Preliminary List of Topics

The latest advances in methodology and applications of charge densities:

• advances in data analysis
• understanding dynamics of atoms and structures
• progress in using large scale facilities
• charge densities in crystal engineering
• charge densities in materials science
• charge densities and electron diffraction
• charge densities in life sciences
• charge densities at extreme conditions
• charge densities beyond single crystal approach
• physical applications of charge densities
• charge densities of inorganic materials and minerals
• compute or/and measure?
• charge densities towards classical structural analysis
• methods beyond charge densities

Elle s’adresse à toute la communauté des scientifiques des organismes de recherche et des grands domaines de l’industrie qui utilisent les spectroscopies d’électrons.

Plenary session

Transport and Mass Storage in Macro- and Nanosized Solids

Symposia & program

• Materials
• Semiconductors
• Biomaterials
• Energy
• Nanomaterials

Workshops & Tutorials

Sustainable knowledge and preservation of Cultural Heritage for future generations

Advanced materials and technologies for renewable energies - AMREN-2 (5 - 6 May 2016)

Function-assembly of nano-materials towards electronics, energy and biological applications (one day symposium)

New methods and tools are emerging to address the limitations of
conventional refinement and one of the most interesting is the
combination of molecular dynamics methods with crystallographic
refinement, in what is termed Ensemble Refinement.

The lectures dealing with the emerging theoretical and practical concepts
will be combined with hands-on tutorial sessions.

The invited speakers include:

·      Paul Adams (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA

·      Alexandre Urzhumtsev (CNRSâ€"INSERMâ€"UdS, Illkirch, France)

·      Raj Pannu (Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands)

·      Remy Loris (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium)

·      Marta Amaral (IMI-K4DD and Merck Serono R&D, Darmstadt, Germany)

·      To be confirmed:**Tom Burnley (STFC, Rutherford Appleton
Laboratory, Didcot, UK)

 This workshop is directed to PhD students and young Post-doctoral
researchers who are already experienced in Macromolecular
Crystallography and who wish to learn about this new paradigm of X-ray
protein crystal structure refinement, towards its application in their
own projects. To that effect, participants will be strongly encouraged
to bring their own data to the workshop. The number of places is
limited, therefore apply early!

 The registration fee is 100 € and will include accommodation,
transportation between the hotel and ITQB, workshop materials,
coffee/tea breaks, all workshop lunches and one dinner. The application
deadline is December 18, 2015.

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Signalling pathways in development, disease and aging

Exploring cellular structure and function

TOPICS

• Nuclear Structure and Function
• Regulation and Organization of the Genome
• Epigenetics
• Cell Division/Cell Cycle
• DNA Replication/Repair
• RNA Transcription and Processing/Noncoding RNAs
• Membrane Trafficking
• Cell Organelles/Mitochondria Â
• Cytoskeleton
• Development/Stem Cells
• Cell Signalling
• Cell Death/Autophagy/Cell Stress
• Cell-Matrix Interactions/Cell-Cell Interactions
• Protein Folding
• Structural Biology
• Systems/Computational Biology
• Imaging in Cell Biology
• Chemical/Synthetic Biology
• Plant Cell Biology
• Microbial Cell Biology
• Cellular Neurobiology
• Cell Biology in Immunology
• Cancer Cell Biology
• Cell Biology of Metabolic Diseases

Confirmed plenary speakers include:

Professor Sharon Ashbrook (University of St Andrews)
Professor Andrew Harrison (CEO of Diamond Light Source)
Professor Jean-Marie Tarascon (Collège de France)

Confirmed invited speakers include:

Dr Sian Dutton (University of Cambridge)
Dr Julian Dean (University of Sheffield)
Dr Houria Kabbour (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille, France)

Sailing the Protein Seas in the Ocean State

'Sailing the Protein Seas in the Ocean State' will discuss projects that require the integration of multiple structural, biophysical and cellular techniques to fully elucidate the molecular mechanisms that underlie biological function. This includes also dynamic aspects of protein function.

This will be a small meeting, allowing for effective communication and discussion of research and possibilities. While the meeting is anchored by a few prominent, outstanding investigators who have agreed to attend and give a keynote, most speakers will be chosen from the attendees, with particular emphasis on providing speaker opportunities to early-career participants (assistant professors, postdocs and students). There will also be a poster session.

Confirmed Speakers (alphabetical order):

• Prof. Dr. Tania Baker, HHMI; MIT
• Prof. Dr. Marius Clore; NIH
• Prof. Dr. Jane Dyson; The Scripps Research Institute
• Prof. Dr. Peter Wright; The Scripps Research Institute

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• David Bensimon, École Normale Supérieure
• Avinoam Ben Shaul, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Ron Dror, Stanford University
• Sarel Fleishman, Weizmann Institute of Science
• William Gelbart, UCLA
• Daniel Harries, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
• Stephen Harrison, Harvard Medical School
• Barry Honig, Columbia University
• Tom Kirchhausen, Harvard Medical School
• Rachel Kolodny, University of Haifa
• Michael Levitt, Stanford University
• Emmanuel Levy, Weizmann Institute of Science
• Ohad Medalia, University of Zürich
• Gali Prag, Tel Aviv University
• Tamar Schlick, New York University
• Gideon Schreiber, Weizmann Institute of Science
• Arieh Warshel, University of Southern California
• Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science

Topics

• High pressure chemistry: Synthesis and novel materials
• Pressure-induced phase transitions
• Static and dynamic techniques for pressure generation
• High pressure in bio- and life sciences
• Food science and high pressure technology
• Electronic, magnetic and transport properties
• Theoretical approaches to high pressure physics and Chemistry

The Australian Synchrotron and Society of Crystallographers in Australia and New Zealand (SCANZ) are pleased to announce the Australasian Crystallography School 2016.Â

This school is intended for PhD students and early postdoctoral researchers wishing to develop their theoretical and practical skills in structure determination by X-ray crystallography.

The course will combine lectures by expert crystallographers with intensive hands-on computer-based practical sessions to provide a thorough introduction to the theory and practise of X-ray crystal structure determination.Â

It is open to people from institutions within Australia and New Zealand; although selected participants from overseas may also be considered (numbers will be limited).

SCANZ student members may apply online for consideration for Maslen scholarships as well as the crystal school.

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

An Advanced School jointly organized by IUBMB/University of Havana-Cuban Section of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

The School will comprise different topics related to the experimental determination of protein three-dimensional (3D) structure as well as structural bioinformatics tools for protein function annotation, protein-protein interaction analysis and drug design. The School is oriented to postgraduates and young researchers seeking for fundamental knowledge on protein crystallisation, 3D-structure determination and related bioinformatics methods. The main goal of the School is to help participants to understand and incorporate these topics into their research and teaching activities. The course will be organised in around 20 lecturers and students will participate in round-table discussions and share their results with experts and colleagues in two poster sessions.

The application form will contain the title of the poster presentation, authors, authors' affiliation, and an abstract not exceeding 250 words. Also a letter expressing the interest in attending the School and a recommendation letter from the supervisor will be attached.

A total number of 40 participants will be chosen by an international committee and around 10-15 fellowships covering registration fees and partial travel and/or lodging expenses will be granted. Registration fees will be 100 Euro for postgraduate students, 150 Euro for academics and 200 Euro for industry researchers.

Organisers: Carlos Alvarez, Centre for Protein Studies, Faculty of Biology, University of Havana, Cuba; Pedro A. Valiente Flores, Centre for Protein Studies, Faculty of Biology, University of Havana, Cuba; Kalet León, Centre for Molecular Inmunology, Havana, Cuba; Rossana García, Centre for Protein Studies, Faculty of Biology, University of Havana, Cuba.

Lecturers: Terese Bergfors, Howard M. Einspahr, Christian Betzel, Lars Redecke, José A. Gavira, Kalet León, Wendy González, Paulo Ricardo Batista, Peter Tieleman, Kovy Levy, Paolo Carloni, Pablo Campomanes, Garegin Papoian, Rosangela Itri.