After the success of the first edition of the European Symposium on Chemical Bonding, that took place in Rouen in 2016, it is our pleasure to inform you that the second edition of this series will be held in Oviedo, Spain, from September 3 to September 7, 2018.

Following the spirit of the ESCB1, the conference will be devoted to showing new developments as well as relevant applications in the field of chemical bonding. Besides a set of invited lectures by leaders in the field, we expect to gather a number of younger researchers, for whom we plan to offer shorter oral communications.

In keeping with the tradition of ESCB1, a practical school on methods, applications and computational tecniques, this time focused on quantum chemical topology tools in chemical bonding will take place before the beginning of the meeting, from September 2 to September 3. We expect younger students interested in the school to also join us in the conference.

CryoNet is a Nordic network in Cryo-electron microscopy that is funded by The Novo Nordisk Foundation in Denmark and the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation in Sweden. CryoNet aims to promote collaboration and knowledge sharing across national borders and one main goal is to help establish state-of-the-art cryo-electron microscopy as a strong pillar of Nordic life science research.

The 1^st Annual CryoNet Symposium will gather Scandinavian researchers, students and technical staff to discuss the latest advances in Cryo-electron microscopy with some of the world leading researchers in the field. International participants are also welcome to register!

The symposium will begin on Monday, October 8 with registration from 8.30-9.00 and finish by 17:00 on Tuesday, October 9.

To be held at the Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center, Columbia University.

Topics will include production, structure determination, functional analysis and engineering of integral membrane proteins.

To be held at Levin Hall on the University of Texas Medical Branch Campus on beautiful Galveston Island. 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:

      Grant Jensen, Ph.D.,  California Institute of Technology
        “Progress and Challenges in Electron Cryotomography”

        Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, Ph.D., University of Michigan
   “Membrane-Assisted Dynamic Protein-Protein Interactions by NMR"

       Andrew Routh, Ph.D., University of Texas Medical Branch
  “Parallel ClickSeq and Nanopore Deep-Sequencing Characterizes the
         Emergence and Evolution of Defective Viral Genomes”

    Joan-Emma Shea, Ph.D., University of California Santa Barbara
     “Binding and Assembly of Intrinsically Disordered Peptide”

                  Yizhi Tao, Ph.D., Rice University
                   “The Tail of a Nematode Virus”

              Adam Zlotnick, Ph.D., Indiana University
     “Multiple Mechanisms for Assembly-Directed HBV Antivirals”

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To be held at the MCB/Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience in the main campus of University of Southern California.

Speakers include Mary Scott (UC Berkeley), Clodagh O'Shea (Salk Institute), Rebecca Voorhees (Caltech), Chongming Wang (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), and Cristina Zavaleta (USC).

At the symposium we will have both student platform talk and poster presentations. Please send abstracts to Sergey Prikhodko (prikhodko.sergey@gmail.com) by March 18, 2018.

This year we continue to hold the SCSMM Image Contest. Please send your images to Poorna Subramanian (poorna.physics@gmail.com) by April 6, 2018.

The 2018 Kuo Symposium/Workshop on 3DEM of Cells and Molecules, which will be held at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. Major topics of the Symposium include recent developments in cryoEM sample preparation and data acquisition, advances in cryoEM image analysis and reconstruction, advances in cryoET and in situ structural biology, and correlative and hybrid methods for cellular structural analysis.

The cryoEM meeting and workshop series is named after K.H. Kuo (1923-2006), a prominent Chinese scientist, who is among the pioneers discovered several types of quasicrystals in 1980s. Dr. Kuo was also an important educator and mentor who had fostered a generation of electron microscopists in China, Asia and across the world. Since 2008, the Kuo summer school of electron microscopy has provided numerous opportunities for a new generation of scientists to learn the technique of cryoEM through close interactions with many leading scientists in the field during workshop and symposium.

Workshop and K.H. Kuo Summer School: 24-26 August 2018

2018 Kuo Symposium: 26-29 August 2018

Fourth annual symposium

The conference aims to provide a forum to highlight state of the art
developments in computational cryoEM and related themes as well as
showcasing outstanding recent applications. We promote an inclusive,
friendly atmosphere welcoming both old and new to the community. Topics
range from detector developments, image processing, single particle
reconstruction, high resolution model building & validation, machine
learning, tomography and electron diffraction.

 Confirmed speakers include:

Mark Basham (Diamond)
Sacha de Carlo (Dectris)
Ana Casanal (MRC-LMB)
Peter Cherepanov (Crick Institute)
Paul Emsley (MRC-LMB)
Hans-Werner Fink (Zurich University)
Achilleas Frangakis (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Tim Gruene (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Nicola Guerrini (STFC)
Ben Himes (Janelia)
Arjen Jakobi (TU Delft)
Corinne Smith (University of Warwick)
Carlos Oscar Sanchez Sorzano (CSIC Madrid)
Chris Russo (MRC-LMB)
Beata Turonova (EMBL)
Giulia Zanetti (Birkbeck)
Kai Zhang (MRC-LMB)
Xiaodong Zhang (Imperial)

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• Mechanical properties of ceramics, composites and porous materials
• Coatings to resist wear, erosion and tribological loadings
• Fiber, matrices and interfaces, CMCs
• Transparent ceramics
• Ultra high-temperature ceramics and ternary compounds
• Tribological behaviors
• Heat and corrosion resistances
• Thermal and environmental barrier coatings
• Processing
• Microstructure
• Mechanical properties relations
• Joining and machining of ceramics and composites
• Functionally graded materials and systems
• Mechanics and characterization techniques

Topics

• Hydrogen Production
• Hydrogen Storage
• Hydrogen Applications
• Theory and Modeling
• Fuel Cells
• Batteries
• Synthetic Fuels
• Functional Materials

This symposium has been organised to celebrate the achievements and lifetime of the NIST Center for Neutron Research, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

The symposium will span across the 7th and 8th December 2017, with a reception dinner on the evening of the 7th at the Gaithersburg Marriott-Washingtonian Center.

For more information, please visit:Â Â https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2017/12/ncnr-50-year-symposium

Registration ends on 30th November 2017 at 12:00PM EDT.Â

We cordially invite all to the 3^rd International Conference on Lipid Science & Technology which is going to be held at Rome, Italy during December 11-12, 2017.

Lipid Conferences will lay a platform for Lipidologists, Professors, Endocrinologists, Biochemists, Molecular biologists and Scientists to discuss an approach for lipidomics. So, we welcome them all along with Research Scholars, Healthcare & Industrial Professionals, Pharmaceutical Researchers, Physicians and Student delegates from this field to be part of it.

Lipids 2017 Conference is an unquestionable requirement to join as it will give an inside-out perspective of world-class, interdisciplinary examination dialogue from fundamental science scientists through clinical specialists to end up pioneers in exploration on lipid digestion system and its connection to cardiovascular sickness, diabetes, weight, atherosclerosis, metabolic disorders, immunological illnesses, disease and so forth.

Tracks:

Lipids in Molecular Medicine

Lipid and Lipoprotein Metabolism

Protein-Lipid and Lipid-Lipid Interactions

Obesity and Health

Lipids in Signaling and Intracellular Trafficking

Lipids and Bioenergy

Fats - Cardio Metabolic Risks

Lipids: Nutrition and Health

Techniques Involved in Lipid Research

Structural Diversity of Lipids

Lipids in Atherosclerosis

Plant, Microbial Lipids and Essential Oils

Lipids in Plant Research

Lipidomics - What’s Next?

The Astbury Conversation is designed to give an insight into life in molecular detail - whether you are a researcher wanting to know about the latest developments, or you are simply interested in learning more about the hidden - but fascinating â€" world of macromolecules.

The second biennial Astbury Conversation aims to bring together leading researchers from across the globe to discuss the most recent progress in the field of structural molecular biology in its broadest sense. This event is inspired by the pioneering work at Leeds of the Braggs (Nobel prize 1913), and in the 1930s to 60s of Professor Bill Astbury, FRS, a field of research continued today in the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology.

It is fitting that more than 100 years after the Braggs’ Nobel Prize winning breakthrough we celebrate discoveries in structural molecular biology both within the University and across the wider scientific community by hosting the Astbury Conversation as one of the highlights of the University calendar.

The programme includes;

• An academic Symposium themed around “Allostery in Biology” to include prestigious talks, selected presentations and poster sessions
• Plenary Public Lecture by Nobel Laureate Professor Brian Kobilka of Stanford University,
• A Public Engagement Event themed around “Understanding More about the Secret Life of Molecules”, followed by a wine reception.

Other confirmed speakers include:
Professor David Agard (University of California)
Professor Dame Carol Robinson (University of Oxford)
Professor Hagan Bayley (University of Oxford)
Professor Katrin Rittinger (The Francis Crick Institute, London)
Professor John Briggs (University of Cambridge)
Professor Riki Eggert (King’s College, London)
Professor Babis Kalodimos (University of Minnesota)
Professor Jim Naismith (University of Oxford and Director of the Research Complex at Harwell)
Professor Matthias Rief (Technical University of Munich)

The registration fee for the Symposium is just £49 (no accommodation) or £139 (including overnight accommodation). This includes access to all talks, event materials and meals, including beer and pizza at the poster evening.

Places are limited

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