The BSG Winter Meeting will be held virtually on Friday 18th December. Please see the attached flyer or the BSG webpages (https://bsg.crystallography.org.uk/index.html) for details. In addition to the Zoom Webinar there will be a Remo cafe space for participants to interact between sessions and after the meeting.

Our Winter meeting celebrates Rosalind Franklin’s 100th Birthday with a line-up of world-leading international speakers presenting some of the newest and exciting achievements in structural biology, including a substantial number of presentations related to SARS-CoV-2.We are also delighted that Professor Matthew Cobb from the University of Manchester will open our meeting with a historical account of the life and times of Rosalind Franklin.
 

In addition to organising meetings, a key role of the BCA Biological Structures Group is to promote the development of structural biology, particularly through supporting workshops, training and other events aimed at students and early career researchers. We receive many requests for support and profits from this meeting will be used to support as many of those events as we are able.Please note that we have tried to keep registration costs low. However, if you are a student and/or young researcher and are in need to support to attend this meeting then please contact our secretary Dr. Mark Roe (M.Roe@sussex.ac.uk) to discuss your circumstances.

Sci-ROI (Science and Research Opportunities in India), a U.S. based non-profit organization, is organizing a
?Cryo-electron microscopy in India? webinar on *December 5 (Saturday) at 8PM IST/9.30 AM EST/2.30 PM GST.*

1. An online seminar will be held as "UCANS-WEB" at the end of November 2020 (This seminar).
2. UCANS9 will be held in Wako, Japan, in the summer or fall of 2021 after TOKYO Olympic Games.

2 pm CEST

To avoid invasive analytical procedures on artworks, the use of non-invasive macroscopic imaging techniques is becoming more prevalent in the field of cultural heritage. For this purpose, a macroscopic X-ray powder diffraction (MA-XRPD) scanner, capable of visualizing crystalline compounds in a highly specific manner, was recently developed at the University of Antwerp. In this webinar, Steven De Meyer, a PhD student at the University of Antwerp, will highlight the possibilities and limitations of this method, along with several case studies that have contributed towards a better understanding of the original pigments used by the Old Masters and the manner in which those pigments have deteriorated over time.

2 pm CEST

The investigation of the chemical bond state by measuring the fine structure of absorption edges (XANES, EXAFS) has so far been a domain of synchrotron radiation. In this webinar, Dr. Wolfgang Malzer, a research scientist at the Berlin Laboratory for Innovative X-ray technologies, is presenting a modified Von Hamos laboratory spectrometer, based on pyrolytic graphite crystals and 2D hybrid photon counting detector. This new spectrometer makes it possible to achieve high-energy resolutions and large solid angles of the detection. Results of demonstration experiments and of applications in chemical research are shown. Prospects and possible use cases of laboratory XANES and EXAFS are discussed.

What makes a detector ideal for electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) applications? How can it affect the technique and the field? And what results could be achieved with a DECTRIS ELA detector integrated into a NION IRIS spectrometer? Tracy C. Lovejoy, COO at NION, who has recently co-authored a peer-reviewed article on a characterization of a hybrid pixel detector, will present the results of NION's research and share his outlook on the new era of EELS. Together with Luca Piazza from DECTRIS, he will answer your questions about the performance of hybrid pixel detectors, their integration in the spectrometer, and the potential of this experimental setup.

Amsterdam Scientific Instruments is hosting an online seminar by Mauro Gemmi, PhD, director from Center for Nanotechnology Innovation@NEST on the topic of “3D electron diffraction: from inorganic nanoparticles to protein nanocrystals”. It will take place in two time slots on the 30th of June, 8.30 am and 5 pm CET time.

With the following link you can register for the online seminar on the

30th of June at 8.30 am: https://cutt.ly/zujlH27 (Password: cpEZHWk6f67

(27394956 from phones and video systems))

The following link allows you registration on the second time slot on

the

30th of June, at 5 pm: https://cutt.ly/9ujzi4i

(Password: C2MgM2dCcf6 (22646232 from phones and video systems)

On Wednesday 8 July 2020

Session 1: 9:00 am CEST (Berlin) and 3:00 pm SGT (Singapore)

Session 2: 6:00 pm CEST (Berlin) and 11:00 am CDT (Chicago)

Speakers: Dr Vernon Smith and Dr Martin Adam

On Tuesday 23 June 2020: 9:00 am CDT (Chicago) and 4:00 pm CEST (Berlin)

Speakers: Dr Arnaud Basle and Dr Michael Mrosek

On Tuesday 16 June 2020: 10:00 am CDT (Chicago) and 5.00 pm CET (Berlin)

Speakers:Â Dr Michael Ruf and Dr Jurgen Graf

The NSLS-II (MX beamlines) is organizing a workshop entitled "Measuring Protein Dynamics using Very High Throughput Automated Micro-beam and Time Resolved Micro-beam Macromolecular Crystallography".

The format of the workshop is online (using BlueJeans and is scheduled to take place on May 18 and May 19 from 1 PM (ET) to 5.30 PM (ET) both days.

There is no fee to participate in the workshop.

Monday Session: Protein Dynamics from large number of structures.

Confirmed speakers and titles:
Yingkai Zhang (NYU): "Ab initio QM/MM Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Enzyme Reactions"

Rebecca Page (University of Arizona): " Title: The dynamics of phosphorylation signaling"

Dmytro Kozakov (Stony Brook University): "TBA"

Gino Cingolani (Thomas Jefferson University): "TBA"

Thu NGuyen (Stony Brook University): "Computational methods to discover small differences in protein structures"

Tuesday Session: Time Resolved MX.

Confirmed speakers and titles:
Pedram Mehrabi (Max Planck Institute): "Time-resolved serial synchrotron crystallography for the functional characterization of proteins"

Diana Monteiro (Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute): Protein triggering and sample delivery for time-resolved diffraction and scattering experiments using synchrotron sources

Jonathan Clinger (Cornell University): "Development of an Alternative Approach to Time-Resolved X-ray Crystallography"

Zhong Ren (University of Illinois at Chicago): "In Situ Serial Crystallography at Room Temperature"

On Wednesday 13th May 2020: 10:00am CDT (Chicago) and 5.00pm CET (Berlin)

Speakers: Dr Matthew Benning and Dr Vernon Smith

Organized by Czechoslovak Association for Crystal Growth and Slovak Expert Group of Solid State Chemistry and Physics

Topics

• Trends in development of materials research
  
• Education of materials science at the universities
  
• Information about the research programmes of individual institutions
  
• Information on equipment for preparation and characterisation of materials
  
• Results of materials science research

The main goal of this seminar is to increase the knowledge, visibility and opportunities of neutrons to the Israeli academic community, and promote innovative multidisciplinary research with neutrons.

 This event is an initiative of BrightnESS², a European Union project within the European Commission's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme under grant agreement N°823867.

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Linking Structure, Mechanism and Physiology of Ion Channels, GPCRs and Transporters

Interplay Between Internal Interfaces and External Environment on Battery Performance

Spectroscopic, Synthetic and Biochemical Approaches to Exploring the Reactivity of Metals in Biology

Engineering Crystals in the Fourth Dimension: Monitoring of Structural Changes in Crystals