The South West Structural Biology Consortium Meeting 2010 took place on 22nd and 23rd June 2010 at Cardiff University. As in previous years the core part of the conference consisted of talks given by  academic and commercial speakers. Moreover there were poster presentations combined with the sponsors exhibition. Over 120 academic and commercial participants attended. The whole event took place in the Main Building of Cardiff University.

The winners of presentation competition (sponsored by BCA) are:

Hannah Maple (University of Bristol) 1^st prize

High-throughput fragment screening by non-covalent mass spectrometry

Emily Newman (University of Portsmouth) 2^nd prize

Biophysical Analysis of the Nucleosome Assembly Protein (xNAP1) and its Interactions with Histones

The winners of poster competition (sponsored by Rigaku) are:

Asha Nair (University of Bristol) 1^st prize

An active sit aromatic switch in the polyketide synthase decarboxylase PksI

Florian Madura (Cardiff University) 2^nd prize

  Highly specific engineered T-cell receptor targeting skin cancer

Congratulations!!!

In past years the SWSBC took place at the University of Exeter (2002), University of Reading (2003), University of Southampton (2004), University of Bristol (2005), University of Bath (2006), University of Portsmouth (2007), University of Exeter (2008) and University of Sussex (2009). We hope you enjoyed the conference, the University and the city of Cardiff.