Susan Huth presents Kirsten Christensen with the Durward Cruickshank Award
The final dinner of the British Crystallographic Association Spring Meeting in Warwick was interrupted, as always, with the prize winning awards. Amber Thompson was awarded the International Union of Crystallography Prize (a copy of International Tables) for her explanation of the advantages of choosing non-standard space groups. Kirsten Christensen was awarded the Durward Cruickshank prize for a young crystallographer who had made an outstanding contribution to crystallography.
Other contributions include:
N. David Brown, James Haestier, Mustapha Sadki, Amber L. Thompson & David J. Watkin
matchbOx:Â Automatic Structure Matching to Facilitate Crystallographic Refinement (YC Presentation)
Kirsten E. Christensen, Christopher J. Serpell, Nicholas E. Evans & Paul D. Beer
Pushing the Boundaries of Small Molecule Crystallography:Â The Challenging Structure of a Macrocyclic Anion Sensor (Poster)
Richard I. Cooper, Amber L. Thompson & David J. Watkin
The Hydrogen Challenge:Â Where are we Now? (Poster)
Christopher J. Serpell & Paul D. Beer
Refinement of Large Supramolecular Structures (Presentation)
David J. Watkin
Dealing with Difficult Data (Session Chair)
As part of Age Concern, an EPSRC-funded exploration into the world of modern crystallography, Dave is developing a fast, live, configurable chemical structure matching algorithm to identify discrepancies between an expected structure and a real crystallographic structure. Implemented in his software “matchbOx”, Dave is augmenting the software capabilities to automatically handle certain cases of crystal disorder, whilst enjoying the best music the 80s has to offer. When not advancing the boundaries of science, Dave enjoys weight-training, making music and working on pet programming projects.