You’re invited to the 77th Annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), which is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (near Knoxville). The conference will take place over three days and feature sessions focused on all areas of diffraction, from powders to protein crystals. Topics will include emerging technologies/techniques, Total scattering, Magnetic scattering, and Integrative Structural Biology. The Chung Soo Yoo Award, established by the Pittsburgh Diffraction Society to honor Dr. Yoo’s memory, and a $400 cash prize will be given to the graduate student having the best poster presentation at the conference.

The workshop aims at enabling structural biologists to fully exploit the latest instrumentation and software development at the SNS and HFIR facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Participants of HANDS 2019 will become familiar with neutron techniques with hands-on experiments in sample preparation, crystallography, small-angle scattering, reflectometry and neutron spin echo. The workshop is designed for graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and faculty with limited to no experience with neutron sciences. Fellowships to support travel and accommodation are available. There is no registration fee.

For more information, please visit:Â https://conference.sns.gov/hands2019/

Application Deadline: 29th April 2019

The main objective of this workshop is to offer a theoretical and practical training in the different techniques used in integrative structural biology (X-ray diffraction, small angle X-ray scattering, NMR, cryo-electron microscopy, sample preparation for structural biology, biophysical methods to study and characterize macromolecular interactions). The goals are to explain and illustrate, to an audience mainly composed of doctoral students and young researchers, the contributions and limitations of each method with a strong emphasis on their complementarity and future developments.

Registration is now open at:Â https://ecolebios2019.sciencesconf.org/Â

Registration deadline: 22nd April 2019Â

The official language of the workshop is French but presentations may be given in English, depending on the overall profile of the students. For practicals, English and French speaking groups may be organised.

The school is focused on providing hands-on experience of simulation and fitting experimental data with BornAgain, featuring tutorials and practice sessions. Besides, the scattering theory implemented in the framework of the code as well as the software design will be outlined during compact introductory lectures.

This workshop will take place as part of the American Crystallographic Association (ACA 2018) Meeting (20th-24th July 2018).

This single-day workshop will be comprised of carefully constructed lectures and tutorials to serve as an introduction to investigators new to the technique. Throughout the workshop, the emphasis will be on practical application. Students will also learn about aspects of data collection at home laboratories and at national user facilities.

Students are expected to bring laptops with the appropriate software pre-installed to the workshop. Â

Registration fees: $185 (individuals) / $355 (corporates).Â

The cost of the workshop is separate from that of the main meeting and preregistration is mandatory.Â

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This school, supported by NNSP and SwedNess, is aimed as an introduction for early career researchers to a range of topics concerning neutron scattering.

The topics to be covered will include the principles of scattering and neutron instrumentation, diffraction, reflectivity and the multiple types of scattering techniques.Â

In addition there will be lectures which will highlight the use of neutrons in industrial and various scientific research fields, including at the ESS.

Nordic/Baltic participants will not be charged for attendance to the school or accommodation, and transportation costs will be reimbursed. Participants with affiliation outside of the Nordic and Baltic region will have to cover transport and accommodation costs. Â

Aimed at students outside the Physical Sciences, there is a introductory course on the mathematics and physics tool required for the school - this will be held on 8th and 9th September.

Registration deadline: 1st August 2018

The aim of this workshop is to promote many aspects of crystallography including diffraction methods, instrumentation and software (with a particular focus on the services and products provided by Bruker). Topics of the workshop will include application of X-ray diffraction in academic research and industry, synchrotron radiaiton, crystallisation methods and structure solution and refinement using TOPAS.

It will also allow networking of researchers in the field, with a confirmed line-up of speakers, and to encourage cooperation between NYU and other organisations.

The number of attendees for certain components of the workshop are limited to below the 50 places available for the general workshop lectures, so early registration is advised.

For more information about registration, please contact Dr. Tony Hu (ch98@nyu.edu).

For more general information, please visit:Â http://as.nyu.edu/chemistry/research/facilities/xray-diffraction/workshop/2018.html

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The school will be co-located at Diamond and Jesus College, Oxford, with participants staying in Oxford.

The SR School provides postgraduate students and post-doctoral researchers, who have little experience of Synchrotron Radiation (SR), a broad-based introduction to many of the different types of experiments conducted using SR. It is largely aimed at physical scientists, but life scientists are welcome to apply. The school gives the attendees the opportunity to obtain hands-on practical experience of performing an experiment on several of the Diamond beamlines. At least 14 Diamond beamlines will be particpating in the school (see below for details).

 Topics covered in the course lectures

• X-ray Scattering
• Symmetry and Crystallography
• The Diamond Synchrotron
• X-ray optics and detectors
• An introduction to the data analysis program DAWN

And the synchrotron use of:

• Infrared Microspectroscopy
• Powder Diffraction
• Resonant and Magnetic Scattering
• Small-Angle Scattering
• Surface Diffraction
• X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
• X-ray Imaging
• X-ray Photoelectron Spectrocopy

The course is limited to 26 participants. Application deadline is 31st August 2018.

For more information and registration, please visit:Â http://meetings.embo.org/event/18-sas#Register

Workshop No. 4 at the ACA Annual Meeting (20-24 July 2018)

Confirmed Instructors:
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Angela Criswell, Rigaku Corporation
Srinivas Chakravarthy, BioCAT Group, Advanced Photon Source
Richard Gillilan, Macromolecular Diffraction Facility, Cornell High Energy
Synchrotron Source
Thomas Grant, University of Buffalo/Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research
Institute
Jesse Hopkins, BioCAT Group, Advanced Photon Source
Maxim Petoukhov, BIOSAXS Group, EMBL Hamburg

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The workshop is dedicated to Integrative Structural Biology

The main objective of this workshop is to offer a theoretical and practical training in the different techniques used in integrative structural biology (X-ray diffraction, small-angle X-ray scattering, NMR, cryo-electron microscopy, sample preparation for structural biology, biophysical methods to study and characterize macromolecular interactions). The goals are to explain and illustrate, to an audience mainly composed of doctoral students and young researchers, the contributions and limitations of each method with a strong emphasis on their complementarity and future developments.
The official language of the workshop is French but presentations may be given in English, depending on the overall profile of the students. For practicals, English and French speaking groups may be organised.

Deadline for registration: April 9, 2018 (maximum number of participants: 25)

More information on the French Initiative ReNaFoBiS : http://www.renafobis.fr/

Discover and Explore the Future of Pharma.

The gathering will address Pharmaceutical Research in the area of Pharmaceutical manufacturing, while laying emphasis on innovative methodologies in pharmaceutical and food manufacturing. Pharma Europe 2018 will be the best venue for Research Associate, Research Scientist, Directors, CEO’s of Pharmaceutical Organizations, Supply Chain companies, Bio-informatics Professionals,  Noble laureates in Health Care and Medicine, Quality Assurance Specialist, Market research Analyst, Associate Product Manager, Product Manager, Strategy Director, Business Development Manager, Pharmacists, Deans, Students, Professors, Researchers, and Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences from Universities and Medical Colleges.

Pharma Europe 2018 Conference will encourage Young Researcher’s Forum, scientists and the researchers in their early stage of career graph to widely discuss their outcome so as to enrich and develop the idea. The ‘Best Poster Award’ is meant to encourage students in taking active part in the International Science platform to sharpen their skills and knowledgebase.

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The important tracks that are part of Pharma Europe 2018 includes Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry, Pharmacological Sciences, Drugs and Regulations, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Types of Pharmaceutical Formulations, Nanotechnology, Novel Drug Delivery Systems, Pre-formulation Studies, Bio-Pharmaceutics, Bioinformatics, Genetics & Genetic Engineering, Pharmaceutical Packaging, Radiopharmaceuticals, Pharma Companies, Hospital Pharmacy, Industrial Pharmacy, Ethics in Pharmacy, Pharma Consulting & Services

The Abstracts that are accepted for presentations are published in the proceedings of the Journals like Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs: Open Access, Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and Journal of Pharmaceutics & Drug Delivery Research.

The series of SMARTER meetings aims to bring together scientists in the areas of computation, diffraction, and NMR spectroscopy to promote combining various techniques and develop smarter approaches for structure determination of complex inorganic, organic and biological materials.

Registration and more information about the meeting can be found here:Â Â https://smarter6.ki.si/index.php/smarter6/

Registration opens in Spring 2018.Â