Topics

• Intracellular lipid homeostasis
• Regulation of lipid synthesis and transport
• Protein-lipid interactions
• Functionalised lipids and novel tools to study lipids in cells

Invited Speakers

Jenny Hinshaw (NIDDK, Bethesda)

Georgios Skiniotis (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Wen Jiang (Purdue University, Lafayette)

The meeting is organized by the Dutch Association for Crystal Growth (NVKG) and
the Dutch Crystallographic Society (NVK) and will have the character of a workshop/symposium.

The design of multicomponent crystals provides a means to alter physicochemical properties of crystals without changing the chemical properties of the molecule of interest. This is particularly useful in the case of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs), but also in the field of agrochemical products.
Although solvates and salts are commonly used in this context, the formation of co-crystals has only more recently been considered, which has significantly increased the solid forms available for formulation.

This one-day symposium intends to give an overview of important aspects in the design of co-crystals, ranging from the search for suitable co-former candidates to possible legislation issues.

Exploring, understanding, and designing structures and functionalities of materials for energy, information and technological applications has been the main goal of materials discovery. This goal has inspired new efforts to develop integrated approaches to probe the dynamical processes of materials synthesis, as well as the evolution of structures, properties and performance of functional materials. Light-source-based X-ray methods, high flux source enabled neutron techniques and advanced (scanning) transmission electron microscopy have been tremendously developed to meet fast-growing research needs in materials science.

An Inaugural Symposium at UT Southwestern

Distinguished guest speakers include the cryo-electron microscopy and tomography experts Yifan Cheng (UCSF), Wah Chiu (Baylor College of Medicine), Nikolaus Grigorieff (Janelia Research Campus) and Dick McIntosh (University of Colorado, Boulder).

We are happy to announce VI-th National Crystallographic Symposium (NCS2016) that will be held on October 05-07, 2016, Sofia, Bulgaria.

As you may have already recognized this is will be the sixth "NCS" of the series started in 2009.

We have already started the preparation of the next issue of the conference (submitted manuscripts will be published in the journal “Bulgarian Chemical Communications”, a special issues due April 2017).NCS16 papers will also be online available in full text via the present platform.  You are warmly invited to come and join us!

NCS2016 is held under the auspices of BCS and is the major event on Crystallography, crystal growth, structure analyses and related techniques in Bulgaria. The Symposium aims at the applications of different crystallographic techniques in combination with other methods in the fields of materials sciences, mineralogy, biology, environmental engineering, computational methods etc. Bringing together researchers from different areas NCS16 will provide them with a high-qualified platform for them to share their latest studies and to assist further findings and collaboration.

With passionate participants from the world, NCS2016 Â would be perfect for you to present your research and find collaboration for your future work.

This symposium will report on the latest discoveries in structural biology using X-ray, neutron, and electron diffraction, and complementary techniques such as small-angle scattering, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, electron microscopy, and advanced computational approaches. Scientific insights at the molecular level allow structure guided drug discovery and protein engineering for improved biocatalysis. This basic research is important for supporting applications in the pharmaceutical industry and for new, sustainable, and environmentally friendly approaches to the production of chemical reagents and biofuels.

Session topics include:

• Bioenergy Drug Design
  
• Enzyme Mechanism and Allostery
  
• Macromolecular Complexes
  
• Membranes
  
• Membrane Proteins
• New Instruments and Methods
• Sources and Facilities

The Symposium will be accompanied by two optional 1-day workshops on August 6, focused on Neutron Protein Crystallography and on Small-Angle Scattering, respectively.

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:

Matthew Redinbo, Ph.D., Univ. of North Carolina “Structural and Chemical Biology of Drugging the Microbiome”

Gary Ren, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory “Individual-Particle Electron Tomography (IPET): An Approach to Study Flexible Protein Structure, Dynamics, Mechanism and Aggregation”

Patrick Griffin, Ph.D., Scripps Research Institute Florida Campus “Differential HDX to Probe Ligand Mediated Receptor Signaling”

Nick Grishin Ph.D., Univ. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center “Evolutionary Classification of Protein Domains”

Thomas Smith, Ph.D., Univ. of Tx Medical Branch “Glutamate Dehydrogenase: Structure, Regulation, Evolution, Insulin, Cancer, and a Cup of Tea”

Jun Qin, Ph.D., Cleveland Clinic/Lerner Research Institute “Structural Elucidation of Weak Protein-protein Interactions in Cell Adhesion"

Topics

• Birth, Life, & Death of Proteins
• Protein Evolution & Design
• Protein Folding & Misfolding
• Emerging Methods for Protein Research
• Membrane Protein Folding & Function
• Proteins on the Move
• Applied Protein Research
• Dynamic Modulation of Protein Function
• Interface Between Proteins & Nucleic Acids
• Interdisciplinary Approaches to Protein Science

USER-DEDICATED MICROSYMPOSIA (UDM) on Wednesday 10 February

• UDM1. Nanoscience: X-ray diffraction and coherence
• UDM2. Dynamics of complex systems
• UDM3. The future of (time resolved) room temperature protein X-ray crystallography