G. Kostorz, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 16, CH-8093 Zurich, Switzerland (fax: +41-446331105; e-mail: gk-iucr@ethz.ch)
H. M. Einspahr, PO Box 6395, Lawrenceville, NJ 08648-0395, USA (e-mail: hmeinspahr@yahoo.com)
Areas of expertise: macromolecular structure and function; protein crystallization; drug design.
J. M. Guss, School of Molecular and Microbial Biosciences, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia (e-mail: m.guss@usyd.edu.au)
Areas of expertise: accuracy of structures; metalloenzymes; metalloproteins; multiple-wavelength phasing; protein refinement methods; structural genomics.
F. Frolow, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology, Tel-Aviv University, Israel (e-mail: mbfrolow@post.tau.ac.il)
Areas of expertise: cryocrystallography; protein crystallography; storage and transfer proteins; extremophile proteins; ultrahigh resolution protein structures.
W. N. Hunter, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee DD1 5EH, Scotland (e-mail: w.n.hunter@dundee.ac.uk)
Areas of expertise: enzyme structure; mechanism; protein-ligand interactions; inhibitor design.
G. J. Kleywegt, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Biomedical Centre, Box 596, SE-751 24 Uppsala, Sweden (e-mail: gerard@xray.bmc.uu.se)
Areas of expertise: macromolecular crystallography; methodology; structural bioinformatics; validation.
W. C. Stallings, 19165 Old Logging Road, Wildwood, MO 63038, USA (e-mail: bill_stallings@msn.com)
Areas of expertise: synchrotron radiation; enzyme mechanisms; protein crystallography; structure-based drug design.
Se Won Suh, Department of Chemistry, College of Natural Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea (e-mail: sewonsuh@snu.ac.kr)
Areas of expertise: protein crystallography; protein engineering; drug design; structural genomics.
I. Tanaka, Graduate School of Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo 060-0810, Japan (e-mail: tanaka@castor.sci.hokudai.ac.jp)
Areas of expertise: biological crystallography; proteins; structure determination; DNA; RNA.
T. C. Terwilliger, Mailstop M888, Bioscience Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA (e-mail: terwilliger@lanl.gov)
Areas of expertise: protein crystallography; protein engineering; structural genomics.
M. S. Weiss, EMBL Hamburg Outstation, c/o DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-22603 Hamburg, Germany (e-mail: msweiss@embl-hamburg.de)
Areas of expertise: protein crystallography; structural genomics; experimental phasing (MAD, SAD/SAS); structure validation.
J. D. Westbrook, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Wright-Rieman Laboratories, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8087, USA (e-mail: jwest@rcsb.rutgers.edu)
Areas of expertise: Protein Data Bank.
T. Bergfors, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology (ICM), Biomedical Center, Box 596, Uppsala University, 751 24 Uppsala, Sweden (e-mail: terese@xray.bmc.uu.se)
Areas of expertise: protein crystallization; seeding; automation; robotics.
A. M. Brzozowski, Structural Biology Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD, England (e-mail: marek@ysbl.york.ac.uk)
Areas of expertise: protein chemistry; crystal chemistry; crystal growth; crystallization; structural biology.
J.M. Garcia-Ruiz, Laboratorio de Estudios Cristalograficos (IACT), CSIC-Universidad de Granada, Av. Fuentenueva s/n, 18002-Granada, Spain (e-mail: jmgruiz@ugr.es)
Areas of expertise: nucleation; crystal growth; crystal quality; crystallization techniques.
B. Hazes, Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, 1-15 Medical Sciences Building, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G 2H7 (e-mail: bart.hazes@ualberta.ca)
Areas of expertise: protein crystallography; protein crystallization; crystallization robotics; high throughput methods; software development.
P. J. Loll, Department of Biochemistry, Drexel University College of Medicine, 245 N. 15th St, Mailstop 497, Philadelphia, PA 19102-1192, USA (e-mail: pat.loll@drexelmed.edu)
Areas of expertise: protein crystallography; protein crystallization; crystallization robotics; high throughput methods; software development.
A. McPherson, Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, University of California, Irvine, California 92697-3900, USA (e-mail: amcphers@uci.edu)
Areas of expertise: antibodies; proteins; viruses; crystallization; Fab fragments.
J. Newman, Bio21 Collaborative Crystallisation Centre, 343 Royal Parade, Parkville, VIC 3052, Australia (e-mail: janet.newman@csiro.au)
Areas of expertise: h igh-throughput; automation; techniques.
M. L. Pusey, Laboratory for Structural Biology, Materials Science Building, Room 307, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA (e-mail: puseym@email.uah.edu)
Areas of expertise: crystal nucleation; crystal growth; crystallization methods; solubility; microgravity; membrane proteins.
J.-P. Renaud, AliX S.A., Bioparc, Boulevard Sebastien Brant, Parc d'Innovation d'Illkirch, 67400 Illkirch, France (e-mail: renaud@alix-pharma.com)
Areas of expertise: nuclear receptors; regulation of transcription; ligand-binding domains; structure-based drug design.
P. Paufler, Institut für Strukturphysik, Fachrichtung Physik, Fakultät Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Technische Universität Dresden, D-01062 Dresden, Germany (e-mail: paufler@physik.tu-dresden.de)