International Conference: Multi-Pole Approach to Structural Science

The meeting will follow the first similar conference (MultiPole-1) that was organized in November 2011, but with a modified scope. The purpose of the upcoming MultiPole-2 conference, which is organized in the wake of and as a summary of the International Year of Crystallography IYCr2014, is to discuss the advances in all aspects of structural sciences that have been promoted with the participation of scientists with Polish roots and/or with significant links to Poland, whether working in Poland or abroad. Although the focal point is crystallography, the scope encompasses all areas that are concerned with the study of the structure of matter, with emphasis on structural biology and structural chemistry. Participation of all interested scientists is encouraged. It is expected that presentations by the invited lecturers, as well as by speakers chosen from the abstracts, will show that investing in science and science education is the best option for Poland and that Polish scientists can and do have very successful careers. For students and young researchers it should become a venue to find positive career models and inspiration for fascinating interdisciplinary research in structural sciences.

Invited Speakers

• Matthias Bochtler International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland
  Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Warsaw, Poland
• Dominika Borek University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
• Krzysztof Brzezinski University of Białystok, Poland
• Marek Brzozowski University of York, United Kingdom
• Grzegorz Bujacz Technical University of Łódz, Poland
• Janusz Bujnicki International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland
  Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
• Maksymilian Chruszcz University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
• Marek Cieplak Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw, Poland
• Tomasz Cierpicki University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
• Miroslaw Cygler University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
• Zbigniew Dauter National Cancer Institute, Argonne, IL, USA
• Zygmunt Derewenda University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
• Andrzej Dziembowski Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
• Maria Gdaniec Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
• Jolanta Grembecka University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
• Pawel Grochulski University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
• Robert Janowski Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany
• Mariusz Jaskólski Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
  Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland
• Andrzej Joachimiak Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA
• Krzysztof Jozwiak Medical University of Lublin, Poland
• Andrzej Koliński University of Warsaw, Poland
• Lukasz Lebioda University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA
• Janusz Lipkowski Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University, Warsaw, Poland
• Jacek Lubkowski National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
• Karolina Majorek Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
  University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
• Karolina Michalska Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL, USA
• Wladek Minor University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
• Piotr Neumann University of Göttingen, Germany
• Wieslaw Nowak Nicholas Copernicus University, Toruń, Poland
• Marcin Nowotny International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Warsaw, Poland
• Zbyszek Otwinowski University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
• Agnieszka Pietrzyk Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
• Waldemar Priebe University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
• Urszula Rychlewska Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland
• Wojciech Rypniewski Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, Poland
• Piotr Setny University of Warsaw, Poland
• Tadeusz Skarzynski Agilent Technologies, Oxford, United Kingdom
• Joanna Sulkowska University of Warsaw, Poland
• Marcin Suskiewicz Vienna Biocenter, VBC, Vienna, Austria
• Marta Szachniuk Poznan University of Technology, Poland
  Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Poznań, Poland
• Joanna Trylska University of Warsaw, Poland
• Alexander Wlodawer National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD, USA
• Krzysztof Wozniak University of Warsaw, Poland

Special Plenary Speaker

• Ada Yonath Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
  Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2009

Special Guest

• Iain Mattaj EMBL Heidelberg
  Director General
  (TBC)