Events Workshops & Conferences
Since 2004, we at MiTeGen have sponsored and attended numerous events, meetings, workshops and conferences. These include those pertaining to Cryo-EM, Crystallography, Structural Biology and more. While we are in the business of supplying researchers with products and services supporting their work in the fields of Cryo-EM, Crystallography, Structural Biology, Material Science and beyond, we are also deeply committed to supporting our industry and the people within it through our sponsorship and attendance.
Use this page to discover upcoming industry events, meetings, workshops and conferences we are sponsoring and/or attending. For those events we are attending we would very much like to meet you in person. See listings below for how to find us at event.
This page also lists past events we have been involved in.
If you have an event, meeting, workshop or conference you would like us to sponsor, please visit our sponsorship request form to submit it for review.
Current and Future Events - Meetings - Workshops - Conferences
The course will cover the theory, practice, and application of single particle cryo-EM. Participants in the course will learn to perform all steps involved in solving high resolution cryo-EM structures, including sample prep, microscope alignment, data collection, image processing, and model building. Students will have supervised access to CSHL’s Titan Krios and K3 direct electron detector, as well as the Talos L120C. This hands-on course will include lectures by leading experts who will discuss practical and conceptual approaches to structure determination using these techniques, as well as covering a wide range of state-of-the-art applications of cryo-EM in the biological sciences.
Abstracts are invited in the following areas:
Bio-Crystallography I: Signaling, macromolecular interactions and new structures
Bio-Crystallography II: Other technologies (neutron diffraction, small-angle scattering)
Bio-Crystallography III: Structure-based design
Bio-Crystallography IV: Synchrotrons and high throughput methods
Minerals
Inorganic crystal structures
Crystallography in materials sciences
Micro- and nano-crystalline materials (powder diffraction, disordered material)
Extreme/non-ambient and high-pressure conditions
Theoretical crystallography
Solid-state physics in crystallography
Organic molecules and coordination compounds
Computational methods
Teaching
Young crystallographers
Instrumentation and technology development
Neutron scattering
Electron crystallography and microscopy
Spectroscopy
Complex, aperiodic and disordered structures
Crystallography in art and heritage
Other subjects
Abstract submission deadline: 15 November 2022
The course is intended mainly for graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and young scientists, along with commercial/industrial researchers in the area of structural biology from all across the globe. The school is not meant as an introductory level course to protein crystallography. It is designed more for applicants with reasonable expertise in crystallography and experience with the CCP4 suite. The purpose of the school is to address specific problems that the applicants face while collecting diffraction data and while solving and refining novel structures. Applicants with crystals for data collection or with already collected data will be given strong consideration, although these are not mandatory requirements.
Several of the leading PX software developers from around the world will present lectures and tutorials on their software and will also be available to help with problems during hands-on sessions of the school.
National Crystallization Center User Meeting!
The virtual meeting is scheduled on Friday 3/31/2023 from 10am-3pm (Eastern). Registration link
The User Meeting will feature invited speakers Professor Karen Allen (Boston University), Professor Krystle McLaughlin (Vassar College), and Professor Erik Yukl (New Mexico State University), a panel discussion, and updates about operations in the HTX Center.
Interested in giving a contributed talk at the meeting? We have a few slots available for user talks (including students or postdocs) who would like to share their research stories!
Interested in having your work featured in the Crystals of the Month feature? We are always excited to highlight papers and structures that result from the crystal screening at the HTX Center!
Email sbowman at hwi.buffalo.edu if interested.
The British Zeolite Association (BZA) was founded in 1977 to provide a forum where zeolite scientists could meet to review and share their latest findings. Today the (ordered) nanoporous materials community in the UK numbers several hundred active research scientists and engineers, from both industry and the academic sector, who reflect the great variety of applications of micro- and mesoporous materials, from catalysis and petrochemical processing to chemical separations, detergents and environmental clean-up.
The major event of the BZA’s year is the annual meeting, which brings together scientists from the UK and overseas to present and discuss the latest research in the area. Strong emphasis is given to presentations from research students and young postdoctoral workers.
This 1-week course is focused on the theory and practice of cryo-ET methods. We will step through each stage of the cryo-ET workflow (specimen preparation, correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM), cryo-ET data acquisition, and computational processing). The mornings will include lectures and stimulating round table discussions. The afternoons focus on hands-on practicals to reinforce the concepts and topics covered earlier in the day. Users are welcome to bring their own samples and/or data.
Since 2014, HTCC workshops have tackled the most fascinating achievements in both experimental methods and theoretical approaches, that have recently brought structural research to the forefront of natural sciences. We try to bring together leading experts in selected domains as lecturers, and motivated young(ish) scientists in crystallography or related fields as “students”, who may come from both academia and industry, and who are interested in acquiring new knowledge on the cutting-edge methods in structural science and exploring ways to apply them in their ongoing research.
The 3rd NYC area cryo-EM meeting is April 19th at Rockefeller University. Features unpublished works, discussions, and scientific challenges, to the cryo-EM community in the New York Area. We are exhibiting at the meeting come see our latest offerings for cryo-EM.
The official opening ceremony of the brand new cryoEM center of the University of Münster, Germany (incl. a TFS Titan KRIOS G4, TFS Aquilos II and TFS Talos L120C).
Invited speakers will highlight the recent advances in both single-particle cryoEM and electron tomography as well as their applications to fundamental biological questions. Attendance is free, but registration is necessary (separate registration form below). The afternoon program includes an (optional) tour of the new cryoEM facility, the official inauguration ceremony, the keynote Lecture and a social event.
The school provides a solid introduction to point- and space-group symmetry. It introduces some of the structural tools available at the Bilbao Crystallographic Server as well as Jana2020 software for structure solution and refinement. Lectures are accompanied by paper and computer exercises.
ECS8, the 2023 European Crystallographic School, is planned as an in-person event.
The school will be held in Berlin, at the site of the BESSY II electron storage ring operated by the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin.
Up to 100 young international students and scientists will have the chance to meet with renowned lecturers and tutors and become acquainted with the most up-to-date principles and applications of X-ray crystallography.
Topics
Fundamentals of Crystallography
Single Crystal Diffraction
Powder Diffraction
Synchrotron Radiation in Crystallography
Macromolecular Crystallography
Applications of Crystallography
Fundamental lectures will be taught during the mornings. Afternoons will be dedicated to lectures on applications and hands-on tutorials.
Application for ECS8 is open until 28 February 2023.
The ACA Meeting is an annual event providing scientists from a wide variety of backgrounds the opportunity to exchange cutting edge ideas and techniques in multiple areas of research. Each meeting highlights various aspects of crystallography and demonstrates their significance to the greater scientific community. Vendors display the latest technology at the exhibit show. Save the dates and join us!
This workshop is intended to be an introduction to X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy principles and techniques for crystallographers with tutorials and hand-on-training session on data analysis. The talks will be delivered by experienced XAFS professionals from all over the world and will include basic principles of the technique, basic and advanced data analysis techniques and examples of application of XAFS technique in several cutting-edge research areas of physical science, material and chemical sciences.
CHAIRS
- Dr Dibyendu Bhattacharyya (BARC, India)
- Dr Sofia Diaz-Moreno (Diamond, UK)
- Dr Giuliana Aquilanti (Elettra, Italy)
- Dr Christopher Chantler (Melbourne University, Australia)
LOCAL ORGANISING COMMITTEE
- Dr Chanh Tran (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)
- Dr Christopher Chantler (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Dr Ruwini Ekanayake (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Ms Madeline van Dongen (Swinburne University, Australia)
| Session | Topic | Time | Speaker |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to XAS theory and basic experimental techniques for beginners | 8:30-9:00 | Christopher Chantler |
| 2 | Application of XAS in nano materials | 9:00-9:30 | Anatoly Frenkel |
| 3 | Application of XAS in catalysis | 9:30-10:00 | Sofia Diaz-Moreno |
| Coffee break | |||
| 4 | Application of XAS in energy materials | 10:30-11:00 | Giuliana Aquilanti |
| 5 | MCR-ALS methods | 11:00-11:30 | Valérie Briois |
| 6 | Pump-probe studies | 11:30-12:00 | Xiaoyi Zhang |
| 7 | Photon in-Photon out spectroscopies | 12:00-12:30 | Matthias Bauer |
| Lunch Break | |||
| 8 | Hands-on training on basic EXAFS data analysis | 13:30-14:30 | Dibyendu Bhattacharyya and Diego Gianolio |
| Coffee break | |||
| 9 | Hands-on training on MCR-ALS techniques | 15:00-16:00 | Valérie Briois |
IUCr 2023 is thrilled to announce confirmation of three world-leading experts in their field will headline the 2023 meeting in Melbourne.
Plenary speakers confirmed for IUCr 2023 include Professor Hideo Hosono from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Dr Junko Yano from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Professor Mark Spackman from the University of Western Australia. The confirmation of the three plenary speakers and a strong scientific program are sure to elevate IUCr 2023 to new heights. You can read more about this eminent group here.
Past Events - Meetings - Workshops - Conferences
The MLZ is delighted to host the Eighth European Conference on Neutron Scattering after successful events at
Interlaken 1996
Budapest 1999
Montpellier 2003
Lund 2007
Prag 2011
Zaragoza 2015
St. Petersburg 2019
The conference is organized on behalf of the European Neutron Scattering Association (ENSA) and is one of the most important scientific events in the field of neutron research.
The conference will take place at the TUM Department of Mechanical Engineering and the new Science Congress Center Munich – both located in the immediate vicinity of the MLZ at Garching.
After a warm Welcome on March 19th, we are looking forward to four days of thrilling talks, pleasant posters, and decent discussions of the European neutron scattering community between March 20th and 23rd!
Scattering is a powerful and indispensable tool for the study of advanced materials. Because of their unique advantages, scattering studies often yield unique insights into the structure and dynamics of materials that are not accessible by other means. This symposium solicits presentations covering emerging topics that utilize scattering techniques, including both neutron and x-ray scattering. The symposium will bring together researchers from the scattering and materials communities to address how scattering techniques can be applied to current problems in materials science.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Structure determination of complex systems
Phonons, lattice thermal transport, lattice effects on stability, anharmonicity
Magnetism, spin dynamics, magnons, and other collective excitations and their interactions
Microstructure characterization and control
Residual stress mapping and imaging in engineering components
Phase transformation kinetics and fundamental issues of nucleation and growth
Structure and property relationships in soft matter
Neutron and X-ray instrument development and modeling
Theory and modeling of scattering process and material response
After a pandemic hiatus, the West Coast Structural Biology Workshop (WCSBW) will return. March 2023 will present the 25th meeting of this historic and influential workshop focusing on methods developments in structural biology. Driven by rapid advances in the field, the workshop will encompass the latest methods for structural analysis. With the exception of our two keynote speakers (Profs. Juli Feigon and Robert Stroud), following the meeting’s traditional format, talks will be almost exclusively by graduate students and postdocs presenting their leading work.
The MC2023, being scheduled this time at the beginning of the year, will follow the approved scientific programme scheme focusing on the most current research in (i) materials science, (ii) life sciences and (iii) instrumentation and methods. Each main theme is divided into seven thematic sessions invited and contributed talks as well as poster sessions. Plenary and award lectures will address the most recent scientific research and the industrial exhibition the latest instrumental development. The conference dinner with a local live band will complement the programme.
The CCP4/BGU workshop is directed to 25 graduate students, postdocs and/or researchers with some previous expertise in crystallography who need a deeper insight into most advanced structural biology techniques to carry out their research projects.
The workshop program covers all aspects of structure determination, such as data collection, phasing, model building, refinement, validation and structural analysis.
The CCP4/BGU workshop is directed to 25 graduate students, postdocs and/or researchers with some previous expertise in crystallography who need a deeper insight into most advanced structural biology techniques to carry out their research projects.
The workshop program covers all aspects of structure determination, such as data collection, phasing, model building, refinement, validation and structural analysis.
Lectures and tutorials will be delivered by experts in the field
Participants will be able to work alongside world-leading scientists and methods developers on their own projects
Participants will have the opportunity to send their own samples to Diamond Light Source for Remote Data Collection
Organized by the German Society for Electron Microscopy
There are highly prominent plenary speakers from the Material and Life Science EM community scheduled:
Ralf Bartenschlager (Heidelberg/DE)
Sarah Heigh (Manchester/UK)
Peijun Zhang (Oxford/GB)
Mathieu Kociak (Paris/FR)
As science becomes increasingly interdisciplinary, the Biophysical Society Annual Meeting continues its long-held reputation for bringing together leading scientists from the all over the world who work at the interface of the life, physical, and computational sciences.
The dynamic five-day meeting provides attendees with opportunities to share their latest unpublished findings and learn the newest emerging techniques and applications.
Despite its nearly 5,000 attendees, the Meeting is noted for maintaining its “small meeting” feel beginning with the Saturday Subgroup symposia, which allow attendees to meet within their scientific communities. It is also known for its vitality, demonstrated by the over 600 highly interactive daily poster presentations, the more than 500 speakers selected from submitted abstracts, the many career development programs for those working in academia, industry, and agencies throughout the world, and its advocacy and education programs.
The Biophysical Society Cryo-EM subgroup will be meeting February 18th 2023 in San Diego, CA during the 67th Annual Meeting. Come hear talks & meet other cryo-EM practitioners.
The 27th Australian Conference on Microscopy and Microanalysis is committed to being a face-to-face event that will bring together colleagues across the life and physical sciences, to work towards new visions and goals in microscopy. They take pride in putting together a strong program for the conference based on advances in electron and light microscopy and microscopy-enabled research in the life sciences and physical sciences. The conference will include oral and poster presentation sessions, pre-conference workshops, Special Interest Group-focussed sessions, trade displays and social events.
The course will take place in person at CNB-CSIC
December 13 – 16, 2022 from 09.30-17.30 CET
The course aims at providing a comprehensive overview of the whole image processing pipeline in Electron Tomography (ET) from the movie alignment of the tilt series, 3D reconstruction of the tomogram, particle identification, and subtomogram averaging, all inside Scipion integration framework.
The course is aimed at researchers of all levels wanting to adopt electron microscopy as one of the tools at their disposal for elucidating biological structures.
Registration will be open until November 14, 2022
The Gonen laboratory will hold the 7th MicroED course in 2022. The course will be held in person December 11–14, 2022 at UCLA. The course is organized by Tamir Gonen (UCLA) and Brent Nannenga (ASU). Topics covered include sample preparation methodologies for proteins and small molecules, MicroED data collection, camera performance, cryo-FIB-milling procedures for MicroED, data analysis software, structure solution, and refinement.
The meetings will provide an overview of the many exciting and inspiring research results obtained at our facility in the past year. A keynote lecture, plenary talks, discussions, a public lecture and a poster session will provide vast possibilities of information and discussion. The bestowals of the ‘Prizes for Young Scientists’ donated by the Freundeskreis Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin e.V. (FHZB) are traditional highlights of the user meetings.
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars and students of all areas of crystallography-related science to share their recent research findings. The conference will also promote the interest and understanding of crystallography with respect to teaching and research in Bangladesh. It is expected that regional and international scientists will join the conference, which will allow Bangladeshi crystallographers to interact and collaborate with foreign participants. The Organizing Committee may arrange one or two sessions in hybrid mode.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 October 2022
Registration deadline: 30 November 2022
The 34th Biennial Conference of the Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand (Crystal34) will take place from 2 pm, Tuesday 6th December to midday Friday 9th December, 2022, at the La Trobe University campus in Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
The diverse program comprises speakers who seek to understand molecular structure and how it can inform the function of both biological and non-biological processes.
For the past three decades high pressure research has made breakthrough progress in many fields of science mainly due to the significant improvements in the high-pressure apparatus and developments of advanced static and dynamic probes. Most of the experiments at extreme conditions are very challenging and require dedicated techniques to collect crystallographic data with unprecedented speed and resolution to quantitatively characterize pressure/temperature induced transformations in the crystalline lattice. The tunability, brilliance, and collimation of synchrotron X-ray sources provides scientists with unique capabilities for probing the structural, chemical, and physical properties of various types of materials in-situ at extreme pressure, temperature, and strain with ultra-high spatial, temporal and energy resolution. However, in many cases the complex energy landscapes of multicomponent chemical systems require the use of the predictive power of computational methods that play an essential role in extreme-conditions crystallography coupled with physical experiments.
The purpose of the 2022 workshop of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Commission on High Pressure is to bring together researchers who apply extreme-conditions crystallography in combination with other experimental and computational methods to study a wide range of material properties covering various fields of science, including condensed-matter physics, solid-state chemistry, geophysics, materials science, biology, nanotechnology etc. The workshop aims to facilitate extensive discussion and interdisciplinary collaboration.
Students, postdocs and early carrier scientists in particular will find this workshop helpful in gaining improved familiarity with available state-of-the-art methods and how they can be applied to their research.
We plan to organize a tour to the relevant APS beamlines for workshop attendees (pandemic permits) and a half-day tutorial with hands on examples.
The SoCal Cryo-EM symposium is December 5th at UCLA. Attend to meet and hear from other cryo-EM practitioners as well as see the latest in innovations for cryo-EM from vendors.
Cell Bio 2022, the joint meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) and European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO), will showcase a diverse global community of the brightest minds in cell biology in person, December 3-7, 2022, in Washington, DC.
The unique meeting focuses on cell biology as the fundamental basis of biology as well as sessions on emerging interdisciplinary topics.
Taking place in person again, this year’s workshop will be bringing together leading experts in the field of MX to teach best practice in data collection and analysis. Open to PhD students, postdocs and young researchers bringing their own crystals or data.
The Canadian Macromolecular Crystallography Facility (CMCF) has hosted an intensive, hands-on synchrotron data collection school annually at the Canadian Light Source for the last 10 years. This year, our new program will be spread over two weeks, with participants getting hands-on experience with mentors for all phases of the experimental process, from data collection to processing to structure solution.
The 9th Semi-Annual New England Cryo-EM Symposium hosted by Harvard Medical School features talks from research and industry leaders that develop and apply cryogenic electron microscopy techniques to answer fundamental biological questions.
The BHT meeting is an annual one day meeting for structural biologists in Southern Ontario and Western New York. The meeting is held each year in early November to discuss and learn about new and innovative techniques in X-ray crystallography and cryoEM, and to provide a venue for showcasing the achievements of our graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Utilising novel sample preparation techniques to enhance Cryo-EM structural analysis
12 noon ET/4pm GMT
SPT Labtech are proud to support a Drug Discovery World webinar with presentations from two researchers for whom new sample prep methods have been important factors in overcoming sample-specific challenges they encountered during structural analysis.
Prof Wei-Jen Tang, University of Chicago will speak about overcoming denaturation effects to determine cryo-EM structures of multiple states of the small human protein PreP at near atomic resolution.
Dr Radhika Malik, Icahn School of Medicine at Mont Sinai will discuss how overcoming strong preferred orientation issues resulted in the first structure of DNA Pol-zeta both without DNA and in the act of DNA synthesis.
Attendance at this webinar is free of charge, but registration is required
AsCA2022 will attract more than 650 crystallographers from more than 30 countries. Topics will range from structural biology to specialized techniques.
Lecture 14: Parthapratim Munshi: “On the Potency of Polymorphic Bioactive Molecules: A Quantum Crystallographic Perspective”
Lecture 15: Marcus A. Neumann: “Detecting and avoiding disappearing polymorph cases by crystal structure prediction”
BCA CCG Autumn meeting 2022
Going beyond the data for chemical crystallographers
Registration for the Chemical Crystallography Group Autumn meeting is now live! The meeting will be held online on Wednesday 16th November 2022. For details and registration, visit: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/chemical-crystallography-group-autumn-meeting-2022-tickets-425715124397
The first Proteins by Candlelight: Northern Structural Biology meeting, championed and supported by CCP4, is scheduled for the 25 & 26 of October 2022. The meeting venue is the National STEM Learning Centre, which is on campus west of the University of York, fairly close to the Library and the Department of Chemistry.
The 30th Protein Structure Determination in Industry meeting will be held at the Van der Valk Hotel, Eindhoven, in The Netherlands from Sunday 23rd to Tuesday 25th October 2022.
FASM and MAX IV warmly invite MAX IV User communities, students, researchers, newly interested persons and collective to the 34th MAX IV User Meeting: “Collaboration in Focus”, 3-5 October 2022, at Scandic Star Hotel, Lund, Sweden.
The conference will discuss progress in fundamental and applied diffraction and crystallographic research ranging from materials discovery for functional devices to targeting viruses for drug development.
As part of the scientific activities of the 18th edition of the International Small-Angle Scattering Conference (SAS), the LNLS/CNPEM is organizing the 7th School of Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS School). The satellite school will take place at Sirius on 16 to 20 September 2022, which are the following days of the 18th SAS 2022 Conference.
In this edition, the school will be focused on the scattering data analysis of biological systems, like proteins and membranes. Moreover, there will be both international and national well-known researchers giving classes.
To the present date, the organizing committee are planning a 100% on-site school since it will be included “hands-on” experiments at Cateretê beamline.
The school is proposed for students and early career scientists enthusiastic to learn SAXS.
The Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) invites you to participate in the first Early Career Symposium at IBBR (ECSI) 2022: Unmasking the Structure-Function Relationship of Biomolecules in Disease and Therapeutics on Thursday, September 15, 2022 from 8:30am-5:00pm at their facility in Rockville, Maryland. They aim to provide a forum for senior graduate students and early-stage post-docs to share their exciting new scientific research in the fields of disease biology and biotherapeutics development and analysis. They hope this will provide an opportunity for visiting students and post-docs to interact with the IBBR post-docs, students, and faculty to discuss the latest research developments at IBBR.
Frederick National Laboratory will host a new training program in Frederick, Maryland, September 12-16 for cancer researchers who want to build expertise in cryo-electron microscopy. The workshop will cover topics from grid preparation, imaging, and data processing. This workshop will be in-person and attendees will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with all stages of the cryo-EM workflow.