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The three recipients of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry will be attending the 60th annual meeting of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA) at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers on July 24—29, 2010.

Highlights of the meeting include plenary lectures by the three Nobel Laureates, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan of Cambridge University, Thomas Steitz of Yale University, and Ada Yonath of the Weizmann Institute. Their lectures will describe their ground-breaking structural studies over the past decades of the ribosome, a large, complex biological machine in all living things that translates the DNA code into functional proteins that carry out various cellular tasks.