2017
Announcements
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The IUCr Associates Programme [posted 28 Nov 2017] The IUCr Associates Programme, which launched this year at the IUCr Congress in Hyderabad, underpins many of the Union’s outreach and education initiatives.
Showcasing IUCr publications [posted 02 Nov 2017] Publications of the IUCr are highlighted in a new section of the IUCr website.
IUCr Associates Programme goes live [posted 02 Nov 2017] Join the IUCr Associates Programme and become part of the IUCr and a growing network of crystallographers.
IUCr bursary case study: Custom designed supramolecular materials [posted 24 Oct 2017] In 2016 alone, the IUCr sponsored 40 international meetings and schools. One recent recipient of an IUCr Young Scientist Award describes the importance of these grants to their research and experience.
Ted Janssen 1936-2017 [posted 13 Oct 2017]
Richard Henderson wins the 2017 Nobel Prize for Chemistry [posted 04 Oct 2017] Richard Henderson, recent winner of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Gjønnes Medal in Electron Crystallography and IUCrJ editorial board member, has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Jacques Dubochet, and Joachim Frank "for developing cryo-electron microscopy (cryoEM) for the high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules in solution".
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin - The Film [posted 04 Oct 2017] The Nobel Prize museum in Stockholm is looking for previously unpublished images and film of Dorothy Hodgkin.
LAAMP at the World Science Forum [posted 28 Sep 2017] A thematic session sponsored by LAAMP and entitled "Light Sources and Crystallographic Sciences for Sustainable Development" has been approved to be part of the programme of the next World Science Forum.
IUCr bursary case study: Lanthanoid metal-organic frameworks [posted 26 Sep 2017] In 2016 alone, the IUCr sponsored 40 international meetings and schools. One recent recipient of an IUCr Young Scientist Award reveals the importance of these travel grants to their research and experience.
Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography 2018 [posted 15 Sep 2017] The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Gregori Aminoff Prize in Crystallography 2018 to Professor Piet Gros from Utrecht University in the Netherlands, "for his fundamental contributions to understanding the complement system-mediated innate immune response".
IUCr Associates Programme [posted 08 Sep 2017] The IUCr is pleased to announce its new, voluntary Associates Programme. The programme launched officially at the IUCr Congress in Hyderabad in August 2017.
New developments of the symmetry database [posted 09 Aug 2017] The symmetry database at http://it.iucr.org/resources/symmetrydatabase/ has now been updated and expanded to include a wealth of new data.
Philip Coppens (1930-2017) [posted 26 Jun 2017]
IUCr Webinar: Formulation of the MORPHEUS protein crystallization screens [posted 19 Jun 2017] Our next webinar Formulation of the MORPHEUS protein crystallization screens, by Dr Fabrice Gorrec, LMB, Cambridge, UK takes place on Tuesday 27 June 2017 at 4:00 PM BST
2016 IUCr impact factor results [posted 16 Jun 2017] The 2016 impact factors have been released by Clarivate Analytics. We are pleased to announce that IUCr Journals now occupy the top three positions in the Crystallography category.
Special issue on high-resolution X-ray diffraction and imaging [posted 14 Jun 2017] The latest virtual special issue of Journal of Applied Crystallography with Guest Editors Virginie Chamard (Institute Fresnel) and Václav Holý (Charles University in Prague) http://journals.iucr.org/special_issues/2017/xtop2016/ features a selection of original contributions from the 13th Biennial Conference on High-Resolution X-ray Diffraction and Imaging (XTOP 2016), which was held in Brno, Czech Republic, in September 2016.
Davide Viterbo (1939-2017) [posted 22 May 2017] With great sadness we report that Professor Davide Viterbo passed away on 20 May 2017.
IUCr Main Editor appointments [posted 08 May 2017] The IUCr are pleased to announce the following new editor appointments: Elena Boldyreva, Chiara Massera (Acta Cryst. E); Mark van Raaij (Acta Cryst. F); Garry McIntyre (J. Appl. Cryst.).
Exceptional opportunity to join the editorial team of IUCr Journals [posted 06 Apr 2017] The IUCr has vacancies for Main Editor position(s) in the following journals: Foundations and Advances (Acta Crystallographica Section A), Structural Biology (Acta Crystallographica Section D); and for Co-editor position(s) in the following journals: Foundations and Advances (Acta Crystallographica Section A), Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials (Acta Crystallographica Section B), Structural Chemistry (Acta Crystallographica Section C), Crystallographic Communications (Acta Crystallographica Section E), Structural Biology (Acta Crystallographica Section D), Structural Biology Communications (Acta Crystallographica Section F).
Special issue on Halogen bonding [posted 03 Apr 2017] In this special issue, a selection of the research presented in 52 oral and 31 poster presentations of the International and computational chemistry, crystal engineering, biochemistry and molecular biology, liquid systems and applications symposium is provided for the reader, highlighting some of the main advances of this field.
Call for papers on Advanced Neutron Scattering Instrumentation [posted 16 Mar 2017] Journal of Applied Crystallography invites papers on advanced neutron scattering instrumentation to appear in a special issue of the journal that will be published approximately in April 2018.
IUCr Associates Programme [posted 09 Mar 2017] The IUCr is excited to announce its new, voluntary Associates Programme. This will launch officially at the IUCr Congress in Hyderabad in August 2017.
New additional Main Editor Acta B [posted 28 Feb 2017] Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials is pleased to announce the appointment of a new additional Main Editor, Professor Ashwini Kumar Nangia.
IUCr and IUPAP awarded an ICSU grant [posted 10 Feb 2017] We are delighted to report that the IUPAP-IUCr project “Utilisation of Light Source and Crystallographic Sciences to Facilitate the Enhancement of Knowledge and Improve the Economic and Social Conditions in Targeted Regions of the World” has been approved and funded under the 2016-2019 ICSU Grants Programme.
Concern over restriction of movement [posted 03 Feb 2017] The IUCr expresses its concern over the USA Presidential Executive Order "Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States".
2016 winners of the IUCr crystal growing competition [posted 02 Feb 2017] Continuing the success of the crystal growing competition which launched during the International Year of Crystallography in 2014 we are delighted to announce the winners of the 2016 IUCr crystal growing competition.
UNESCO supports bursaries for African participants to attend the 24th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography [posted 23 Jan 2017] The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the 24th IUCr Congress is delighted to announce that UNESCO will support the participation of around 10-20 scientists from Africa (excluding South Africa) with partial financial assistance.
SESAME light source circulates first beam [posted 13 Jan 2017] A beam circulated for the first time in the pioneering SESAME synchrotron at 18:12(UTC+3) on 11 January 2017. The next step will be to store the beam.
