XXV General Assembly and Congress of the
International Union of Crystallography - IUCr 2021
August 14 - 22, 2021 | Prague, Czech Republic
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
Date: Tuesday, 17/Aug/2021 | ||||||||
9:00am - 9:50am |
KN-13: Structural flexibility and disorder in functional materials Location: Terrace 2A Chair: Brendan Kennedy Andrew Goodwin Plenary and keynote Structural flexibility and disorder in functional materials |
KN-14: Quantum crystallography and spintronic materials Location: Terrace 2B Chair: Krzysztof Wozniak Piero Macchi Plenary and keynote Quantum crystallography and spintronic materials |
KN-15: Time resolved macromolecular crystallography Location: Club A Chair: Ivana Kuta Smatanova Arwen R Pearson Plenary and keynote Time-resolved macromolecular crystallography: no longer a niche pursuit? |
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9:50am - 10:20am |
Morning break 3: Exhibition, posters, coffee/tea Location: Exhibition and poster area |
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10:20am - 12:45pm |
MS-33: CryoEM for macromolecules - from single particles to microcrystals Location: Club A Chair: Jan Pieter Abrahams Chair: Jiri Novacek Invited: Nenad Ban (Switzerland), Dimple Karia (Netherlands) Introduction Introduction to session 10:25am - 10:55am Biological and macromolecular crystallography Structural basis of SARS-CoV-2 translational shutdown and programmed ribosomal frameshifting 10:55am - 11:25am Biological and macromolecular crystallography Home source for cryo-EM 11:25am - 11:50am Biological and macromolecular crystallography High-resolution structures of immature and chimeric flaviviruses reveal key features redefining viral architecture and maturation 11:50am - 12:15pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Receptor induced rearrangements of capsid and genome prime rhinovirus 14 for activation and uncoating 12:15pm - 12:40pm Bursary application M. tuberculosis enolase: Crystal and Cryo-EM structures provide insights into 2-phosphoglycerate binding and catalysis |
MS-34a: Structural biology of enzymes, mechanism and regulation Location: Club B Chair: Mirjam Czjzek Invited: Liang Wu (UK), Orsolya Barabas (Germany) Introduction Introduction to session 10:25am - 10:55am Biological and macromolecular crystallography Adventures in heparan sulfate degradation 10:55am - 11:25am Biological and macromolecular crystallography High-resolution structure and reaction cycle of Fatty Acid Photodecarboxylase: anatomy of a crime scene 11:25am - 11:45am Biological and macromolecular crystallography Structural insights into the enzymatic mechanism of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases 11:45am - 12:05pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Structural studies on a unique glucosamine kinase unveil a novel enzyme family 12:05pm - 12:25pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Biosynthesis of mycobacterial methylmannose polysaccharides requires a unique 1-O-methyltransferase specific for 3-O-methylated mannosides 12:25pm - 12:45pm Bursary application Time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography on photoswitchable fluorescent proteins |
MS-35: Polymorphism and structural transformation of organic crystals from synthesis to characterization Location: Club D Chair: Kenneth D. M. Harris Chair: Doris E. Braun Invited: David Bryce (Canada), Franziska Emmerling (Germany) Introduction Introduction to session 10:25am - 10:55am Chemical crystallography, crystal structures Preparation strategies and solid-state NMR characterization of supramolecular architectures based on halogen bonds, chalcogen bonds, and pnictogen bonds 10:55am - 11:25am Chemical crystallography, crystal structures Mechanochemical cocrystal formation: Insights into polymorph control 11:25am - 11:45am All topics Pervasive approximate symmetry in organic P1 structures 11:45am - 12:05pm Bursary application The Crystal Structure of Indomethacin Polymorph δ Solved by 3D Electron Diffraction 12:05pm - 12:25pm Chemical crystallography, crystal structures Analysis of the experimental parameters impacting Non-Photochemical Laser-Induced nucleation of glycine in water 12:25pm - 12:45pm Chemical crystallography, crystal structures Photo-induced electron transfer in Pyrene-(CH2)2-N,N'-Dimethylaniline: Time-resolved pink Laue X-ray diffraction studies on crystalline polymorphs. |
MS-36: Generalizations of crystallographic groups and their applications Location: 221-2 Chair: Gregory L McColm Chair: Eden Delight Miro Invited: Pavel Kalouguine (France), Martin Cramer Pedersen (Denmark) Introduction Introduction to session 10:25am - 10:55am Theory, computation, modelling, data, standards Behind the curve: Generating and analysing nets and tessellations on periodic minimalsurfaces in their universal covering space 10:55am - 11:25am Physics and fundamental crystallography Flat-branched semisimplicial complexes: a versatile tool for aperiodic solids 11:25am - 11:45am Bursary application Coordinated Colorings and their Chromatic Groups 11:45am - 12:05pm Theory, computation, modelling, data, standards Advances in the application of magnetic and non-magnetic superspace-group symmetry 12:05pm - 12:25pm Theory, computation, modelling, data, standards Magnetic modes compatible with the symmetry of crystals |
MS-37: Total scattering Location: Terrace 2A Chair: Pierre Bordet Chair: Emil Bozin Invited: Stephan Rosenkranz (USA), Bo Brummerstedt Iversen (Denmark) Introduction Introduction to session 10:25am - 10:55am Methods and instruments Pair Distribution Function Analysis in Materials Science 10:55am - 11:25am Methods and instruments Recent developments in measuring and analysing large 3D volumes of scattering data to investigate the role of complex disorder on crystalline materials properties 11:25am - 11:45am Methods and instruments Extracting interface correlations from the pair distribution function of composite materials 11:45am - 12:05pm Methods and instruments Total scattering at grazing incidence to study real thin film systems at variable temperature 12:05pm - 12:25pm All topics Magnetic pair distribution function analysis of antiferromagnetic semiconductor MnTe 12:25pm - 12:45pm All topics The local structure fingerprint of dual orbital degeneracy lifting in a strongly correlated electron system |
MS-38: Structural, electronic and magnetic ordering: From fundamental physics to functionality Location: Club C Chair: Javier Sanchez-Benitez Chair: Ovidiu Garlea Invited: Christian Balz (USA), Mark Senn (UK) Introduction Introduction to session 10:25am - 10:55am Physics and fundamental crystallography Magnetic Phase diagram of alpha-RuCl3 10:55am - 11:25am Physics and fundamental crystallography Striping of orbital-order with charge-disorder in optimally doped manganites 11:25am - 11:45am All topics Formation and ordering of orbital molecules in AV2O4 spinels 11:45am - 12:05pm Bursary application Perovzalates: a family of perovskite-related oxalates 12:05pm - 12:25pm Physics and fundamental crystallography Aurivillius oxyfluorides: nuclear and magnetic order and the role of the anion sublattice 12:25pm - 12:45pm All topics Intermartensitic transformation between modulated structures in Heusler Ni-Mn-Ga(-Fe) single crystals |
MS-39: Quantum crystallography in materials science Location: Terrace 2B Chair: Simon Grabowsky Chair: Jean-Michel Gillet Invited: Rebecca Scatena (UK), Cherif Matta (Canada) Introduction Introduction to session 10:25am - 10:55am Physics and fundamental crystallography Formate-mediated Magnetic Superexchange in the Model Hybrid Perovskite [(CH3)2NH2]Cu(HCOO)3: Applicability criteria for the GKA rules 10:55am - 11:25am Physics and fundamental crystallography The Electric Field of ATP-Synthase 11:25am - 11:45am Physics and fundamental crystallography Thermal stability of Glass forming Metal-Organic Framework: Role of metal-ligand bonding 11:45am - 12:05pm All topics Chemical bonding origin of the thermoelectric power factor in Half-Heusler semiconductors 12:05pm - 12:25pm Physics and fundamental crystallography Towards the measurement of bonding electron densities in nanostructured materials 12:25pm - 12:45pm Bursary application Towards accurate positions of hydrogen atoms bonded to heavy metal atoms |
MS-40: New applications of coherent scattering Location: 223-4 Chair: Ian Robinson Chair: Christian Gutt Invited: Johanned Ihli (Switzerland), Foivos Perakis (Sweden) Introduction Introduction to session 10:25am - 10:55am All topics Molecular movies with X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy 10:55am - 11:25am Methods and instruments Visualizing the effect additives have on the nanostructure of individual bio-inspired calcite crystal 11:25am - 11:45am Methods and instruments Cateretê: The Coherent X-ray Scattering Beamline at the 4th generation synchrotron facility SIRIUS 11:45am - 12:05pm Methods and instruments Burning cups and donuts: what coherent X-rays can reveal about topological defects 12:05pm - 12:25pm Methods and instruments Coherent diffraction imaging at space-group forbidden reflections 12:25pm - 12:45pm All topics Machine Leaning approach to the phase problem in Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging |
SMS-3: Online crystallography: Tools, apps and web services Location: Club H Chair: Eugene Krissinel Chair: Christian Bertram Hübschle Invited: Mois Ilia Aroyo (Spain), Victor Lamzin (Germany) Introduction Introduction to session 10:25am - 10:55am Special Sessions Symmetry database of International Tables online 10:55am - 11:25am All topics Macromolecular Model Building Over the Web 11:25am - 11:45am Special Sessions Live monitoring onsite, remote and unattended data collection on synchrotron MX beamlines 11:45am - 12:05pm Special Sessions Introduction to invariant-based machine learning for periodic crystals 12:05pm - 12:25pm All topics Solving Macromolecular Structures Online with CCP4 12:25pm - 12:45pm General interest eSPC, an Online Data Analysis Platform for Molecular Biophysics |
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12:45pm - 2:45pm |
ECA-ECM: ECM programme committees Location: Club H Chair: Sylvain Ravy ECM programme committee meetings -Versaille,Padova |
Lunch 3: Exhibition, posters, lunches Location: Exhibition and poster area |
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1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Meeting 3 - Journals: Commission on Journals open meeting Location: Club A Chair: Andrew Allen Chair: Peter Raymond Strickland |
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1:30pm - 2:00pm |
CS-4: Commercial session - MiTeGen: Innovations in Crystallography and CryoEM Location: Terrace 2A Chair: Milan Dopita 30 min company presentation |
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2:50pm - 3:40pm |
PL-1: How data have revealed the structural universe Location: Panorama Chair: John Richard Helliwell Helen Berman Plenary and keynote The data universe of structural biology |
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3:45pm - 4:40pm |
Bragg: W.H. and W.L. Bragg Prize Location: Panorama Chair: Elena Boldyreva Plenary and keynote Structure-guided design of next-generation malaria vaccine Plenary and keynote Targeting COVID-19 Viral Enzymes in an Evolving Landscape of Publishing and Peer Review |
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4:40pm - 5:40pm |
Afternoon break 3: Poster session B1, exhibition, coffee/tea Location: Exhibition and poster area |
Poster - 17 Biocrystallography: Macromolecular and biological crystallography
Poster session abstracts Poster session abstracts Poster sessions MyD88 TIR domain higher-order assembly interactions revealed by serial femtosecond crystallography Biological and macromolecular crystallography Crystal structure of atypical ubiquitin ligase PCAF_N Biological and macromolecular crystallography Structural characterization of seven-bladed beta-propeller lectin family from Photorhabdus laumondii Poster sessions Structural study of the inhibitory mechanism of tau recognition antibody to tau aggregation Biological and macromolecular crystallography Molecular-biology and structural study of Avian orthoreovirus non-structural proteins Biological and macromolecular crystallography Surface Layer Proteins of Lactobacillus acidophilus - A Story of SlpA and SlpX Biological and macromolecular crystallography Structural characterization of the PTG and PTG/PP1 complex Poster sessions OrfG, a VirB8-like protein encoded by an integrative and conjugative element in S. thermophilus, has a trimeric architecture with intertwined subunits that may be involved in the Gram-positive Conj-T4SS. Poster sessions A solution-free crystal-mounting platform for native SAD Biological and macromolecular crystallography Structural insights into the phlorotannin binding of EHEP and akuBGL for producing biofuel from brown algae Poster sessions Structural studies of C-reactive Protein Biological and macromolecular crystallography Structural studies of bacterial small alarmone hydrolases Biological and macromolecular crystallography Investigation of possible tolerance mutations in a VapBC Toxin-Antitoxin system through structure determination Poster sessions Investigations on Vibrio cholerae sensory regulator ToxR Biological and macromolecular crystallography FAD-dependent oxidoreductase from Chaetomium thermophilum: Crystallographic fragment screening-based identification of putative substrates Poster sessions Structure-assisted design of inhibitors of CA IX enzyme based on polyhedral boron compounds Bursary application Understanding the structural and functional aspects of a novel Mg2+-citrate-binding protein Bursary application MlaC represents a unique class of solute-binding proteins Poster sessions Evolutionary upgrade of stefins for secretion in parasites All topics Light-induced oligomerization of the transcription factor EL222 |
Poster - 18 CryoEM: Cryo-EM Chair: Jose-Maria Carazo Chair: Jiri Novacek
Poster session abstracts Poster session abstracts Biological and macromolecular crystallography Structural analysis of transcription related complexes and operation of 200kV cryo-EM in KEK Biological and macromolecular crystallography SAMase of bacteriophage T3 inactivates E. coli’s methionine Sadenosyltransferase by forming hetero-polymers Methods and instruments Reciprocal space refinement and map calculation for cryo-EM single particle structures Biological and macromolecular crystallography Cryo-EM structure of a functional monomeric Photosystem I from Thermosynechococcus elongatus reveals red chlorophyll cluster Biological and macromolecular crystallography Structural Comparation of heterotrimer PCNA from Crenarchaeon Aeropyrum pernix by solution scattering, Cryo-EM, and Crystallography Poster sessions Structural analysis of a tetradecameric HSP100 chaperone by cryo-EM and SAXS Methods and instruments Developments in Advanced Handling, Storage, Transport, and Tracking of Cryo-EM Samples Bursary application Cryo-electron tomography study of detonation nanodiamonds hydrosols |
Poster - 19 Pharmaceutical: Pharmaceutical materials Chair: Nikoletta B. Bathori Chair: Laszlo Fabian Comment Poster session abstracts Poster session abstracts Bursary application New salts of levofloxacin with physiochemical, structural and biological Insights Chemical crystallography, crystal structures Pharmaceutical cocrystallization: polymorphs, salts and cocrystals Chemical crystallography, crystal structures 3D Electron diffraction for the discovery of new crystal forms of APIs Chemical crystallography, crystal structures Crystal growth and optical study of thalidomide Bursary application Syntesis and charachterization of metallo-drugs with potential use for overweight treatment Materials and minerals Effect of grinding procedures on the ritonavir-lopinavir system Chemical crystallography, crystal structures Chaperone Compounds for Co-crystallization of Organics Chemical crystallography, crystal structures The "Molecular Grabber" method: Development of another crystalline sponge New idea for structure analysis of compounds using protein All topics An unexpected and unusually complex Co-Mefenamate with nine octahedrally coordinated crystallographically independent cobalt atoms obtained at room temperature Chemical crystallography, crystal structures Nitroxide with diphenylphosphino moiety: synthesis, supramolecular structure, biology and catalysis Chemical crystallography, crystal structures New forms of pharmaceutical co-crystals of gefitinib with resorcinol Bursary application Study in the Solid State, Framework Energy and Crystal Structure by X-Ray Diffraction Techniques of Cetirizine and Levocetirizine Dihydrochloride Used as an Antihistamines Bursary application Influence of guest lattice solvents on nanomechanical properties of pharmaceutical crystalline solids Poster sessions Photoswitchable dismantlers of biomaterials made of amyloid fibrils. |
Poster - 20 Polymorphism: Polymorphism Chair: Doris E. Braun Chair: Kenneth D. M. Harris
Poster session abstracts Poster session abstracts Bursary application Importance of Polymorphism in Improving the Potency of Bioactive Molecules Bursary application Tunable temperature of reversible phase transitions in a series of heterometallic carboxylate complexes with CaZn2-backbone Chemical crystallography, crystal structures Structural analysis, Ferroelectric and dielectric properties of single component organic multifunctional materials Bursary application Stacking differences and similarities between a new and two old lapachol polymorphs Bursary application Synthesis & crystallographic, spectroscopic and computational characterization of O-R substituents effects on the torsional angle of 3,3',4,4' substituted biphenyls Chemical crystallography, crystal structures A difficult art of crystallizing and characterizing elusive polymorphs of meloxicam Chemical crystallography, crystal structures The phenomenon of polymorphism within the stereoatomic model of crystal structures Chemical crystallography, crystal structures Crystal and molecular structures of small-molecule solids solved with the free-distribution software PSSP and WinPSSP Bursary application Influence of the Lewis basicity hardness of recrystallization solvents on the coordination sphere of the complex [Co(3,5-dinitrobenzoate-O,O’)2]. Chemical crystallography, crystal structures Determination of the crystal structure of magnesium stearate hydrate using micrometre size single crystals |
Poster - 21 Quantum: Quantum crystallography Chair: Chérif F. Matta Chair: Anna Maria Makal Chair: PIERO MACCHI Chair: Katarzyna N. Jarzembska
Poster session abstracts Poster session abstracts Theory, computation, modelling, data, standards How flexible is the water molecule structure? Cambridge Structural Database and ab initio calculations study. Chemical crystallography, crystal structures Crystallographic and Computational Electron Density of dx2-y2 Orbitals of Azo-Schiff Base Metal Complexes Using Conventional Programs Bursary application EVIDENCE OF STRONG HYDROGEN BONDING IN CRYSTAL STRUCTURES OF TRANSITION METAL COMPLEXES Chemical crystallography, crystal structures Computational analysis of intermolecular interactions in a crystal with structural phase transitions All topics The benefit and challenges of non-spherical refinements – NoSpherA2 All topics Charge density distribution of API in crystals and ligand-receptor complexes Bursary application Intermolecular interaction analysis from SCXRD and their relationship with observed properties in potential pharmaceuticals All topics Three-Dimensional topological analysis of the experimental and theoretical electron density of a 5-Fluorocytosine/Isoniazid cocrystal Chemical crystallography, crystal structures Quantum crystallography, spectroscopic methods, and hot stage microscopy in the study of chromic multicomponent materials Poster sessions QM/MM-based charge density analysis of protein-ligand complexes: Towards medicinal chemistry and drug design perspective Poster sessions Experimental and theoretical charge density study of two tetranuclear transition metal clusters with single molecule magnet properties Physics and fundamental crystallography Understanding the Proton Tautomerism Mechanism in Organic Molecular Ferroelectrics: Insights from Quantum Crystallography Poster sessions Charge Density Studies of in-situ Crystallized Liquids with Hirshfeld Atom Refinement, Invariom-Model and Multipole-Model |
Poster - 22 Ptychography: Ptychography, imaging, coherent scattering Chair: Sine Larsen Chair: Ian Robinson
Poster session abstracts Poster session abstracts Methods and instruments Ptychographically-assisted X-ray fluorescence nanotomography for characterization of complex materials Methods and instruments Coherent X-ray imaging at ID16A: status and plans Methods and instruments Toward dynamic ptychography using a spatiotemporal overlap constraint Methods and instruments Coherent X-ray diffraction imaging to investigate structure and morphological evolution of calcium carbonate microparticles Methods and instruments Super-resolution X-ray holography All topics Diffraction imaging and tomography investigations on the hydration of gypsum plaster All topics Grazing-incidence small angle X-ray photoncorrelation spectroscopy: limitations and opportunities Methods and instruments Development and improvement of Bragg coherent diffraction imaging for expanding observable particle-size range All topics Wavefield Characterisation of MHz XFEL Pulses Methods and instruments Ptychographic image reconstruction using total variation regularization |
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6:30pm - 7:15pm |
Refreshment: Refreshment Location: Exhibition and poster area |
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7:15pm - 8:45pm |
Cultural programme: Concert - Dvorak ensemble Ensemble Website |