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Electron Crystallography School - 3D Electron Diffraction/MicroED Uniting Small Molecule and Macromolecular Crystallography

August 11-14, 2021,  virtual Aug. 11-13 and hybrid Aug. 14.
The real session on Aug. 14 is at the
Prague Congress Center, the IUCr congress venue.

Organisers: Xiaodong Zou and Hongyi Xu, Sweden; Louisa Meshi, Israel; Lukas Palatinus, Czech Republic

School on 3D electron diffraction/MicroED techniques and how to apply them for structure determination of nano/microcrystals too small for X-ray diffraction. The topics will cover inorganic compounds, pharmaceutics and proteins. It includes both lectures and practical demonstrations. The following topics will be covered:

·         The development of various 3D electron diffraction/MicroED techniques – a historical perspective

  • Introduction to transmission electron microscopy and electron diffraction
  • 3D electron diffraction/MicroED techniques and space group determination 
  • Sample preparation for both materials and life sciences 
  • 3D ED/MicroED Data collection including practical demo labs  
  • Radiation damage   
  • 3D ED Data Processing and data merging including practical demo labs
  • Methods for phasing diffraction data – small molecules and macromolecules
  • Practical demo labs for structure solution and refinement with 3D ED/MicroED data, for both small molecules and macromolecules
  • Dynamical refinement
  • New developments in 3D electron crystallography

Wednesday, August 11

Chair

Xiaodong Zou

 

09:00-09:30

Xiaodong Zou

Welcome and Introduction to the school

09:30-10:00

Ute Kolb

The development of ADT and its applications

10:00-10.30

Sven Hovmöller

The development of RED and its applications

10:30-10:45

Break

Chair

Ute Kolb

 

10:45-11:15

Enrico Mugnaioli

Electron diffraction: from precession to fast continuous rotation

11:15-11:45

Jan Pieter Abrahams

The development of continuous rotation electron diffraction on protein crystals and pharmacueticals

11:45-12:15

Koji Yonekura

The development of 3D ED on studying structure and charge state of protein microcystals

12:15-13:15

Lunch

Chair

Tom Willhammar

 

13:15-13:45

Joke Hadermann

Similarities and complementarities between X-ray and electron based techniques

13:45-14:15

Sven Hovmöller

Symmetry in real and reciprocal space  

14:15-14:45

Louisa Meshi

Unit cell and space group determination from ED and CBED

14:45-15:00

Break

Chair

Joke Hadermann

 

15:00-15:45

Hongyi Xu

Demo of Sample preparation methods - from inorganics to proteins  

15:45-16:15

Brent Nannenga

Data collection and calibrations of important parameters

16:15-17:00

Tom Willhammar

Remote demo of cRED data collection and online structure solution

17:00-17:15

Break

Chair

Hongyi Xu

 

17:15-17:45

Tamir Gonen

The development of MicroED and its applications on protein and peptide micocrystals

17:45-18:30

Sponsor session

ASI (5 min), Dectris (5 min), Eldico (10 min), Nanomegas (5 min), Rigaku (5 min), ThermoFisher (5 min), X-spectrum (10 min)

Thursday, August 12

Chair

Ronan Keegan

 

9:00-9:45

David Waterman

ED Data Processing theory

9:45-10:30

David Waterman

Dials – software demo

10:30-10:45

Break

Chair

Lukas Palatinus

 

10:45-11:30

Kay Diederichs

XDS – software demo

11:30-12:15

Stef Smeets

Serial rotation electron diffraction: Automated high-throughput data collection and data processing

12:15-13:15

Lunch + meeting companies in breakout rooms

Chair

Stef Smeets

 

13:15-14:00

Junliang Sun

Methods for phasing diffraction data – small molecules

14:00-14:45

Lukas Palatinus

kinematical and dynamical structure refinement and absolute structure

14:45-15:30

Horst Puschmann

Olex2 for structure solution and refinement – software demo

15:30-15:45

Break

Chair

Lukas Palatinus

 

15:45-16:30

Isabel Uson

Different methods for phasing diffraction data – macromolecules

16:30-17:15

Airlie McCoy

Phaser  - molecular replacement - Theory

17:15-18:00

Ronan Keegan

CCP4 Phasing and Structure solution, Mr Bump

18:00-18:30

Poster presentations

14 posters x 2 min/each, presentation order given in the end 

Friday, August 13

Chair

Hongyi Xu

 

09:00-09:45

Garib Murshudov

 

Refinement of macromolecular structures against electron diffraction data

09:45-10:30

Keitaro Yamashita

Coot – model building and refinement

10:30-10:45

Break

Chair

David Watermann

 

10:45-11:30

Tristan Croll

ISOLDE – Interactive model building by molecular dynamics for low resolution data

11:30-12:15

Fraser White

Synergy-ED and CrysAlisPro: data collection, data processing and structure solution - demo

12:15-13:15

Lunch + poster sessions

Chair

Louisa Meshi

 

13:15-14:00

Lukas Palatinus

PETS and Jana2006: Data processing and structure determination - software demo

14:00-14:45

Lukas Palatinus

Dynamical Refinement - software demo

14:45-15:00

Break

Chair

Tristan Croll

 

15:00-15:45

Pavel Afonine

Phenix: refinement and validation

15:45-16:30

Pavel Afonine

Phenix – software demo

Chair

Louisa Meshi

 

16:30-17:00

 

Q & A

Saturday, August 14

New developments and possibilities of electron crystallography (on-site at the conference venue + virtual)

Chair

Lukas Palatinus

 

14:00-14:20

Eric van Genderen

Detectors for crystallography, is there perfection?

14:20-14:40

Robert Bücker

Serial and scanning diffraction: chances and challenges

14:40-15:00

Richard Beanland

Prospects for improved quantitative electron diffraction

15:00-15:20

Paulina Dominiak

The potential hidden in the 3D ED data

15:20-15:40

Xiaodong Zou

3D electron diffraction/MicroED: current status and future perspectives

15:40-16:00

Coffee break

16:00-17:00

Round table discussions – the future of 3D ED/MicroED

17:00-17:15

Poster award and concluding remarks

 17:30-

Opening of IUCr2021

Poster presentation order on August 12, 2 min/person:

  1. Angotzi Marco Sanna 

  2. Bengtsson Viktor 

  3. Broadhurst Edward Thomas 

  4. Budniak Ursula 

  5. Cho Jungyoun 

  6. Ge Meng 

  7. Gruza Barbara 

  8. Kulik Marta 

  9. Kunal Kumar Jha 

  10. Li Yan 

  11. Pacoste Laura 

  12. Poppe Romy 

  13. Tirado Castaño Juan Ignacio 

  14. Vandemeulebroucke Daphne