Complementary seminar presented by TA Instruments

This seminar includes a range of topics and will cover techniques available for the characterisation of Biomolecular interactions - with a focus on the use of Calorimetric tools such as ITC and DSC.

Attendance is free, but as numbers will be limited registration will be offered on a first come first serve basis.

LUNCH will be provided and the meeting will conclude with a free tour of the Williams F1 collection.
Agenda
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Studying Biomolecular Interactions by ITC
- John Ladbury, MD Anderson Cancer Centre, University of Texas
Protein-protein interactions in membrane trafficking
- David Owen, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Cambridge University
ITC for Enzyme Kinetics
- Malin Suurkuusk, TA Instruments
DSC Characterization of the Structure/Function Relationship for Proteins
- Dile Holton, TA Instruments
Studying interactions between protein, small molecules and water by DSC
- Robert Falconer, Chemical & Biological Engineering, Sheffield University
ITC and DSC data analysis -Tips and Tricks on Model Selection
- Malin Suurkuusk, TA Instruments
Free Tour of Williams F1 Museum

• Polymers & Soft Matter Physics
• Soft Condensed Matter
• Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
• Biological Physics
• Chemical Physics
• Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
• Insulators and Dielectrics
• Semiconductors
• Superconductivity
• Magnetism
• Strongly Correlated Systems, Including Quantum Fluids and Solids
• Complex Structured Materials, including Graphene
• Superlattices, Nanostructures, and Other Artificially Structured Materials
• Surfaces, Interfaces and Thin Films
• Metals and Metallic Alloys
• General Theory/Computational Physics
• Quantum Information, Concepts and Computation
• Matter at Extreme Conditions
• Instrumentation and Measurements
• Fluids
• Energy Research and Applications
• Applications (IT, Medical/Bio, Photonics, etc.)
• Physics of Climate
• Physics Education(FEd)
• General

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Scientific Organisers

Scope/topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to:

• Kinetics of Complex, Multiphase and Hybrid Processes
• Catalysts Synthesis and Characterization
• New Catalytic Processes
• Catalytic and Multiphase Reactors
• Polymerization Reactors
• Electro-, Photo- and Sono-Chemical Reactors
• Phase Equilibrium and Phase Transport
• Innovation and Separation Processes
• Membrane Processes
• Membrane Science
• Simulation and Separation Equipment Design
• Hybrid and Membrane Processes
• Structured Systems, Meso and Micro Reactors
• Non-conventional Energetic Technologies in Chemical Processes
• Synthesis and Design of Processes
• Simulation, Optimization, Planning and Control of Processes
• Energy Integration and Optimization
• Bioreactors and Bioprocesses (new applications and configurations)
• Modeling of bioprocesses
• Systems biotechnology
• Biorefinery
• Advanced bioseparation technologies
• Clean Energy from Fossil Resources
• Emission ControlEfficiency and New Energy Carriers
• Capture, Storage and Use of CO2
• Sustainable Processes and Products
• Green Solvents: Synthesis, Characterization and Applications
• Green Polymers from Renewable Resources
• Green Organic Synthesis Routes
• New Biosynthetic Strategies
• High Pressure and Supercritical Processes
• Ionic Liquids: New Reaction/Separation Media
• Fine Chemistry
• Nano-structured Materials, Catalysts
• Intelligent Materials
• Intelligent Polymers
• Coatings and Surface Treatments
• Biodiversity conservation
• Bio-drug discovery
• Bioenergy
• Bioenvironmental Engineering
• Marine Biochemicals
• Environmental Engineering & Management
• Sustainable & Clean Technologies
• Physical, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
• Chemical Engineering educational challenges and development
• Chemical Reaction Engineering
• Thermodynamics
• Multiphase flows
• Crystallization Distillation, absorption and extraction
• Rheology
• Product Engineering and Development
• Nanomanufacturing
• Energy and Nuclear Sciences
• Mathematical modelling in chemical engineering
• Macromolecular Science and Engineering
• Advanced Materials Processing
• Multiscale Modelling
• Biochemical Engineering
• Physical Chemistry
• Radiochemistry
• Biophysical Chemistry

Confirmed Speakers include:

Dr Serin Dabb (Royal Society of Chemistry)

Dr Peter Hoare (University of Newcastle)

Dr Guy Jones (Royal Society of Chemistry)

Brian McMahon (International Union of Crystallography)

David Sait (Royal Society of Chemistry)

Dr Anna Warren (Diamond Light Source)

Prof Chick Wilson (University of Bath)

The 2014 edition will continue the tradition established by these biennial symposia and will cover drug discovery advances in the major therapeutic areas, including neglected diseases, CNS disorders, inflammation, metabolic disorders, and oncology. EFMC-ISMC 2014 will present the most recent advances in lead identification and optimization strategies, drug design and profiling technologies, and illustrate the impact of biomarkers and imaging at the interfaces between chemistry, biology and experimental medicine. Particular emphasis will be put on first time disclosures, recent highlights in medicinal chemistry, and organic synthesis which had a strong impact on medicinal chemistry.

This symposium is recognised worldwide as one of the leading Medicinal Chemistry meetings, as proven by its large international attendance.

Confirmed lecturersÂ

Dott. Samuele Ciattini (Centro di Cristallografia Strutturale, Università di Firenze), Il CRIST ai raggi-X

Dott. Giorgio Guastella (Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli, Direzione Regionale per la Lombardia, Laboratorio e Servizi Chimici, Milano), Applicazioni della diffrazione a raggi X in ambito doganale

Dott.ssa Chiara Vladiskovic (Dipharma Francis S.r.l., Baranzate, Milano), Principi Attivi Farmaceutici: a cosa serve la diffrazione da polveri?

Dott.ssa Laura Chelazzi (Dipartimento di Chimica «Giacomo Ciamician», Università di Bologna), Oltre i confini del cristallo singolo: aspetti applicativi della determinazione strutturale da polveri microcristalline

• See the photo galleryÂ
• Read a report by Chris Howard for the Newsletter of the Society of Crystallographers of Australia and New Zealand

Registration is now open for the BCA Industrial Group Autumn Meeting which will be held at the Royal Institution in London on Wednesday 12th November. The meeting will be celebrating industrial science during this International Year of Crystallography with talks covering a wide range of crystallographic topics. We will also be treated to a lecture from one of the RI’s historians on the history of the RI and the Bragg’s work.

You are warmly invited to attend a one-day symposium that aims to recognise Dorothy Hodgkin’s legacy and mark the award of her Nobel Â
 Prize. Her field, crystallography, underpins all of the sciences today and has an extensive range of applications within the agro-food, Â
 aeronautic, computer, electro-mechanical, pharmaceutical and mining industries and more. 45 scientists have been awarded the Nobel Prize Â
 over the past century for work that is either directly or indirectly related to crystallography, and yet it remains a field relatively unknown to Â
 the general public. This year UNESCO has joined forces with the International Union of Crystallography to promote education and public Â
 awareness, and we are delighted to contribute to this effort with the Dorothy Hodgkin Symposium. Â
 PROGRAMME
 2:45 pm Tea & Coffee, Somerville College, Flora Anderson Hall
 3:00 pm Hidden Glory, Dorothy Hodgkin in her own words, Somerville College, Flora Anderson Hall
 A filmed performance of a short, one-woman play about the life and work of Dorothy Hodgkin, Â
 followed by Q&A with the playwright Georgina Ferry
 4:00 pm Registration, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
 4:10 pm Welcome, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
 Dr Alice Prochaska, Principal of Somerville College
 Dr Wendy Watson-Wright, Assistant Director General and Â
 Executive Secretary of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
 4:30 pm Keynote Talk: A Hundred Years of Visualising Molecules, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
 Professor (Sir) Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Nobel laureate; Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge
 5:30 pm Tea & Coffee, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
 5:45 pm Panel Discussion, Using crystallography to help solve the world’s great medical problems: from Dorothy Hodgkin into the 21st century, Â
 Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
 Biographies of panel participants may be found overleaf
 7:15 pm Drinks Reception, Somerville College, The Old College Bar
 8:00 pm Supper, Somerville College, Dining HallÂ

The Symposium welcomes academics, students, Somerville and Oxford alumni, representatives of scientific bodies and institutions, the Â
 media and members of the general public. The majority of the programme is free to attend. Tickets for supper including wine will be Â
 £35 per person and students are offered a reduced rate of £15 per person.

To register, please visit https://www.alumniweb.ox.ac.uk/somerville/dorothy-hodgkin-symposium or ring the Somerville Development Office on 01865 280 626. Space is limited, so prompt Â
 booking is recommended, and places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.Â

On Friday October 10th, the University of Illinois at Chicago is hosting a symposium and poster session to celebrate the 100th year of crystallography. (Location: Herman Auditorium, MBRB 900 S. Ashland Ave., Chicago)
The schedule of the symposium will be as follows, with lunch provided for those who register:
9:30am Registration
10:00-10:15Â Welcome and IYCR Overview (C. Jeffery, University of Illinois at Chicago)
10:15-11:00Â Prof. Phoebe Rice (University of Chicago)
11:00-11:45Â Prof. Andrejz Joachimiak (Argonne National Labs)
12noon-1:00Â Lunch
1:15 - 2:00Â Â Â Prof. Bernie Santarsiero (University of Illinois at Chicago)
2:00 - 2:45Â Â Prof. Heather Pinkett (Northwestern University)
2:45 - 4:30pm Poster session

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ISSC-20 is the latest meeting in the series of interdisciplinary surface science conferences covering all experimental and theoretical aspects of surfaces, interfaces and nanoscale physics and chemistry.

Themes

• System integration from atomic, molecular, nano to meso scale towards optimised design of energy materials
• Design of material systems to optimizer the energy enrichment of renewable sources for photochemical, thermal-to-electric conversion, and mechanical-to-electric conversion systems
• How interfacial chemistry takes place in the energy-related processes, focusing on design principles of efficient (electro)catalysts, in-situ characterization methods and theories in energy conversion and storage
• New materials and innovations for energy applications, including new light harvesting materials/semiconductors, plasmonics-enhanced energy conversion, new catalysts for biomass conversion, and energy-related bioinspiration/biomimetic systems         Â
  

The themes represent the major scientific headings for the meeting and reflect the key position of these topics in contemporary materials chemistry. However, in assembling the programme we are also keen to see subjects such as theory and modelling, ionic liquids and liquid crystals represented across the different subjects.

• Biomaterials Chemistry

  Encompassing biomaterials for tissue engineering, biomaterials for healthcare, green biomaterials and advanced synthesis methods of biomaterials

• Electronic and Magnetic Materials

  This will encompass the relationship between the chemistry and the electronic and/or magnetic properties of inorganic, molecular, hybrid and nano materials using both experimental and computational/theoretical approaches.

• Energy Materials

  Encompassing all aspects of Materials Chemistry related to energy conversion, storage and fuel generation.

• Nanomaterials Chemistry

  Encompassing synthesis, characterisation and application of materials whose functionality depends on their nanoscale dimensions.

• Porous Materials

  This will encompass the chemistry and properties of porous materials for sorption, storage and separation.

• Soft Matter Materials Chemistry

  Including wide and varied aspects of soft matter materials showing the power of the interplay between a priori design and physical function.

Nanoparticles can be viewed as a new type of "atom" with size dependent physical, optical and electronic properties that make them suitable for a wide variety of applications. There are many open questions in the field of nanoparticle synthesis and assembly.Â

For example:

• How does the nanoparticle-nanoparticle potential govern nanoparticle formation or assembly?Â
• Can one design a nanoparticle from the ground up, according to theoretical predictions, which will self-assemble into a given nanoparticle superlattice structure?Â
• How does the assembly process vary with nanoparticle shape (e.g., spherical, rod, triangular, square, etc.) and the ligand coating which surrounds each nanoparticle?Â
• Can one make more robust nanoparticle superlattice structures, of macroscopic size (millimetre to centimetre), which can be moulded, milled and machined into desired shapes?Â
• Can one make nanoparticles that are stable at high temperature so that their assemblies can be melted, alloyed and cast?    Â

These questions cannot be answered in isolation. A successful attack on these difficult questions requires the coordinated and collaborative effects of nanoparticle theorists, synthesizers, and assemblers.

Format

The Faraday Division have been organising high impact Faraday Discussions in rapidly developing areas of physical chemistry and its interfaces with other scientific disciplines for over 100 years.

Faraday Discussions have a special format where research papers written by the speakers are distributed to all participants before the meeting, and most of the meeting is devoted to discussing the papers. Everyone contributes to the discussion - including presenting their own relevant research. The research papers and a record of the discussion are published in the journal Faraday Discussions.

Aims

The purpose of this Faraday Discussion meeting is bring together a diverse group of scientists to discuss the latest developments in nanoparticle theory, synthesis and assembly in order to generate new ideas and engender new collaborations between these groups.

Themes

• Nanoparticle synthesis - physical chemistry of nanoparticle shape and ligand control
• Theoretical insights into nanoparticle synthesis and nanoparticle assembly
• Nanoparticle self-assembly
• Nanoparticle directed assembly        Â

Introduction

The crystallisation phase transformation process and the resulting creation of crystalline materials from liquid phase precursors are central to the science and process engineering of materials in their broadest sense. Crystallisation involves two distinct stages: nucleation and growth. Due to the nano-scale size domain within which the nucleation process functions it is a much less understood process compared to the growth process. As a result, elucidating the fundamental physics and chemistry that govern the formation and structure of the nucleation supra-molecular transition state remains one of the truly unresolved 'grand challenges' of the physical sciences.

Format

The Faraday Division have been organising high impact Faraday Discussions in rapidly developing areas of physical chemistry and its interfaces with other scientific disciplines for over 100 years.Â

Faraday Discussions have a special format where research papers written by the speakers are distributed to all participants before the meeting, and most of the meeting is devoted to discussing the papers. Everyone contributes to the discussion - including presenting their own relevant research. The research papers and a record of the discussion are published in the journal Faraday Discussions.Â

Themes

• Molecular self-assembly in nucleationÂ
  This session will focus on the transition pathway, and its associated molecular assembly process, for solute molecules as they aggregate and stabilise into clusters prior to their subsequent development in the growth stage into facetted crystals. The session will seek to examine the latest results from both experimental studies and advanced molecular and synthonic modelling.Â

• Nucleation kinetics and mechanismsÂ
  The session will focus on the mechanistic processes underpinning the nucleation process, i.e. whether single/2-step, progressive/instantaneous, homo/heterogeneous etc. and The role played by secondary nucleation processes in modifying nucleation behaviour will be examined and the session will also seek to examine the latest research in kinetic modelling of the nucleation process.Â

• Solvent interactions as determinants in the nucleation pathwayÂ
  This session will seek to examine the role played by crystallisation environment, notably solvent choice (whether polar/apolar, protic/aprotic and molecular size/shape) and resultant solution structure, in dictating the nucleation process. The role played by solution ideality as well as the influence hydrogen bonding and synthon architectures for directing specific solute-solute interactions will be examined.

• Nucleation in complex multi-component and multi-phase systemsÂ
  This session will examine nucleation within complex crystallisation environments for situation where the presence of multi-components and phases are found to significantly change crystallisation behaviour and crystallisability of a material, e.g. in an extreme case leading to oiling out. Understanding the influence of phase composition, molecular speciation and chirality on behaviour and how this effects the solid form properties of the resultant crystals produced (polymorphic form, crystal size and crystallinity) will be also examined.Â

Aims

This meeting aims to bring together this growing body of theoretical and experimental work from both the academic and industrial spheres in order to assess recent progress, highlight on-going challenges in the domain area and route-map future work still needed.