[RASMB] Sedfit Workshop

[Peter Schuck]

Hi David,
thanks for your feedback.  You're welcome.  Thanks also to John Burgner and 
Alexandra Solovyova.

We've planned to continue having workshops like these twice a year.  We 
have not determined the exact date for the next spring workshop, yet, but 
for anyone interested, please check occasionally the website 
http://www.nih.gov/od/ors/dbeps/PBR/AUCworkshop.htm or
http://www.analyticalultracentrifugation.com/default.htm
.   I think we will probably also have one before the AUC conference in 
London next year, maybe in a different format.

As you say, there's much more to sedfit and sedphat than just c(s) and 
equilibrium analysis which could be taught in a few hours.  The 
self-learning tutorials on the website can get one up to speed with the 
basic features, and certainly all functions of sedphat and sedfit are 
described on the website, but there's a lot of advanced topics that are 
simply easier to learn in the workshop.  It also ties in closely with 
general AUC strategies, experimental protocols, and the biological systems 
of interest.   There's no push-button recipe for any sedimentation 
analysis, and in my view the goal is to gain and exchange experience.

The workshop you attended was the advanced workshop, for which familiarity 
with AUC and basic operation of sedfit is prerequisite.  For newcomers, we 
also had (and will have in the future) an introductory workshop in the lab 
that covers the basics, like assembling cells, setting up a run in the 
centrifuge, and basic theory and data analysis.  It takes place the day 
preceding the advanced workshop.  Everybody is welcome and there's no 
registration for that.

Best,
Peter