The XXXIII Scientific Readings named after academician N.V. Belov are organized by Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod (UNN) Faculty of Physics and Shubnikov Institute of Crystallography of Russian Academy of Sciences and will take place in Nizhni Novgorod, Russia on 16 â€" 17 December 2014.
The official language of the conference is Russian.
The Readings are held annually since 1982. The conference program includes plenary and poster presentations on the development of scientific fields which N.V. Belov conducted pioneer research in, as well as memories of him.
Conference topics
·        Fundamental aspects of crystallography and symmetry theory
·        X-ray structure analysis, modern methods and equipment
·        Scientific basis for the creation and development of new methods for crystalline materials, technologies and equipment for the creation and processing of materials
·        Properties of crystalline materials
·        First principles calculations of electronic structure and physical properties of solids
·        Memories of N.V. Belov
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Application deadline is 15 November 2014.

American Chemical Society webinar

Thursday, October 9, 2014 @ 2-3pm ET

Learn about the quest to develop therapies for the major age-related neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.

Presenter: Dr Greg Petsko is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of Medicine and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. His research interests include protein structure and function and the development of methods to treat age-related neurodegenerative diseases, including ALS (Lou Gehrig's), Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.

Moderator: Dr Martha Teeter is the current president of the American Crystallographic Association and demonstrated the first direct phasing of a protein structure with Wayne Hendrickson and the cooling of a protein with Håkon Hope, both techniques now routine in structural biology. She has promoted the International Year of Crystallography 2014 in the Americas.

What You Will Learn

How structural information can be used to identify and improve small-molecule therapeutics
The role of biological (large-molecule) drugs in the fight against neurologic disorders and how structure can help make better ones
What structural information cannot be expected to do and should not be expected to do

Fee: Free to Attend
Download Slides: Available on the Day of Broadcast
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To celebrate IYCr2014, the Egyptian National Committee of Crystallography (ENCC) in Cooparation with the Egyptian Society of Crystallography and its Applications (ESCA) organize a Symposium on Structural Role of Crystallography in Pharmacological Sciences.

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The process of curing a disease starts with identifying its target protein that is considered a building block in a wide range of pharmacological applications. With the three-dimensional structures of both the target protein and the appropriate medicinal compounds, extensive information can be combined to help developing better drugs. X-ray crystallography comprises the most important technique for determining the 3D-structures, and it plays a major role to identify the active conformation adopted by a protein excluding the inactive one(s). This symposium focuses on the powerful contribution of Crystallography in the field of Pharmacology, by shedding light on the basic concepts and approaches.

Programme

9:00-9:30 Registration

9:30â€"10:00 Opening Session

10:00â€"11:00 Prof. Dr Karimat El-Sayed, Quality Control in Pharmaceuticals Industry

11:00â€"12:00 Prof. Dr Adel Girgis, Chemical Synthesis of Medicinal Drugs

12:00â€"13:00 Break

13:00â€"14:00 Dr Gihan S. Kamel, Diseaseâ€"related Proteins: CloserLook With Crystallography Eyes

14:00â€"15:00 Dr Nasser Saad, Methods and Advantages of Computer Aided Drug Design

15:00â€"16:00 Closing Session and Recommendations

The use of crystallographic data and analysis for molecules in drug development development, reflecting on past achievements and future directions in molecular design and materials characterization, has served as the basis in the understanding of the structure and function of medicines. We hope that those participating in the Boston Biotech Symposium find interesting and relevant original research to stimulate new ideas in the area of structural science in pharmaceutical materials research.

     Time Topic Speaker 7:30 to 8:30 Arrival and Continental Breakfast Opening remarks (Magali Hickey) 8:30 to 9:00 Flushing the Molecular Pipes with SZMAP: a Study of the Aquaporin Selectivity Filter Demetri Moustakas (Alkermes) 9:00 to 9:45 From Crystal Structures to Crystal Engineering: 101 Years of X‐ray Diffraction and Still Going Strong Mike Zaworotko (Limerick) 9:45 to 10:15 Elucidating Structure and Dynamics for Improved Pharmaceutical Material Design Ã-rn Almarsson (Moderna) 10:15 to 10:45 Break 10:45 to 11:30 Keynote: Obtaining Structures of GPCRs in their Active States Bill Weis (Stanford) 11:30 to 12:00 Correlation of Disorder with Crystal Growth Conditions using Experimental and Computational Techniques Matt Peterson (Amgen) 12:00 to 1:00 Networking Lunch 1:00 to 1:30 The formation of the Malaria Pigment Hemozoin in Human Red Blood Cells Infected by Plasmodium Falciparum Leslie Leizerowitz (Weizman Institute) 1:30 to 2:00 Complementing Experimental Solid Form Screening with Computed Crystal Energy Landscapes Susan M. Reutzel‐Edens (Eli Lilly) 2:00 to 2:30 Dosable Solvates of Ivacaftor with High Boiling Point Liquids Yuegang Zhang (Vertex) 3:00 to 3:30 Break 3:30 to 4:00 The Application of Structural Informatics to Solid Form Risk Assessment Peter Wood (CCDC) 4:00 to 4:45 Keynote: Catching Time in a Bottle via Synthetic Crystallography Greg Verdine (Harvard; Warp Drive) 4:45 to 5:15 Concluding Remarks Peter Mueller (MIT) 5:30 to 7:30 Networking Reception

Magali Hickey (Alkermes), Peter Mueller (MIT), John Roberts (MIT ILP).

This is a Free Event. Please indicate if you wish to come by emailing Magali.hickey@alkermes.com

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48th Crystallographic Course at Ettore Majorana Centre, Erice, Italy

X-ray crystallography is the pre-eminent technique for obtaining the three dimensional structures of organic materials. Understanding the translation of molecules to crystals and thought functional assembles is key if we want to be able to predict and control the assembly of matter with sufficient certainty and precision to allow preparation of materials and assemblies with far more sophisticated properties and functions than are accessible in materials synthesized using current methods. Great advances continue to be made in determining crystal structures, allowing the pace of structural understanding to increase and making it possible to respond rapidly to emerging opportunities in crystal and particle engineering. This course will help to equip the next generation of scientists with a deep understanding of the tools they need to prototype and engineer crystals to design materials with increasingly sophisticated properties.

The course has two core objectives. Firstly, it will provide a review of the fundamentals and the application of crystallography to molecule to crystal to functional form design together with an evaluation of the technology at the present state. Secondly, it will review the progress in this field and summarize the application and results to other fields of interest across speciality chemicals and other fields

Topics to be discussed include:
• Molecular Structure, Chirality, Crystallography and Crystal Chemistry
• Solution Supersaturation, Nucleation and Crystal Growth Fundamentals
• Defects, Reactivity and Mechanical Properties
• Molecular to Crystal Science Modelling Route Map
• Molecular and Solid-State Data Informatics
• Nano Particle Production and Dispersion
• Advanced Multi-scale Modelling
• Process Analytics and Crystal Characterisation
• Orientational Disordered Crystals and Liquid Crystals
• Reverse Engineering: Learning from Practice
• Forward Perspective: Grand Challenges in Directed Assembly

The total fee, inclusive of registration, boarding and lodging during the course, is 1,200 Euro for European Community residents and the equivalent in hard currency for the remaining ones.

In order to reflect the multi-disciplinary nature of the Course, attendants will be selected on the basis of the scientific discipline, publication record and the connection between their current research and the listed topics. The application date might also become a priority element. Financial support for young applicants (under 35 of age) is conditional to the success of the several applications submitted by the organizing committee to international and national sources.

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The conference was initiated by the German Committee "Condensed Matter Research at Large Facilities" (KEKM), the umbrella organisation of the Committees for Research with Neutrons (KFN), Synchrotron Radiation (KFS), Nuclear Sonds and Ion Beams (KFSI) and Accelerator Physics (KFB). It ties up to earlier SNI-conferences (Hamburg 2006, Berlin 2010) and is supposed to show the complimentarity of the methods and to boost the scientific exchange. The SNI2014 will offer the framework for a wide range of topics and for interdisciplinary networking. These are the main topics:

• Soft Matter
• Magnetism
• Nanostructures and Interfaces
• Biological Systems and Medicine
• Microscopy and Tomography
• Materials
• Structure and Dynamics
• Methods and Instrumentation
• Chemical Prozesses and Phase Transitions
• Matter under Extreme Conditions
• Particles and Nuclei

The main language of the conference is German, but English contributions are admitted.

Meeting of the Society of Polymer Science, Japan

A. POLYMER CHEMISTRY: SYNTHESIS AND REACTIONS

B. POLYMER PHYSICS: STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES

C. FUNCTIONAL POLYMERS AND POLYMER FUNCTIONS

D. BIOPOLYMERS AND BIORELATED POLYMERS

E. POLYMERS AND ENVIRONMENT

F. POLYMER INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY: PROCESSES AND PRODUCTS