Powder Diffraction for the Single-Crystal Community

The Bruker-AXS / MIT Symposium is an annual event, directed towards chemists, biologists and crystallographers from the greater Boston area.

A full-day Workshop on Friday (19th) is followed by the Symposium on Saturday (20th)

Workshop teachers:

Kenneth Shankland (Reading University)

Jim Kaduk (Poly Crystallography Inc.)

Robert Papoular (Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission, France)

Arnt Kern (Bruker AXS)

Symposium Subjects:

• Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials in Environmental Sciences
• Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials in Medicine
• Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials in Biology
• Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials in Chemistry
• Toxicology of Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials
• Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials in Innovation
• Computational Studies in Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials
• Nanoparticles/Nanomaterials for Energy Storage

The Joint European Magnetic Symposia combine to form the most important and comprehensive conference on magnetism in Europe. The Symposia will focus on a broad range of topics addressing fundamental and applied magnetism, and novel magnetic materials. Plenary, semi-plenary and invited speakers will give lectures on important recent advances within each symposium, in addition to contributed talks and poster sessions. Participation by student and early career scientists is welcomed and encouraged.

The 2016 Symposium builds on our very successful previous meeting on the same theme in 2014.
The goal of the Symposium is to discuss state of the art image analysis approaches to tackle challenging biological problems and to identify current limitations and remaining problems in the field as currently practiced. The goal will be for developers in this area, both established as well as students/postdocs to discuss the detailed algorithms and methodologies in this field in greater technical detail than is possible at more general meetings like the GRC. The central premise is that gaining a comprehensive and quantitative understanding of highly sophisticated machines, complexes, and organelles of the cell requires the active, timely and coordinated development of complementary image analysis and data mining algorithm and approaches. We have recruited an outstanding panel of speakers (current agenda provided in the web site).

 Sessions

• Handling Compositional and Conformational Variability
  
• High Resolution Subtomogram Averaging and Related Techniques
  
• High Resolution Single Particle Analysis
  
• Resolution Assessment, Model and Map Validation
  
• Data Storage Roundtable
  
• Poster Talks

Aims

Complementing the Faraday Discussions meeting on Nanoparticle Synthesis and Assembly (Chicago, USA, April 2015) which will focus on ordered superlattice arrays of ligand-passivated inorganic clusters, with applications related to size scalability and processing, this meeting will emphasise the importance of considering both ordered and disordered assemblies, and the translation of fundamental science to applications. The scope of the Discussion will include chemically distinct classes of nanoparticle assemblies - polymer nanocomposites, patchy colloids, ligand-passivated inorganic nanocrystals - and link them with soft matter systems, with a view to understanding some of the basic principles of nanoparticle assembly and how they affect practical applications. The topic is particularly appropriate for the Faraday Discussions format with the possibility of documenting an interesting cross-fertilization of ideas.

Themes

• Synthesis and Assembly of Nanoparticles and their Assemblies
  
  
• Modeling and Theory
  
  
• Nanocomposites
  
  
• Applications to Soft Matter
  

The symposium runs from 2pm on Monday 11 until 3pm on Tuesday 12th April 2016.

 In April 2016 researchers, at all career stages, from across the globe will meet together to discuss recent innovations in the field of structural molecular biology.

This unique event being held at The University of Leeds, UK, has already attracted leading figures in this field including Professor Michael Levitt, FRS who was awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing computational tools to dissect chemical reactions.


Other confirmed speakers:

• David Barford FRS (LMB, Cambridge)
• Martin Blackledge (IBS, Grenoble)
• Tim Clausen (IMP, Vienna)
• Sarah Harris (Astbury Centre, Leeds)
• Lewis E. Kay FRS (Toronto)
• Sheena Radford FRS, (Astbury Centre, Leeds)
• Helen Saibil FRS (Birkbeck)
• David Stuart FRS (Oxford)

Additional talks will be selected from abstracts submitted online, along with poster sessions. The symposium will be followed by a public engagement event and a public lecture by Professor Michael Levitt.

Plenary speakers

Professor Dame Carol V. Robinson, FRS of the University of Oxford
Professor Janos Hajdu, Uppsala University

The work of Dr Takeshi Egami spans across several fields and disciplines, with a multitude of scientific contributions and achievements. To most, he is best known for his pioneering work in applying the well-known real-space analysis for uncovering underlying disorder in materials i.e. the pair density function (PDF) method. He pioneered the application of this technique in crystals, and awarded the Warren award from the American Crystallographic Association in 2003. The award states that "Prof. Egami is cited for his pioneering use of pair distribution functions from diffraction data to study disorder and defects in imperfect crystals leading to new understanding of the physics of complex materials". Always surrounded by friends, collaborators and students, Takeshi Egami has always been excited about a new discovery or a new result, passing that optimism on with a contagious smile. This gathering is a celebration of his work, but also an opportunity to show the immense progress made in Materials Physics on the nature of Hidden Orders in a Complex World: Past, Present and Future.

Membrane Protein Expression/Purification

Free electron laser crystallography

Electron Microscopy

Simulations and ion channel function

Ion Channels

GPCRs

Pumps and ATPases

ABC Transporters

Inaugural business meeting and symposium at the Biophysical Society 60th Annual Meeting.

The scope of the Conference:

• Molecular inclusion and recognition
• Self-organisation and self-assembly
• New synthetic methods in supramolecular chemistry
• Chemistry of supramolecular systems
• Porous materials
• Sorption/desorption properties
• Nanomaterials
• Applications

Barkla X-ray laboratory of Biophysics was opened on 21^st July 2011 by Sir Tom Blundell and Late Dame Louise Johnson. Charles Glover Barkla was a graduate and then a lecturer at the University. He made key contributions to the birth of X-ray physics and crystallography (http://www.biophysics.liv.ac.uk/X-rays_Liverpool.html), for which he received the 1917 Nobel Prize in physics. Arnold Beevers and Henry Lipson, who were also student and staff at Liverpool in the 1930’s invented the Beevers-Lipson strips which became the workhorse of crystallographic calculations (Fourier synthesis) prior to the emergence of calculating machines and computers in the 1960’s. A symposium is organized to celebrate the achievements of Lipson & Beevers in the presence of a number of family members of Henry Lipson. An X-ray exhibition will be opened at the end of the symposium celebrating the achievements of Sir Oliver Lodge (the first Physics Professor of the University, 1881), Barkla, Beevers & Lipson.

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Session OneÂ

Chair: Professor Anthony Hollander, Director IIB

10:30 - 10:40

Welcome: Professor Samar Hasnain, Max Perutz Professor of Molecular Biophysics Â

10:40 â€" 11:10

Eleanor Dodson, FRS (University of York) Â

Fourier Maps I have known; from Beevers-Lipson strips to Winograd Fast Fourier Transforms

11:10 â€" 11.20

Peter Strickland (IUCr’s Executive Managing Editor)

Lipson & IUCr

11:20 â€" 12:30

Session Two         Â

Chair: Prof Stephen Holloway, Pro-Vice ChancellorÂ

11:20 â€" 11:45

Mike Glazer, Vice President of IUCr (Oxford University)

Role of Lipson in Crystallography

11:45 â€" 12:10

Stephen Lipson (Technion, Israel)

My youth with Fourier Strips

12:10 â€" 12:30

Hod Lipson (Cornell/Columbia)

Fourier Strips: The dawn of bioinformatics

VOTE OF THANKS & GROUP PHOTOÂ

12:40Â

Professor Janet Beer, Vice Chancellor will open the X-ray exhibition celebrating the achievements of Barkla, Beevers, Lipson and Lodge at Liverpool

12:40 - 14:00

LUNCH & DEPARTUREÂ

0th May 2015. Weston Library, Oxford University. The British Biophysical Society was founded in 1960 to promote interdisciplinary research accross the sciences. Nobel laureate John Kendrew helped found the BBS and this one day meeting will mark the archiving of the minutes of the society into the Kendrew archive by the Bodleian Library. This meeting will reflect on the early days of the society and make a link with cutting edge British Biophysics.

Meeting Schedule

14:15 Scientific Programme, Weston Library.

16:50 What is Biophysics? Lecture by Prof. Mark Sansom.

17:20 Handover and Reception in Blackwell Hall.

Confirmed Speakers

Tuomas Knowles

Julea Butt

Richard Henderson

Tony North

DyProSo is a 4-day research meeting aiming at the promotion of new ideas and concepts concerning functional properties of condensed matter by stimulating scientific discussions between young and experienced scientists actively working on dynamic properties of materials. The programme will cover current and upcoming topics from theory (ab initio calculations, Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics simulations, new formulations and phenomenological models, etc.) to experiment (optical spectroscopies, inelastic neutron and X-ray scattering, novel techniques, etc.) with a focus on functional materials.

Scientific programme focus of DyProSoXXXV:

• Phonons, magnons and electromagnons
• Diffusive dynamics
• Multiferroics, relaxors, thermoelectrica, shape memory alloys
• Domains and domain wall properties
• Excitations in superconductors
• Carbon-based materials
• Amorphous, liquid and soft matter
• Advances in experimental techniques and theory
• Dynamics at extreme conditions (pressure, temperature, magnetic field)

The main topics of this symposium are:

• Biomineralization and the structure of biominerals
• Analytical techniques and methods in biomineralization
• Bioinspired materials and applications
• Biomimetic synthesis
• Modelling in biomineralization
• Pathological biomineralization
• Genetics and biomineralization