A list of colleagues who have registered their interest in the meeting is at the foot of this page - scroll down.
To formally establish the Instruct UK SB Forum to represent all our interests, agree a governance structure and terms of reference, and arrange nominations/elections for the key roles in the Forum.
Define the relationship of the Forum with the Instruct hub given its independent status and role.
Please help widen the representation
It is important that we have proper representation of all sections of the UK SB community at this meeting, so please broadcast our message, inviting colleagues to register. It is important that the Forum should be a democratic organisation under the full control of its membership.
The UK User Group arose from a meeting of representatives of the UK Structural Biology community held in London in 2011. At that meeting, Keith Wilson and Paul Freemont were tasked with taking this forward to establish the demand for a nationally organised group that could have meaningful input into strategic decisions impacting on the field. In late 2012, a vote was organised through Instruct regarding the establishment of a UK Structural Biology Forum. The resulting votes included good representation from several SB disciplines and a reasonable balance between senior and junior group leaders with 69 PIs registering their vote. The outcome was 1.5% for Status Quo (i.e. no Forum); 75.3% for the UK community to unite behind the UK Instruct user group; and 23.2% for a UK SB Forum independent of Instruct. Given the not insignificant number of votes for an independent Forum, it is essential to develop an inclusive remit such that the whole community can be represented with a valid mandate.
Although the Forum will be independent, it will benefit from the contacts and activities that Instruct has already established both UK-wide and at the EU and use of the Instruct digital interface via www.structuralbiology.eu to administer some of the activities. A major benefit of having a strong relationship between the Forum and Instruct will be to strengthen links with the European community, major strategic and funding bodies in the UK, and the EU initiatives that are being undertaken as part of Horizon2020. It will also be well placed to help ensure that UK infrastructure is properly aligned with the requirements of the user community.
Sponsored by Diamond Light Source
Below is a current list of those who have registered an interest in attending the meeting
(* denotes Speaker).
Participant Name | Institution | Participant Name | Institution | |
Prof. Dave Stuart* | University of Oxford; Diamond Light Source | Professor Christina Redfield | University of Oxford, Department of Biochemistry | |
Prof. Sir Tom Blundell* | University of Cambridge; Astex Pharmaceuticals | Dr Saskia Bakker | University of Glasgow/Centre for Virology Research | |
Prof. Jim Naismith* | University of St. Andrews | Paul Driscoll | MRC-NIMR | |
Prof. Martin Noble* | Newcastle University | Dr Simon Kolstoe | University of Portsmouth | |
Prof. Keith Wilson* | University of York | Dr Andy Pickford | University of Portsmouth | |
Prof. Helen Saibil* | Birkbeck College | Dr Morgam Beeby | Imperial College London | |
Dr. Martyn Winn* | STFC | Dr Paula Salgado | Institute for Cell and Molecular Biosciences, Newcastle University | |
Dr. Martin Walsh* | Diamond Light Source | David Barford | Institute of Cancer Research | |
Prof. Jane Endicott* | Newcastle University | Dr Alessandro Costa | CRUK London Research Institute | |
Prof. Ernest Laue* | University of Cambridge | Dr Dima Chirgadze | Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge | |
Prof. Jen Potts* | University of York | |||
Prof. Dame Carol Robinson* | University of Oxford | Dr Mark Odell | University of Westminster | |
Prof. Paul Freemont* | Imperial College, London | Professor Mark Sansom | Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford | |
Dr. Susan Daenke | University of Oxford; Instruct | Dr Alan Roseman | University of Manchester | |
Dr. Claudia Alen Amaro | University of Oxford; Instruct | Professor Leo Brady | University of Bristol | |
Prof Gerard Kleywegt | EMBL-EBI | Professor Peter Moody | University of Leicester | |
Dr Ardan Patwardhan | EMBL-EBI | Dr Mark Pfuhl | King’s College London | |
Dr Aleksandras Gutmanas | EMBL-EBI | John Christodoulou | UCL and Birkbeck College | |
Dr Andrew Atkinson | King’s College London | Prof Simon Phillips | Research Complex at Harwell | |
Dr Mike Hough | University of Essex | Prof Jon Waltho | University of Manchester | |
Dr Ray Owens | University of Oxford & Research Complex at Harwell | Professor Mire Zloh | University of Hertfordshire | |
Prof Samar HASNAIN | Faculty of Health & Life Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK | Dr Robert van Montfort | The Institute of Cancer Research | |
Dr Brian Smith | University of Glasgow | Dr Chris Phillips | AstraZeneca | |
Prof Michael Overduin | University of Birmingham | Dr David Lawson | John Innes Centre | |
Professor Yvonne Jones | University of Oxford | Dr Alex Breeze | AstraZeneca | |
Prof Jenny Littlechild | University of Exeter | Dr Stephen Graham | University of Cambridge | |
Dr Mark Banfield | John Innes Centre | Prof. Geerten W. Vuister | Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester | |
Dr Anastasia Callaghan | Institute of Biomedical and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Portsmouth | Dr Svend Kjaer | Cancer Research UK | |
Prof. Mark Carr | Department of Biochemistry, University of Leicester | Dr Paul Driscoll | MRC-NIMR | |
Dr. David Neuhaus | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | Dr Helen Mott | University of Cambridge | |
Dr Kimberly Watson | University of Reading | Prof. Dave Brown | University of Kent / Argenta | |
Dr. Stephen M. Prince | University of Manchester | Dr Ben Bax | GlaxoSmithKline | |
Prof Nicholas Keep | Birkbeck, University of London | Dr. David Scott | University of Nottingham/Research Complex at Harwell/ISIS neutron source | |
Prof. Xiaodong Zhang | Imperial College London | Professor Roslyn Bill | Aston University | |
Dr. Stefan Freund | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | Dr. Ehmke Pohl | Durham University | |
Dr Roberto Steiner | King’s College London | Prof. Laurence H. Pearl | University of Sussex | |
Dr Jeremy Lea | Bruker UK Ltd | K. Ravi Acharya | University of Bath | |
Dr Pierre J Rizkallah | Institute of Infection & Immunology, School of Medicine, Cardiff University | Dr Chun-wa Chung | GlaxoSmithKline | |
Dr Eva Hyde | University of Birmingham | Dr Jonathan Grimes | University of Oxford and Diamond Light Source | |
Professor Naomi Chayen | Imperial College London | Dr Raffaella Carzaniga | Cancer Research UK- London Research Institute | |
Dr. Neil Q. McDonald | Cancer Research UK | Dr John McGeehan | University of Portsmouth | |
Dr. Edward Taylor | The University of Lincoln | Frank von Delft | University of Oxford | |
Dr Bernadette Byrne | Imperial College | Marko Hyvonen | University of Cambridge, Department of Biochemistry | |
Dr Justin Benesch | University of Oxford | Dr Julia Richardson | School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh | |
Professor Mark Leake | University of York | Dr Tom Collins | Wellcome Trust | |
Dr Svetlana Antonyuk | University of Liverpool | Dr. Barran | The University of Edinburgh | |
Prof Richard Pickersgill | Queen Mary University of London | Dr Ivo Tews | University of Southampton | |
Dr. Karen McLuskey | University of Glasgow | Prof Bonnie Wallace | Birkbeck | |
Dr Liz Duke | Diamond Light Source | Dr Clair Baldock | University of Manchester | |
Prof. David Leys | University of Manchester | Dr Matthew Philip Crump | School of Chemistry, University of Bristol | |
Dr Katherine Brown | University of Cambridge | Prof Anthony Watts | University of Oxford | |
Prof Ulrich Guenther | University of Birmingham | Dr. Katrin Rittinger | MRC-NIMR | |
Prof. Kay Gruenewald | University of Oxford | Dr. Mark R. Sanderson | Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London | |
Prof Ulrich Guenther | University of Birmingham | Dr Robert van Montfort | The Institute of Cancer Research | |
Dr. Roger Williams | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology | Prof Stephen Matthews | Imperial College London | |
Dr Andres Ramos | MRC National Institute for Medical Research | Dr Józef Lewandowski | University of Warwick | |
Dr Tom Frenkiel | MRC Biomedical NMR Centre, NIMR | Prof Jeremy Derrick | University of Manchester | |
Professor Laurence Barron | University of Glasgow | Dr Andrew GW Leslie | MRC LMB, Cambridge | |
Dr Philip T.F. Williamson | University of Southampton | Dr. Nicholas Harmer | University of Exeter | |
Dr Charlotte Cureton | BBSRC | Professor Lu-Yun Lian | University of Liverpool |
Dr Alf Game | BBSRC | Professor Vilmos Fulop | University of Warwick |
Dr Chris Morris STFC
Dr Michael Plevin University of York