Programme

The meeting will be held in the University of Aarhus Conference Centre, Building 1421, Nordre Ringgade.

Wednesday 1st November  

09:00

Registration and Coffee
 
10:00-10:15 User Meeting starts
Introduction to ISA
 
Søren Pape Møller
(University of Aarhus)
10:15-10:45 Self limiting atomically controlled growth of ultra-thin films in Si
 
Per Morgen
(University of Southern Denmark)
10:45-11:15 A New Instrument for Studying Electron Molecule Interactions using a High Resolution Electron Transmission Technique   Richard Balog
(University of Aarhus)
11:15-11:45 Electron-phonon coupling on surfaces

 
Maria Jensen
(University of Aarhus)
11:45-12:15 Absolute photoionization cross sections of ions employing the merged beam technique at ASTRID  Caroline Banahan
(Dublin City University)
12:15-12:45 The route from molecules to nanostructures followed by SR photoemission
 
Bruno Domenichini
(University of Bourgogne)
12:45 Lunch & Registration  
  Start of the "Biology and Medicine with Low Energy SR" meeting and continuation of the Users meeting
14:00-14:15 Welcome/Introduction

 
David Field
(University of Aarhus)
14:15-15:00 Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy: A New Tool for Structural and Functional Genomics  Bonnie Wallace
(Birkbeck)
15:00-15:45 Probing radiation damage at the molecular level

 
Nigel Mason
(The Open University)
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break  
16:15-17:00 X-ray tomography of biological cells

 
Carolyn Larabell
(Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
17:00 Poster Session
(ASTRID basement)
 
19:00 Dinner
(7th Floor Physics Canteen)
 
  User meeting ends  
     
Thursday 2nd  November  
  Continuation of the "Biology and Medicine with Low Energy Synchrotron Radiation" meeting
09:00-09:45
 
Linear Dichroism

 
Alison Rodger
(University of Warwick)
09:45-10:15
 
Glycoprotein-surfactant interactions. A calorimetric and SRCD study
 
Heidi Louise Bagger (Novozymes/RUC)
10:15-10:45 Coffee  
10:45-11:15
 
Nano-tomography and spectromicroscopy with the new BESSY X-ray microscope
 
Gerd Schneider
(Bessy, Berlin)
11:15-11:45
 
Compact X-Ray Microscopy Hans Hertz
(Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm)
11:45-12:30
 
Radiation Damage

 
Chantal Houee-Levin
(Orsay)
12:30-14:00 Lunch  
14:00-14:45

 
Circular Dichroism study of polymorphic oligonucleotides
 
Jean-Claude Maurizot
(CNRS)
14:45-15:15
 
Atmospheric pressure photoionisation of biomolecules studied by mass spectrometry
 
Alexandre Giuliani
(Orsay)
15:15-15:45 Coffee  
15:45-16:15
 
Protecting life from UV radiation: absorption spectra of known and potential UV screens
 
Andreja Zalar
(INRA, Versailles)
16:15-16:45
 
On the influence of conformational locking of sugar moieties on the absorption and circular dichroism of nucleosides from synchrotron radiation experiments Anne Sander Holm
(University of Aarhus)
16:45-17:30
 
Biological Science is the art of the soluble - the role of X-ray sources in structure determination of biological specimen Thomas Vorup-Jensen
(University of Aarhus)
  Poster Session
(ASTRID Basement)
 
     
Friday 3rd  November  
  Practical details of techniques for CD and XM  
09:00-09:45
 
Methods for SRCD data collections of Macromolecules
 
Frank Wien
(Soleil)
09:45-10:30 Sample preparation and cryo fixation in X-ray microscopy
 
Christian Knöchel
(University of Aarhus)
10:30-11:00 Coffee  
11:00- Demonstration of CD - bring your own sample.