Week  2: Introduction to x-ray crystallography

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

Xiangpeng Kong
Skirball 3-17
x3-7897
kong@saturn.med.nyu.edu

Class locations:
Mon:  Skirball 3rd floor seminar room
Wed:  Skirball 3rd floor seminar room
Fri:  Skirball 3rd floor conference room

Reading assignment:
Branden and Tooze: Chapter 18 (pp. 373-386).
Crystallography 101

Discussion paper:
Hubbard, S.R., Wei, L., Ellis, L.E., and Hendrickson, W.A., "Crystal structure of the tyrosine kinase domain of the human insulin receptor", Nature 372, 746-754 (1994). (Focus on the Materials and Methods part of this paper, contained in Table 1.)

Lectures:
X-ray Crystallography - Part I (pdf)
X-ray Crystallography - Part II (pdf)

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