11th HeCrA Conference

Municipal Art Gallery - G.I. Katsigras Museum of Larissa, Greece

20 - 22 October 2023

Welcome to the 11th Conference of the Hellenic Crystallographic Association

The conference is co-organized with the Municipal Art Gallery - G.I. Katsigras Museum of Larissa under the auspices of the Department of Biochemistry and Biotechnology of the University of Thessaly

The aim of this meeting is to promote and support research and education in the fields of crystallography in Greece. The forthcoming conference will include plenaries dedicated to recent advances in biological NMR, CryoEM, synchrotrons, biophysical, spectroscopic methods and other related techniques for the study of materials, inorganics, small organics and biomacromolecules, emphasizing the progress of structural sciences in recent years. A workshop will accompany the scientific sessions of the conference dedicated in the use of the CCP4 Program Suite to determine macromolecular structures by X-ray crystallography and other biophysical techniques.

The Speakers

Prof. Lucia Banci

University of Florence

Florence, Italy

Prof. Alessia Bacchi

University of Parma

Parma, Italy

Prof. Ester Boix

Autonomous University of Barcelona

Barcelona, Spain

Prof. Evripidis Gavathiotis

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Bronx, New York, USA

Prof. Georgios Spyroulias

University of Patras

Patra, Greece

Prof. Catherine Venien-Bryan

University of Sorbonne

Paris, France

Assoc. Prof. Efstratios Stratikos

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Dr. Cyril Bařinka

Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Vestec, Czech Republic

Dr. Catherine Dejoie

Beamline Scientist

ESRF - The European Synchrotron

Grenoble, France

Dr. Petra Lukacik

Research Scientist

Diamond Light Source

Oxford, UK

Dr. Marco Mazzorana

Beamline Scientist

Diamond Light Source

Oxford, UK

Dr. Pietro Roversi

Senior Researcher

National Research Council

Milano, Italy

Dr. Paola Storici

Senior Research Scientist

Ellettra Synchrotron Facility

Trieste, Italy

Dr. Andrew Turnbull

Principal Scientist

Cancer Research Horizons

London, UK

The conference program can be found here

Bursaries for travel expenses of young scientists are available here - sponsored by ECA

The Venue

The Municipal Art Gallery of Larissa - Museum G.I. Katsigra is a cultural organization for the promotion of arts nationwide. It hosts the third most important art collection in Greece.

Events, screenings, conferences and lectures take place in the museum's Amphitheater, which is an important venue for the implementation of cultural, scientific and social events in Larissa.