Week  2: Introduction to x-ray crystallography and electron microscopy

Instructors:
Steve Hubbard
Skirball 3-4
x3-8938
hubbard@saturn.med.nyu.edu

Da-Neng Wang
Skirball 3-5
x3-8634
wang@saturn.med.nyu.edu

David Stokes
Skirball 3-13
x3-1580
stokes@saturn.med.nyu.edu

Reading assignment:
Branden and Tooze: Chapter 18 (pp. 373-386)
Crystallography 101
Saibil, Acta Cryst. D 56, 1215-1222 (2000)
Walz and Grigorieff, J. Struct. Biol. 121, 142-162 (1998)

Discussion paper:
Jiang, Wang and MacKinnon, Nature 430, 806-810 (2004)
Jiang et al., Nature 423, 33-41 (2003) (reference paper for discussion paper)

Lectures:
Introduction to X-ray Crystallography (.pdf)
Introduction to Electron Microscopy (.pdf)

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