Joint Departmental / ISMB Retreat 19 - 20 June 2007

Following the success of the first Institute of Structural Molecular Biology retreat, held in Hinxton in June 2005, a second retreat was held almost exactly two years later. It took place at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire – which shares a campus with the Sanger Centre, where a third of the Human Genome was sequenced, and the European Bioinformatics Institute – on June 19 and 20, 2007. The packed, two-day-long programme included keynote lectures from three distinguished scientists, posters and oral presentations from students and postdoctoral researchers at Birkbeck College and University College, London, and an interesting session on careers in science.