MAX IV, the pioneer in multi-bend achromat synchrotron technology, would like to invite the synchrotron and free electron laser (FEL) life science community to Lund to discuss the latest and hottest developments in the field at the 14th BSR.

By 2022, several other synchrotron facilities will also have upgraded their sources or have defined upgrade plans and the organizers feel it would be opportune to discuss and highlight the latest developments and the possibilities for biological experiments at the next generation of synchrotrons and FELS.

Main themes

• Membranes: lipids and proteins
• Synchrotrons and FELS for pandemic research
• Hybrid or correlative approaches to complex biology
• Scientific computing for life sciences
• Coherence approaches
• Environmental and bioeconomy/industrial and pharma
• Tissues and cells
• Dynamics and ultrafast science

Polish Conference on Crystal Growth 2022 is an international conference organized by Polish Society for Crystal Growth (PTWK), Gdańsk University of Technology, and the ENSEMBLE3 Centre of Excellence.

The conference will be held in Gdańsk, Poland on June 19-24th, 2022.

The program of PCCG 2022 is focused on current research and development topics in the field of crystal growth, epitaxy, nanocrystals and advanced materials, including:

• Bulk growth
• Epitaxial growth
• Photonic crystals
• Intermetallics
• Topological insulators
• Biocrystals and biogenic crystals
• Semiconductors
• Materials for photovoltaics
• 2D materials
• Characterization methods
• Optical crystals
• Novel materials

Polish Conference on Crystal Growth 2022 is an international conference organized by Polish Society for Crystal Growth (PTWK), Gdańsk University of Technology, and the ENSEMBLE3 Centre of Excellence.

The conference will be held in Gdańsk, Poland on June 19-24th, 2022.

The program of PCCG 2022 is focused on current research and development topics in the field of crystal growth, epitaxy, nanocrystals and advanced materials, including:

• Bulk growth
• Epitaxial growth
• Photonic crystals
• Intermetallics
• Topological insulators
• Biocrystals and biogenic crystals
• Semiconductors
• Materials for photovoltaics
• 2D materials
• Characterization methods
• Optical crystals
• Novel materials

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Hosted by Diamond Light Source, the 12th International Conference on Inelastic X-ray Scattering (IXS2022) will be held at the Saïd Business School, Oxford, UK, from Sunday 21 to Friday 26 August 2022. It continues a series of meetings held biannually, most recently hosted by Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, USA (2019).

This conference will bring together scientists from all over the world interested in the use and development of both resonant and non-resonant inelastic X-ray scattering to address a broad range of materials science challenges. IXS2022 is your opportunity to share new scientific discoveries and the latest developments in the instrumentation, experimental approaches and theories, and to discuss future directions in the field.

Call for abstracts

The Programme Committee welcomes abstracts for posters and/or contributed talks within the theme areas below; all abstracts must be submitted on the provided template via the Oxford Abstracts submission portal:

• Quantum and functional materials (experimental and theory)
• Energy materials, chemistry and catalysts
• Soft and liquid systems, biomaterials and extreme conditions
• Time-domain spectroscopy
• Instrumentation and novel methods

The submission deadline is Friday 1 April 2022 at 17:00 UK time. Presenters will be notified week commencing 9 May 2022 on the outcome of their submission.

Registration

Registration is open here. Standard delegates can save up to £100 when registering before the Early Bird deadline of 15 May 2022. The delegate ticket and student ticket include access to all sessions, the welcome reception, tea and coffee breaks and daily lunches.

Visit the conference website for travel and accommodation details.

Sign up here to the IXS2022 Mailing List to stay informed of conference news and updates via email.

The 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Crystal Engineering (GRC-CE) is a biannual meeting. The 2022 GRC-CE will bring together organic, inorganic, physical, computational chemists, as well as pharmaceutical scientists, materials scientists, data scientists, and others in a uniquely and highly interactive environment to discuss latest results at the cutting edge of the field. The program for the 2022 GRC-CE GRC includes sessions on Order, Disorder and Defects, Crystal Assembly, Polymorphs and Mixtures, Crystals Under Pressure, Crystal Reactivity, Pharmaceuticals and Cocrystals, Big Data and Informatics, Porosity and Open Framework Materials, and Engineering Across Different Length Scales.Â

An associated Graduate Research Seminar (GRS) prior to the GRC-CE conference ensures that young scientist are well represented as attendees at the GRC-CE. The highly interactive format of both the GRC and GRS ensures it will be a valuable experience for the next generation of researchers in the field. Â

Planned to be held in person only.

The goal of this series of meetings is for technical discussions of state of the art image analysis approaches and algorithm developments to tackle challenging biological problems and to identify current limitations in the field. We have recruited an outstanding panel of speakers with topics at the 2022 meeting to include: tomography and high resolution subtomogram averaging, conformational variability, deep learning, model based refinement and automation. In addition, there will be a dedicated session for selected poster talks. All sessions will focus on interactive discussions with plenty of time for questions.

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The first /StruBioMol Conference: Structural biology for medicine and biotechnology is organised by Interreg SK-AT  partnership “StruBioMol”
 
 

The conference will be in a *digital format*, on the *6th December 
2021, starting at 9 o'clock.*

*Registrations* are available till 5th December at: 
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/structural-biology-for-medicine-and-biotechnology-tickets-217640437407
 

08:55 - 09:00 Welcome and Introduction

Kristina Djinovic Carugo, Eva Kutejova

09:00 - 09:40RNA aptamers in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Annalisa Pastore (The Crick/ESRF)

09:40 - 10:20 Structure-aided development of ligands targeting human 
prostate-specific membrane antigen

Cyril Bařinka(Institute of Biotechnology, The Czech Academy of Sciences)

10:20 - 10:30Coffee break

10:30 - 11:10Structural basis of inhibition of the pioneer transcription 
factor NF-Y

Marco Nardini(Dept. of Biosciences, University of Milano)

11:10 - 11:50Structural biology of plant diseases and potential applications

MarjetaPodobnik(National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia)

11:50 - 12:30 Lunch

12:30 -Â 13:10 To be or not to be? The presence of non-B-DNA structures 
in genomic DNA

                          VáclavBrázda(Institute of Biophysics, Czech 
Academy of Sciences)

13:10 - 13:50Molecular Interactions of Alginates in Food Ingredients and 
in the Gut

BirteSvensson(Technical University of Denmark)

13:50 - 14:00Coffee break

14:00 - 14:40 Targeting protein-protein interactions in Mixed-linage 
leukemia

Václav Veverka(Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, The 
Czech Academy of Sciences)

14:40 - 15:20Active site and allosteric inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main 
protease

Sebastian Günther â€" TBC(DESY, Hamburg)

15:20 - 16:00NMR spectroscopy in biomedicine and structure-based drug design

Robert Konrat(DeptStructComputBiol, MPL, Universityof Vienna)

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Vladimir 
Pevala  and/or jörg Böckelmann 
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The 9th Annual International Conference will be chaired by Tonya Kuhl, UC-Davis, and Thomas Grant, UB. The meeting is currently virtual but we are investigating the potential for a hybrid format.

Registration is now open.

 

Robert Buecker (CSSB-Hamburg)
Sarah Bowman (HWI)

Henry Chapman (DESY)

Ahmad Hozzeinedeh (UWM)

Hyotcheryl Ihee (KAIST)

Richard Kirian (ASU)

J. Mia Lahey-Rudolph (Lubeck)

Filipe Maia (PSI)

Valerio Mariani ((SLAC)

Fivos Perakis (Stockholm)

Megan Shelby (LLNL)

Jason Stagno (NIH)

Pablo Villaneuva-Perez (Lund)

Nadia Zatsepin (LaTrobe)

Jian-Min Zuo (U of IL-Urbana Champagne)

The 6th Microscopy Characterisation of Organicâ€"Inorganic Interfaces (MCOII) meeting will again be hosted virtually, but it will keep the main goals and aspirations of all the previous editions.  We will use the advantages of the virtual format and this time not only connect experts from different branches of the microscopy community (the life sciences and materials science) but also bridge two continents in a joint discussion on the challenging but increasingly important topic of studying hybrid organicâ€"inorganic materials.

The transatlantic scientific organiser team of Nadja V. Tarakina (MPIKG, Germany) and Lena F. Kourkoutis (Cornell University, USA) have put together an exciting two-day programme. As usual, the first day will be more general, covering a broad range of microscopy approaches (correlative microscopy solutions, in-situ gas and liquid microscopy methods, low-voltage electron microscopy and many more) in the context of imaging hybrid and soft matter.

On the second day, the special Focus Lecture Series will provide an in-depth view on "Advances in Analytical Cryo-Electron Microscopy: From sample preparation to data acquisition to data analysis”. Cryo-electron microscopy has transformed life sciences by enabling the structure of macromolecules to be imaged down to the atomic scale. Recent developments in instrumentation and techniques have opened new opportunities for scientific discovery not only in life sciences but also in physical sciences and in areas where the two fields intersect. This lecture series will bring together world-leading experts in analytical electron microscopy, highlighting the latest achievements, new opportunities and outstanding challenges in probing beam-sensitive and hybrid materials and their interfaces.Â

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This year the meeting will be a hybrid meeting from 5th - 7th January 2022 with the in-person event held at East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham.

Due to Covid we have had to make a few changes to the event. We are limiting in-person attendance to UK-based delegates only and we only have 220 spaces for in-person delegates due to social distancing - overseas delegates (and any UK-based delegates that either cannot get an in-person space or do not wish to attend in-person) may attend the meeting virtually and we have an unlimited number of virtual spaces.

A conference focused on protein folding, evolution and design. Is is hybrid conference (online and in-person).

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• Frontier Aspects of Engineered Nanomaterials for High-Tech, Energy, Environment and Bio Applications
• X-ray Powder Diffraction and Beyond: Theory of Scattering and Experimental Techniques
• Fundamentals of the Pair Distribution Function Analysis of Nanomaterials and Applications
• Fundamentals of the Debye Scattering Equation Method and Applications to Nanomaterials
• Small Angle X-ray Scattering Techniques
• Electron Diffraction PDF Analysis
• Static and Dynamic Light Scattering Techniques
• Hands-on Sessions on PDFGUI and Debussy Software
• New Equipment and Tools for Nanomaterial Characterization

Thu, 7 October 2021

16:00 â€" 18:00 BST

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4 pm: Rosana Collepardo (Cambridge, UK) "Deformable nucleosomes as key modulators of chromatin phase separation"

4:30 pm: Rohit Pappu (U.Washington St.Louis, USA) "The molecular grammar of phase separating systems"

5:30 pm: Round up and questions.