Events Workshops & Conferences

The Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) invites you to participate in the Second Annual Early Career Symposium at IBBR: Structure-Function Relationship of Biomolecules on September 14, 2023 from 8:30am-6:00pm at their facility in Rockville, Maryland. This year’s symposium builds on the success of their inaugural symposium last year that was attended by 150 participants from the University System of Maryland, NIST, NIH, FDA, Johns Hopkins, AstraZeneca and many more.

They aim to provide a forum for graduate students and post-docs to share their exciting new scientific research in the fields of disease biology and biotherapeutics development and analysis. Although speakers will be graduate students and post-docs, they invite scientists at all career stages to attend this symposium. 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 here at IBBR.

There have been rapid advances in the last few years in the ability to exploit the XFELS and synchrotrons for time-resolved studies of enzyme mechanisms. Much of this has come about with the simultaneous developments in sample handling and delivery techniques along with data collection and processing.

The meeting, sponsored by the BBSRC Japan Partnering Award Scheme, aims to bring researchers from Japan who are developing these techniques together with researchers from the UK and their partners with similar interests to present and discuss prospects, progress and, of course, results. All with a view to establishing and furthering collaborations.

The 2023 ALS User Meeting & Visioning Workshops will be held as a hybrid event September 11–15, 2023. Join them in Berkeley or virtually as they celebrate the 30th anniversary of first light and look ahead to the future. Monday will focus on tutorials, while Tuesday will include plenary talks, the poster session and slam, and awards dinner. The second half of the week will offer users, staff, and invited guests the opportunity to shape the facility’s future science directions and capabilities beyond ALS-U through visioning workshops.

IMC is the Olympics of microscopy; held every four years and attracting delegates from across the globe. The program will 100e world-renowned plenary speakers alongside an extensive trade exhibition where leading suppliers launch groundbreaking new instruments.

The 50th Meeting of the Italian Crystallographic Association (L-AIC) will be held in Bologna from the 5th to the 8th of September, 2023. The event will be jointly organized by the Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician” and the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology (FaBiT) of the University of Bologna.

L-AIC will be a unique event, full of high-profile scientific content and, for all, a pleasant opportunity to meet friends, colleagues, and collaborators.

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.

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)

The Thematic Meeting offers scientific sessions, poster sessions, as well as ample opportunities for networking with scientists from all career levels.

The CCP4-BCA Summer School on macromolecular crystallography and associated techniques returns for 2023. Running for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, the school aims to bring together early-career scientists from the UK, Europe and beyond and train them in the latest advances in structural biology, with a primary focus on macromolecular crystallography. The school, which was formerly run at the University of St. Andrews for many years, has trained hundreds of crystallographers while also providing them with unforgettable collective memories. The York team aims to capture and continue the essence and tradition of the school, blending it with the best the City of York has to offer.

All aspects of structure solution will be covered during the workshop, from data collection through to phasing, refinement, validation and deposition.

• Lectures and tutorials will be delivered by experts in the field, sometimes even software authors themselves!
• An exciting social programme will showcase some of the best the historical City of York can offer – and in summer.
• You will be able to work alongside world-leading scientists and methods developers on your own projects.

Receptorfest 2023 will be hosted July 27th-28th at Washington State University in Pullman, WA. This friendly workshop-style meeting is a venue to present new findings, and exchange ideas, relating to bacterial chemoreceptors and chemotaxis, but adjacent topics are also welcome, such as two-component signaling systems, motility, and biofilm formation.

The Summer 2023 New York Structural Biology Discussion Group (NYSBDG) meeting will take place on July 27, 2023 at City College of New York. The all-day meeting will start at 8:30 AM and end at 5:30 PM. Includes talks and posters.

This conference aims to celebrate a wide range of achievements in cryopreservation, including making transplantable organs/tissues available to those who need them, decreasing the time and cost of drug development, helping to feed the world, protect living organisms from extinction, and more. This meeting will be a platform for us to reflect on past achievements, share new insights and ideas, have constructive discussions, extend networks and collaborations, and most importantly push forward into the next and greatest era of cryopreservation research.

The M&M Microscopy & Microanalysis 2023 Conference features platform and poster presentations, a robust trade show, and opportunities to connect with old friends and colleagues and expand your network. The Program Committee, led by Ru-Ching Hsia, James LeBeau, and Anette von der Handt, has developed an exciting group of symposia, spanning advances in instrumentation and techniques development, as well as applications in the analytical, biological, and physical sciences. Building on the success in 2022, the program again features symposia that cross interdisciplinary lines (“cross-cutting” or C symposia).

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!

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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

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.

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