The 2nd International Online Conference on Crystals
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You are cordially invited to participate in the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Crystals, sponsored by the MDPI open access journal Crystals. This is a new and improved initiative based on the experience from the 1st International Electronic Conference on Crystals (https://sciforum.net/conference/IECC_2018) which affords the opportunity for researchers engaged in the study of crystalline materials to present their research and exchange ideas with their colleagues. We take full advantage of the Internet, removing the need to travel and commit participation expenses.
The second conference will be organized around the following topics and related themes. We would be open to future meetings or subject areas having a thematic topic of importance.
- Liquid Crystals
- Crystalline Materials
- Crystal Engineering
- Biomolecular Crystals
- Crystalline Minerals and Biominerals
- Phase Transformations in Crystalline Materials
- Small and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering Applied to Nano- and Biomaterials
- Software/Tools to Deal with Crystal and Crystallographic Issues & Teaching Crystallography
- Structure of Cholinesterases
This is a virtual conference held at www.sciforum.net/. Sciforum.net is a platform developed and sponsored by MDPI to organize electronic conferences, and to provide our community with the technical support for hosting our digital conferences.
The participation is free of charge for both authors and attendees. Accepted papers will be gathered in the Proceedings of the conference. Selected extended versions of the papers can be published in the journal Crystals with a discount of 20% on the Article Processing Charge (ISSN ISSN 2073-4352; Impact Factor: 2.404).
I am looking forward to seeing your participation in these exciting discussions, hearing new ideas and perspectives in the field and welcoming all participants to the online conference.
Prof. Dr. Abel Moreno
Prof. Dr. Dritan Siliqi
Session I: Structure of Cholinesterases Session Introduction
Session Chaired by Prof. Zoran Radic
Session F: Phase Transformations in Crystalline Materials Session Introduction
Session Chaired by Prof. Dr. Cayron Cyril
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Prof. Dr. Abel Moreno |
Professor Moreno was awarded a B.Sc. in chemistry by the Autonomous University of Puebla (Mexico) in 1990; a Ph.D. in chemistry was awarded by the University of Granada (Spain) in 1995. Currently, he is Professor of Biological and Physical Chemistry (category "Titular C") at the Institute of Chemistry of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. He is a distinguished member of the National System of Researchers of Mexico (SNI) level 3 (the highest in the categories for Mexican scientists). He is also a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, New York Academy of Sciences and of the Mexican and American Chemical Societies. Prof. Moreno has been a visiting professor in a sabbatical year at the University of Cambridge (England, 2009) and at the University of Strasbourg (France, 2003-2004). He has further been a visiting scientist at the University of Luebeck and at the Institute of Crystal Growth (IKZ) Berlin (Germany, February 2004), at the University of Tohoku (Japan, Autumn 2003), at the Imperial College London (United Kingdom in 1999 and 2000), and at the University of California Riverside (USA, 1997). He has published more than 108 papers in prestigious international journals. He is the author of seven books regarding his specialty in biological protein crystallography, crystallogenesis, crystallochemistry, and in biomineralization processes and a further 16 book chapters. Prof. Moreno was the former President of the International Organization for Biological Crystallization from 2010 to 2012 (IOBCr), President of the Mexican Society of Crystallography from 2018 to 2019. He is also a member of the international advisory board of the Commission of Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials of the International Union of Crystallography; a member of the Mexican Society of Chemistry, Crystallography and a regular member of the American Chemical Society, New York Academy of Sciences and the Mexican Academy of Sciences. Professor Moreno is an expert in protein crystallization, crystal growth methods, crystallochemistry, biomineralization, and structural research using x-ray diffraction, scanning/transmission electron microscopy, and atomic force microscopy. His work and research contributions have been applied to biological chemistry and biomedical sciences. Prof. Moreno is a leading scientist in protein crystallogenesis, crystal growth, protein crystallochemistry, and biomineralization processes in Latin America. |
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Prof. Dr. Dritan Siliqi |
Dr. Dritan Siliqi is staff scientist at Institute of Crystallography, National Council for Research (IC-CNR) Bari, Italy. Since 1992, he works as a staff scientist at the IC-CNR, initially as close collaborator of Prof Carmelo Giacovazzo, a worldwide known crystallographer, spending a part of is carrier on developing of the phasing techniques to solve the macromolecules structure from X-ray and neutron diffraction data, techniques for improving the electron density maps, for an automatic model building, using data extrapolations beyond the observed resolution (FreeLunch procedure) and a novel difference Fourier synthesis (DEDM) and computational tools for H/D determination in protein structure from neutron data. He is co-author of a software package for a global phasing for proteins: ILMILIONE [Burla et al., J. Appl. Cryst. (2007), 40, 609-613 with more than 600 citations]. Currently as the head of the Bio-crystallization Lab, Dr. Siliqi is involved in several projects related to the studies, combining different techniques as macromolecular crystallography (MX), Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS), and Dynamic Simulations (DM), devoted to structural insights of proteins involved at: ribosomopathy diseases (f.es. Shwachman Diamond Syndrome) and intracellular region of the human magnesium transport mediator CNNM4, Interdomain conformational flexibility of UGGT (the eukaryotic glycoprotein secretion checkpoint). Dr. Siliqi, as a researcher in XMI@LAB of IC-CNR is involved on using X-ray scanning (small/wide angle) microscopies for the study of microcalcifications in abdominal aortic and popliteal artery aneurysms Effects of processing on structural, mechanical and biological properties of collagen-based substrates for regenerative medicine; Selectively Probes HA Content in Gelatin/Hydroxyapatite Scaffolds for Osteochondral Defect Repair; the study of human bone sections, obtaining detailed maps of bone structure, in healthy and pathologic (dwarfism, Paget’s, Osteoratritis) samples. Structural/morphological characterization of nanostructured bio- materials, in particular by means of small and wide angle x-ray scattering (SAXS and WAXS), even in grazing incidence geometry (GISAXS and GIWAXS), and X-ray reflectivity. He is the main scientist developer for package SUNBIM [Siliqi et al., J. Appl. Cryst. (2016). 49, 1107–1114 6], a package to deal with these issues.During his carrier as staff scientist at IC-CNR, he was researcher visitor on several laboratories/Institutions as: Protein Crystallography Station at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos (NW), USA; Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) Villigen, Switzerland; European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Hamburg, Germany, Institut für Physik der kondensierten Materie. Lehrstuhl für Kristallographie und Strukturphysik Erlangen, Germany; Diamond Light Source Ltd. Chilton, Didcot, Oxfordshire,United Kingdom; ISIS - Neutron and Muon Source Science and Technology Facilities Council Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom.Dr. Siliqi is member of Italian Association of Crystallography (AIC), European Crystallographic Association (EAC) and individual member of International Union of Crystallography (IUCr). He was the promoter of the he was the promoter for the foundation of the Association of Albanian Crystallographers (AAC), as the first president of it.His research activity is presented in about 130 scientific publications and several communications and participations in meetings/conferences/congresses |
Meet the Event Chairs
Important Dates
- Abstract submission deadlineSep 15, 2020
- Abstract acceptance notificationSep 30, 2020
- Full file submission deadlineOct 20, 2020
Meet Our Speakers
Prof. Dr. Robert F. Klie
Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Chicago, 845 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60607, USA;
Robert F. Klie is a Full Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he leads a research team focused on 2the in-situ characterization of complex materials interfaces. Prof. Klie attended the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität in Bonn, Germany and graduated with a PhD in Physics from the University of Illinois in 2002. He was then named a Goldhaber Fellow at Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he studied the properties of complex oxides and borides in the Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department as well as the Center for Functional Nanomaterials. In 2006, we joined the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago as an Assistant Professor, where he established the Nanoscale Physics Group and the established on of the first aberration-corrected cold-field emission TEM/STEM facilities in the United States.
Currently, Prof. Klie’s group focuses on developing a fundamental understanding of the structure-property relationships in photovoltaic or battery cathode materials, as well as complex oxide thin films using atomic-resolution aberration-corrected imaging and spectroscopy. In recent years, his group has also pioneered novel approaches to studying water, biological systems and solid-liquid interfaces using graphene liquid cells and ultra-high resolution electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS). Dr. Klie has published over 190 peer-reviewed papers with more than 5,400 citations, given more than 90 invited talks at prestigious international conferences, and has an h-index of 40. His scientific achievements have been recognized by a number of prestigious awards, including the Brookhaven Goldhaber Distinguished Fellowship and the University of Illinois Researcher of the Year award.
Prof. Dr. Vladimir Chigrinov
1. Professor, Foshan University, jiang-wan-yi-lu, Chancheng, Foshan, Guangdong, P.R. China, 528000
2. Emeritus Professor, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology;
Professor Vladimir G. Chigrinov is Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1999. He is an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recognized by the World Techlonogy Evaluation Centre, 1994, and SID fellow since 2008. He is an author of 6 books, 32 reviews and book chapters, about 309 journal papers, more than 661 Conference presentations, and 112 patents and patent applications include 34 US patent in the field of liquid crystals since 1974. He got Excellent Research Award in the Invention & Innovation Award 2014 held at the Malaysia Technology Expo(MTE) 2014, which was hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 20-22 Feb 2014. He got A Slottow Owaki Prize of SID in 2018 http://www.ee.ust.hk/ece.php/enews/detail/660 . He is 2019 Distinguished Fellow of IETI (International Engineering and Technology Institute). http://www.ieti.net/news/detail.aspx?id=184 http://www.ieti.net/membership/Fellows.aspx . He is an active member of EU Academy of Science (EUAS) since November 2019.
Prof. Dr. Cyril Cayron
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology EPFL, Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland;
Dr Cayron is a Senior Scientist at the Thermomechanical Metallurgy Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne. He is a. He has worked as metallurgist and crystallographer on the crystallography of phase transformations in solid materials, such as precipitation in aluminium alloys, martensitic transformation in steels and titanium alloys, lithiation in LiFePO4 batteries, annealing twin structures in copper and stainless steels, deformation twinning in magnesium alloys, auto-accommodation structures of variants in shape memory alloys etc. He is an experimentalist, specialist of TEM, EBSD and TKD, but also a theorist. He established that the algebraic structure of the variants with their misorientations inherited from a phase transformation is a groupoid based on cosets and double-cosets. He wrote the software ARPGE that uses the theoretical groupoid structure to reconstruct the prior parent grains from experimental EBSD maps. He is author / co-author of 98 publications (h = 25).
Prof. Dr. László Kovács
Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Wigner Research Centre for Physics, Budapest, Hungary;
László Kovács was awarded a PhD degree in physics by the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (Hungary) in 1987. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Applied Physics Department of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain) between 1988-1990 and the School of MAPS, University of Sussex in Brighton (UK) in 1992-1993. Later he spent several years as a visiting scientist at the Physics Department of the Università di Parma (Italy) and the Universität Osnabrück (Germany). He received his DSc degree from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 2002. At present he is with the Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Budapest as a scientific advisor. His scientific interests are focused on experimental crystal physics, in particular electrical and optical characterization of insulating crystals (electrical conductivity and dielectric properties, nonlinear optics, acousto-optics, photorefraction, optical absorption in the UV-VIS-IR region, high resolution FTIR, Raman and luminescence spectroscopies, resonant optical processes etc.). He is involved in studies of intrinsic and extrinsic point defects induced by hydroxyl ions and selected dopants such as transition metals and rare-earth ions in a series of different oxide crystals (e.g. niobates, including lithium niobate, sillenites, germanates, paratellurite, borates etc.). László Kovács is author of more than 150 publications in international journals and co-author of numerous contributions to scientific conferences. He is a member of the Eötvös Loránd Physical Society, the IUCr Hungarian National Committee, and of International Advisory Committees of the EURODIM, ICDIM, and OMEE conference series. He acts as a referee for several international journals, such as Optical Materials, Materials Research Bulletin, Vibrational Spectroscopy, Journal of Luminescence, Crystals, etc. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the MDPI journal Crystals, and Guest Editor of its two Special Issues. He was awarded the Youth Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Zoltán Gyulai Prize of the Eötvös Loránd Physical Society.
Prof. Zoran Radić
Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia;
Zoran Radić is Associate Adjunct Professor at the UC San Diego and Permanent Scientific Advisor at the University of Zagreb. He leads multi-institutional group of researchers aiming at defining realistic structural templates needed for structure-based design of antidotes against organophosphate poisoning. Dr. Radić is a graduate of the University of Zagreb, Zagreb Croatia where he started his research in acetylcholinesterase (AChE) reaction kinetics. His interest in AChE molecular structure brought him to UC San Diego where he as a post-doc in the Palmer Taylor group contributed to functional mapping of the AChE molecule using site directed mutagenesis and defined structural domains and amino acid residues critical for catalytic activity and ligand interaction. He proposed common, simplified kinetic scheme and equation to describe acetylcholine (ACh) turnover by both AChE and its structurally and functionally close relative butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) that included both substrate inhibition of AChE and substrate activation of BChE, two prominent forms of deviation from Michaelis-Menten kinetics. Dr. Radić developed intrinsic tryptophan fluorescence-based assays for in vitro monitoring of time resolved and equilibrium-based interactions of cholinergic ligands with native nicotinic acetylcholine receptor ligand binding domain surrogates, ACh binding proteins (AChBPs), as well as with AChE and BChE. This assay proved essential in functional characterization of one of tightest known, small molecule femtomolar inhibitors of AChE developed in collaboration with Dr. Barry Sharpless of The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla (TSRI). Dr. Radić leads, as a PI, NIH funded national and international collaborative projects with researchers from TSRI, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Dr. Andrey Kovalevsky), University of Utah at Salt Lake City (Dr. Donald Blumenthal), The Ohio State University (Dr. Xiaolin Cheng), UC San Diego (Dr. Carlo Ballatore), Institute for Medical Research and Occupational Health in Zagreb, Croatia (Dr. Zrinka Kovarik), University of Hradec Kralov
Dr. Angela Altomare
Institute of Crystallography, National Research Council-CNR, Bari, Italy;
Angela Altomare graduated cum laude in Physics at the University of Bari, in Italy. Since 1988, she has worked as a researcher at the Institute of Crystallography of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) in Bari, initially collaborating with Prof. Carmelo Giacovazzo. As first researcher, she oversees a team whose research is focused on several scientific objectives, including the development of innovative crystallographic methodologies aimed at structural solution from single crystal and powder diffraction data, the development of new computational algorithms and their implementation in crystallographic software, the structural characterization by single crystal diffraction data and microcrystalline powder, and qualitative and quantitative analysis of multiphase mixture by powder diffraction.
In 2019 Angela was the recipient of the ‘Mario Mammi’ Award of the Italian Crystallographic Association (AIC).
In 1999, Angela was the recipient of the AIC Prize for the activity and the original and innovative research results in the field of crystallographic methodologies, both theoretical and applicative and for the work on the association activities.
She is Section Editor of Acta Crystallographica Section A and, since 2014, Co-Editor of the same Journal.
Angela has been invited speaker, teacher and chairman of microsymposia, as well as member of program committee at several national and international meetings and schools.
She was Chair of the Scientific Organizing Committee of the International Crystallography School organized by the Commission on Crystallographic Teaching of AIC, held in Bari, 2018, in collaboration with research teams of CNR and University of Bari.
She was Chair of the 15th European Powder Diffraction Conference, held in Bari, 2016.
Angela actively serves as a member in the Commission on Powder Diffraction of the International Union of Crystallography, European Powder Diffraction Conference Committee, AIC, and the President Council of AIC.
Her research activity is presented in about 120 scientific publications, 9 chapters
- A. Liquid Crystals
- B. Crystalline Materials
- C. Crystal Engineering
- D. Biomolecular Crystals
- E. Crystalline Minerals and Biominerals
Sponsors and Partners
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We are pleased to announce the winners of The 2nd International Online Conference on Crystals Best Paper Award, they are :
Sciforum-037926 (The highest score, the authors will receive 500 CHF in total as well as one chance to publish a paper in Crystals free of charge)
Francesco Capitelli, Bujar Dida, Giancarlo Della Ventura, Francesco Baldassarre, Davide Capelli, Giorgio Senesi, Altin Mele, Dritan Siliqi
Functional Nano-Hydroxyapatite for Applications in Conservation of Stony Monuments of Cultural Heritage
Online Available: https://sciforum.net/paper/view/7315
Sciforum-035722 (The second highest score, the authors will receive 500 CHF in total)
Sheetal Sandip Buddhadev , Kevin Garala
Pharmaceutical Co-Crystals – A Review
Online Available: https://sciforum.net/paper/view/7331