Events Workshops & Conferences
Since 2004, we at MiTeGen have sponsored and attended numerous events, meetings, workshops and conferences. These include those pertaining to Cryo-EM, Crystallography, Structural Biology and more. While we are in the business of supplying researchers with products and services supporting their work in the fields of Cryo-EM, Crystallography, Structural Biology, Material Science and beyond, we are also deeply committed to supporting our industry and the people within it through our sponsorship and attendance.
Use this page to discover upcoming industry events, meetings, workshops and conferences we are sponsoring and/or attending. For those events we are attending we would very much like to meet you in person. See listings below for how to find us at event.
This page also lists past events we have been involved in.
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Current and Future Events - Meetings - Workshops - Conferences
The meeting is the 36th in the history of MAX IV and will bring together synchrotron scientists, other experts and industry representatives from a wide range of fields to Lund. We anticipate more than 300 participants on site during the three days of the meeting.
Topics For The Meeting Include
- New Beamline Proposal Process
- MAX IV Strategy: Transformative Science Area Objectives
- MAX4U Accelerator Upgrade: Scientific Opportunities
This conference aims to bring together experts and early stage researchers from the separate disciplines, as well as researchers from different fields in the Life Sciences:
- to highlight recent methodological developments and to promote their usage as new “tools”
for cell biology across scales: from molecules to organelles, cells and cell-cell interactions - to provide a discussion platform for structural biology methods within the cellular context
- to stimulate discussions about how to meaningfully integrate data from different methods
- to define what types of biological questions can already be addressed using in situ structural biology and which might be approached in the future
The course is designed to equip participants with both practical, hands-on skills in Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy (CLEM) and a solid theoretical foundation. This advanced imaging modality enables researchers to precisely locate fluorescent proteins within cellular ultrastructures, a technique pioneered at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).
Recognizing the increasing demand for in situ CLEM applications, the training is geared towards enabling attendees to create customized CLEM workflows to address their unique research questions and share this knowledge within their institutions. The course delves into the specifics of this method, emphasising high-precision localization. Furthermore, it offers significant interaction with CLEM and EM experts, facilitating rich discussions and troubleshooting sessions. This ensures that participants not only learn the methodology but also gain insightful, actionable guidance to apply CLEM techniques effectively in their research endeavors.
The 50th Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function is February 9-13, 2025 in Lorne, Australia.
26th West Coast Structural Biology Workshop will showcase the latest methods and developments in structural biology including X-ray Crystallography, Cryo-EM, and NMR methods. Experience inspiring presentations by talented students and postdocs, engaging poster sessions, and hands-on workshops in the latest structural biology techniques. It is strongly encourage those interested in method development and solutions to technical challenges in structural analysis to apply. As in previous years, this conference will also feature an exciting lineup of keynote speakers. Join to connect with leaders in the field, exchange practical advice, and stay at the forefront of structural biology advancements.
The FEBS workshop ‘Time-resolved spectroscopy meets time-resolved crystallography: the future of dynamic photobiology’ is the second edition of the workshop which was organized in a virtual mode (https://meetings.embo.org/event/23-dynamic-photobiology) in April 2023. In the second edition, the current developments and future directions will be discussed in order to strengthen and put forward the synergy between the two fields.
This conference will cover all aspects that govern the central building blocks of life, DNA replication, transcription, and translation, as well as activities that impact these processes such as DNA repair, DNA editing, and RNA editing. There will be a special emphasis on how they work, how they interact with one another, and how they may be used as diagnostic tools or as targets for novel therapies.
In recent years, the field of structural biology has made remarkable progress. The resolution achievable with cryo-EM and cryo-ET has become truly atomic, and together with X-ray crystallography these techniques provide the spectacular insights into the organization of large macromolecular complexes and individual proteins. Structure prediction through AI has become a well-integrated method, and entire cells are now being modeled using MD simulations. These breakthroughs offer unprecedented insights into molecular interactions, ushering in a new era of understanding chemical processes within cells and facilitating the development of novel therapeutics. In this meeting the experts in the structural biology will share their recent discoveries and discuss the future directions of structural biology.
This advanced lecture course is aimed at young researchers, including PhD students and postdocs, who will have the opportunity not only to learn about the latest findings from experts in the field but also to present their own research.
The Workshop will address the essential questions and challenges of radiation damage to biological samples during their examination with ionizing radiation.
The workshop will cover various X-ray and electron scattering techniques, from crystallography to imaging, and offers ample opportunities for information exchange and discussion among researchers from around the globe.
The annual Symposium of SFBBM (Swedish Society for Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology) and SBNet (Swedish Structural Biology Network) SWEPROT – will take place in 13-16 June 2025 at Åkerblads Hotel, Tällberg, Sweden.
It offers an attractive scientific program in cutting edge areas of Structural biology, Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, with a strong lineup of international and local speakers. This presents an opportunity to reach out to research groups all over Sweden and beyond. The program makes ample room for personal get-togethers in any of several meeting areas in the beautiful Åkerblads Hotell, situated in the breathtakingly beautiful community of Tällberg in Dalarna. Around 150 participants are expected to attend the meeting.
The Virus Phage Assembly meeting is held biannually at various international locations (mostly between United States and European countries). The conference series started in 1968. The 2025 meeting will be held in Hyannis, MA. The meeting is composed of phage geneticists and structural biologists; however, the majority of talks are from structural biologists. Consequently, cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography tend to dominate the techniques used, with NMR occasionally represented.
The Nucleic Acids GRC/GRS will cover topics dealing with the structural and mechanistic behavior of nucleic acids and their cellular processing factors, and the potential applications of innovative developments in RNA and DNA science and therapeutics. Gordon
Research Conferences has been advancing the frontiers of science for over 90 years through the presentation and discussion of unpublished research by scientists at all career stages from around the world in the chemical, biological, and physical sciences.
ACA Summer Course in Chemical Crystallography will be hosted at Northwestern University from June 22 through June 29, 2025. The ACA Summer
Course has been a continual success for now more than 30 years, instructing new crystallographers in both small molecule single crystal and powder diffraction techniques. Registration opens in January of 2025.
NYU Langone will be hosting the next annual NYC area Cryo-EM meeting on June 25th 2025. This is a local meeting (NYC area including nearby states) and it is meant to be more of a workshop/discussion format as opposed to a high-level meeting of big-name PI’s and already published results. Talks will be mainly given by postdoctoral fellows and graduate students, and discussion of issues or problems is encouraged. Attendance is free and lunch is provided. A poster session includes drinks and light snacks.
The European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM) will take place from August 25 to 30, 2025, in Poznań, Poland. This special joint Polish-Ukrainian edition of ECM will bring together approximately 1,000 crystallographers from around the globe to share insights, foster collaborations, and celebrate advancements in the field.
The FBLD is back in Europe for 2025. Fragment-Based Lead Discovery continues to be a rapidly growing, multidisciplinary endeavour. As such experts in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry and related disciplines will be at the conference, providing you with the latest developments in fragment-based lead discovery.
The HEC Meeting is an annual academic Structural Biology conference, for which researchers at universities, other research institutions and industry from Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland meet to present and discuss current aspects of their research (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Europe_Bio-Crystallography_Meeting). While a focus is on structure analysis via Macromolecular Crystallography and other diffraction techniques, other structural biological techniques, such as nuclear magnetic resonance and cryogenic electron microscopy approaches, are also represented. Preparative and analytical Biochemistry and Biophysics are additional relevant topics.
Past Events - Meetings - Workshops - Conferences
The main objective of the AsCA meeting is to contribute and to promote the advancement of crystallography and allied subjects in Asia. This meeting will attract researchers at all levels from a broad spectrum of niche areas spanning from chemical crystallography, macromolecular and protein crystallography to hybrid methods. This meeting also serves as a strong platform for research networking within the Asia region where researchers will disseminate their exciting and most recent research findings through presentations and discussions. Many prominent scientists, industrial experts, representatives from various multinational corporations and non-governmental organizations will take part in the AsCA 2024 to share their experiences, technology innovation and insights in the respective areas.
The Centre for cryo electron microscopy of membrane protein (CCeMMP) symposium will be held November 11th-12th. The two day symposium will feature cryo-EM researcher presenting their work in the area of cryoEM. More information to come.
The CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting, Wednesday 6th – Thursday 7th November held at The Frederick Douglass Centre, Newcastle Upon Tyne. The event is aiming to gather 100 attendees (students, postdocs, staff, PIs). It is a great opportunity for sponsors to meet with structural biology scientists.
NYSBC, SEMC and NCCAT will offer a 3-day short course November 4-6. Day one of the course will encompass lectures that delve into the multiple steps of the MicroED workflow. Days 2 & 3 will have practicals in sample preparation, setting up a TEM for data collection, and data processing. For those that want further instruction and a chance to collect their own data, they will host a bonus day for independent practice on November 7.
The workshop is planned as a two-days activity from November, 04th to 05th, 2024. It will take place at the CNPEM, National Center for Research in Energy and Materials, located in Campinas, Brazil, serving as a satellite to the Brazilian synchrotron users’ meeting, with up to 60 participants.
The workshop is aiming to bring together research groups from all over the world who are active in the application and/or the development of crystallographic fragment screening. The targeted community includes scientists from large-scale facilities (synchrotrons), method developers as well as researchers from academia and industry. The goal of the workshop is to disseminate recent advances and applications related to crystallographic fragment screening. In particular, itshall serve to motivate the Brazilian and southern American communities and SME’s to engage into this kind of research, especially using the Sirius synchrotron facility. This workshop can be seen as a follow-up event of the 2023 similar workshop at the Australian Synchrotron in Melbourne.
The International Conferences for the crystallization of Biological Macromolecules aims to exchange research results and promote practical applications of biological crystallization and structural determination. After a break due to the international COVID-19 pandemic, ICCBM-18 is returning in 2024. The ICCBM conference series are hosted with venues that change regularly to encourage worldwide participation and inclusion. ICCBM organizes and supports interdisciplinary workshops, endorsed by a wide range of attendance of researchers, including bio-crystallographers, biochemists, physicists and engineers. ICCBM-18 will be held in Tempe, Arizona at Arizona State University, from November 3-9, 2024. ICCBM-18 will host three days of talks and scientific posters, followed by two days of practical, hands-on sessions.
The BHT meeting is an annual one day meeting for structural biologists in Southern Ontario and Western New York. The meeting is held each year in early November to discuss and learn about new and innovative techniques in X-ray crystallography and cryoEM, and to provide a venue for showcasing the achievements of our graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
The 16th annual CCP4 USA Crystallography School organized jointly with the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and National Cancer Institute Structural Biology Facility at the Advanced Photon Source (GM/CA@APS). The 2024 school will take place at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) synchrotron site at Argonne National Laboratory, near Chicago. The first two days will be dedicated to data collection and processing. The rest of the school will focus on structure solution, refinement and validation. The workshop will be proceeded by two virtual introduction days. Registration closes on August 31st 2024
Crystal 35 will have a range of high-quality national and international experts from the field in attendance. The Committee is already working to put together a first-rate program including the latest advances and developments in the field of Crystallography. Speakers have already been confirmed from Japan, Singapore and South Africa. They will be speaking on topics like: integrative macromolecular structure determination, chemical and materials crystallography, electron diffraction and computational studies.
The Hormel Institute, UMN’s inaugural Minnesota Bioimaging Symposium is scheduled for Monday and Tuesday, October 14 & 15, 2024. The symposium is targeting academics interested in bioimaging from across the Midwest and anticipate over 200 attendees. Two high-level international experts in the field will be in attendance — Peijun Zhang from the University of Oxford and Hong Zhou from UCLA.
X-ray crystallography has been the cornerstone of structural biology for half a century and remains the technique of choice for atomic resolution understanding of macromolecules and for structure guided drug discovery. This intense course combines laboratory and computational instruction to train course participants in the major techniques used to determine three-dimensional structures. It is designed for scientists with a working knowledge of protein structure and function, but who are new to macromolecular crystallography or who wish to increase their in-depth knowledge of macromolecular crystallography. The advent of methods for the accurate prediction of protein structures is accelerating crystallography experiments, and the course will train researchers in how to best use these models.
To be held at USC in Los Angles. The primary aim of the symposium is to bring together experts, researchers, vendors, and industrial partners in the field of cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) from Southern California to exchange knowledge, present the latest advancements, and foster collaborative discussions.
The New York City Integrative Structural Biology Symposium is October 9-11, 2024. The focus of this workshop is to understand the challenges and opportunities of applying integrative structural biology techniques to one’s research. The fields of light microscopy, mass spectrometry, X-ray crystallography, NMR, cryo-EM, and computational methods will be highlighted. The topics will cover the best practices and current research toward building structural models across different resolution scales. This workshop will also offer hands-on demos to explore what instrumentation is available to be integrated to address conformational changes, flexibility, and dynamics in macromolecular and cellular structures.
2024 Workshop of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) Commission on High Pressure organized and hosted by the European Spallation Source and MAX IV Laboratory in Lund, Sweden is September 25th to 28th.
The 28th Annual MSD Technology Symposium (Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA is known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada) is expected to draw over 1000 in-Person Scientists and an additional 1200 Virtual MSD Scientists from Candidate Discovery and Preclinical Development through Clinical Development and Real World Data Departments across the company along with over 70 select Supplier Sponsors. The meeting will be organized around several tracks illustrating the various ways that technologies are facilitating scientific decision-making at MSD. There is a mix of OPEN and CLOSED talks (a combination of cleared MSD lectures and posters from MSD scientists, and content from vendors and other external collaboration partners), as well as MSD-private lectures and posters.
The 2024 LACA meeting, hosted in Montevideo, Uruguay, is a gathering of the Latin American Crystallographic Association, a scientific community focused on structural sciences. The meeting will feature discussions on recent advancements and future directions in the field. LACA was founded in 2013 and has since held meetings in various Latin American countries.
250+ delegates from a variety of disciplines, Historically, attendance has been dominated by pharma and biotech scientists, Biophysical and biochemical screening and characterisation techniques including NMR, SPR, X-ray crystallography, MS, ITC, and MST, Structure determination X-ray crystallography, Cryo-EM and NMR, Medicinal and organic chemistry, Computational chemistry including library design, assessment of chemical diversity, structure-based drug design and virtual screening.
The 81st Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference is September 21st to the 23rd in Ithaca, NY. The conference will discuss progress in fundamental and applied diffraction and crystallographic research, ranging from materials discovery for functional devices to targeting viruses for drug development. In addition, two workshops are scheduled. Protein crystallization workshop and a GSAS-II workshop.
You are cordially invited to participate in the 4th International Electronic Conference on Crystals (IOCC 2024), sponsored by the MDPI open access journal Crystals. The conference affords the opportunity for researchers engaged in the study of crystalline materials to present their research and exchange ideas with their colleagues. This is a virtual conference held at Sciforum.net. Sciforum.net is a platform developed and sponsored by MDPI to organize electronic conferences, and to provide our community with the technical support for hosting their digital conferences.
You are cordially invited to participate in the 4th International Electronic Conference on Crystals (IOCC 2024), sponsored by the MDPI open access journal Crystals. This is a new and improved initiative based on the experience from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd International Electronic Conference on Crystals, (https://iecc_2018.sciforum.net/; https://iocc_2020.sciforum.net/; https://iocc_2022.sciforum.net/) which affords the opportunity for researchers engaged in the study of crystalline materials to present their research and exchange ideas with their colleagues. This is a virtual conference held at Sciforum.net. Sciforum.net is a platform developed and sponsored by MDPI to organize electronic conferences, and to provide our community with the technical support for hosting our digital conferences.
The Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR) invites you to participate in the Third Annual Early Career Symposium at IBBR on September 12, 2024 from 8:30am-6:00pm at their facility in Rockville, Maryland. This year’s symposium builds on the success of their past symposiums held in 2022 and 2023 which were attended by 150 participants from the University System of Maryland, NIST, NIH, FDA, Johns Hopkins, AstraZeneca and many more.
Their aim to provide a forum for graduate students and post-docs to share their exciting new scientific research in the fields of disease biology and biotherapeutics development and analysis. Although speakers will be graduate students and post-docs, they have invited scientists at all career stages to attend this symposium. They hope this will provide an opportunity for visiting students and post-docs to interact with the IBBR post-docs, students, and faculty to discuss the latest research developments at IBBR.
This symposium aims to highlight the range of structural biology activities at the University of Manchester. Then program will include advanced in a range of traditional and emerging structural biology methodologies. It will also be an opportunity for early career researchers (Postdocs and PhD students) to present their works, with a poster session in the Michael Smith Lounge, followed by networking/social drinks.
This hands-on course focuses on training participants on how to work with membrane proteins, troubleshooting in the wet lab during solubilisation and reconstitution, and conducting experiments at the beamlines and during early stages of cryoEM screening.
To perform integrated structural biology experiments, well equipped crystallisation and cryo-EM facilities, as well as beamlines for SAXS for time-resolved macromolecular crystallography will be used.
The ECMs are the main meeting point for crystallographers in the ECA area to show their recent
research, and ECM34 in Padova will be the first ECM to follow the 26th IUCr Congress in Melbourne
(IUCr 2023). The scientific program jointly organized by all the ECA Special Interest groups (SIGs)
provide the ideal update in all fields of crystallographic research and education. The synergy
between ECM34 and the EPDIC18 conference will represent the ideal forum to present and discuss
developments of all aspects of crystallography.
The European Microscopy Congress 2024 (emc2024) will bring the world of scientific imaging together in one of Europe’s most beautiful cities – Copenhagen, Denmark.
Incorporating a balanced conference programme of light and electron microscopy in both physical and life sciences – microscopists, manufacturers, and suppliers will come together to share new techniques, applications and technology.
This workshop is intended to provide a forum for researchers working with proteins, nucleic acids and other biomolecules, using a variety of biophysical techniques, including X-ray crystallography, fluorescence, AFM, NMR, calorimetry, etc. The event will feature several individual presentations by internationally recognized scientists currently working in the field, as well as various poster sessions and networking opportunities throughout the day.
Microscopy and Microanalysis 2024 provides a forum for microscopy education and networking. More information coming soon!
The symposium spans the broad range of protein science, combining critical underpinnings of the field, the latest developments and a vision into the future with career development and technical workshops as well as ample networking opportunities. This year’s Symposium continues the society’s commitment to open participation, with each session featuring contributed talks and speakers from across a broad range of topics.
MEETING THEME: ENGINEERING CRYOBIOLOGY FOR LIFE AND SUSTAINABILITY
Recent advances in cell-based medicine, immunotherapy, drug and vaccine discovery, new foods, environmental and species conservation and safety, and outer space exploration, are calling for the development of ingenious cryobiological techniques to enable the eventual success of those cutting-edge technologies. In this regard, engineering is an integral part of the field of cryobiology. A few illustrations are the development and creation of innovative cryo-devices and materials, new approaches to control ice formation, and novel strategies for improving cryopreservation or cryosurgery. CRYO2024 aims to further the connection between engineering and cryobiology by providing an ideal forum for experts from academia, industry, government, and non-profit organizations, to exchange their latest findings and forward-looking perspectives that will contribute to a better life and sustainability on our planet.
Scientific program includes: The measurement strikes back or the return of the experiment. Development of radiation sources over the last two decades. Making great use of the sources we have today. Possibilities afforded by new sources. Data processing how did we get to here and more!
Early career diffraction methods seminar 2024 – Collecting Data and Solving Structures: the Good, the Bragg, and the Analysis is July 21-22 in Berlin Germany.
The conference will cover topics and methodologies such as viral genomics, new anti-viral treatments, emerging viruses, and pandemic readiness. It is an ideal forum for every kind of researcher or invested party including academic researchers, post-docs, and graduate students as well as researchers from governmental agencies and the private sector. The conference will feature discoveries and methodologies to study viruses, which are crucial to identifying new pharmacological targets and treatments for viral diseases.
The four-day Pacific Northwest Summer Crystallographic Institute aims to instruct students and their faculty research mentors (up to 20 participants) in the methods and rewards of small molecule X-ray crystallography as a tool for routine characterization. While other workshops and academic courses focus on training crystallographers, the institute is unique in having junior scholars and faculty who wish to become better informed consumers of crystallographic data as its target audience.
The advent of serial crystallography at free electron laser sources and the following adaptation of these methods at 3rd and 4th generation synchrotrons have opened new possibilities to perform room temperature time relolved studies in macromolecular crystallography.
This practical course aims to teach participants know-how of time-resolved serial crystallography and to illustrate the entire pipeline from sample-preparation to a 3D molecular movie. Lectures and practical sessions will be delivered to explain how to prepare micro-crystals of biomolecules, how to use various sample delivery methods for serial crystallography, to design time-resolved experiments, to collect data, and to process serial crystallographic data.
The ACA Meeting is an annual event providing scientists from a wide variety of backgrounds the opportunity to exchange cutting edge ideas and techniques in multiple areas of research. Each meeting highlights various aspects of crystallography and demonstrates their significance to the greater scientific community. Vendors display the latest technology at the exhibit show.
The congress will be devoted to “Interfacing Chemical Biology and Drug Discovery” and will feature 20 plenary lectures and 6 short lectures. As for previous editions of RICT, the scientific committee will ensure the high quality and diversity of the scientific programme together with the accessibility of the meeting to PhD/post-doc and local Master students. For the latter, an advantageous registration fee will be proposed.
In addition, a poster session will provide the opportunity for all participants to present their current results. Poster prizes will be attributed at the end of the meeting.
AFC 2024, there will be 14 sessions around thematic groups – biology, chemistry, physics – and transversal axes – crystal growth, teaching and mediation, large instruments – of the AFC as well as Earth sciences and all the interfaces between these disciplines. Four plenary conferences, poster sessions, as well as meeting times and sessions with exhibitors are also planned. This AFC congress will also be the occasion for the presentation of the second “ André Guinier ” prize, thesis prizes and the holding of the general assembly.
The organizers invite you to come and share your latest ideas and results during this highlight of our community and actively participate in the life of your association!
The 48th FEBS Congress will cover a broad range of fundamental and emerging molecular and cellular life science topics arranged through 32 parallel sessions.
Of these parallel sessions, ‘Symposia’ will be grouped within four main themes: Biochemistry is Key for Life Sciences, Environmental Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Human Well-being, and Biochemistry in Health and Diseases. Each symposium session (lasting 2 hours) will host lectures by two invited speakers; additional speakers will be selected for symposia talks from the submitted abstracts. Furthermore, several speed talks will also be picked from submitted abstracts for speed talk sessions. This organization will foster the presentation of top-notch subjects and latest developments, as well as applied and technological research, from the international community.
Additionally, ‘Special Sessions’ (focusing on Biochemical Education, Science and Society, Women in Science, and Private and Public Funds in Translational Research) and Sessions specifically managed by Young Scientists (on “Biosensors” and “Biochemistry of drug repurposing”) will be also hosted.
The 29th Conference of the Serbian Crystallographic Society is scheduled for June 27 and 28, 2024. Features plenary lecturers, oral presentations, poster presentations, awards, social activities and more.
Aperiodic 2024 provides an excellent opportunity to learn about new results in the field of aperiodic crystals, including incommensurately modulated phases, composite crystals, and quasicrystals. Aperiodic 2024 also offers an opportunity for researchers working in these fields to exchange ideas and encourage collaborations with other research groups, hence promoting material science and engineering.