Meeting Reports: SSRL Structural Molecular Biology Summer School 2005

The fifth Structural Molecular Biology (SMB) Summer School (SMB) was held at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (SSRL) from September 12-15, 2005. This year the school focused on two synchrotron-based techniques: X-ray absorption spectroscopy and macromolecular crystallography and the application of these techniques to biological problems. This year’s Summer School was attended by 21 students and taught by a team of 14 tutors. It consisted of a day and a half of lectures, followed by two days of rotating practical sessions, concluding with another half-day of lectures on advanced topics in synchrotron-based structural molecular biology.