Scientific sessions

 
 
 
 
 
Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Friday, August 26, 2005

Saturday, August 27, 2005

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Monday, August 29, 2005

Tuesday, August 30, 2005
 
 
Wednesday, August 24 2005
8.30-9.30
KN 1
(Michelangelo Hall)

"Luigi Sacconi" medal awarded by Luigi Sacconi Foundation and Italian Chemical Society (SCI)

Roald Hoffmann
Chair:
Joel Bernstein

A Theoretician's View of Crystallography




 
9.30-10.00 Break
 
10.00-12:35
MS 1
(Michelangelo Hall)

Chairs:
Naomi Chayen
Janet Newman

When Bad Crystals Turn Good: Transforming Poorly Diffracting Crystals
more...
MS 2
(Botticelli Hall)

Chairs:
Lynne Regan
Paul Curmi

Chameleon Proteins
more...
MS 3
(Cimabue Hall)

Chairs:
Shiv P. Halasyamani
Reiko Kuroda

Chiral and Non-centrosymmetric Structures
more...
MS 4
(Giotto Hall)

Chairs:
Elias Vlieg
Robin D. Rogers

Polymorphism
more...
MS 5
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)

Chairs:
Juan Manuel Perez-Mato
Ulrich Bismayer

Structural Phase Transitions
more...
MS 6
(Brunelleschi Hall)

Chairs:
David Rendle
Izumi Nakai

Crystallography and Forensic Science
more...
MS 7
(Donatello Hall)

Chairs:
Wulf Depmeier
Herta Effenberger

Crystal Chemistry of Inorganic and Mineral Compounds
more...

 
12.35-14.45 Lunch Break
12.35-14.35 OCM 01 Commission on Journal (I)
13.35-14.35 Poster Session
 
14.45-17.20
MS 8
(Michelangelo Hall)

Chairs:
Jacqueline M. Gulbis
Michael R. Garavito

MembraneProtein Structure and Function
more...
MS 9
(Brunelleschi Hall)

Chairs:
Settimio Mobilio
Joaquin Garcia-Ruiz

Combined XAS and XRD Techniques in Physics Chemistry and Materials Science
more...
MS 10
(Botticelli Hall)

Chairs:
Andreas Roodt
Santiago Alvarez

Integrated Crystallographic, Spectroscopic, and Computational Approaches
more...
MS 11
(Giotto Hall)

Chairs:
Thomas Tschentscher
John Arthur

Instrumentation at Next Generation X-ray Sources
more...
MS 12
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)

Chairs:
Reinhard Neder
Thomas Proffen

Disorder Diffuse Scattering
more...
MS 13
(Cimabue Hall)

Chairs:
Brian H. Toby
Lachlan M. D. Cranswick

Advances in Computational Methods for Powder Diffraction
more...
MS 14
(Donatello Hall)

Chairs:
Emil Makovicky
Stefano Merlino

Modularity and Modulation in Inorganic and Mineral Structures
more...

 
17.20-17.30 Break
 
17.30-18.30
KN 2
(Botticelli Hall)

Martino Bolognesi
Chair:
Dusan Turk

Structure and Recognition in the BARS/CtBP-dependent Transcription Regulation.
KN 3
(Michelangelo Hall)

Chikashi Toyoshima
Chair:
Giuseppe Inesi

Ion Pumping by Ca2+-ATPase of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum
KN 4
(Cimabue Hall)

Walter Reimers
Chair:
Anatoly Balagurov

Neutrons and X-rays for Microstructure and Strain/Stress Analysis in Materials

Thursday, August 25 2005
8.30-9.30
KN 5
(Michelangelo Hall)

David Sayre
Chair:
John Spence

Single-particle Diffraction
KN 6
(Botticelli Hall)

Lynne McCusker
Chair:
Reinhard Fischer

Elucidating the Structures of Nanoporous Microcrystals
KN 7
(Cimabue Hall)

Vaclav Petricek
Chair:
Ray L. Withers

Structure Analysis of Modulated Crystals: Trends and Tendencies

 
9.30-10.00 Break
9.30-18.00 Computer Fayre
 
10.00-12:35
MS 15
(Michelangelo Hall)

Chairs:
Edward Neill Baker
Sung-Hou Kim

The Big Question in Structural Genomics: Getting Function from Structure
more...
MS 16
(Donatello Hall)

Chairs:
Gian Carlo Ruocco
Alfred Baron

High Resolution X-ray Inelastic Scattering
more...
MS 17
(Botticelli Hall)

Chairs:
Gautam R. Desiraju
Mariusz Jaskolski

Non-covalent Interactions in Crystals of Small Molecules and Macromolecules
more...
MS 18
(Giotto Hall)

Chairs:
Christian Baerlocher
Sergey Krivovichev

Powder Diffraction on Micro- and Mesoporous Materials
more...
MS 19
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)

Chairs:
Sander Van Smaalen
Sven Lidin

News from Incommensurate Crystals
more...
MS 20
(Cimabue Hall)

Chairs:
Simon Parsons
Giovanni Luca Cascarano

Advances in Computational Methods for Small Molecule Crystallography

Dedicated to the late Prof. Mario Nardelli

more...
MS 21
(Brunelleschi Hall)

Chairs:
Lyndon Edwards
Alain Lodini

Basic to Industrial Applications of Stress and Strain Analyses with Synchrotron and Neutron Radiations
more...

 
12.35-14.45 Lunch Break
12.35-14.35 OCM 02 Commission on Journal (II)
13.35-14.45 Poster Session
 
14.45-17.20
MS 22
(Botticelli Hall)

Chairs:
Janos Hajdu
Henry Chapman

Single Particle X-ray Diffraction Imaging
more...
MS 23
(Michelangelo Hall)

Chairs:
E. Yvonne Jones
Peer R. Mittl

Putting the Pedal to the Metal: Speeding Up Biological Structure Determination
more...
MS 24
(Giotto Hall)

Chairs:
Judith A.K. Howard
Jacqueline Cole

Molecular Crystals under non Ambient Conditions
more...
MS 25
(Cimabue Hall)

Chairs:
Andrew Fitch
John Faber

Structure Determination from Powder Diffraction Data (Organics)
more...
MS 26
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)

Chairs:
Koh Saitoh
Ron Lifshitz

Recent Advances in Quasicrystal Research
more...
MS 27
(Brunelleschi Hall)

Chairs:
Naoto Yagi
Christian Broennimann

Detectors: Developments and Requirements for X-ray, Synchrotron and Neutron Sources
more...
MS 28
(Donatello Hall)

Chairs:
João Rocha
Alessandro Gualtieri

Structure/Properties Relationships of Technologically Relevant Inorganic and Mineral Compounds
more...

 
17.20-17.30 Break
 
17.30-18.30
KN 8
(Michelangelo Hall)

Raymond Stevens
Chair:
Mamannamana Vijayan

High Throughput Technologies in Structural Biology
KN 9
(Botticelli Hall)

Peter Stephens
Chair:
Kenneth Shankland

Structure Solution of Pharmaceutical Compounds from Powder Diffraction Data
KN 10
(Cimabue Hall)

Akiji Yamamoto
Chair:
Marc De Boissieu

Quasicrystal Structure Analysis. The State of the Art

Friday, August 26 2005
8.30-9.30
KN 11
(Michelangelo Hall)

Andrej Sali
Chair:
Douglas Ohlendorf

Structure of Protein Assemblies by Comparative Modeling and Electron Microscopy
KN 12
(Botticelli Hall)

Roberto Dovesi
Chair:
Davide Viterbo

Quantum mechanical simulation of the vibrational properties of garnets.
KN 13
(Cimabue Hall)

Abraham Clearfield
Chair:
Roberto Fornari

In Situ X-Ray Study of Hydrothermally Prepared Titanates and Silicotitanates

 
9.30-10.00 Break
9.30-18.00 Computer Fayre
10.00-11.00 Special Seminar, Jan Boeyens: "The Crystallographic Game" (Brunelleschi Hall)
 
10.00-12:35
MS 29
(Michelangelo Hall)

Chairs:
Philip Eric Bourne
R. Sowdhamini

Improving Structures using Bio-informatics
more...
MS 30
(Michelangelo Hall)


The MS on Art and Crystallography is sheduled at 9. p.m., in a unique after-dinner session
MS 31
(Botticelli Hall)

Chairs:
Franco Ugozzoli
Claire Gervais

Supramolecular Chemistry
more...
MS 32
(Giotto Hall)

Chairs:
Angela Altomare
Holger Putz

Structure Determination from Powder Diffraction Data (Inorganics)
more...
MS 33
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)

Chairs:
Roger Fourme
Wilson Poon

Soft Condensed Organic-Biological Materials under Pressure
more...
MS 34
(Cimabue Hall)

Chairs:
Louis Farrugia
Tibor Koritsanszky

Advances in Computational Methods for Electron Density Studies
more...
MS 35
(Donatello Hall)

Chairs:
Giovanni Ferraris
Elena Belokoneva

Polytypism and Twinning
more...

 
12.35-14.45 Lunch Break
12.35-14.35 OCM 03 COMCIFS The Current Status and Future Prospects of CIF
12.35-14.35 OCM 04 Commission on Biological Macromolecules
13.35-14.45 Poster Session
 
14.45-17.20
MS 36
(Michelangelo Hall)

Chairs:
Elspeth Garman
Ming Luo

Combating Viruses
more...
MS 37
(Botticelli Hall)

Chairs:
Yoshiro Yoneda
David Owen

Intracellular Trafficking of Biomolecules
more...
MS 38
(Cimabue Hall)

Chairs:
Christer Aakeroy
Alessia Bacchi

Controlled Building of Crystals from Non-covalent Interactions
more...
MS 39
(Donatello Hall)

Chairs:
Robert H. Blessing
Jeremy Cockcroft

Powder Diffraction of Proteins
more...
MS 40
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)

Chairs:
Giulia Galli
Alessandro Pavese

Computational Crystallography Applied to Extreme Conditions
more...
MS 41
(Giotto Hall)

Chairs:
Duncan E. McRee
James Holton

Computational Solutions for High-Throughput Crystallography
more...
MS 42
(Brunelleschi Hall)

Chairs:
Andreas Schreyer
Mark R. Daymond

Complementarities of Neutron and X-rays Methods in Material Science
more...

 
17.20-17.30 Break
 
17.30-18.30
KN 14
(Michelangelo Hall)

Deborah Fass
Chair:
Jennifer Martin

Catalysts of De Novo Disulfide Bond Formation
KN 15
(Botticelli Hall)

A. Guy Orpen
Chair:
Frank H. Allen

Synthetic Crystallography
KN 16
(Cimabue Hall)

John Tse
Chair:
Werner F. Kuhs

A perspective on the crystal structures of high pressure elements and their properties

 
21.00-23.30
MS 30
(Michelangelo Hall)

Chairs:
Edgar Meyer
Cristina Acidini

Art and Crystallography

more...



Saturday, August 27 2005
8.30-9.30
KN 17
(Michelangelo Hall)

Harold Kroto
Chair:
Ivano Bertini

Some New Insights in to the Mechanisms of Fullerene and Nanotube Formation




 
9.30-10.00 Break
9.30-18.00 Computer Fayre
 
10.00-12:35
MS 43
(Botticelli Hall)

Chairs:
Adrian Goldman
Sthanam Narayana

Extracellular Proteins and Cellular Adhesion
more...
MS 44
(Michelangelo Hall)

Chairs:
Stephen Neidle
Eric Westhof

Nucleic Acids - Transcription, Translation and Repair
more...
MS 45
(Cimabue Hall)

Chairs:
Jonathan W. Steed
Carolyn Brock

Packing of Organic Molecular Compounds
more...
MS 46
(Brunelleschi Hall)

Chairs:
Tadashi Ohachi
Vladimir Kaganer

In-situ Observation of Crystal Growth Processes
more...
MS 47
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)

Chairs:
Colin Pulham
Nancy Ross

Novel Materials under High Pressure
more...
MS 48
(Giotto Hall)

Chairs:
Christian Riekel
Atsuo Iida

Microbeam X-ray Scattering
more...
MS 49
(Donatello Hall)

Chairs:
John Charles Spence
Brummerstedt Iversen

Charge Spin and Momentum Densities in Material Science
more...

 
12.35-14.45 Lunch Break
12.35-14.35 Round Table on Data Mining from PDB chaired by Helen M. Berman and Kim Henrick more...
12.35-14.35 OCM 05 Commission on Inorganic and Mineral Structure
12.35-14.35 OCM 06 Commission on Charge, Spin and Momentum Densities
12.35-14.35 OCM 07 Commission on International Tables of Crystallography
13.35-14.45 Poster Session
 
14.45-17.20
MS 50
(Michelangelo Hall)

Chairs:
Alexander Wlodawer
Silvia Onesti

Enzymes and Allostery
more...
MS 51
(Cimabue Hall)

Chairs:
Wah Chiu
Lucia Banci

Complementary Approaches to Biological Structure Determination
more...
MS 52
(Botticelli Hall)

Chairs:
Christoph Janiak
Stuart R. Batten

Inorganic-Organic Framework Materials
more...
MS 53
(Giotto Hall)

Chairs:
John Irvine
Torbjörn Gustafsson

Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage
more...
MS 54
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)

Chairs:
Guillaume Fiquet
Artem Oganov

Crystallography at Conditions of Earth and Planetary Interiors
more...
MS 55
(Donatello Hall)

Chairs:
Jianming Cao
Hervé Cailleau

Time Resolved Diffraction
more...
MS 56
(Brunelleschi Hall)

Chairs:
José Teixeira
Roberto Triolo

Analysis Combining SANS and SAXS Experiments
more...

 
17.20-17.30 Break
 
17.30-18.30
KN 18
(Michelangelo Hall)

Louise N. Johnson
Chair:
John Helliwell

Protein Kinase Inhibition and Substrate Recognition
KN 19
(Botticelli Hall)

James A. Ibers
Chair:
Jan Boeyens

Crystallography in Inorganic Solid-State Chemistry
KN 20
(Cimabue Hall)

Michael Thackeray
Chair:
Peter G. Bruce

The Importance of Structure in the Design of Lithium Battery Materials

Sunday, August 28 2005
8.30-9.30
KN 21
(Michelangelo Hall)

Michael Parker
Chair:
William L. Duax

Pore-forming Toxins
KN 22
(Cimabue Hall)

Malcolm McMahon
Chair:
Osamo Shimomura

Pressure Induced Complexity in the Elements
KN 23
(Botticelli Hall)

Mark A. Spackman
Chair:
Vladimir Tsirelson

Electrostatic and Related Properties from Accurate Charge Density Analyses

 
9.30-10.00 Break
9.30-18.00 Computer Fayre
 
10.00-12:35
MS 57
(Michelangelo Hall)

Chairs:
Kunio Miki
David Stuart

Large Protein Assemblies - Forming and Analysing Complexes
more...
MS 58
(Giotto Hall)

Chairs:
Salvatore Siano
Henk Schenk

Crystallography and Understanding of Cultural Heritage
more...
MS 59
(Cimabue Hall)

Chairs:
Paul Raithby
Trevor Forsyth

Applications of Synchrotron and Neutron Facilities in Structural Chemistry
more...
MS 60
(Brunelleschi Hall)

Chairs:
Davor Balzar
Paolo Scardi

Microstructural Properties from Powder Diffraction Data
more...
MS 61
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)

Chairs:
Mohammed Mezouar
Nozomu Hamaya

Structures Phase Transitions and Properties at High Pressure
more...
MS 62
(Botticelli Hall)

Chairs:
Piet Gros
Kevin D. Cowtan

Advances in Computational Methods for Protein Crystallography
more...
MS 63
(Donatello Hall)

Chairs:
Nour Eddine Ghermani
Peter Blaha

Chemical Insights from Electron Density Studies and Wavefunctions
more...

 
12.35-14.45 Lunch Break
13.35-14.45 Poster Session
 
14.45-17.20
MS 64
(Botticelli Hall)

Chairs:
Bi-Cheng Wang
Alexandre Urzhumtsev

Difficult Phasing and Difficult Structures in Structural Biology
more...
MS 65
(Michelangelo Hall)

Chairs:
Zihe Rao
Brian W. Matthews

Protein Interactions with other Biological Macromolecules
more...
MS 66
(Cimabue Hall)

Chairs:
Davide M. Proserpio
Jean-Guillaume Eon

Topology of Crystal Structures: Nets, Knots and Surfaces
more...
MS 67
(Donatello Hall)

Chairs:
Ivana Radosavljevic Evans
Roland Boese

Non-ambient Powder Diffraction and Kinetic Studies
more...
MS 68
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)

Chairs:
Christopher Tulk
Dennis Klug

Liquids and Amorphous Systems at High Pressure
more...
MS 69
(Giotto Hall)

Chairs:
Hans Hebert
Ute Kolb

Electron Crystallography on Organic Crystals and Biomolecules
more...
MS 70
(Brunelleschi Hall)

Chairs:
Gernot Kostorz
Theyencheri Narayanan

New SAS Frontiers
more...

 
17.20-17.30 Break
 
17.30-18.30
KN 24
(Michelangelo Hall)

Nenad Ban
Chair:
Sherry Mowbray

Structural and Functional Studies of Large Macromolecular Assemblies
KN 25
(Cimabue Hall)

Lawrence Margulies
Chair:
Lagomarsino Stefano

Micro Beam Diffraction Using High Energy Synchrotron Radiation
KN 26
(Botticelli Hall)

Dmitri Svergun
Chair:
Giuseppe Zanotti

New Possibilities for Structure Determination of Biomolecular Complexes

Monday, August 29 2005
8.30-9.30
KN 27
(Botticelli Hall)

Michael Murphy
Chair:
Carrie Wilmot

Bound Ligands to Probe the Activity of Type 2 Copper Sites in Proteins
KN 28
(Cimabue Hall)

Tim White
Chair:
Ekkehart Tillmanns

Crystallochemical Basis of Synthetic Mineral Immobilisation
KN 29
(Michelangelo Hall)

Gerhard Klebe
Chair:
Hans-Beat Buergi

Molecular Recognition Principles in Protein-Ligand Interactions as a Prerequisite for the Design of Specific and Selective Leads

 
9.30-10.00 Break
9.30-18.00 Computer Fayre
 
10.00-12:35
MS 71
(Botticelli Hall)

Chairs:
David Rose
Massimo Degano

Structural Biology and the Immune System
more...
MS 72
(Michelangelo Hall)

Chairs:
Glaucius Oliva
Andrew H.-J. Wang

Hot Structures in Protein Crystallography
more...
MS 73
(Giotto Hall)

Chairs:
Catalina Ruiz-Perez
Annie Powell

Molecular Crystals with Novel Physical Properties
more...
MS 74
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)

Chairs:
Despina Louca
David Keen

Total Scattering and Local Order
more...
MS 75
(Brunelleschi Hall)

Chairs:
Laurence D. Marks


Surfaces
more...
MS 76
(Cimabue Hall)

Chairs:
Peter Erk
Sam Motherwell

New Algorithms for Structure Prediction
more...
MS 77
(Donatello Hall)

Chairs:
Masatoshi Arai
Ian Anderson

Perspective of Neutron Crystallography at High Power Sources
more...

 
12.35-14.45 Lunch Break
13.35-14.45 Poster Session
14.00-16.00 and 16.30-18.30 OCM 08 Commission on High Pressure
 
14.45-17.20
MS 78
(Michelangelo Hall)

Chairs:
Anders Liljas
Wayne Hendrickson

Structuromes – Structures of Ribosomes Nucleosomes and other -omes
more...
MS 79
(Botticelli Hall)

Chairs:
Jordi Rius
Evgeny Antipov

Inorganic and Mineral Structures Solved and Refined by Powder Diffraction Data
more...
MS 80
(Cimabue Hall)

Chairs:
Jean-Claude Daran
Pilar Gómez-Sal

Structural Knowledge and Catalysis
more...
MS 81
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)

Chairs:
Eric Kisi
Paul Barnes

Time-resolved Powder Diffraction for Materials Production and Processing
more...
MS 82
(Donatello Hall)

Chairs:
Ugo Valbusa
Tilo Baumbach

X-ray Characterization of Nanostructures
more...
MS 83
(Giotto Hall)

Chairs:
Christer Svensson
Vincent Favre-Nicolin

Computational Problems and Solutions for Aperiodic Crystals
more...
MS 84
(Brunelleschi Hall)

Chairs:
Szabolcs Vass
salvino Ciccariello

Theoretical Methods for Analyses of Data from Solutions
more...

 
17.20-17.30 Break
 
17.30-18.30
KN 30
(Michelangelo Hall)

Janet L. Smith
Chair:
Mitchell Guss

Structural Studies of Macromolecular Complexes: Cytochrome b6f
KN 31
(Botticelli Hall)

Myunghyun Paik Suh
Chair:
Antonio Tiripicchio

Metal-Organic Frameworks: Assembly and Crystal Dynamics of Functional Materials
KN 32
(Cimabue Hall)

Michiyoshi Tanaka
Chair:
Yuji Ohashi

Nano Structures Studied by Convergent Beam Electron Diffraction

Tuesday, August 30 2005
8.30-9.30
KN 33
(Michelangelo Hall)

Ahmed Zewail
Chair:
Xiadong Zou

Ultrafast Electron Crystallography




 
9.30-10.00 Break
9.30-18.00 Computer Fayre
 
10.00-12:35
MS 85
(Michelangelo Hall)

Chairs:
Stefania Di Marco
William (Bill) Stallings

Biological Molecules as Targets for Drug Design
more...
MS 86
(Botticelli Hall)

Chairs:
Herbert J. Bernstein
Brian McMahon

Programming Robust CIF and XML into Crystallographic Software
more...
MS 87
(Giotto Hall)

Chairs:
Leonard Richard MacGillivray
Fumio Toda

Reactions in Molecular Solids
more...
MS 88
(Donatello Hall)

Chairs:
John J. Rehr
Keijo Hamalainen

Electronic Excitations
more...
MS 89
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)

Chairs:
José Martín-Gago
Giovanna Fragneto

Structural Characterization of Controlled Solid-liquid Interfaces
more...
MS 90
(Cimabue Hall)

Chairs:
Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
Maryjane Tremayne

Applying Non-crystallographic Algorithms to Crystallography
more...
MS 91
(Brunelleschi Hall)

Chairs:
Jacob Jansen
Vera Kletschkovskaia

Electron Crystallography on Inorganic Crystals
more...

 
12.35-14.45 Lunch Break
13.35-14.45 Poster Session
 
14.45-17.20
MS 92
(Michelangelo Hall)

Chairs:
Sine Larsen
Michael Becker

Emerging Technologies for Structural Biology
more...
MS 93
(Donatello Hall)

Chairs:
Marcello Mellini
Mihaly Posfai

Crystallography and Environmental Science
more...
MS 94
(Botticelli Hall)

Chairs:
Franck Leveiller
Michele Saviano

Crystallographic Knowledge in Drug Design Strategies
more...
MS 95
(Leonardo da Vinci Hall)

Chairs:
Michele Catti
Dimitri Argyriou

Advanced Functional Materials (Including Molecular Biological Fuel Cell Battery)
more...
MS 96
(Giotto Hall)

Chairs:
Åke Oskarsson
Randy Read

Crystallographic Teaching
more...
MS 97
(Cimabue Hall)

Chairs:
Adriana Bigi
Enrico Rizzarelli

Bio-inorganics in Biological Macromolecules
more...
MS 98
(Brunelleschi Hall)

Chairs:
Yoshiyuki Amemiya
Iris Torriani

Analysis of Anisotropic Materials
more...

 
17.20-17.30 Break
 
17.30-18.30
KN 34
(Michelangelo Hall)

David Eisenberg
Chair:
Maria Armenia Carrondo

Structural Studies of Amyloid
KN 35
(Cimabue Hall)

Salvador Ferrer
Chair:
Mikhail Koval'chuk

The Surface Structure of Model Catalyst in Action Investigated by X-ray Diffraction
KN 36
(Botticelli Hall)

Lia Addadi
Chair:
Angelo Gavezzotti

Strategies and Design Principles in Biomineralization



 

 
     

 

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