Preliminary List of Microsymposia

 Focus Area 1 (SIG 1)

  • SAXS in structural biology      
  • Development of new types of sample preparation (both XFEL & synchrotrons)
  • Data collection and processing software (XFELS & synchrotrons)
  • New developments in phasing and refinement
  • Structural information in drug design
  • Molecular machines and big complexes
  • Protein & glycobiology structure determination
  • Membranes and membrane interacting proteins
  • Enzyme reactions and dynamics in crystals
  • H-bonding & weak interactions in crystals: neutrons and X-rays
  • Hybrid approaches and validation (X-ray and electron microscopy)
  • Biophysical characterization and crystallization
  • Hot structures in biology

 Focus Area 2 (SIG 5, 11, 12)

  • Biomineralogical crystallography and bioinspired inorganic materials
  • Minerals and materials
  • Structure-property relationships in high pressure crystallography
  • Crystal chemistry of C-bearing materials and minerals at extreme conditions
  • Structural studies of meteoritic, extra-terrestrial, and planetary materials
  • Solid state oxygen fuel cell, hydrogen storage & battery materials
  • Materials for energy conversion and harvesting  
  • Structural disorder and materials properties at ambient and non-ambient conditions 

 Focus Area 3 (SIG 2, 3, 4)

  • Beyond multipolar refinement
  • Charge and spin density of materials at extreme conditions
  • Inorganic and metal-organic magnetic structures
  • Quasicrystal and approximant: structure and properties
  • Incommensurate modulated and composite phases
  • Dynamical refinement of electron diffraction data
  • New approaches in electron crystallography   

 Focus Area 4 (SIG 7, 13)

  • Molecular interactions in crystal packing and molecular assemblies  
  • Hydrogen bonding from theory to applications
  • Crystal energy landscapes: computation and uses   
  • Polymorphs, cocrystals, solvates, salts: a jungle for scientists and industries
  • Hot structures of small molecules
  • Molecular recognition, supramolecular chemistry and crystal engineering
  • Simulation of dynamics in molecular compounds 
  • Crystallography in solid state reactions and catalysis 
  • Molecular compounds and MOFs at ambient conditions and under high pressure
  • Nanomaterials & graphene  

 Focus Area 5 (SIG 6, 8, 9)

  • X-Ray diffraction on the s to ps time scale    
  • New detectors for high energy x-ray applications
  • The use of X-ray, electron and neutron scattering in nanoscience  
  • Advances in neutron scattering under non-ambient conditions
  • Combining x-ray diffraction and other techniques for in situ and operando studies
  • Total scattering: pdf analysis and diffuse scattering in X-Ray, neutron and electron diffraction 
  • Measuring data quality
  • Computational tools for theoretical chemistry in crystallography

 General Microsymposia

  • Teaching & Education
  • Crystallography in art and cultural heritage
  • How to: crystallization for small and large molecules
  • History of ECA, history of crystallography: contributions to and of crystallography

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