based fluoro-dichro-spectrophotomers: Versatile instruments for biophysical spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation	John Sutherland  BNL, USA
10:00	Recent developments and results at the Daresbury SRS	David Clarke Daresbury Laboratory, UK
10:30	Coffee
11:00	Synchrotron radiation circular dichroism spectroscopy of proteins: secondary structure, fold recognition, and structural genomics	Robert W. Janes, University of London, UK
11:40	Conformation transition of Bombyx mori silk fibroin	Shao Zhengzhong, University of Fudan,  PR China
12:15	ASTRID milestones- our first year	John M. Kenney,  ISA, DK
12:30	Lunch

Session 2: Fourier Transform Infrared (FT IR) & Fluorescence 
                  Spectroscopy
 

Time	Title	Speaker
Chair:	Ian Munro
14:00	Applications of synchrotron infrared microscopy in biology and medicine	Paul Dumas,  LURE, France
14:45	Confocal microscopy and fluorescence spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation at the Daresbury SRS	Mark Tobin,  Daresbury Laboratory, UK
15:30	Coffee

Session 3: Brief Talks by Attendees on Related Topics
 

Time	Title	Speaker
16:00	Some examples of absorption and circular dichroism spectroscopy in the far UV at ASTRID	Peter W. Thulstrup,  KVL, Denmark
16:20	Modeling microtubule oscillations studied with synchrotron radiation	Henrik Flyvbjerg Risø National Lab., Denmark
16:40	New facilities for biological research at BESSY II	Markus Sauerborn, BESSY, Germany
17:00	The soft X-ray microscopy project at Saga synchrotron light source	Masato Yasumoto, Fukuoka, Japan
17:20	Combining and representing data techniques	Chris Buckley Research Systems Int., UK
17:40	End of sessions

Session 4: X-ray Microscopy (XM)
 

Time	Title	Speaker
Chair:	Erik Uggerhøj
09:00	X-ray spectromicroscopy, tomography, and diffraction imaging	Chris Jacobsen  BNL, USA
09:45	Latest results using the Aarhus X-ray microscope	Joanna Abraham-Peskir, ISA, Denmark
10:00	Membrane changes in human spermatozoa visualised by X-ray microscopy	Eric Chantler, Manchester University, UK
10:30	Coffee
11:00	New trends of multi-keV X-ray microscopy in biology	Jean Susini  ESRF, France
11:30	X-ray microscopy of soil microorganisms	Jürgen Thieme, University of Göttingen, Germany
12:00	Chemical state mapping of wood composites	Christopher Buckley, London, UK
12:30	Lunch

Session 5: Medical Imaging
 

Time	Title	Speaker
Chair:	Michel Dalstra
14:00	Absorption- and phase-contrast microtomography using synchrotron radiation	Felix Beckmann, HASYLAB, DESY Germany
14:45	Microtomography of cortical bone using synchrotron radiation	Michel Dalstra, University of Aarhus, Denmark
15:30	Coffee
16:00	3D-analysis of bone-implant interfaces by synchrotron-radiation-based microtomography	Bert Mueller  Zurich, Switzerland
16:30	Gadolinium in glioblastoma cells and tissue for GdNCT	Gelsomina De Stasio, University of Wisconsin, USA
17:00	End of Sessions
19:00	Conference Dinner

Session 6: Gas-phase Biomolecule Spectroscopy (GBS)
 

Time	Title	Speaker
09:00	Gas phase investigation: Discovery of new models and effects which might be useful for solution	Rainer Weinkauf, Dusseldorf, Germany
09:30	Properties, structures, reactions, and desolvation dynamics of biological molecules in the gas phase	Jack Beauchamp, CalTech, USA
10:00	Photophysics experiments on biomolecules in ELISA	Steen Broendsted Nielsen, Princeton University, USA
10:30	Coffee

Session 7: Brief Talks by Attendees on Related Topics
 

Time	Title	Speaker
11:00	Radiation damage studies using SR	Ian Munro, UMIST and SRS, UK
11:20	Using synchrotron-based X-ray microtomography in Environmental Science	Dorthe Wildenschild, Environment & Resources Technical University of Denmark
11:40	Chrial recognition observed at the molecular level by scanning tunneling microscopy	Trolle Linderoth, University of Aarhus
12:00	Discussion and closing remarks
14:00	Attendee experimental time