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Introducing the new Cryo-Electron Microscopy Platform for Structural Biology

The aim of this symposium is to promote the exciting opportunities in
structural biology opened by the advances in cryo-electron microscopy
and by the integration of structural biology approaches at multi-scale
level.

This symposium will celebrate the establishment of a new cryo-EM
platform at the EPN campus. The platform will offer access to a Titan
Krios microscope, which will operate as a user facility at the ESRF and
will reinforce the ongoing EM activity at the IBS and at the EMBL. The
new facility will be open to the international ESRF user community based on
peer-review of scientific merit and technical feasibility of their
projects. Scientists from ESRF, IBS and EMBL will support user
operation.

The symposium will bring together leading experts, junior researchers
and representatives of industrial partners to present and discuss the
latest developments and the future trends in cryo-EM as well as their
applications in addressing biological challenges.

We encourage participants to present their scientific results in a
poster session, with the possibility of being selected for a short talk.
Due to limited capacity (maximum of 80 external participants), early
registration is encouraged.

A Purdue Mini-symposium on Integrating Structure, Function, and Interactions of the Biomolecular Universe.

This symposium is an interdepartmental event focusing on interdisciplinary research in biophysics and structural biology. The event provides an exceptional platform for students and postdoctoral scholars to present their work, learn about cutting-edge research, and network with young scientists and faculty members from Purdue and regional institutions.

Registration is free, but space is limited.

Exploring the Complexity of Life by Cryo-EM

The first international cryo-EM symposium in Sweden will take place in Stockholm (May 8) and Umeå (May 9), and present the developments that are shaping this scientific breakthrough. Topics covered include central discoveries in cryo-EM, the most recent methodological developments and applications to central biological questions.

May 8 (Stockholm)

• New frontiers in single-particle cryo-EM: imaging short-lived states and tracking a continuum of states
  Joachim Frank, Columbia University, United States
• Atomic resolution cryo-EM Sriram Subramaniam, National Institute of Health, United States
• A molecular movie of the exitation-contraction coupling
  Nieng Yan, Tsinghua University, China
• Mitochondrial membrane proteins and the resolution revolution in cryo-EM
  Werner Kühlbrandt, MPI Biophysics, Germany
• Single particle analysis of small molecules with the Volta phase plate
  Radostin Danev, MPI Biochemistry, Germany
• Next steps for automation in cryo-EM
  Bridget Carragher, NYSBC, United States
• Cryo-EM methods that drive the revolution: example applications in Alzheimer’s disease
  Sjors Scheres, MRC-LMB, United Kingdom
• Future software development challenges in cryo-EM
  Jose Miguel de la Rosa Trevin, Cryo-EM Facility, Sweden

May 9 (Umeå)

• Reducing the cost and increasing the speed of cryoEM
  Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
• Structures of scarce native complexes by cryo-EM: Finally following eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis at molecular resolution
  Roland Beckmann, Gene Center, University of Munich LMU, Germany
• Single particle analysis of chromatin complexes
  Sara Sandin, Nanyang Technological University, NTU, Singapore
• Protein synthesis in organelles at cryo-EMÂ resolution
  Alexey Amunts, Stockholm University
• Opening windows into the cell:  Revealing the molecular  architecture of the nuclear periphery
  Elizabeth Villa, University of California, San Diego, USA
• A Hitchhiker’s guide to cryo-tomography: travel tips on things to do
  Elisabeth Fischer, National Institute of Health, Hamilton, MT, USA
• Using new methods in cryo-EM to gain mechanistic insight into gene expression
  Lori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
• Enabling and doing structural biology in situ â€" Recent advances in cryo-electron tomography
  Jürgen Plitzko, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried/Munich, Germany

eBIC and CCP-EM are proud to announce the inaugural symposium of eBIC, the UK national cryoEM centre at Diamond Light Source, and the third CCP-EM Spring Symposium. This three day conference will be held at the Diamond/RAL Campus, Harwell, Oxfordshire.

The eBIC opening symposium will be on the first day, highlighting the advances of cryoEM and feature presentations with an emphasis on emerging and challenging technologies, followed by CCP-EM Spring Symposium featuring of state-of-the-art presentations related to cryo-EM methods and applications. Confirmed speakers include:

eBIC Speakers

Yifan Cheng, UCSF School of Medicine
John Briggs, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Lori Passmore, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Radostin Danev Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry
Greg McMullan, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Sharon Wolf, Weizmann Institute of Science

CCP-EM Speakers

Piet Gros, Utrecht University
Maya Topf, Birkbeck / UCL
David Waterman, STFC
Tanmay Bharat, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology / University of Oxford
Paul Adams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Tristan Croll, University of Cambridge
Erik Lindahl, SciLifeLab
Kay Grunewald, STRUBI
Carolyn Moores, Birkbeck / UCL
Morgan Beeby, Imperial College London
Rob Nicholls, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Ausra Domanska, University of Helsinki
Becky Thompson, University of Leeds

Places are limited and registration will be on a first come first serve basis.

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The meeting is organized by the Sealy Center for Structural Biology & Molecular Biophysics
and co-sponsored by the Keck Center for Computational & Structural Biology

This year's speakers include:

James Chou, Ph.D., Harvard Medical School
Rachelle Gaudet, Ph.D., Harvard University
Petr Leiman, Ph.D., Univ. of Texas Medical Branch
Daniela Nicastro, Ph.D., Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Brian Shoichet, Ph.D., Univ. California San Francisco School of Pharmacy
Kylie Walters, Ph.D., Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute

Topics will include:

• Qualitative Phase Analysis with XRPD
• Quantitative Phase Analysis: Single-peak, Whole-Pattern Methods and Beyond
• Amorphous, Mesomorphous and Nano Materials
• Non-Ambient Powder X-ray Diffraction
• New Developments/Complementary Techniques
• Formulation and Product Development
• Polymorph, Salt and Co-crystal Screening
• Crystal Structure Prediction, Elucidation and Verification from Powder Diffraction Data

The symposium consists of lectures from world-leading scientists working in the area of correlative microscopy with light, electrons, and X-rays. The aim is to inform the community of the latest developments in correlative microscopy, and for the community to discuss and feed back its requirements for correlative microscopy development and provision in the UK.

To be followed by a three-day workshop.

Symposium R of the Spring Meeting for the E-MRS

 Hot topics to be covered by the symposium will include:

• Synthesis of metal or semiconductor nanoparticles in dielectrics (SiO₂, SiN, Al₂O₃, polymers...) using chemical or physical routes;
• Structure at the nanoscale by TEM, EELS, EDX, APT, among others;
• Optical properties: emission, absorption, scattering, luminescence, waveguiding, light confinement, plasmonics, plasmoelectronics;
• Electronic properties: injection, transport, charge trapping, capacitance, memristance, photocurrent, electroluminescence, single electron effects;
• Modeling of precipitation, transport, quantum confinement, doping, electronic structure;
• Devices: LEDs, optical amplifiers, waveguides, memristors, biosensors.

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 The abstract deadline is January 18th 2017.

Structural biology is entering an exciting new phase. Over 10,000 new structures are being determined every year. Powerful new cryo-EM and X-ray laser approaches promise to vastly improve the ease of structure determination for large molecules and complexes and to provide a time-resolved view of molecular machines at work. With these tools and biochemical assays, ever more rapid progress is being made in understanding key biological processes and how they can be manipulated. This symposium will bring together students and senior investigators developing new methods for structural analysis, determining new structures, and using structures to understand biology. The symposium will encourage and facilitate discussion and interactions between junior and senior scientists. The symposium will feature about 40 talks and 100 poster presentations.

The Synthesis in Organic Chemistry Symposium traditionally provides an international showcase for the core area of organic chemistry - synthesis - covering all aspects of contemporary organic synthesis and providing a forum for the ever more exciting methodologies and strategies that continue to emerge.

COPS-XI is the latest of a series of symposia, held every 3 years, devoted to fundamental and applied research on the characterization of the structure of porous materials and the relationship between structure and material performance.

The scope includes

• experimental characterization methods, such as X-ray diffraction, NMR, adsorption, mercury intrusion, calorimetry ...
• theoretical and simulation methods used to interpret experimental data, such as molecular simulation, classical and statistical mechanical theory, pore network modeling ...
• applied research, on the impact of measured material properties on performance in applications

The aim of this series of symposia is to bring together experts from academia and industry in order to share the latest developments in the characterization of porous solids using the various experimental and/or computational methods, together with the understanding of the relationships between the measured material properties and the final performance for a given application.

This conference will be held at the Popes Palace in Avignon and will be chaired by Philip Llewellyn (CNRS-Marseille)

Speakers include:Â

• Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, National Institutes of Health (Keynote speaker)
• Jie Xiao, Johns Hopkins University (SHAMROK keynote, EPSRC sponsored)
• Kishan Dholakia, University of St Andrews
• Peter Rosenthal, The Francis Crick Institute
• Mervyn Miles, University of Bristol
• Siobhan Braybrook, Sainsbury Laboratory, University of Cambridge
• Lucy Collinson, The Francis Crick Institute
• Olivier Hamant, Laboratoire de Reproduction et Développement des Plantes
• Julien Bergeron, University of Washington

For more than 60 years, the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) has been the premier venue for presentation of the latest developments in radiation detection technology, for fundamental nuclear and particle physics, and for such diverse applications as nuclear nonproliferation, medicine, and environmental remediation.

The 23rd International Symposium on Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detectors (RTSD) represents the largest forum of scientists and engineers developing new semiconductor radiation detectors and imaging arrays.

Powder diffraction was developed independently in 1916 by Peter Debye and Paul Scherrer in Germany and Albert Hull in the U.S. To commemorate this 100th anniversary, a half-day symposium on historical developments in powder diffraction as well as contemporary APS work was held on November 11, 2016.

Where the speakers have agreed, recordings of the talks and slides have been placed in youtube.

David Cox, Brookhaven National Laboratory (Retired)Â

“Some Recollections from the Early Days of Neutron and Synchrotron X-ray Powder Diffraction”

Tim Fawcett, International Centre for Diffraction Data

“100 Years of Powder Diffraction”

Pete Chupas, Advanced Photon Source

“80+ Years of Pair Distribution Function Measurements”

Andrey Yakovenko, Advanced Photon Source

"New In-Situ Capabilities at 17-BM Rapid Acquisition Powder Diffraction Line"

Saul Lapidus, Advanced Photon Source

“Improving On Great: The High-Resolution Powder Diffractometer, 11-BM”

Olaf J. Borkiewicz, Advanced Photon Source

“What’s New in High Energy Powder Diffraction at 11-ID”

Robert B. Von Dreele, Advanced Photon Source

“Before GSAS to GSAS-II”