Fundamental Characteristics and Approaches to Understand the Biological Functions of IDPs

The Gordon Research Seminar on Intrinsically Disordered Proteins is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The focus of this meeting is to introduce the topic of IDPs to those just entering the field while motivating interest in key areas of IDP research. Topics covered will include: (i) what characteristics define an IDP, (ii) what experimental and computational tools can be used to study IDPs, and (iii) what roles IDPs play in vivo. The GRS will also include a career development session featuring a panel of scientists at different points in their career path who will offer career advice and answer questions on the academic job search from a variety of perspectives.

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Synthesis, Characterization, Modeling, and Application

The 2014 Gordon Conference on "Noble Metal Nanoparticles" will strive to provide the same level of cutting-edge science and technology discussion that was the trademark of the 2010 and the 2012 previous two "Noble Metal Nanoparticles" conferences. The synthesis, characterization, modeling, and application of noble metal nanoparticles will be featured in the broadest possible way by creating sessions that put together chemists, physicists, material scientists, engineers, biologists, and doctors. There will be an attempt to create discussions that stem from a variety of disciplines as well as from a mixture of established and young scientists. The Conference will feature a wide range of topics, such as clusters, plasmonics, advanced characterization, assembly, biology, and a variety of applications. Some poster presenters will be selected for short talks. The atmosphere of this Conference, will be tuned to provide as many opportunities as possible for informal gatherings in the afternoons and evenings, so to create avenues for scientists from different disciplines to brainstorm and discuss. A great emphasis will be placed on the presentation and discussion of unpublished, novel, and exciting results.

Forward Thinking: New Approaches, Concepts, and Paradigms Towards Understanding and Predicting EM Response

The 2014 Gordon Research Conference on Energetic Materials, and its associated Gordon Research Seminar, will present the latest fundamental science of the physics and phenomena underlying the performance of energetic materials: explosives, propellants, pyrotechnics, and thermites. Presenters and attendees are scientists and engineers associated with government laboratories, research universities, and private industry that come together from across the globe to discuss multidisciplinary fundamental research on energetic materials. Topics of discussion include theory, chemistry, material properties, and physics associated with characterization, initiation, combustion, detonation, ageing, thermal decomposition, synthesis, and sensitivity of energetic materials. The Conference will bring together a collection of investigators who are at the forefront of their field and will provide opportunities for junior scientists and graduate students to present their work in poster format at as well as meet and exchange ideas with leaders in the field. The collegial atmosphere of this Conference, with programmed discussion sessions as well as multiple opportunities for informal gatherings in the afternoons and evenings, provides an avenue for scientists from different disciplines to brainstorm new concepts and paradigms while also promoting cross-disciplinary collaborations in the various research areas represented.

Synthesis, Characterization and Applications

The Gordon Research Seminar on Noble Metal Nanoparticles is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The scientific focus of the meeting will be on the synthesis of novel metal nanostructures, techniques for their characterization, and a range of their applications.

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The Influence of Microstructure on Performance

The Gordon Research Seminar on Energetic Materials is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas. The focus of this meeting is on the response of energetic materials at the microstructural level, which is a complex process involving both mechanical and chemical components that lends itself to a coupled experimental and computational approach. This seminar will discuss both computational and experimental efforts to understand the processes influencing the thermodynamic and constitutive response of energetic materials over multiple length scales.Â

Fan du LLB is an annual school delivered in French and offering young French-speaking researchers a first contact with real experimental neutron scattering. The school is aimed at students and post-docs working in all scientific areas where neutrons can provide valuable insights, although priority is given to those having never had any contact with neutrons scattering.

After an introduction to neutron sources and neutron scattering, ten different thematic subjects based on different scientific problems that can be addressed by neutron scattering, are proposed to the students. In groups of four to five, the students are then introduced to two different neutrons scattering technique, during three days devoted to experiments and data analysis. One of the distinguishing features of our school is that the students often come with their own samples, which are tested during the training together with our demonstration samples. This ensures a good and efficient participation of the students. The course lasts for 3.5 days.

• Soft Matter
• Magnetism
• Nanostructures and Interfaces
• Biological Systems and Medicine
• Microscopy and Tomography
• Materials
• Structure and Dynamics
• Methods and Instrumentation
• Chemical Prozesses and Phase Transitions
• Matter under Extreme Conditions
• Particles and Nuclei

The main language of the conference is German, but English contributions are admitted.

With the 61st Benzon Symposium: `Structural Biology on the Move' we wish to highlight a collection of the most intriguing analytical challenges in the light of selected splendid achievements within structural biology. Notably, we will cover magnitudes of length-scales, from high-resolution analysis to whole-cell imaging, promoting current important development within hybrid structural analysis, where methods across boundaries between established and emerging disciplines are applied. With the 61st Benzon Symposium, we aim to envision the grand opportunities that are to come in structural biology.

The Symposium is a full four day scientific meeting. The format will be a combination of state-of-the-art lectures by invited speakers, by selected oral-poster presentations, and poster presentations.

Sessions:

• Impact of Large-scale Facilities on Biological Sciences
• Structural Studies of Functional Complexes
• Structure and Function of/in Biological Membranes
• Biomedical Applications
• Imaging: from Molecule to Cell
• Protein Dynamics and Kinetics

Deadlines:

• Abstracts round opens: March 15, 2015
• Abstract round closes: May 1, 2015
• Registration: (provided acceptance of abstract) June 1, 2015
• Fee: DKK 4,500 (covers registration fee, hotel accommodation, food, and social events)

Topics

• X-ray facilities, instrumentation, optics
• Materials science and energy-related materials
• Catalysis
• Radioactive and nuclear materials
• Life science, biology and biochemistry
• Earth and environmental sciences
• Cultural heritage
• Atoms and molecules
• Nanotechnology
• Surfaces and interfaces
• Magnetism
• Soft matter
• X-ray and electron spectroscopy (XES, RIXS, NIXS, HERFD, and XPS)
• Theoretical methods
• Software, data analysis
• Newer methods and combination of techniques
• Time-resolved and ultrafast techniques
• X-ray microscopy

Effect of Disorder and Disordered Materials

This new Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Neutron Scattering, to be held in Hong Kong in 2015, will feature world-leading neutron scattering scientists who will share and discuss their latest discoveries in the GRC (interactive) style. As it is impossible to capture all new activities over a very diverse field of neutron scattering studies, the conference will instead focus on selected topics that have seen rapid developments over the last few years. Innovative instrumentation is the backbone of scientific discoveries, and thus one of the nine sessions will be devoted to discussions of the performance of innovative instruments. A diverse and vibrant user community is vital for the success of the neutron scattering facilities. We thus particularly encourage the participation of young scientists, to learn and profit from interactions with leading scientists in neutron scattering in the casual environment provided by the conference.

Challenges in Inorganic and Materials Chemistry (a Royal Society of Chemistry Conference) will be the follow-up event to successful conferences ISACS 3 and ISACS 8 held in 2010 and 2012 respectively, by bringing together leading scientists from across the world to share scientific developments.

The Scientific Committee warmly invites you to take part in ISACS 13 and looks forward to welcoming you to Dublin.

Themes

• Main Group Chemistry
  
• Metals in Biology
  
• Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis
  
• Porous and Solid State Materials
  
• Supramolecular Materials

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Ultrafast Dynamics with X-Rays and Electrons

The 23rd consecutive meeting is organized jointly by the Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Technology, University of Ljubljana and the Croatian Crystallographic Association under the auspices of University of Ljubljana and promoted by the Slovenian Chemical Society.

The official language of the meeting is English. There is no registration fee.

The University of Malaya organizes a one-day symposium on chemical crystallography entitled "Celebrating the International Year of Crystallography, IYCr2014".

Guest of honour: Prof. Dr Gautam R. Desiraju, IISc (Bangalore), current President of the International Union of Crystallography and UM HIR Academic Icon.

Venue: Auditorium Bangunan Makmal Kimia (New Chemistry Building), University of Malaya.

​Fees (inclusive of tea breaks and lunch, Abstract book; payment on the day): RM10 students (under-graduates, free); RM20 others.

Registration​ (name, status and institution) to Miss Nabihah ([email protected]) by May 25th - limited to 130 participants.

Offers of Oral Presentations with titles (10-15 minutes) to Dr Nadiah ([email protected]) as soon as possible. Students are especially encouraged to offer to present.

Offers of Poster Presentations (with titles and Abstract) to Miss Wani ([email protected]) by May 25th - limited to 50 presentations.Â

Thanks to the Department of Chemistry for sponsorship and to MoE High Impact Research scheme for hosting Prof. Desiraju.

• Mechanism of Nucleation and Crystal Growth
• Crystallization at Extreme Conditions and in External Fields
• In-situ Monitoring and Control of Nucleation and Crystal Growth Process
• Technologies for Purification, Waste Treatment and Recovery
• Crystallizer
• Modeling of Crystallization Process
• Crystallization Process Design, Simulation and Control
• Stabilization of Amorphous
• Epitaxial Growth
• Polymorphism
• Phase Transitions
• Crystal Structure
• Intermolecular Interactions
• Chirality and Resolution
• Cocrystal
• Growth of Biological Materials and Biologically-Directed Growth
• Biomineralization,
• Nanostructures and Nanoporous Crystals
• Liquid Crystals
• Novel Materials and Structure

The program will take place in two parallel sessions (ACTS & CGOM) and will include plenary and invited lectures, invited communications, oral communications, poster presentation and an exhibition.

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The conference will be open to the `Grand Public' with the aim to show the great impact crystallography has on many aspects of our lives nowadays:

- crystallography, its background and outputs

- crystals in nature

- crystals in the civilization of silicon

- crystals in lasers and laser reading

- molecular engineering and crystallography

- crystals in bio-engineering

- defects in crystals and structure materials

- aperiodic crystals.

To this end, few among the best European experts have confirmed their contribution: C. Lecomte, P. Cordier, A. Schuhl, D. Lupinsky, C. Sanchez, D. Moras, Y. Brechet and T. Janssen will give and overview of their respective fields that will be understandable to the layman with a minimum scientific background.

The conference is organized by Académie Lorraine des Sciences (www.als.uhp-nancy.fr) and will take place on Nov 15, 2014 in the magnificent City Hall of Nancy, France from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.

Access is free. The final program will soon be released on the web site of the Academy.

Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Department of Mathematical, Physical and Chemical Sciences
Croatian Crystallographic Association Scientific Meeting

Celebrating the International Year of Crystallography 2014

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Contributions:

Biserka Kojić Prodić, X-ray crystallography â€" interdisciplinary science â€" a challenge for the future

Stanko Popović, Antun Tonejc, Contemporary diffraction methods in study of polycrystals

Željko Skoko, Jasminka Popović, Stanko Popović, X-ray diffraction line broadening analysis - how to determine microstructure

Mira Ristić, Svetozar Musić, Stanko Popović, Mark Žic, Marijan  Marcius, Željka Petrović, Metal oxides â€" synthesis and microstructure

Goran Štefanić, Structural and chemical  changes caused by contamination during the high-energy milling

Dražen Balen, Zircon typology â€" application in geological investigations

Vladimir Bermanec, Vladimir Zebec, Željka Žigovečki Gobac i Snježana Mikulčić Pavlaković, Importance of crystal morphology investigations

AnÄ'elka M. Tonejc, Davorin Medaković, Stanko Popović, Andrej Jaklin, Mirjana Bijelić, Ivana Lončarek, Structural studies of biomineralization in the sea hare Aplysia punctata by electron microscopy and diffraction

Ognjen Milat, Four-dimensional crystallography; a case study of modulated (M)_xCuO₂ composite crystal structureÂ

Ernest Meštrović, Crystallography in the research and control of active pharmaceutical ingredients

Goran Mikleušević, Zoran Štefanić, Marija Luić, Insights into the catalytic mechanism of E. coli purine nucleoside  phosphorylase by X-ray crystallography

Biserka Prugovečki, Dubravka Matković-Čalogović, Structural characterization of insulin derivatives

Sanja Tomić, Alan Tus, Alen Rakipović, Goran Peretin, Mile Šikić, BioMe: web-based platform for analysis of the metal-binding sites in the experimentally determined biomacromolecular 3D structures

Mario Cetina, Ante Nagl, Vedran Krištafor, Krešimir Benci, Karlo Wittine, Mladen Mintas, Supramolecular assembling of nucleoside analogues

Krešimir Molčanov, Crystal engineering in design of functional π-electronic systems  based in quinoid compounds

Aleksandar Višnjevac, Single crystal X-ray diffraction in investigation of biomimetic models of mononuclear metalloezyme active sites

Marijana Đaković, Zora Popović, Structural studies of  halogen bonds in Cu(II) i Ag(I) complexes

Boris Marko Kukovec, Marijana Đaković, Neven Smrečki-Lolić, Zora Popović, Nickel(II) and palladium(II) complexes with derivatives of iminodiacetic acid â€" preparation, crystal structures and catalytic properties

Gordana Pavlović, Marina Cindrić, Magnetic properties of tetranuclear nickel(II) complexes by supramolecular design

Mirta Rubčić, Ivan Halasz, Gordana Pavlović, Damir Pajić, Marina Cindrić, Imino derivatives of carbohydrazide and their coordination compounds

Vladimir Stilinović, Branko Kaitner, Influence of molecular dipole moment on the symmetry of molecular crystals

Ivica Đilović, Krunoslav Užarević, Dubravka Matković-ÄŒalogović, Marina Cindrić, Molecular recognition â€" the role of anionic templates in the chemistry of flexible receptors

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