Thank you for your interest in the National Crystallization Center at HWI! 

This application is for a 1.5 day on-site crystallization workshop hosted at the National Crystallization Center at the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute. This workshop will focus on practical aspects of setting up optimization trays for diffraction-based experiments. Workshops will include tutorials on designing grid screens using multiple crystallization formats and crystal harvesting. Participants will be encouraged to set up experiments to optimize crystals of their own proteins of interest using cutting-edge crystallization equipment and crystal imagers equipped with SONICC.

Favored applicants for on-site workshop will have submitted samples for high-throughput screening prior to the virtual workshop, have attended the virtual crystallization lecture on May 23rd, 2024, and have a sample to bring to set up experiments. This workshop is open to researchers at all levels, including students, postdocs and PIs. Applicants must be available to travel on-site to Buffalo, New York during the dates of June 20-21, 2024 OR August 20-21, 2024. Travel support is available for researchers at US-based universities.

Application for the June 20-21 dates must be submitted by May 6th, 2024, and applications for the August 20-21 dates must be submitted by July 8th, 2024.

Workshop spaces are limited and applicants will be selected based on suitability of project and responses to this application.

Workshop supported by NIH R24GM141256. We gratefully acknowledge the workshop sponsors MiTeGen and Hampton Research.