10-15 July 2022
Chemical Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon University, Lisbon - Portugal
10-15 July 2022
Chemical Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon University, Lisbon - Portugal

Programme Schedule

 

Sunday - 10 July 2022

14h00 – 14h30

Registration

14h30 – 15h30

15h30 – 15h45

Opening Remarks

15h45 – 16h00

An historical overview of X-ray Crystallography

 José António Paixão (Uni. Coimbra/Portugal)

16h00 – 16h30

16h30 – 16h45

16h45 – 17h00

Poster session

17h00 – 18h00

18h00 – 18h30

Welcome mixer

18h30 – 20h00

20h00 – 22h00

 

 

 

Monday

11 July 2022

Tuesday

12 July 2022

Wednesday

13 July 2022

Thursday

14 July 2022

Friday

15 July 2022

8h30–9h30

Fundamentals of Diffraction I

Structure solution & refinement (small molecules) 

Data validation and data deposition (small molecules & powder) 

Advanced Topic 1

Structure determination by CryoEM, from macromolecules to cells

Burning Questions

Tony Linden

(Uni. Zurich/Switzerland)

Clara Gomes

(FCT-Uni. NOVA Lisboa/Portugal)

Tony Linden

(Uni. Zurich/Switzerland)

Célia Romão

(ITQB-Uni. NOVA Lisboa/Portugal)

9h30–10h00

Coffee break

Coffee break

Coffee break

Coffee break

Coffee break

10h00–11h00

Fundamentals of Diffraction II

Phase determination in macromolecular structure Solution

Macromolecular Structure Refinement 

Advanced Topic 2 Structure solution from powder diffraction: an overview. The EXPO software

Advanced Topic 4 

NMR as a complementary method to X-ray crystallography 

Tony Linden

(Uni. Zurich/Switzerland)

Manfred Weiss

(Helmholtz-Zentrum/Germany)

Pedro Matias

(ITQB-Uni. NOVA Lisboa/Portugal)

Angela Altomare

(Institute of Crystallography – CNR/Italy)

Ricardo Louro

(ITQB-Uni. NOVA Lisboa/Portugal)

11h00-12h00

Data collection, reduction, and analysis (general)

Powder diffraction - Rietveld refinement 

Data validation and data deposition (bio)

Advanced Topic 3 

From crystals to amorphous materials: Pair distribution function, modelling, and solid-state NMR

Advanced Topic 5

X-ray crystallography in the process of discovery and development of new drugs

Pedro Matias

(ITQB-Uni. NOVA Lisboa/Portugal)

Filipe Paz 

(Uni. Aveiro/Portugal)

 Colin McVey

(ITQB-Uni. NOVA Lisboa/Portugal)

 Inês Martins

(Uni. Copenhagen /Denmark)

Matthias Frech (Merck KGaA/Germany)

12h00–12h30

Exhibitor corner

Exhibitor corner

Exhibitor corner

Exhibitor corner

Closing and poster prizes 

12h30–14h00

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

Lunch

14h00–14h30

Shuttle bus to off-site

Shuttle bus to off-site

Shuttle bus to off-site

Poster session

Excursion

14h30–15h30

Lab rotation

Lab rotation

Lab rotation

15h30–15h45

CSD 

15h45–16h00

Suzzana Ward/Ilaria Gimondi

​​(CCDC- The Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre/UK)

16h00–16h30

Coffee break

Coffee break

Coffee break

16h30–16h45

Lab rotation

Lab rotation

Lab rotation

Coffee break

16h45–17h00

17h00–18h00

PDB 

Deborah Harrus

(PDBe-Protein Data Bank in Europe/UK)

18h00–18h30

Return shuttle

Return shuttle

Return shuttle

18h30–20h00

 

 

20h00–22h00

School dinner

 

During your Laboratory Rotations you will have dedicated tutors:

Ana Luisa Carvalho (FCT-NOVA), Teresa Santos-Silva (FCT-NOVA), Cristiano Mota (FCT-NOVA), Márcia Correia (FCT-NOVA), Pedro Matias (ITQB-NOVA) and Célia Romão (ITQB-NOVA) in the Macromolecular Crystallography Rotation

Clara Gomes (FCT-NOVA), Fátima Minas Piedade (FCUL-ULisboa), Isabel Santos (IST-ULisboa), Luis Silva (LAQV-UP) and Chris Herbert (IST-ULisboa) in the Small Molecule Crystallography Rotation

José António Paixão (UCoimbra), Filipe PAZ (UAveiro), Inês Martins (UCopenhagen) and Auguste Fernandes (IST-ULisboa) in the Powder Diffractio Rotation