Historical Videos/Audios

X-Ray Diffraction: Precession Camera and Automated Diffractometer at Bell Telephone Laboratories
Historically valuable 1960s video featuring Sidney Cyril Abrahams, Joel L. Bernstein, Robinson Burbank

2021 Transactions Symposium, “Function Follows Form: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Protein Data Bank,” 2021 American Crystallographic Society Annual Meeting, virtual 
Full Playlist

July 30, 2021	Session 1 chaired by Stephen K. Burley
	Cynthia Wolberger “Histone H2B Ubiquitination in Transcription Regulation”
	Mike Martynowycz “Cryo-FIB Milling Improves MicoED Data and Structures”
	Session 2 chaired by Natalie Strynadka
	John Rubenstein “Molecular Machines at Energized Membranes”
	Squire J. Booker “Crystallographic Snapshots of TsrM, a Cobalamin-Dependent S-adenosylmethionine Methylase”
	Rafael Couñago “Developing Novel Tools to Guide the Discovery of New Cell-permeable, On-target Anti-infective Compounds”
	Erica Saphire “Coronavirus Immunotherapeutic Consortium: Using Antibodies as Treatment Therapies Against the Novel Coronavirus”
July 31, 2022	Chaired by David Rose, ACA President
	Nobel Lecture Frances H. Arnold “Innovation by Evolution: Bringing New Chemistry to Life”
	Rui Zhao chaired the next session
	Wayne Hendrickson  “Reflections on Resolution and Revolution – the PDB and Me”
	Wladek Minor  “Structural Biology Response to Biomedical Threat”
	Helen M. Berman chaired the final session
	Chris Sander “Protein Folding Computed from Evolutionary Information”
	Eva Nogales “Structural Relationships Between Human Transcriptional Coactivators TFIID and SAGA”
	Andrej Sali “From Integrative Structural Biology to Cell Biology”

 

		Elspeth Garman Introduction to the session Video - Slides
		Alexander Nazarenko “First observation of aromatic bond density: a ‘forgotten’ paper by Rosalind E. Franklin” Video
		Margaret E. Schott “Rosalind Franklin and the structure of graphitic carbons”  Video
		Thomas Fitzgibbons “Rosalind Franklin: Guiding Carbon Research 70 Years Later”  Video
		Brian Sutton “Rosalind Franklin and DNA” Video
		Gerald Stubbs & Joseph Orgel “Rosalind Franklin and her legacy in structural biology; the TMV chapter" Video

Michael G. Rossman, Memorial Session, 2019 ACA Annual Meeting, Covington, KY, USA
Introduction by Janet L. Smith. Speakers: Jack Johnson, Eddy Arnold, Hao Wu, Rui Zhao, S. Saif Hassan

 A. Michael Glazer, “2017 Bragg Lecture: The Wondrous World of Perovskites.”

Sir Fraser Stoddart, 2017 ACA plenary address, New Orleans, USA
"How Crystallography Helped to Create a New Bond in Chemistry."

 Symposium in Honor of William L. Duax at the 2017 24th Congress of the IUCr, Hyderabad, India (part 1)
 Symposium in Honor of William L. Duax at the 2017 24th Congress of the IUCr, Hyderabad, India (part 2)

 Isabella L. Karle
 Isabella Karle, 2015 interview for the Atomic Heritage Foundation
 Isabella Karle, 2005 interview for the Atomic Heritage Foundation 

2014 Transactions Symposium, "100 Years of Crystallography," 2014 ACA Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM 

 Cora Lind-Covacs 
"Fun with crystals, light and symmetry – IYCr outreach activities" 
        Video — Text — Slides

Martha M. Teeter 
“A Brief History of Women in Crystallography” 
        Video — Slides

Alex McPherson 
“Protein Crystallization over 200 Years: From Art to Science” 
        Video — Slides

Helen M. Berman, Colin Groom, James Kaduk 
“Databases in Crystallography: Past, Present and Future” 
        Video — Slides

Wayne Hendrickson  
“Changing Practice in Crystallographic Phase Evaluation for Biological Macromolecules”
        Video

James M. Holton
"Dawn in the Age of Uncertainty" 
        Video — Slides

 

Robert M. Sweet
"Synchrotron Radiation in Structural Biology: Past, Present, and Future"
        Video — Slides

 

Brian H. Toby
"Powder Diffraction Crystallography: 98 Years as Plan B?"
         Video — Text — Slides

Jenny P. Glusker, ACA 2014 Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, USA
"Early Crystallographic Investigations by Nobel Laureate Dorothy Hodgkin"

Daniel Rabinovich, 2014 ACA Wood Award, 2014 ACA Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM, USA
"The World of Crystallography on Postage Stamps"

Alexander McPherson accepted the 2013 Fankuchen Award on behalf of Richard E. Dickerson at the 2013 ACA meeting in Honolulu, HI and presented the lecture.
"Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"


Jenny P. Glusker, ACA 2012 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, USA
"100 Years of Structure Deterimination" 

Susan K. Byram, Charles F. Campana, Daniel F. Frankel, ACA 2012 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, USA
"Evolution of Small Molecule Instrumentation in North America"

Donald Caspar, ACA 2012 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, USA
"Origins of Structural Biology and Trials and Errors in its History: an idiosyncratic view"

Nobel Laureates Symposium, 1988 ACA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA.

Donald Voet & Oliver Franklin
"Introductions to the 1988 Nobel Laureates Symposium"
 
Donald Voet
"Introduction to Linus Pauling"
 
Linus Pauling
"Opening Remarks: Comments on the So-Called Icosahedral Quasicrystals"
 
Sir John Kendrew
"Protein Crystallography in the Cavendish Laboratory in the 1950's"
 
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
"On Continuing the X-ray Analysis of Insulin"
 
William N. Lipscomb
"Activity and Regulation in Aspartate Transcarbamylase"
 
Herbert H. Hauptman
"A Minimal Principle and Its Role in Direct Methods"
 
Jerome Karle
"Exact, Linear Anomalous Dispersion Analysis for Macromolecules"
 
Linus Pauling
"Concluding Remarks: How Crystallography Has Changed"