Meeting program

  Wednesday, 30th June
16:00 h Arrival and Registration
17:00 h Joint Lecture of the EMU and MISCA Meetings
Jonathan Erez."The role of direct seawater supply in marine biomineralization and its implications for isotope and trace element composition in biogenic carbonates
18:00 h Opening Ceremony. Award ceremony MISCA Gold Medal
18:30 h MISCA Gold Medal Talk
Davide Viterbo."Crystallography & me: Law & Order"
19:30 h Welcome party."Courtesy of Ayuntamiento de Oviedo"

  Thursday, 1st July
MORGING
MS1 Crystal growth and biomineralization

Chairpersons: "Jaime Gomez Morales and Giuseppe Falini"
9:30 h Plenary Lecture
Juan Manuel García Ruiz."Non-Biogenic Routes to Complex Crystal Morphologies"
10:20 h Keynote Lecture I - MS1
Marco Bruno."The role of the interfaces in twinning and mixed-crystals formation"
10:50 h Keynote Lecture II - MS1
Alejandro Rodríguez Navarro."What hens can teach us about calcium carbonate precipitation"
11:20 h Oral Presentation I – MS1
Elisa Boanini."Structure and Stability of Octacalcium Phosphate: Influence of Foreign Ions"
11:35 h Flash Presentations of the first group of posters
11:50 h Coffee break and Posters
12:20 h Keynote Lecture III - MS1
Fermín Otálora Muñoz."Microgravity crystal growth at LEC.Critical review and prospects"
12:50 h Keynote Lecture IV - MS1
Isidoro Giorgio Lesci."Role of biomimetism to realize new synthetic biomaterials"
13:20 h Oral Presentation II - MS1
Alexander E.S. Van Driessche."How do gypsum crystals grow?"
13:35 h Oral Presentation III - MS1
D. Athanasiadou."New insights into the chemical and isotopic composition of cholesterol gallstones from the human body"
13.50 h End Session
14:00 h Lunch. Technical Session
Martin Adam."How tiny is a small crystal today and how quick can it be measured?"
Sponsored by Bruker
AFTERNOON
MS2 Structural chemistry (includes crystal engineering and supramolecular chemistry)

Chairpersons: "Marta E. G. Mosquera and Alessandra Crispini"
15:45 h Keynote Lecture I - MS2
Alessia Bacchi."Probing supramolecular synthons and molecular recognition by measuring macroscopic crystal properties"
16:15 h Keynote Lecture II - MS2
Gotzone Barandika."Using DFT calculations in further rationalization of MOFs´ structural characteristics"
16:45 h Oral presentations I - MS2
Pilar García-Orduña."Experimental charge density study of the hetero-scorpionate ruthenium complex [RuCl(cod)(3-N,N,O-bdmpza)]"
17.00 h Flash Presentations of the second group of posters
17:20 h Coffee break and Posters
18:00 h Keynote Lecture III - MS2
Lucia Maini."Ionic co-crystal: from unexpected reactions to a new family of co-crystals"
18:30 h Keynote Lecture IV - MS2
Guillermo Mínguez Espallargas."Structural Changes upon Gas Sorption of Non-porous Crystalline Solids"
19:00 h Oral Presentations II - MS2
Consiglia Tedesco."Solid State Assembly of a Calix[4]arene Compound: from cubic to triclinic symmetry"
19:15 h Plenary Lecture
Piero Macchi."Crystallography without diffractometers. Simulation of molecular crystals at high pressure"
20:05 h End Session

ALL DAY Computer Fayre Cyclically in Parallel


  Friday, 2nd July
MORGING
MS3 Structures of materials, nanomaterials, surfaces and minerals

Chairpersons: "Miguel Angel García Aranda and Michele Zema"
9:30 h Plenary Lecture
Ian Robinson."Coherent X-ray Diffraction"
10:20 h Keynote Lecture I - MS3
J. L. García-Muñoz."Phase Competition in Quasi-degenerated Oxides Investigated by Synchrotron Powder Diffraction"
10:50 h Keynote Lecture II - MS3
Monica Dapiaggi."Influence of local and average structure on the thermal behaviour of materials"
11:20 h Flash Presentations of the third group of posters
11:40 h Coffee break and Posters
12:20 h Keynote Lecture III - MS3
Inma Peral."Pair Distribution Function of materials and nanomaterials"
12:50 h Keynote Lecture IV - MS3
Francesco d'Acapito."Point defects in crystals studied by EXAFS"
13:20 h Oral Presentation I - MS3
José María Amigó."Structure refinement and microstructure of synthetic hexagonal magnesiumcobalt cordierite solid solutions by X-ray powder diffraction"
13:35 h Oral Presentation II - MS3
R. Felici."In-situ X-ray diffraction studies of the catalytic CO oxidation on Pd surfaces and clusters at real working conditions"
13.50 h End Session
14:00 h Lunch
AFTERNOON
15:00 h General Assemblies
17:00 h Excursion

  Saturday, 3rd July
MORNING
MS4 Non single-crystal techniques (powder diffraction, electron diffraction, single particle imaging etc.)

Chairpersons: "Vicente Esteve Cano and Fabia Gozzo"
9:30 h Plenary Lecture
J. Rodríguez-Carvajal."Symmetry Modes Crystallography: A New Way of Thinking About Distorted Structures. Recent Tools in the Bilbao Crystallographic Server and FullProf"
10:20 h Keynote Lecture I - MS4
Matteo Leoni."Structure, microstructure and LEGO crystallography"
10:50 h Keynote Lecture II - MS4
Jordi Rius."S-FFT based direct methods applied to high-resolution powder diffraction data of molecular compounds."
11:20 h Flash Presentations of the fourth group of posters
11:40 h Coffee break and Posters
12:20 h Keynote Lecture III - MS4
Cinzia Giannini."Diffractive Imaging Microscopy: from nano- to picometric spatial resolution"
12:50 h Keynote Lecture IV - MS4
Joaquim Portillo."EBSD analogue in TEM: fast orientation mapping under precessed electron diffraction mode"
13:20 h Oral Presentation I - MS4
Sonia Pin. "Study of Solid State Reactions at Atomistic Level"
Stefania Ferrari. "Ab-Initio Structural Determination Of Carprofen Polymorphs From Synchrotron Diffraction Data"
Gemma de la Flor. "Current State of the Bilbao Crystallographic Server: Development of new tools and improvements"
13.50 h End Session
14:00 h Lunch
AFTERNOON
MS5 Biologically related structures

Chairpersons: "Armando Albert de la Cruz and Michele Saviano"
15:45 h Keynote Lecture I - MS5
Luca Federici."Insight into plant innate immunity: the interaction between fungal polygalacturonases and their plant protein inhibitors"
16:15 h Keynote Lecture II - MS5
Beatriz González Pérez."Understanding the specificity of the InsP6 synthesis: novel structural and functional features in the inositide signaling"
16:45 h Oral presentation I - MS5
Isabella Daidone (Gavuzzo Prize)."Common Folding Mechanism of a -Hairpin Peptide via Non-native Turn Formation Revealed by Unbiased Molecular Dynamics Simulations"
17.00 h Flash Presentations of the fifth group of posters
17:20 h Coffee break and Posters
18:00 h Keynote Lecture III - MS5
Alfonso Martínez de la Cruz."Regulatory Mechanisms mediated by Cystathionine ß-synthase (CBS)domains"
18:30 h Keynote Lecture IV - MS5
Lelio Mazzarella."Tertiary and quaternary structural flexibility of cold-adapted hemoglobins"
19:00 h Oral presentation II - MS5
Cristina Yunta."The structure of a major signalling network that regulates plant ion homeostasis"
19:15 h Plenary Lecture
Ada Yonath."The stunning ribosomal architecture and hints about its origin"
20:05 h Closing Remarks
21:00 h Congress Banquet

Organized by:

Grupo especializado de Cristalografía y Crecimiento
	   Cristalino

Associazione Italiana di Cristallografia

Misca 2010

Universidad de Oviedo




Sponsored by:

Ministerio de ciencia e innovación

Asac comunicaciones

bruker

CCDC

Dismed

CemLabor

European Crystallographic Association

Oxford diffraction

Molecular dimensions

Panalytical

Rigaku

Ayuntamiento de Oviedo

Auditorio - Palacio de congresos