Crystallography News Online

12th May 2008

• Employment: Associate Director Protein Structure Laboratory, University of Kansas, USA.
• Employment: Associate Staff Scientist Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, CA USA.
• Employment: Post-doctoral fellow - Beamline ID26. ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: PhD studenship - Three dimensional diffraction micro-tomography. ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: PhD studenship - Structural insight into recombinational repair. ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: PhD studenship - In-situ X-ray and microscopy studies. ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Journal Issue: Crystal Structure Communications Online, Volume 64, Part 5 (May 2008).
• Software: The ICSD/Retrieve database (release 1993-2002) can now be used as a reference database for phase identification from powder data, using the new version 1.8 of Match!. In combination with the free-of-charge IUCr/COD/AMCSD reference database, this provides an alternative to the PDF database at low price. A demonstration version of Match! can be downloaded free-of-charge from here.

30th April 2008

• Journal Issue: Foundations of Crystallography Online, Volume 64, Part 5 (May 2008).
• Journal Issue: Journal of Synchrotron Radiation Online, Volume 15, Part 3 (May 2008).
• Journal Issue: Structure Reports Online, Volume 64, Part 5 (May 2008).
• Journal Issue: Biological Crystalography Online, Volume 64, Part 5 (May 2008).
• Journal Issue: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications Online, Volume 64, Part 5 (May 2008).
• Employment: Postdoctoral Position - Novel Materials Group Hahn-Meitner Institut, Berlin, Germany.
• Employment: Post-Doctoral Fellow & Post-Master Assistant in Biological Small Angle Scattering Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), TN USA.
• Employment: Powder X-Ray Diffractionist Pfizer PGRD, Sandwich, UK.
• Employment: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Applied Nuclear Physics Ref no 127035 School of Physics/Faculty of Science, University of Sydney Australia.
• Employment: Instrument Scientist NIST, Gaithersburg MD USA
• Employment: 2 Sample Environment Scientists/Engineers NIST, Gaithersburg MD USA
• Employment: Post-doctoral Position in Electron Crystallography Institut NEEL, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: Research Associateship - Chemistry (Ref no 2498) University of Durham, UK.
• Employment: Post-doctoral Fellowship in Crystallographic Computing Leiden, Netherlands.
• Meeting: 7th NCCR Practical Course and EMBN Summer School - Membrane Protein Crystallisation Basel, Switzerland. 20-24 October 2008.
• Meeting: Surface X-ray and Neutron Scattering, SXNS10 Paris, France. 2-5 July 2008.

16th April 2008

• Exhibition: "From Atoms to Patterns", Wellcome Foundation , London, UK. 24 April - 10 August 2008.
• Employment: X-Ray Engineer Université Paris-Sud, France.
• Employment: Senior Scientific Editor ICDD, Newtown Centre PA USA.
• Employment: Post-doctoral fellowship - Nanometric Magnetic Wires Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, Saclay, France).
• Employment: Post-doctoral fellowship - Synchrotron Radiation DESY, Hamburg, Germany.
• Employment: Ph.D. Position in Corrosion Gif-sur-Yvette, France.
• Employment: Post-doctoral fellowship - Macromolecular Crystallography University of California, Berkeley CA USA.
• Meeting: Protein Crystallography Europe Amsterdam, Netherlands. 19-20 June 2008.
• Meeting: Ninth International School on the Crystallography of Biological Macromolecules Como Italy. 29 September - 3 October 2008.

8th April 2008

• Announcement: PSI Structural Genomics Knowledgebase (PSI SGKB) now available.
• Journal Issue: Crystal Structure Communications Online, Volume 64, Part 4 (April 2008).
• Employment: Two Beamline Scientist Positions Stony Brook NY USA.
• Employment: Postdoctoral Position in Molecular Biology Roscoff, France.
• Employment: X-Ray Fluorescence Engineer Puteaux, France.
• Employment: Postdoctoral Position in Molecular BiologyUniversity of Illinois, Chicago IL USA.
• Employment: Ph.D. StudentshipUniversity of Bayreuth, Germany.
• Employment: Associate Professor/Senior Lecturer in Neutron Scattering University of Uppsala, Sweden.
• Meeting: IX School of Neutron Scattering Francesco Paolo Ricci Santa Margherita di Pula (CA)- Sardinia, Italy 22 September - 3 October 2008

2nd April 2008

• Software: Free download of software packages Powder3D and Powder3D-IP for integration, data reduction and presentation of 2D XRPD data
• Employment: Four Postdoctoral Positions Hahn-Meitner Institut, Berlin, Germany.
• Employment: Postgraduate Scholarship in Advanced Magnetic Materials Sydney and Canberra Australia.
• Employment: Two postdoctoral positions in neutron scattering Rome, Italy.
• Meeting: Translating Co-crystals Properties, Screening and Design into Commercial Success Amsterdam, Netherlands. 23-24 September 2008
• Meeting: Biomolecular Dynamics and Protein-Water Interactions Munich, Germany. 24-26 September 2008
• Workshop: Magnetic Structure Determination using Neutron Diffraction Knoxville TN USA. 31 May 2008

31st March 2008

• Journal Issue: Biological Crystallography Online, Volume 64, Part 4 (April 2008).
• Journal Issue: Structure Reports Online, Volume 64, Part 4 (April 2008).
• Journal Issue: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communication Online, Volume 64, Part 4 (April 2008).
• Employment: Postdoctoral Position in Structural Biology Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Employment: Resarch Scientist - nuclear and particle physics ILL, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: ANSTO-CSIRO joint postdoctoral fellowship Australia.

20th March 2008

• Employment: Postdoctoral position Johns Hopkins University/NIST Center for Neutron Research, USA.
• Employment: Postdoctoral position Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.
• Employment: PhD student position Sydney, Australia.
• Employment: Scientific Software Engineer Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), TN, USA.
• Meeting: 17th Slovenian-Croatian Crystallographic Meeting Ptuj, Slovenia. 19-22 June 2008
• Meeting: SNBL Workshop - Simultaneous Raman-X-ray diffraction/absorption studies. ESRF, Grenoble, France. 18-19 June 2008
• Software: Core CIF dictionary Version 2.4 of the Core CIF Dictionary for inorganic and small-molecule structures has been posted on the IUCr web site in ASCII and html versions at http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/cif/cif_core/index.html. The dictionary file is available directly by anonymous ftp as ftp://ftp.iucr.org/pub/cif_core.dic. A PDF formatted version will be released later. Differences between this and the previous version are summarised at http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/cif/cif_core/diff2.4-2.3.html.

18th March 2008

• Employment: Lecturer /Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor University of New South Wales, Australia.
• Employment: Macromolecular Crystallography Laboratory Manager University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA.
• Employment: Instrument Scientist Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), TN, USA.
• Employment: Post-doctoral fellowship EMBL Hamburg, Germany.
• Employment: Post-doctoral fellow - Anomalous Scattering beamline ID01. ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: Post-doctoral fellow - Soft-Condensed Matter group. ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: Beamline Scientist ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: Beamline Operations Manager ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: PhD student position ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: PhD student position - Structure-property relationships in nanoparticles. ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
• Employment: Scientific software engineer CCDC, Cambridge, UK.
• Journal Issue: Structural Science Online, Volume 64, Part 2 (April 2008).
• Journal Issue: Crystal Structure Communications Online, Volume 64, Part 3 (March 2008).
• Journal Issue: Applied Crystallography Online, Journal of Applied Crystallography, Volume 41, Part 2 (March 2008).
• Meeting: Protein Crystallography Cambridge, UK. 1st April 2008
• Meeting: 2nd Midnight Sun Meeting on Drug Transport & DeliveryTromsoe, Norway. 25-27 June 2008
• Meeting: 5th LANSCE Neutron School - Magnetism in bulk and Nanostructured Materials. Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, USA. 23 July-1 August 2008
• Meeting: Summer School on Applications of Synchrotron Radiation Techniques in Earth and Environmental Science Oxford, UK. 12th-15th August 2008
• Meeting: 12th JCNS Laboratory Course - Neutron Scattering Jülich/Garching, Germany. 1-12 September 2008
• Meeting: EMBO Practical Course - X-ray crystal structure determination of macromolecules Saint Aubin, France. 14-20 September 2008
• Meeting: EMBO Practical Course on Solution Scattering EMBL, Hamburg Outstation, Germany. 19-26 October 2008

29th February 2008

• Announcement: Applications close on March 15 for The Zurich School of Crystallography 2008 , University of Zurich, Switzerland. 22 June - 5 July 2008.
• Journal Issue: Structure Reports Online, Volume 64, Part 3 (March 2008).
• Journal Issue: Structural Biology and Crystallization Communication Online, Volume 64, Part 3 (March 2008).
• Employment: X-Ray Diffraction Facility Manager University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill NC USA.
• Employment: Postdoctoral Post - Study of Hybrid Pigments by Quasi-elastic Neutron Scattering Institut NEEL, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: Tenure Track Fellowships in Neutron Scattering Australia and New Zealand.
• Employment: Professor - Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Matériaux Luminescents Lyon, France.
• Meeting: SARX2008: Latin American Seminary of Analysis by X-Ray Techniques Cabo Frio, RJ, Brazil. 16-20 November 2008
• Meeting: NOBUGS 2008 Collaboration for Developers of Computer Techniques in Scientific Instrumentation, Sydney, Australia. 3-5 November 2008
• Meeting: XRF of Minerals BCA Industrial Group, Nottingham, UK. 14 May 2008
• Meeting: XRD of Minerals BCA Industrial Group, Nottingham, UK. 15 May 2008

25th February 2008

• Software: CCDC's DASH (version 3.1) is now available. DASH is an easy-to-use package which guides the user through the various steps of structure solution from X-ray powder diffraction data. New features include: interfaces to three different external Rietveld refinement packages (TOPAS, GSAS and RIETAN); a specially-tailored version of Mercury, the CCDC's visualisation program; links to allow indexing using an external version of DICVOL ('04 or '06) or the program McMaille; the ability to run DASH on a Grid MP network or multi-core processor.

20th February 2008

• Announcement: Arc-en-Ciel A new website has been created for this project.
• Announcement: 4th European Conference on Neutron Scattering The papers from this conference (25-29 June 2007) have now been published.
• Journal Issue: Journal of Synchrotron Radiation Online, Volume 15, Part 2 (March 2008).
• Journal Issue: Foundations of Crystallography Online, Volume 64, Part 2 (March 2008).
• Journal Issue: Biological Crystallography Online, Volume 64, Part 3 (March 2008).
• Employment: Senior Lecturer in Chemical Crystallography University of Geneva, Switzerland.
• Employment: Physical Scientist: program management for Materials Sciences and Engineering US Department of Energy, Germantown MD USA.
• Employment: Research Scientist - Diffuse and Inelastic Neutron Scattering ILL, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: Postdoctoral Assistantship in Ferroelectrics and Crystallography Department of Physics , Oxford University , UK.
• Employment: Four Beamline Support Scientist Roles Diamond Light Source, Oxfordshire UK.
• Employment: PhD Thesis Student m/f - Micro-XAS at extreme temperatures and pressures. ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: Beamline Scientist - General Purpose EXAFS beamline. ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: Two Scientists in Theory - Experiments Division. ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Meeting: 6th International NCCR Symposium on New Trends in Structural Biology Zurich, Switzerland. 8-9 September 2008
• Meeting: 7th PSI Summer School "Probing the Nanometer Scale with Neutrons, Photons and Muons" Zuoz, Switzerland. 16-22 August 2008
• Meeting: Workshop: Magnetic Structure Analysis by Neutron Diffraction Techniques Knoxville TN USA. 31 May 2008

8th February 2008

• Journal Issue: Crystal Structure Communications Online, Volume 64, Part 2 (February 2008).
• Employment: Computing Group Leader - Chemistry Department University of Arizona, AZ USA.
• Employment: Junior Professor (W1) in Modern Structure Analysis RWTH Aachen, Germany.
• Employment: Project Leader - X-Ray Free Electron Laser PSI Villingen, Switzerland.
• Employment: PhD Position in Mineralogical Crystallography Nancy, France.
• Employment: PhD Thesis Student m/f - Measurement of elastic properties of silicates at mantle pressures and tempratures . ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Meeting: Kyoto Crystallographic Computing School Kyoto, Japan. 18-23 August 2008

1st February 2008

• Employment: 3 Post-doc Positions Kjeller, Norway.
• Employment: 2 PhD Positions Kjeller, Norway.
• Employment: Post-doc Position Grenoble, France.
• Employment: Post-doc Position Lyon, France.
• Journal Issue: Structure Reports Online, Volume 64, Part 2 (February 2008).
• Journal Issue: Structural Biology and Crystallisation Communications Online, Volume 64, Part 2 (February 2008).

29th January 2008

• Employment: First Instrument Responsible - POLDI SINQ, Switzerland.
• Employment: Beamline Scientist - ICON SINQ, Switzerland.
• Employment: Post-doc Position - SAXS. MAX-lab, Lund, Sweden.
• Employment: PhD Position - Science of the Ceramic Processes and Surface treatments laboratory(SPCTS CNRS UMR 6638). Limoges, France.
• Meeting: Exhibition: From Atoms to Patterns - Crystal Structure Designs from the 1951 Festival of Britain. London, UK. 24 April–10 August 2008.
• Meeting: 3rd French school on Reflectivity SAXS, GISAXS and Diffraction from Surfaces Presqu'île de Giens, France. 4-8 May 2008.
• Meeting: ISSRNS 2008 - 9th International School and Symposium on Synchrotron Radiation in Natural Science. Poland. 15-20 June 2008.
• Software: Free-of-charge reference powder patterns can now be applied in phase identification using the new version 1.7 of Match!, Crystal Impact's well-known software for phase identification from powder diffraction data. More than 66,400 reference patterns have been calculated from the AMCSD ("American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database"), the COD ("Crystallography Open Database"), and from the cif-files provided by the IUCr journals. A demonstration version can be downloaded free-of-charge from here.

23rd January 2008

• Employment: Postdoc/Second Beam Line Scientist PSI/SINQ, Switzerland.
• Employment: Positions available at the Materials Research Department, Risø National Laboratory, Technical University of Denmark:
  
  • Postdoctoral fellow - Proof-of-concept: Nanodetector for use in medicine and materials science
  • Postdoctoral fellow - Implementation of pattern recognition algorithms
  • Postdoctoral fellow or PhD student - Mapping shear amplitudes in metals in 3D
  • Postdoctoral fellow or PhD student - Coarsening in two-phase titanium studied by 3DXRD
  • Postdoctoral fellow or PhD student - Development of a 3D TEM
  • Postdoctoral fellow or PhD student - TEM and HREM on nanostructured metals
  • PhD student - Deformation induced structural evolution
  • PhD student - Recovery and recrystallization kinetics in metals
  • Industrial Ph.D. - In situ 3D characterisation of gypsum

21st January 2008

• Announcement: The IUCr is pleased to announce that Dr D. Sayre (Department of Physics, State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA) has been awarded the eighth Ewald Prize for the unique breadth of his contributions to crystallography, which range from seminal contributions to the solving of the phase problem to the complex physics of imaging generic objects by X-ray diffraction and microscopy, and for never losing touch with the physical reality of the processes involved. The presentation of the Ewald Prize will be made during the Osaka Congress Opening Ceremony on 23 August 2008.
• Employment: Beamline Scientist - Anomalous Scattering beamline ID01. ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: Post-doctoral fellow - X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy beamlines ID24/BM29 . ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: PhD Thesis Student - In-situ X-ray and microscopy studies of solvent-mediated nanoparticle self-assembly. ESRF, Grenoble, France.
• Employment: Post Doctoral Position - Crystallization. SGX Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, California, USA.
• Journal Issue: Structural Science Online, Volume 64, Part 1 (February 2008).
• Journal Issue: Biological Crystallography Online, Volume 64, Part 2 (February 2008).
• Journal Issue: Applied Crystallography Online, Journal of Applied Crystallography, Volume 41, Part 1 (February 2008).
• Meeting: International School on Surface Analytical Techniques Potsdam-Golm, Germany. 11-14 March 2008.
• Meeting: EMBO World Lecture Course - Recent Developments in Macromolecular Crystallography Pune, India. 9-14 November 2008.

14th January 2008

• Employment: Computer Scientist/Computer Engineer NCNR, Gaithersburg, MD.
• Employment: Postdoctoral Positions - Incommensurately modulated crystals. Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Employment: Diffraction engineer at SPMS (UMR 8580) Ecole Centrale Paris à Châtenay-Malabry, France.
• Meeting: Protein Kinase Targets - Advancing the Identification, Design and Development of Protein Kinases Inhibitors. London, UK. 6-8 February 2008.
• Meeting: II International Workshop - Layered Materials: Structure and Properties. Vercelli, Italy. 28-29 March 2008.
• Meeting: Workshop and International School on Protein Crystallization Cancun, Mexico. 2-5 May 2008.
• Meeting: 2008 Kyoto Crystallographic Computing School Kyoto, Japan. 18-23 August 2008.
• Meeting: XTOP2008 - 9th Biennial Conference on High Resolution X-Ray Diffraction and Imaging. Linz, Austria. 15-17 September 2008.
• Meeting: 2008 E-MRS Fall Meeting Warsaw, Poland. 15-19 September 2008.
• Meeting: High Pressure Crystallography: from Novel Experimental Approaches to Applications in Cutting-Edge Technologies. Erice, Italy. 4-14 June 2009.

9th January 2008

• Employment: Postdoctoral position HMI, Berlin, Germany.
• Meeting: Polymorphism & Crystallisation 2008 London, UK. 11-13 March 2008.
• Meeting: Alberta Powder Diffraction Workshop Alberta, Canada. 14-16 May 2008.
• Meeting: The Zurich School of Crystallography 2008 University of Zurich, Switzerland. 22 June-5 July 2008.

8th January 2008

• Employment: Postdoctoral position Purdue University, IN, USA.
• Employment: Neutron Diffraction Instrument Scientist Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA.
• Employment: Computational Crystallographer Advanced Photon Source, Argonne, Illinois, USA.
• Journal Issue: Structure Reports Online, Volume 64, Part 1 (January 2008).
• Meeting: PCG Rietveld School 2008 Durham, UK. 30th March-3rd April 2008

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