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?

You are cordially invited to participate to the 6th TUNISIAN CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC MEETING (TCM6) by submitting a paper and actively assisting in its work.

TCM6 is intended to provide an excellent opportunity for National, Maghreb and International researchers to make their own work known to a wider audience and to have discussions with other participants. This conference will also be an opportunity to exchange experiences, create and consolidate cooperation between different research structures.

This outstanding conference, organized by the “Tunisian Crystallographic Association”, will take place from 1â€"5 November 2017 in a beautiful and exotic Hotel: El Mouradi Djerba Menzel 4* on Djerba Island, an ecological place, very popular by its palm groves, its beaches and its wetlands populated by various species of migratory birds.

The conference will expand to cover a broad set of research topics about:

• Crystal Structure of Materials, Nanoparticles and Minerals
• Chemical Crystallography
• Cements
• Thin films
• Magnetic order and its consequences
• Dielectrics and multiferroics
• Crystal structure relationships and their applications
• Semiconductor devices and their applications

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Important Dates :

Abstract submission deadline: September 15, 2017

Acceptance notification:Â October 1, 2017

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More information is available on the conference web site: http://tcm6.org/

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Abstracts for consideration as oral and poster presentations can be submitted online via:

·         The conference’s official website:http://tcm6.org/

·         Email: tcm6.Djerba2017@gmail.com

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Please feel free to forward this invitation to any of your colleagues who may be interested.

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We are really looking forward to welcoming you in DJERBA.Â

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Content

• Interaction of photons, neutrons and muons with matter
• Production of photons, neutrons and muons
• Experimental setups: optics and detectors
• Crystal symmetry, Bragg's law, reciprocal lattice, structure factors
• Elastic and inelastic scattering with neutrons and photons
• X-ray absorption spectroscopy, X-ray magnetic circular dichroism
• Polarized neutron scattering for the study of magnetic materials
• Imaging techniques using X-rays and neutrons
• Introduction to muon spin rotation
• Applications of muon spin rotation

• Introduction to absorbance, fluorescence and circular dichroism spectroscopy
• Principles of CD spectroscopy
• Linear dichroism
• Good practice
• Data bases for biomacromolecules
• CD of membrane proteins
• What is inside a CD spectrometer
• DNA-metalcomplex interactions
• Applications of SRCD and CD to structural and functional genomics
• CD theory & Dichrocalc

Covering:

• Photon Absorption and Photon and Electron Emission
• Ground-State and Excited State Molecular Structure
  
• Liquid and Solid Phase
  
• Theory and Experiment

Taking advantage of the facilities at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and Institut Laue Langevin, this one week theoretical and practical course will cover both basics and applications of small-angle X-ray scattering and small-angle neutron scattering on biomacromolecular solutions.

More information, including the application requirements, can be found at: http://meetings.embo.org/event/17-small-angle-scattering

Application deadline is 15th June 2017.

Conference OP316

Important Dates

• Abstract Due: 23 January 2017
• Author Notification: 3 April 2017
• Manuscript Due Date: 10 July 2017

Conference Committee

Conference Chairs

• Barry Lai, Argonne National Lab. (United States)
• Andrea Somogyi, Synchrotron SOLEIL (France)

Program Committee

• Yong S. Chu, Brookhaven National Lab. (United States)
• Michael Feser, Lyncean Technologies, Inc. (United States)
• Hans M. Hertz, Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
• Ian McNulty, Argonne National Lab. (United States)
• David Paterson, Australian Synchrotron (Australia)
• Christian G. Schroer, DESY, Univ. of Hamburg (Germany)
• Kazuto Yamauchi, Osaka Univ. (Japan)

Call for Papers

• nanoprobes, full-field microscopes, and dedicated beamlines
• high-resolution nanofocusing optics
• instruments for nanoimaging and nanopositioning
• in-situ and operando sample environments
• data science and data management
• novel nanoimaging methods and correlative techniques
• advanced control or detection schemes.

• SUBMIT AN ABSTRACTÂ (SIGN IN REQUIRED)
• Submission guidelines for Authors and Presenters

Satellite workshop of the SOLEIL 2017 User Meeting (19-20 January 2017)

The LiXS 2017 Liquid X-ray Spectroscopy workshop aims to bring together the scientific community on the use of spectroscopy for the study of liquids. Thanks to recent experimental developments, it is now possible to apply powerful methods for characterizing the electronic properties of materials (X-ray photoemission, inelastic X-ray scattering, UV or IR spectroscopy) to samples in the liquid phase. These methods provide information on the local chemical properties, the structure or the light-induced ultrafast dynamics in the liquid phase and allow for a detailed characterization of the physico-chemistry of molecules in solutions or at the liquid-solid interface. The synchrotron radiation sources are an undeniable advantage in this respect thanks to their extreme brightness, tunability, focusing and control of the incident photons polarization.

During this workshop we will discuss results especially of photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS and (R)AES) combined to a liquid microjet or performed in an near ambient pressure (NAP) environment, and X-ray emission spectroscopy (XES, RIXS) associated with liquid cells. The experimental works will be highlighted by recent theoretical developments dealing with the electronic structure of liquids. The workshop will also provide an opportunity to present the latest developments in instrumentation and microfluidics.

Key Topics

• Mining, mineral processing and metallurgy
• Geology and geochemistry
• Functional materials incorporating nanoparticles
• Energy
• Environment
• Biomaterials
• Manufacturing
• Thin films
• In addition to AXAA's traditional focus areas of XRF and XRD, analytical methodologies including neutron scattering, micro-XRF/XFM, tomography, total scattering/PDF, SAXS and XAS

The meeting is devoted to the dramatic improvements in observing transient phenomena at the atomic scale, brought about by breakthroughs in high peak-brightness electron and X-ray sources opening up new capabilities in time-resolved X-ray and electron diffraction, crystallography, spectroscopy and imaging.

Previous meetings held in 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2015 were extremely exciting and vibrant, with presentations and discussions on spectacular developments that have been opening up new vistas with atomic clarity. The field is continuing with its explosion of ideas and disruptive technologies that greatly benefits from the sharing of information and cross pollination of concepts from a broad range of disciplines and technical approaches. No less is expected in 2017, with new developments in electron sources, and possibly first results from the European XFEL and
the Pohang XFEL appearing at that time. The beautiful setting of Banff brings an intangible quality to the meeting that really enhances these exchanges.

• Latest developments in ultrafast electron and X-ray sources
• Dynamic and diffractive imaging of molecules (diffractive imaging and laser alignment)
• Time-resolved X-ray spectroscopy of complex molecules
• Strongly correlated materials
• Structural dynamics in molecules and biomolecular systems

VUVX2016 is the third conference following a merger of two long standing conference series â€" the International Conference on Vacuum Ultraviolet Radiation Physics (last meeting was the 15th in that series, VUV-15 in Berlin, Germany in July 2007) and the International Conference on X-ray and Inner-shell Processes (last meeting was the 21st in that series, X-08 held in Paris in June 2008).Â

This international conference will bring together scientists from all over the world, working in fields involving electromagnetic radiation in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV), soft X-ray and hard X-ray spectral regions generated by synchrotron, laser, or plasma based sources. Topics to be covered range from instrumentation and methods development to applications in a variety of fields.

Topics

• New Sources: diffraction limited storage rings, free electron lasers, ultrashort pulse XUV lasers and X-ray tabletop sources
• Resonant elastic and inelastic X-ray scattering
• X-ray absorption spectroscopy incl. linear, circular and magnetic dichroism spectroscopy
• Photoemission (angle/spin/time resolved, soft X-ray, hard X-ray, resonant, etc.)
• Imaging with nanoscale resolution: X-ray microscopy, coherent diffraction imaging, scanning small-angle X-ray scattering etc.
• Coincidence spectroscopy
• Theory of X-ray spectroscopy and diffraction
• Advanced data analysis methods
• Time-resolved spectroscopy
• In situ and operando applications

REXS2016 conference on resonant elastic x-ray scattering is the 3rd in a row after the very successful events in Aussois 2011 and the subsequent conference in Oxford 2013.

The REXS conference series re-started again almost 20 years after the conference on Resonant Anomalous X-ray Scattering 1992 in Malente and the first conference on Resonant X-ray Scattering 1974 in Madrid. The conference is aimed at stimulating interaction and discussion of scientists working in the field of hard condensed matter research with synchrotron radiation and using spectroscopy and scattering methods, that base upon resonance effects occurring close to the X-ray absorption edges.

• Basic concepts/theory
  
• Electronic correlations
  
• Extreme conditions (pressure, electric/magnetic fields …)
  
• Nanostructures
  
• Chemistry
  
• Time resolved diffraction /XFEL
  
• Soft condensed matter/Life sciences
  
• Ultra-fast scattering studies (XFEL)
  
• Coherent scattering studies (at XFEL and storage rings)
  
• Combined XMCD / REXS studies

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.

The European XFEL Users' Meeting is an annual opportunity to strengthen the interaction between the European XFEL project and the scientific user community. The scope of this meeting includes:

• Progress and current status of the European XFEL
• Instrument design developments & advances
• Selected science applications
• Current developments in the field of XFEL facilities

Satellite meetings/workshops

Sample Environments for Biology at XFELs: 26th January 2016

From Picoseconds to Femtosecond X-Ray Experiments: 26th January 2016

4th Satellite Workshop on Photon Beam Diagnostics: 28th January 2016

Status and Science at HED instrument and of the HIBEF UC: 28th January 2016

Diamond Light Source and the ISIS neutron and muon facility will host a four-day general introduction to these facilities, aimed at first-year PhD students within UK research-council funded Centres of Doctoral Training.

Diamond holds an XAFS course for beginners each year. This is not it. In discussions with some of our users it is clear that sometimes they have issues analysing data from the spectroscopy village beamlines that can’t be sorted during the workshop or are to do with data not covered by it, it PYMCA data or data from I08 in Mantis etc.

Hence as a trial we will hold two one day workshops where we will invite 20 people each day to bring their data analysis issues to Diamond and a team of Spectroscopy Village scientists will be on hand to try to help work through the issues. We will have a User:SV scientist ratio of 1:4 so each user should get a good fraction of time.

The idea is that there will be a staggered arrival between 09:00 and 10:30 so each person gets about 30 minutes help at the start and then more through the day as the need arises. If we find common issues between people there will be the opportunity for small tutorials to occur.

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