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Registration and abstract submission for the BCA Spring Meeting 2026 (30th March-1st April) is live! Deadline for submission is 9am, 19th January.

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BCA Spring Meeting
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November 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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BCA BSG Winter Meeting 2025!

Theme: "New Advances and Future Directions in Structural Biology"

🗓️ 12th Dec 2025, University of Oxford

Poster session + prizes! (Talk deadline: 28th Nov)

​Register:
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​#StructuralBiology #bsgwinter2025 #Crystallography
Structural Biology Meeting 2025 - Oxford | University of Oxford
Registration fee to attend the Structural Biology Meeting 2025, to be held at the Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building in Oxford, on Friday 12th December 2025
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November 14, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Hey users!
The ESRF User Meeting 2026 is back!
And registration is now open⬇️

www.esrf.fr/UM2026
November 14, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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🚨 New review online - Pagare et al 'Recent advances in pharmaceutical cocrystal design: leveraging in-silico technologies for enhanced drug development' 💊⚗️
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Recent advances in pharmaceutical cocrystal design: leveraging in-silico technologies for enhanced drug development
Pharmaceutical cocrystals are a versatile means of enhancing the properties of drug compounds, making them a valuable asset in drug formulation and development. They can improve the therapeutic per...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Find our current issue at this link www.tandfonline.com/toc/gcry20/c... - great landing page for topical reviews of #Crystallography topics
November 11, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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🎉 Proud to highlight core philosophy: To serve, to educate, to enable! Sharing crystallography and education resources at the HMS Core Facilities Poster Showcase.
👉 corefacilities.hms.harvard.edu/2025-harvard... 😀
#Crystallography #Education #Research #CoreFacilities
November 5, 2025 at 11:35 PM
My author copies have arrived! @iucrjournals.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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The things you find in your photo roll #2. For some reason, in August 2013 I took a picture of this charming letter from Max Perutz to Jim Watson, written shortly before Max died.
November 4, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Apply now to join the Johns Hopkins Program in Molecular Biophysics! Our interdisciplinary Ph.D. program trains students to explore the physical principles underlying biology — from molecules to cells. Open to both U.S. and international applicants. Application deadline Dec. 1 : pmb.jhu.edu
Home | Program in Molecular Biophysics
The Program in Molecular Biophysics (PMB) trains PhD students to do cutting-edge biophysics research using the methods of biology, biochemistry, chemistry, physics, engineering, and computer science.
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November 3, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Celebrate the power of scientific data at IUCr!
CommDat symposia will explore integrative structural chemistry and biology; best practices for data processing; global open science; and ML for materials development
Join us in Calgary:
event.fourwaves.com/...
November 4, 2025 at 4:30 AM
It has arrived, the 50th anniversary of the seminal synchrotron radiation protein crystallography experiments at SSRL Stanford led by Keith Hodgson. His article also includes his today and the future perspectives @jsynchrotronrad.iucr.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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Bhattacharyya, Kvashnina and Yabashi: Journal of Synchrotron Radiation welcomes seven new Co-editors ##CoEditors##SynchrotronRadiation##FreeElectronLasers@fz_juelich@EuropeanXFEL@desy@esrfsynchrotron@postech2020...##IUCrhttps://journals.iucr.org/paper?S1600577525009361
Journal of Synchrotron Radiation welcomes seven new Co-editors
The newest seven members of the Editorial Board of Journal of Synchrotron Radiation are introduced.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Deadline: 4 November!

The ESRF User Organisation invites nominations for the 2026 Young Scientist Award.

If you know an outstanding young scientist who deserves recognition for her/his work at the ESRF — now is the time!
Deadline: 4 November 2025
More information: lnkd.in/dxjn8qqY
October 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Next @IUCrData Raw Data Letter coming soon:-
October 26, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Excited to have proofs in hand of our crystallography children‘s book! Illustrated by an amazing undergrad Justine Wong!

More info coming soon…
#chemsky
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Another fabulous IUCr Newsletter:-
The latest issue of the @IUCr #crystallography Newsletter is now available at www.iucr.org/news/newslet...
October 12, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Interested in Synchrotrons & XFEL Radiation?
The IUCr2026 meeting has you covered with SEVEN sessions, including Synergies between cryoEM, diffraction methods, and complementary biophysical measurements; Structural studies across time scales; and more:
event.fourwaves.com/...
October 10, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Very nice interview. I heard Robert Huber lecture many times. In Trieste at a conference we shared breakfast together and of course discussing our field.
Robert Huber: ‘I call the last century the century of vision’
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/robe...
Robert Huber: ‘I call the last century the century of vision’
The Nobel laureate on the joys of entering a developing field, and the century of vision
www.chemistryworld.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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💠 The ACA community mourns the loss of Dr. Benno P. Schoenborn (1938–2025), a pioneer in neutron protein crystallography whose work transformed structural biology.
Read more and share memories: 🔗 bit.ly/42wNvlM
#crystallography #InMemoriam #ACACommunity #neutrondiffraction
October 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
This is very sad news. Benno was a great pioneer of neutron protein crystallography.
October 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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My tutorial review on single crystal diffraction analysis is now online @crystengcomm.rsc.org! Students, supervisors, and reviewers: Please consider this thought-provoking read to discover many facets of the crystallographic practice that are often overlooked or misunderstood 💎 #crystallography
Useful practices in single crystal diffraction analysis of reticular structures
Single crystal diffraction analysis remains the gold standard for the three-dimensional atomic structure characterization of framework materials such as metal–organic frameworks, covalent organic fram...
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October 4, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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🚨 Registration is open for the CCP4 Study Weekend 2026:
“Ligands in Focus: Decoding Ligand Binding in Modern Structural Biology” 🎉
📅 7–9 January 2026

I’m honoured to be a scientific organiser with Tobias Krojer and Stephanie Wankowicz.

👉 Programme & registration: studyweekend.ccp4.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
@iucrdata.iucr.org Editorial by Loes Kroon-Batenburg announcing the Collection of articles arising from the IUCr Committee on Data Workshop and Microsymposia held at the last IUCr Congress in Melbourne. iucrdata.iucr.org/x/issues/202...
Foreword to the CommDat special virtual issue on the raw diffraction data workshop and microsymposia at IUCr2023
Papers from the CommDat workshop on ‘Raw Diffraction Data Reuse: the Good, the Bad and the Challenging' and microsymposia at the IUCr2023 Congress in Melbourne are presented.
iucrdata.iucr.org
September 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🚨New review online - a deep dive into the stacking interactions of organometallic sandwich compounds 🥪💠using the Cambridge Structural Database @ccdc.cam.ac.uk

www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Stacking interactions of organometallic sandwich and half-sandwich compounds: crystallographic evidence and quantum chemical support
This review provides crystallographic insight into stacking interactions between aromatic ligands in organometallic sandwich and half-sandwich compounds obtained by analyzing all crystal structures...
www.tandfonline.com
September 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM