Essen 2018

Microsymposium
“Lightning Talks of the Young Crystallographers 1 & 2”

and Get-Together of the “Young Crystallographers”
at the 26th Annual Conference of the German Crystallographic Society

Organizers: Melanie Nentwich (Freiberg/DE), Khai-Nghi Truong (Aachen/DE)

Monday, March 5th – Thursday, March 8th, 2018
@ Universität Duisburg-Essen

Important dates:

Lightning Talks Session 1:
March 6th, 2018 (16:30 – 18:00): Raum S06 S00 B29, Gebäude S04 Hörsaalzentrum
Associated posters in the subsequent Poster Session 1 (18:00 – 20:00)

Lightning Talks Session 2:
March 7th, 2018 (14:00 – 15:30): Raum S06 S00 B29, Gebäude S04 Hörsaalzentrum
Associated posters in the subsequent Poster Session 2 (16:00 – 18:30)

Get-Together:
March 8th, 2018 (10:00 – 11:00): Raum S06 S00 B29, Gebäude S04 Hörsaalzentrum
Including snacks and drinks
Poster award ceremony

33 abstracts of young scientists were selected for 5-minute presentations for two lightning talk sessions and subsequent poster sessions.

STOE sponsored three prizes that were awarded by a committee of three experienced scientists to:

 

Anna Tymoczko, Universität Duisburg-Essen

Matthias Barone, FMP Berlin

Stefanie Hanke, Universität Leipzig

 

The winning posters:

How does the crystal structure influence the final composition of the Au-Fe alloy nanoparticles generated via pulsed laser ablation in liquids?, Anna Tymoczko

Structure-optimized ProM scaffolds address Ena/VASP as a possible antimetastatic target, Matthias Barone

Preparation of active kallikrein7 for structural studies on inhibitor binding, Stefanie Hanke

The presentations given at the microsymposium “LT1 – Lightning Talks of Young Crystallographers” were:

  • LT1-01, “High pressure properties of Bi2SiO5 from synchrotron powder diffraction and first principle calculations”, Adrien Girard (Frankfurt a.M./DE)
  • LT1-02, “A study on the growth, structural, optical, photoluminescence properties of dye doped l-arginine diphosphate single crystals”, Reena Ittyachan (Chalakudy/IN)
  • LT1-03, “Solvent-controlled molecular self-assembly – from alkoxoiron(III) wheels to coordination networks”, Khai-Nghi Truong (Aachen/DE)
  • LT1-04, “Structure and ligand-induced conformational changes of the calcium-sensing receptor”, Mandy Geisler (Leipzig/DE)
  • LT1-05, “In-situ powder diffraction measurements of a high-yield microwave synthesis of silver nanoparticles using synchrotron radiation”, Kevin Pappert (Essen/DE)
  • LT1-06, “Preparation of active kallikrein7 for structural studies on inhibitor binding”, Stefanie Hanke (Leipzig/DE)
  • (Did not attend) LT1-07, “Treatment of wastewater by adsorption on raw ore graphite (deposit point 214-area sidi bouothmane-marrakech)”, Said Sabir (Casablanca/MA)
  • LT1-08, “In-situ XRD studies on the hydrogenation of Ti thin films”, Zoltán Balogh-Michels (Dübendorf/CH)
  • LT1-09, “Investigations of illuminated manuscripts by micro-diffraction using an aircooled X-ray microfocus source”, Bernd Hasse (Geesthacht/DE)
  • LT1-10, “Flexibility vs. rigidity – linker extension influence on MOF formation and porosity ”, Friedrich Wilhelm Steuber (Dublin/IE)
  • LT1-11, “Synthesis and compressibility of iridium borides”, Christopher Neun (Frankfurt a.M./DE)
  • LT1-12, “Single crystal structure investigation of Cu(C10H20O5)Br2.2H2O and analysis of physical properties ”, Natalija van Well (Bayreuth/DE, Villigen/CH)
  • LT1-13, “An integrative approach to study the conformation of the Yersinia type-III-effector protein YopO and its activation by actin in solution”, Gregor Hagelueken (Bonn/DE)
  • LT1-14, “Total scattering and pair distribution function characterization of disordered polymer structures”, Maxwell Terban (Stuttgart/DE)
  • LT1-15, “Quantitative modelling of combinatorial transcription factor binding reveals DNA-shape mediated cooperativity”, Ignacio Ibarra Del Rio (Heidelberg/DE)
  • LT1-16, “All you can diffract – elucidating the commensurately modulated structure of HfTaO5”, Dennis Wiedemann (Berlin/DE)

 

 

The presentations given at the microsymposium “LT2 – Lightning Talks of Young Crystallographers” were:

  • LT2-01, “STD-NMR as a tool to identify (and characterize) weakly binding ligands for protein crystallography”, Bärbel Blaum (Tübingen/DE)
  • (Did not attend) LT2-02, “Na3ZrCo(SiO4)2(PO4) as an electrolyte material for sodium-ion batteries”, Asmaa Loutati (Casablanca/MA)
  • LT2-03, “Structure-optimized ProM scaffolds address Ena/VASP as a possible antimetastatic target”, Matthias Barone (Berlin/DE)
  • LT2-04, “High temperature in-situ PDF study on TiO2 nanoparticle growth”, Stefan Diez (Erlangen/DE)
  • (Did not attend) LT2-05, “Structural and Raman spectroscopic studies of the two M50SbFe(PO4)3 (M = Mg, Ni) nasicon phases”, Hajar Bellefqih (Casablanca/MA)
  • LT2-06, “Serial synchrotron crystallography at EMBL PETRA III beamline P14”, Johanna Hakanpää (Hamburg/DE)
  • LT2-07, “Phase transition of tetragonal copper sulphide Cu2S at low temperatures”, Dominik Zimmer (Frankfurt a.M./DE)
  • LT2-08, “In-situ studies of dislocations in GaAs with synchrotron white beam X-ray topography”, Patrizia Fritsch (Freiburg i.Br./DE)
  • LT2-09, “Analysis of aluminum conductivity in high-valent transition metal oxides with bond-valence-site-energy calculations”, Manuel Rothenberger (Freiberg/DE)
  • LT2-10, “Beamline P02.1 – a workhorse for high-resolution powder diffraction and total scattering experiments at PETRA III, DESY”, Michael Wharmby (Hamburg/DE)
  • LT2-11, “Investigations on crystal structures and planar defects of heavily stacking faulted honeycomb iridates”, Sebastian Bette (Stuttgart/DE)
  • LT2-12, “Towards the structure of TRAP transporters with an integrative approach of crystallography and PELDOR”, Martin F. Peter (Bonn/DE)
  • LT2-13, “New crystal structures of two zirconium metal-organic frameworks”, Haishuang Zhao (Mainz/DE)
  • LT2-14, “In-situ small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) and powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) – complementary tools to investigate the structural behaviour and the composition of mono- and bimetallic nanoparticles”, Alexander Rostek (Essen/DE)
  • LT2-15, “How does the crystal structure influence the final composition of the Au-Fe alloy nanoparticles generated via pulsed laser ablation in liquids?”, Anna Tymoczko (Essen/DE)
  • LT2-16, “Crystal structure of the human lysosomal mTORC1 scaffold complex”, Giridhar Shivalingaiah (Innsbruck/AT)
  • (Did not attend) LT2-17, “Structure determination of 2-(4-(6-fluoropyridin-3-yl)phenyl)quinoxaline”, D.V. Geetha (Mysuru, Karnataka/IN)

 

 

Supported by:

STOE

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