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 | |
Location: Club A 170 1st floor |
Date: Sunday, 15/Aug/2021 | |
9:00am - 9:50am |
KN-3: High Pressure Crystallography Unlimited Location: Club A Chair: Arthur Haozhe Liu Leonid Dubrovinsky Plenary and keynote High pressure crystallography unlimited |
10:20am - 12:45pm |
MS-2: Validation of cryoEM structures and maps Location: Club A Chair: Jose-Maria Carazo Chair: Elena Orlova Invited: Florence Tama (Japan), Pavel Afonine (USA), G. Kleywegt (Germany) All topics Protein hydrogen bond parameters as a new validation tool 10:50am - 11:20am Biological and macromolecular crystallography Integrative modeling to characterize structure and dynamics of biomolecules 11:20am - 11:50am All topics Community recommendations on validating cryo-EM models and data 11:50am - 12:05pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Cryo-EM Validation Metrics in EMDA 12:05pm - 12:20pm All topics FSC-Q: A method for quality analysis of cryoEM-derived models 12:20pm - 12:35pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Outcomes from EMDataResource model challenges 12:35pm - 12:50pm All topics Quantifiying resolvability of atomic features in cryo-EM maps using Q-scores |
2:45pm - 5:10pm |
MS-09: Structure guided drug design and antibiotic resistance targets Location: Club A Chair: Begoña Heras Chair: Anton V. Zavialov Invited: Vibha Gupta (India), Jade Forwood (Australia) Introduction Introduction to session 2:50pm - 3:20pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Understanding viral host interactions that modulate nuclear transport and innate immunity 3:20pm - 3:50pm All topics Novel targets in old rouges: Integrative structural biology approach for discovery of natural product inhibitors 3:50pm - 4:10pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography The structure of the ABC transporter PsaBC shows that bacterial manganese import is achieved by unique architectural features that are conserved across the kingdoms of life. 4:10pm - 4:30pm All topics Uncovering the structures and mechanisms for the largest group of bacterial surface virulence factors. 4:30pm - 4:50pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Inhibiting, stabilising and probing the function of the Retromer endosomal trafficking complex through the novel macrocyclic peptides 4:50pm - 5:10pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Structural and mechanistic studies on carbapenem-hydrolysing class D serine β-lactamases leading to improved inhibitor design |
6:10pm - 7:00pm |
KN-6: The Coronavirus Structural Task Force Location: Club A Chair: Marcin Nowotny Andrea Thorn Plenary and keynote The Coronavirus Structural Task Force |
Date: Monday, 16/Aug/2021 | |
9:00am - 9:50am |
KN-9: Crystalline sponge, metal-organic assembles Location: Club A Chair: Masaki Kawano Makoto Fujita Plenary and keynote Crystalline Sponge Method: Recent Updates and Applications |
10:20am - 12:45pm |
MS-17: Automation in bio-crystallography: tools, perspectives and applications Location: Club A Chair: Santosh Panjikar Chair: Melanie Vollmar Invited: Katherine McAuley (UK), Jose Marquez (France) Introduction Introduction to session 10:25am - 10:55am Biological and macromolecular crystallography Online Crystallography: Automated, Remote Controlled Protein-to-Structure Pipelines for Drug Design 10:55am - 11:25am Biological and macromolecular crystallography Automated data collection at the Swiss Light Source macromolecular crystallography beamlines 11:25am - 11:45am Biological and macromolecular crystallography Fully automated data collection and remote access in macromolecular crystallography beamlines at the Photon Factory, Japan 11:45am - 12:05pm All topics Millisecond Time-Resolved Crystallography using Film Mixing and Plunge Cooling 12:05pm - 12:25pm All topics Automated ML-based sample centering for macromolecular X-ray crystallography with MXAimbot 12:25pm - 12:45pm All topics xia2.multiplex: a multi-crystal data analysis pipeline |
2:45pm - 5:10pm |
MS-25: Structural biology against coronavirus/covid-1 Location: Club A Chair: Sarah EJ Bowman Chair: Lu Zhang Chair: Gianluca Santoni Invited: Xuhui Huang (China) Introduction Introduction to session 2:50pm - 3:20pm All topics Millisecond Functional Dynamics of RNA Polymerases Elucidated by Markov State Models 3:20pm - 3:40pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Co-crystallization of hepatitis C virus NS3/4A inhibitors and SARS-CoV-2 main protease using high density acoustic droplet ejection (ADE) 3:40pm - 4:00pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Structural basis of mRNA cap modification by SARS-CoV-2: Role of metal ions and implications for COVID-19 severity by emerging variants 4:00pm - 4:20pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Crystallographic fragment screening of SARS-CoV-2 drug discovery targets 4:20pm - 4:40pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography A structure-guided, taxonomic-based approach to the design of broad-spectrum coronavirus protease inhibitors 4:40pm - 5:00pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Structure of SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease PLpro reveals a framework for antiviral inhibitor design |
6:10pm - 7:00pm |
KN-12: Structural hybrid methods to probe membrane transport nanomachines in pathogenic bacteria Location: Club A Chair: Julie Bouckaert Natalie Strynadka Plenary and keynote Hybrid structural methods to probe atomic features of the Type III Secretion Injectisome of Pathogenic Bacteria |
Date: Tuesday, 17/Aug/2021 | |
9:00am - 9:50am |
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? |
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 |
1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Meeting 3 - Journals: Commission on Journals open meeting Location: Club A Chair: Andrew Allen Chair: Peter Raymond Strickland |
Date: Wednesday, 18/Aug/2021 | |
9:00am - 9:50am |
KN-18: Electron density, and its interplay with the energy and properties of molecules and solids Location: Club A Chair: Catharine Esterhuysen Julia Contreras-Garcia Plenary and keynote Electron density, and its interplay with the energy and properties of molecules and solids |
10:20am - 12:45pm |
MS-42: Novel techniques and insights into in vitro and in situ crystallisation for X-ray and electron diffraction. Location: Club A Chair: Lars Redecke Chair: Fasseli Coulibaly Invited: Haruki Hasegawa (USA), Alexandra Ros (USA) Introduction Introduction to session 10:25am - 10:55am Biological and macromolecular crystallography Concurrent crystallization of multiple proteins in a single cell without interfering each other’s phase separation events 10:55am - 11:25am Biological and macromolecular crystallography Microfluidic Tools Reducing Sample Amount in Serial Crystallography with XFELs 11:25am - 11:45am Biological and macromolecular crystallography MyD88 TIR domain higher-order assembly interactions revealed by microcrystal electron diffraction and serial femtosecond crystallography 11:45am - 12:05pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography The crystallomics pipeline, a shotgun approach on native proteomes to (re)discover the unsuspected 12:05pm - 12:25pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Protein crystallization assisted by the crystallophore. 12:25pm - 12:45pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Protein crystallisation in agarose gel, a cheap and versatile technique |
1:00pm - 2:00pm |
Workshop - Journals: Journal Author Workshop. From data to publication Location: Club A Chair: Andrew Allen Chair: Michele Zema Panelists: Elspeth Garman (Acta D); Chiara Massera (Acta E); Andrew Allen (Editor-in-Chief) Managing editors and IUCr staff: Louise Jones (Acta D); Michele Zema (Executive Outreach Officer) |
2:45pm - 5:10pm |
MS-49: Protein design and engineering Location: Club A Chair: Charlotte Uetrecht Chair: Sheena McGowan Introduction Introduction to session 2:50pm - 3:20pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Using Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction to Create Robust, Highly Expressed Proteins for Crystallography 3:20pm - 3:50pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Protein cage directed nanoparticle superlattices 3:50pm - 4:10pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography The bright-side and the dark-side of computational protein stabilization 4:10pm - 4:30pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Enzyme engineering by random mutagenesis: structural and functional studies of modified plant-type L-asparaginase (EcAIII) 4:30pm - 4:50pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Computational design of symmetric eight and nine-bladed β-propellers 4:50pm - 5:10pm Bursary application Structural evidence for the bleaching caused by oxygen in rsCherry |
6:10pm - 7:00pm |
KN-21: How limitless antibodies are generated by V(D)J recombination Location: Club A Chair: Marcin Nowotny Wei Yang Plenary and keynote How limitless antibodies are generated by V(D)J recombination |
Date: Thursday, 19/Aug/2021 | |
9:00am - 9:50am |
KN-24: Regulation of gene expression by transcription factors and RNA-binding proteins Location: Club A Chair: Pavlína Řezáčová Udo Heinemann Plenary and keynote Regulation of gene expression by transcription factors and RNA-binding proteins |
10:20am - 12:45pm |
MS-58: Ultra-high resolution macromolecular crystallography and quantum biocrystallography Location: Club A Chair: Christian Jelsch Chair: Alexander Wlodawer Invited: Paulina Dominiak (Poland), Maciej Kubicki (Poland) Introduction Introduction to session 10:25am - 10:55am Biological and macromolecular crystallography Experimental studies of the details of electron density distribution in a Z-DNA hexamer: new insights, new problems 10:55am - 11:25am Biological and macromolecular crystallography Moving quantum crystallography from sub-atomic XRD to near-atomic 3D ED 11:25am - 11:50am Biological and macromolecular crystallography Principles of the mechanism of interfacial activation of a lipase: open and closed states and lipid – enzyme interactions in the limbus region of Candida antarctica Lipase B 11:50am - 12:15pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Investigating the redox cycle of tryparedoxin at ultra-high resolution 12:15pm - 12:40pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Theoretical electrostatic potential maps of macromolecules calculated with multipolar electron scattering factors |
1:00pm - 2:30pm |
ECA - GIG-1: ECA - GIG-1 Young Crystallographers Location: Club A |
2:45pm - 5:10pm |
MS-69a: Complex crystal structures - chemical crystallography Location: Club A Chair: Marie Colmont Chair: Sergey V. Krivovichev Introduction Introduction to session 2:50pm - 3:15pm Materials and minerals Tellurides with monovalent Ga and In – from chains to networks 3:15pm - 3:40pm Bursary application Elucidation and quantification of the factors underlying bond-length variation in inorganic solids for the design of non-oxide materials with superior functional properties 3:40pm - 4:05pm Chemical crystallography, crystal structures Synthesis and investigation of the 4H and newly discovered 6H perovskite polymorphs of BaRhO3 between 7 – 22 GPa. 4:05pm - 4:30pm Materials and minerals Enhancing the Chemical Flexibility of Hybrid Perovskites by Introducing Divalent Ligands 4:30pm - 4:55pm Bursary application Temperature dependent structural studies of incommensurately modulated Rb2ZnCl4 |
6:10pm - 7:00pm |
KN-25: A Crystallographic Snapshot of SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Maturation Process and the Discovery of Inhibitors Location: Club A Chair: Julie Bouckaert Glaucius Oliva Plenary and keynote A Crystallographic Snapshot of SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Maturation Process |
Date: Friday, 20/Aug/2021 | |
9:00am - 9:50am |
KN-30: Structure guided inhibitor discovery targeting a membrane receptor involved in atherosclerosis Location: Club A Chair: Julie Bouckaert Arockiasamy Arulandu Plenary and keynote Structure guided inhibitor discovery targeting a membrane receptor involved in atherosclerosis |
10:20am - 12:45pm |
MS-74: Structural biology of receptors, signaling and membrane proteins Location: Club A Chair: SUSAN KAY BUCHANAN Chair: Michael Parker Invited: Robert Keenan (USA), Isabel Moraes (UK) Introduction Introduction to session 10:25am - 10:55am Biological and macromolecular crystallography Structures of the archaerhodopsin-3 transporter reveal that disordering of internal water networks underpins receptor sensitization 10:55am - 11:25am Biological and macromolecular crystallography An ER translocon for multi-pass membrane protein biogenesis 11:25am - 11:45am All topics To eat or not to eat: Cryo-EM structure of melanocortin receptor 4 reveals mechanism of a “hunger switch” initiating satiety signaling. 11:45am - 12:05pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Unravelling the molecular architecture of the Commander assembly 12:05pm - 12:25pm Bursary application Two-component pore formation by the novel CDCL proteins ALY short and ALY long from Elizabethkingia anophelis 12:25pm - 12:45pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Mechanistic insights into the synergistic activation ofthe RXR–PXR heterodimer by endocrinedisruptor mixtures |
1:00pm - 2:30pm |
ECA - SIG-11: ECA - SIG-11 Crystallography under Extreme Conditions Location: Club A |
2:45pm - 5:10pm |
MS-81: Nucleic acids and binding proteins structure and function Location: Club A Chair: Stephen Neidle Chair: Charles Bond Invited: Millie Georgiadis (USA), Liliya Yatsunyk (USA) Introduction Introduction to session 2:50pm - 3:20pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Non-canonical DNA structures and their interactions with small molecule ligands 3:20pm - 3:50pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Structural properties of Alien DNA, an alternative genetic system 3:50pm - 4:10pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography APE1 Exonuclease Distinguishes Various DNA Substrates by an Induced Space-Filling Mechanism. 4:10pm - 4:30pm Bursary application Structural characterization of clinically reported missense mutations identified in BRCA1 4:30pm - 4:50pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Solid-solid phase transition in adenine riboswitch crystals driven by large conformational changes induced by ligand Biological and macromolecular crystallography Molecular mechanism of self-antigen recognition by the ligand binding domain of B cell inhibitory co-receptor CD72 |
6:10pm - 7:00pm |
KN-33: Overview of Global Neutron Sources, Instruments and Initiatives Location: Club A Chair: Jiri Kulda Ken Andersen Plenary and keynote Overview of Global Neutron Sources, Instruments and Initiatives |
Date: Saturday, 21/Aug/2021 | |
9:00am - 9:50am |
KN-34: Fabrication and Characterization of Inhomogeneity-free Polymer Gels Location: Club A Chair: Marijana Đaković Mitsushiro Shibayama Plenary and keynote Fabrication and characterization of inhomogeneity-free polymer gels |
10:20am - 12:45pm |
MS-92 (34b): Structural biology of enzymes, mechanism and regulation II Location: Club A Chair: Mirjam Czjzek Biological and macromolecular crystallography Structural insights into the transposition of antibiotic resistance 10:50am - 11:20am Biological and macromolecular crystallography Extraordinary Structures of Orphan Methyltransferases with Their Substrate DNA 11:20am - 11:40am Biological and macromolecular crystallography Structural and mechanistic basis for protein glutamylation by the kinase fold 11:40am - 12:00pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Mechanism of RNA stimulated ATP hydrolysis by tick-borne encephalitis virus NS3 helicase 12:00pm - 12:20pm Biological and macromolecular crystallography Quinol-dependent Nitric Oxide Reductases are dimers in cryoEM structures 12:20pm - 12:40pm All topics Interactive GUI for the calculation of Fobs-Fobs electron density difference maps and extrapolated structure factors based on the cctbx toolbox |
2:45pm - 5:10pm |
MS-101 (18b): Phase transitions in complex materials (structure and magnetism) II Location: Club A Chair: Yuichi Shimakawa Chair: Alexandra Gibbs All topics Towards an iterative exploration of novel materials exhibting electronic phase transitions 3:05pm - 3:25pm Physics and fundamental crystallography Negative X-ray expansion in cadmium cyanide 3:25pm - 3:45pm Physics and fundamental crystallography Crystal structure, complex phase diagram and re-entrant phase transition in NaSrPO4 3:45pm - 4:05pm All topics Crystal structure of a new polymorph of Sr2TiO4 with tetrahedral titanium 4:05pm - 4:25pm Physics and fundamental crystallography Revisiting the crystal structure and magneto-elastic coupling in MnZnSb 4:25pm - 4:45pm All topics Phase transitions and magnetic structures in Epsilon-Fe2O3 nanoparticles 4:45pm - 5:05pm All topics Polytypism in layered AB2 solids |
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