Keynote speakers

Software Fayre (Chairpersons: Angela Altomare and Santiago García Granda)

Carmelo Giacovazzo, Istituto di Cristallografia, CNR- Bari, Italy.
"A new phasing method: the VLD algorithm"
Rosanna Rizzi, Istituto di Cristallografia, CNR- Bari, Italy.
"EXPO2010: algorithms and tips for a successful powder structure solution"
Juan Rodríguez-Carvajal, Institut Laue-Langevin, France.
"Recent developments in the FullProf Suite"
Alejandro Rodríguez Navarro, Universidad de Granada, Spain.
"Use of XRD2Dscan software for the characterization of polycrystalline materials from 2D X-ray diffraction patterns"
Rocco Caliandro, Istituto di Cristallografia, CNR- Bari, Italy.
"IL MILIONE: a package for protein crystal structure determination"
Isabel Uson, Instituto de Biología Molecular de Barcelona, Spain.
"ARCIMBOLDO Crystallographic Ab Initio protein solution far below atomic resolution"
Piero Macchi, University of Bern, Switzerland.
"The XD2006 Software Package For Charge Density Analysis"
Ivan Lonardelli,University of Trento, Italy.
"MAUD (Materials Analysis Using Diffraction)"

MS1 Crystal growth and biomineralization (Chairpersons: Jaime Gómez Morales and Giuseppe Falini)

Giorgio Isidoro Lesci, Università di Bologna, Italy.
"Role of biomimetism to realize new synthetic biomaterials"
Fermín Otálora Muñoz, CSIC-Universidad de Granada, Spain.
"Microgravity crystal growth at LEC.Critical review and prospects."
Alejandro Rodríguez Navarro, Universidad de Granada, Spain.
"What hens can teach us about calcium carbonate precipitation"
Marco Bruno,Università di Torino, Italy.
"The role of the interfaces in twinning and mixed-crystals formation"

MS2 Structural chemistry (including crystal engeneering and supramolecular chemistry) (Chairpersons: Marta E. G. Mosquera and Alessandra Crispini)

Alessia Bacchi, Università degli studi di Parma, Italy.
"Probing supramolecular synthons and molecular recognition by measuring macroscopic crystal properties"
Gotzone Barandika, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain.
"Using DFT calculations in further rationalization of MOFs´ structural characteristics"
Lucia Maini, Università di Bologna, Italy.
"Ionic co-crystal: from unexpected reactions to a new family of co-crystals"
Guillermo Mínguez Espallargas, Universidad de Valencia, Spain.
"Structural changes upon gas sorption of non-porous crystalline solids"

MS3 Structures of materials, nanomaterials, surfaces and minerals (Chairpersons: Miguel Ángel García Aranda and Michele Zema)

Monica Dapiaggi, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy.
"Influence of local and average structure on the thermal behaviour of materials"
Francesco D'Acapito, GILDA CRG - ESRF Synchrotron, Grenoble, France.
"Point defects in crystals studied by EXAFS"
José Luis García-Muñoz, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona, CSIC, Spain.
"Phase Competition in Quasi-degenerated Oxides investigated by Synchrotron Powder Diffraction"
Inma Peral, CELLS - ALBA Synchrotron, Barcelona, Spain.
"Pair Distribution Function analysis of materials and nanomaterials"

MS4 Non single-crystal techniques (powder diffraction, electron diffraction, single particle imaging) (Chairpersons: Vicente Esteve Cano and Fabia Gozzo)

Cinzia Giannini, IC-CNR- Bari, Italy.
"Coherent Diffractive Imaging - from nanometric down to picometric spatial resolution"
S.Nicolopoulos, NANOMEGAS sprl, Brussels, Belgium.
"EBSD analogue in TEM: fast orientation mapping under precessed electron diffraction mode"
Matteo Leoni, Università degli studi di Trento, Italy.
"Structure, microstructure and LEGO crystallography"
Jordi Rius Palleiro, Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Barcelona, CSIC, Spain.
"S-FFT based direct methods applied to high-resolution powder diffraction data of molecular compounds."

MS5 Biologically related structures (Chairpersons: Armando Albert de la Cruz and Michele Saviano)

Beatriz González Pérez, Instituto de Química Física "Rocasolano", Madrid, Spain.
"Understanding the specificity of the InsP6 synthesis: novel structural and functional features in the inositide signalling"
Alfonso Martínez de la Cruz, CIC-BIOGUNE, Vizcaya, Spain.
"Regulatory Mechanisms mediated by Cystathionine ß-synthase (CBS) domains"
Luca Federici, University of Chieti, Italy
"Insight into plant innate immunity: the interaction between fungal polygalacturonases and their plant protein inhibitors"
Lelio Mazzarella, Università degli Studi di Napoli "Federico II", Italy.
"Tertiary and quaternary structural flexibility of cold-adapted hemoglobins"

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