ISGO

The International Structural Genomics Organization

Promoting worldwide cooperation and collaboration in the field of Structural Genomics

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ISGO Open Policy Meeting

Oct 22, 2006, Beijing, China

ISGO The International Structural Genomics Organization

Open ISGO Policy Meeting

Beijing, China, 22 October, 2006 2-4 PM

Agenda

1. Announcement of new ISGO executive Committee

2. Reports on ISGO activities

3. Discussion of issues for ISGO to work on and formation of sub-committees

Newly-elected members of the ISGO

Executive Committee Ted Baker New Zealand 2006 – 2010

Joel Sussman Israel 2006 – 2010

Stephen Burley USA 2006 – 2010

…and many thanks to the outgoing Executive Committee membersSeiki Kuramitsu Japan 2002 – 2006

David Stuart UK 2002 – 2006

Ian Wilson USA 2002 – 2006

Current ISGO Leadership

Executive Committee

Dino Moras France 2004 – 2008

Ted Baker New Zealand 2006 – 2010

Joel Sussman Israel 2006 – 2010

Tom Terwilliger USA 2000 – 2008

Stephen Burley USA 2006 – 2010

Shigeyuki Yokoyama Japan 2000 – 2008

Treasurer

Gaetano Montelione USA

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Reports on ISGO activities:

A. Membership (Gaetano Montelione)

B. JSFG as the ISGO journal (Gaetano Montelione)

C. Activities sponsored by ISGO (Student fellowships to ICSG2006 with NIH; ICSG2006 Workshops) (Gaetano Montelione)

D. Task Force on Deposition, Archiving, and Curation of the Primary Information (H. Berman)

E. Task Force on Intellectual Property (J. Norvell)

F. Task Force on Mechanisms for Publication and Recording of Methods (Mitchell Guss)

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NIH Protein Structure Initiative ISGO Student Travel Awards

Akif Mohd (India)Ian Overton (UK)Wang Pan (Canada)Changbum Park (Germany)Ludovic Renault (USA)Adrian Suárez Covarrubias (Sweden)Liejie Sun (UK)Peng Tao (USA)Andrew Turnbull (UK)Emilie Ugochukwu (UK)James Watson (UK)Hai Xu (USA)Kun Yang (USA)Jingyi Zhu (USA)Matthew Zimmerman (USA)Thomas Zoegg (Austria)

Kin Fai Au (UK)Prachi Bajpal (India)Thomas Boesen (Denmark)Thomas Bowden (UK)Ko-Hsin Chin (China)Kellie Cunningham (USA)Sue-Li Dahlroth (Sweden)Janet Deane (UK)Stephen Graham (UK)Maria Dolores Herman (Sweden)Bingding Huang (Germany)Hyungho Lee (South Korea)Ping Li (Germany)Jin Liu (USA)Xiaolei Ma (USA)Zara Marland (Australia)

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2005-2006 ISGO-sponsored Workshops

Get-Phases Workshop on Recent Advances in Phasing Methods, Beijing, China (Xiao-Dong Su and Tom Terwilliger), October, 2005

Cell-free Protein Production (Yaeta Endo and Shigeyuki Yokoyama) Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 18-21, 2006

High throughput overexpression, purification and crystallization of membrane proteins (So Iwata), Tokyo Japan,Oct. 20, 2006

Automated Structural Determination by X-ray Crystallography (Isao Tanaka and Paul Adams), Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 19-20, 2006

Automated Signal Assignment and Structural Determination by NMR Spectroscopy (Hidekazu Hiroaki), Tokyo, Japan, Oct. 20-21, 2006

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Discussion of issues for ISGO to work on and formation of sub-committees

A. Definition of Structural Genomics

B. Standards for SG structures

C. ICSG 2008

D. Global efforts and integration in SG

E. Maintaining current status of SG/SP structures in TargetDB

F. Letter from ISGO to Nature on the contribution of the international structural genomics efforts to biology

G. Additional issues from the floor.