Registration:Conference Venue, Poznań Congress Center, Głogowska 10, Poznań
17:00 - 17:30
Opening
17:30 - 18:30
PL1 Crystallography – a subject that constantly reinvents itself
Sven Lidin (Lund U, SE)
18:30 - 19:30
Perutz Prize
19:30 - 21:30
Welcome Reception
Tuesday 26 August 2025
8:30 - 9.15
KL1 Modulation and modularity in natural and synthetic sulfosalts
Berthold Stöger (Technical U Vienna, AT) SIG-05,14
KL2 Crystallochemistry underneath function: in situ powder diffraction at work
Simona Galli (U Insubria, Como, IT)
KL3 George Sheldrick’s SHELX: success for all
Isabel Uson (IBMB, Barcelona, ES)
9:15 - 9:45
Poster session & Cofee break
9:45 - 11:45
M5 Structural studies in enzymology Chairs: Isabel Bento (MAX IV, Lund, SE), Matthias Bochtler (IIMCB, Warsaw, PL); Speakers: Ashwin Chari (MPI Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, DE), Richard Neutze (U Gothenburg, SE) SIG-01
M9 The new role of experiments in the age of protein fold prediction Chairs: Charles Ballard (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab, UK), Nicholas Pearce (Linköping U, SE); Speakers: to be confirmed SIG-01,09
M22 Short-range order as seen by different techniques Chairs: Giovanni Orazio Lepore (U Florence, IT), Wojciech Sławiński (U Warsaw, PL); Speakers: Marta Morana (U Florence, IT), Przemyslaw Rzepka (J Heyrovsky Institute Physical Chemistry, CAS, Prague, CZ) SIG-14
M25 Supra- molecular inter- actions behind crystal engineering Chairs: Leonard Barbour (U Lincoln, UK), Kreso Bucar (U College London, UK), Agnieszka Janiak (Adam Mickiewicz U, Poznan, PL); Speakers: Susan Bourne (U Cape Town, ZA), Riccardo Montis (U Urbino Carlo Bo, IT) SIG-07,12,13
M33 Nucleation and crystal growth Chairs: Filipa Castro (U Minho, Braga, PT), José Gavira (IACT-CSIC, Granada, ES); Speakers: Christian Betzel (U Hamburg, DE), Isaac Rodriguez (LGC-CNRS, Toulouse, FR) SIG-01,13
M41 Total scattering and Pair Distribution Function analysis Chairs: Nicola Dengo (U Insubria, Varese, IT), Adam Sapnik (U Copenhagen, DK) Speakers: Emil Bozin (Institute of Physics Belgrade, RS), Sean Collins (U Leeds, UK) SIG-08
11:45 - 14:00
Lunch break
12:15- 13:45
Meetings (ECA, SIG’s, GIG’s); software fayre
14:00 - 16:00
M2 Room temperature and serial crystallography and dynamics Chairs: Sebastian Günther (DESY, Hamburg, DE), Dean Lang (MAX IV, Lund, SE) Speakers: Thomas Barends (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Hamburg, DE), Gisela Brändén (U Gothenburg, SE) SIG-01
M10 Structure- property relationships in materials Chairs: Volodymyr Pavlyuk (U Lviv, UA), Pavlo Solokha (U Genova, IT) Speakers: Maksym Yarema (ETH Zurich, CH), + to be confirmed SIG-02,05,12
M18 Novel advances in quantum crystallography Chairs: Florian Kleemiss (RWTH-Aachen, DE), Anna Krawczuk (U Göttingen, DE); Speakers: Simon Grabowsky (U Bern, CH), Anna Hoser (U Warsaw, PL) SIG-02
M32 Designing the void: structural mastery in advanced porous materials Chairs: Volodymyr Bon (TU Dresden, DE), Felipe Gandara (ICMM- CSIC, Madrid, ES) Speakers: Valentina Colombo (U Milan, IT), Soumya Mukherjee (U Limerick, IE) SIG-07,12,13
M34 AI in crystallography Chairs: Arnt Kern (Bruker AXS, DE), Rosanna Rizzi (IC-CNR, Bari, IT); Speakers: Detlef Hofmann (CRS4, Cagliari, IT), + to be confirmed (Simon Billinge) SIG-08,GIG-03
M48 Potential of online courses in crystallography Chairs: Kamil Dziubek (U Vienna, AT), Gemma de la Flor Martin (KIT, Karlsruhe, DE) Speakers: Stefano Canossa (ETH Zurich, CH), Ilaria Gimondi (CCDC, Cambridge) GIG-01,02,03
16:00 - 16:30
Poster session & Cofee break
16:30 - 17.15
KL4 Structural insight into the complex regulation of the Calvin-Benson cycle
Simona Fermani (U Bologna, IT)
KL5 Electron density and chemical bonding in intermetallic compounds
Juri Grin (MPI Chemical Physics of Solids, Dresden, DE)
17:15 - 18:45
Remembering George Sheldrick (including Sheldrick Prize)
19:30 - 21:00
Concert at AMU Hall, AMU Hall (Aula UAM), Wieniawskiego 1, Poznań
21:00 - 00:00
Young Crystallographers meeting (Student's Mixer), Blue Note, Kosciuszki 79, Poznań
Wednesday 27 August 2025
8:30 - 9.15
KL6 Weak, noisy and uninteresting
Nicholas Pearce (Linköping U, SE) SIG-01,09
KL7 Order and defects from the perspective of 3D electron diffraction
Yasar Krysiak (U Hannover, DE) SIG-04,14
KL8 BioStIn-E: Towards an individualized path to self-learning in integrative structural biology
Marie-Hélène Le Du (I2BC, Saclay, FR) GIG-01,03
9:15 - 9:45
Poster session & Cofee break
9:45 - 11:45
M1 Nucleic acids, proteins – structures, interactions Chairs: Martin Hällberg (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE), + to be confirmed; Speakers: to be confirmed SIG-01
M11 Molecular structures with material properties Chairs: Marlena Gryl (Jagiellonian U, Krakow, PL), Rebecca Scatena (Diamond LS, Didcot, UK); Speakers: Michelle Ernst (U Zurich, CH), Konrad Szaciłowski (AGH U Krakow, PL) SIG-02
M17 Crystallo- graphic methods to rescue natural and cultural heritage Chairs: Klaudia Hradil (TU Vienna, AT), Alicja Rafalska-Lasocha (Jagiellonian U, Krakow, PL) Speakers: Koen Janssens (U Antwerp, BE), + to be confirmed SIG-15
M27 Insight into the crystal: crystal forms, isostructurality, symmetry, chirality Chairs: Petra Bombicz (TTK-MTA, Budapest, HU), Leopoldo Suescun (U Republica, Montevideo, UY); Speakers: Amy Hall (Durham U, UK), Szymon Sobczak (Adam Mickiewicz U, Poznan, PL) SIG-07,13
M35 Challenges of light sources, neutrons and XFEL Chairs: Alke Meents (DESY, Hamburg, DE), + to be confirmed SIG-01,06
M42 Quantum mechanics and computational chemistry-based methods of crystallography Chairs: Anna Hoser (U Warsaw, PL), Horst Puschmann (Durham U, UK) Speakers: Florian Kleemiss (RWTH- Aachen, DE), Anna Krawczuk (U Göttingen, DE) SIG-02,09
11:45 - 14:00
Lunch break
12:15- 13:45
Meetings (ECA, SIG’s, GIG’s); software fayre
14:00 - 16:00
M4 Infectious and neglected diseases Chairs: Nicholas Furnham (LSHTHM, London, UK), Matthias Wilmanns (EMBL Hamburg, DE) Speakers: Giedrė Tamulaitienė (Vilnius U, LT), + to be confirmed SIG-01
M12 Materials for energy storage and conversion Chairs: Laure Monconduit (U Montpellier, FR), Ihor Zavaliy (Physico- Mechanical Institute NAS, Lviv, UA) Speakers: Valérie Paul- Boncour (ICMPE, Paris, FR), + to be confirmed SIG-12
M20 Aperiodic order and complex superstructures Chairs: Julia Dshemuchadse (Cornell U, New York, US), + to be confirmed SIG-03
M28 Molecular structure and chemical bonding Chairs: Christian Lehmann (MPI- Mülheim, DE), Teresa Duarte (U Lisbon, PT) SIG-02,04,07
M36 In situ and operando diffraction; time- resolved techniques Chairs: Mattia Gaboardi (U Rome Tor Vergata, IT), Boby Joseph (Elettra, Trieste, IT) Speakers: Marco Giorgetti (U Bologna, IT), Umbertoluca Ranieri (MPC, Donostia- San Sebastian, ES) SIG-06
M43 Simulating and predicting structure Chairs: Lily Hunnisett (CCDC, Cambridge, UK), Jacco van de Streek (Avant-garde Materials Simulation, DE) Speakers: Dzmitry Firaha (Avant-garde Materials Simulation, DE), Sarah Price (U College London, UK) SIG-07,09,13
16:00 - 16:30
Poster session & Cofee break
16:30 - 17.15
KL9 Toward understanding the Molecular Architecture of a glycogen- committed PP1/PTG holoenzyme: a Putative Target for Lafora Disease
Paola Storici (Elettra, Trieste, IT) SIG-06
KL10 Crystals under pressure: their compression and intermolecular forces
Andrzej Katrusiak (Adam Mickiewicz U, Poznań, PL)
KL11 ATP Synthase at the Intersection of Crystallography, Energetics, and Biophysical Chemistry
Chérif Matta (Mount Saint Vincent U, Halifax, CA
KL12 Experimental Charge Density Investigations: Data and Model Quality
Regine Herbst-Irmer (U Göttingen, DE) SIG-02
KL13 Breaking Boundaries, Creating Connections: The Cambridge Structural Database at 60
Suzanna Ward (CCDC, Cambridge, UK) GIG-02
9:15 - 9:45
Poster session & Cofee break
9:45 - 11:45
M3 Software developments in MX and Cryo-EM including AI / Machine Learning Chairs: Maria Fando (STFC-UKRI, Oxford, UK), Isabel Uson (IBMB-CSIC, Barcelona, ES); Speakers: Lucrezia Catapano (MRC-LMB, Cambridge, UK), Sergei Grudinin (U Grenoble-Alpes, FR) SIG-01,06
M13 Intermetallic compounds and derivatives Chairs: Vitaliy Romaka (TU Dresden, DE), Yaroslav Tokaychuk (U Lviv, UA) Speakers: Serena De Negri (U Genova, IT), Viktor Hlukhyy (Technical U Munich, DE)
M21 Surfaces, interfaces and ultrathin films Chairs: Julian Ledieu (U Lorraine, Nancy, FR), Hem Raj Sharma (U Liverpool, UK) Speakers: Yvonne Grunder (U Liverpool, UK), Georg Held (Diamond LS, Didcot, UK) SIG-03
M29 Impact of non-covalent interactions on dynamics in molecular crystals Chairs: Amy Hall (Durham U, UK), Izabela Madura (Warsaw U Technology, PL) Speakers: Doris Braun (U Innsbruck, AT), Iain Oswald (U Strathclyde, UK) SIG-07,12,13
M37 Advanced and new techniques to study inorganic materials Chairs: Mariana Klementova (FZU, Prague, CZ), Andrew Stewart (U College London, UK) Speakers: Peter Nellist (Oxford U, UK), + to be confirmed SIG-04,05
M44 Comparing crystal structures in massive datasets Chairs: Nicholas Francia (CCDC, Cambridge, UK), Martin Lutz (Utrecht U, NL); Speakers: Petra Bombicz (TTK-MTA, Budapest, HU), Erin Johnson (Dalhousie U, Halifax, CA) SIG-09
11:45 - 14:00
Lunch break
12:15- 13:45
Meetings (ECA, SIG’s, GIG’s); software fayre
14:00 - 16:00
M6 Fragment screening and structural based drug discovery Chairs: Daren Fearon (Diamond LS, Didcot, UK), Tobias Krojer (MAX IV, Lund, SE) Speakers: Manfred Weiss (Helmholtz- Zentrum Berlin, DE) SIG-01
M14 From crystal structure to magnetic structure Chairs: Françoise Damay (LLB-CEA, Paris, FR), Khrystyna Miliyanchuk (U Lviv, UA) Speakers: Margarida Henriques (FZU, Prague, CZ), Izabela Sosnowska (U Warsaw, PL)
M19 Quantum mechanical models for disorder, dynamics, and diffuse scattering Chairs: Johnathan Bulled (ESRF, Grenoble, FR), Anders Østergaard Madsen (U Copenhagen, DK); Speakers: to be confirmed SIG-02,14
M30 Poly- morphism and phase transitions Chairs: Alessia Bacchi (U Parma, IT), Szymon Sobczak (Adam Mickiewicz U, Poznan, PL); Speakers: Ivana Brekalo (Ruder Boskovic Institute, Zagreb, HR), Michael Probert (Newcastle U, UK) SIG-05,07,13
M38 Powder diffraction on organic compounds Chairs: Federica Bravetti (U Frankfurt, DE), Maria Spiliopoulou (UKE, Hamburg, DE) Speakers: Angela Altomare (IC-CNR, Bari, IT), Mathilde Reinle-Schmitt (PSI Villigen, CH) SIG-08
M45 How to… successfully apply for funding Chairs: Matic Lozinšek (JSI, Liubliana, SI), Marta Morana (U Florence, IT); Speakers: Mattia Gaboardi (U Rome Tor Vergata, IT), Anna Krawczuk (U Göttingen, DE) GIG-01,02,03
16:00 - 16:30
Poster session & Cofee break
16:30 - 17.15
KL14 Complementing powder diffraction with inelastic information - iron oxide nanoparticles as an example
Mirijam Zobel (RWTH Aachen U, DE) SIG-08
KL15 Journey into the fascinating world of aperiodic crystals
Marc de Boissieu (SIMaP-CNRS, Grenoble, FR) SIG-03,14
KL16 Crystallography beyond independent atom mode
Krzysztof Woźniak (U Warsaw, PL) SIG-02
KL17 Application of crystal engineering tools for the design of multiphase formulations for food and pharmaceuticals
Elena Simone (Politecnico Torino, IT) SIG-13
KL18 Bridging the gap. Serial crystallography at 4th generation synchrotrons: current status and future goals
Daniele de Sanctis (ESRF, Grenoble, FR) SIG-06
KL19 Single crystals and beyond - research and study in Kharkiv amid explosions and air alarms
Valentyn Chebanov (Karazin Kharkiv U, UA) GIG-03
9:15 - 9:45
Poster session & Cofee break
9:45 - 11:45
M7 Electron diffraction of macromolecules Chairs: David Owen (Diamond LS, Didcot, UK), Xiaodong Zou (Stockholm U, SE) Speakers: Max Clabbers (Aarhus U, DK), Laura Pacoste (Stockholm U, SE) SIG-01,04
M15 Inorganic crystal structure investigation using electron diffraction Chairs: Stéphanie Kodjikian (Institut Néel, Grenoble, FR), Louisa Meshi (Ben-Gurion U Negev, Beersheba, IL); Speakers: Christophe Lepoittevin (Institut Néel, Grenoble, FR), Yevgeny Rakita (Ben-Gurion U Negev, Beersheba, IL) SIG-04
M23 Dynamics and disorder in complex systems and/or under extreme conditions Chairs: Daniel Chaney (ESRF, Grenoble, FR), Ella Schmidt (U Bremen, DE); Speakers: Bryce Mullens (Stoney Brook U, New York, US), Björn Wehinger (ESRF, Grenoble, FR) SIG-11,14
M31 Crystallo- graphy in the world of mechano- chemistry Chairs: Dritan Hasa (U Trieste, IT), Adam Michalchuk (U Birmingham, UK); Speakers: Mihails Arhangelskis (U Warsaw, PL), + to be confirmed SIG-07,13
M39 High-pressure crystallography Chairs: Anna Makal (U Warsaw, PL), Andrzej Katrusiak (Adam Mickiewicz U, Poznan, PL) Speakers: Karen Friese (Forschungszentrum Jülich, DE), Tomasz Poręba (EPFL, Lausanne, CH) SIG-02,11
M47 Exploiting crystallographic databases in solving, refining, and validating crystal structures Chairs: Michael Probert (Newcastle U, UK), Suzanna Ward (CCDC, Cambridge, UK) Arie van der Lee (IEM-CNRS, Montpellier, FR) GIG-01,02,03
11:45 - 14:00
Lunch break
12:15- 13:45
Meetings (ECA, SIG’s, GIG’s); software fayre
14:00 - 16:00
M8 Cross-method structural studies Chairs: Eilis Bragginton (Diamond LS, Didcot, UK), Giorgia Fiorini (PSI, Villigen, CH); Speakers: Dvir Gur (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL), Catherine Tooke (U Bath, UK) SIG-01
M16 Crystallo- graphy of minerals in the Universe Chairs: Tiziana Boffa-Ballaran (Uni-Bayreuth, DE), Przemyslav Dera (U Hawai, Honolulu, US); Speakers: Anna Pakhomova (ESRF, Grenoble, FR), + to be confirmed SIG-05
M24 Disordered and defective molecular systems, effect on chemical properties Chairs: Hanna Boström (Stockholm U, SE), Stefano Canossa (ETH Zurich, CH) Speakers: Emily Meekel (Kyoto U, JP), Martin Schmidt (Frankfurt U, DE) SIG-13,14
M26 The complex world of multicomponent crystals Chairs: Consiglia Tedesco (U Salerno, IT), Kateryna Terebilenko (Kyiv National U, UA); Speakers: to be confirmed SIG-07,13
M40 New developments in electron diffraction Chairs: Paul Klar (U Bremen, DE), Ute Kolb (U Mainz, DE) Speakers: Paulina Dominiak (Warsaw U, PL), Sergi Plana Ruiz (U Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, ES) SIG-04
M46 Publishing crystallography Chairs: Bill Clegg (Newcastle U, UK), Chiara Massera (U Parma, IT) Speakers: Louise Jones (IUCr, Chester, UK), Manfred Weiss (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, DE) GIG-01,02,03
16:00 - 16:30
Poster session & Cofee break
16:30 - 17.15
PL2 AI/ML in crystallography: what can it do for us, what can we do with it?
Simon Billinge (Columbia U, New York, US)