Programme

Invited Lecture: Dose-aware data collection at MX beamlines

Marco Mazzorana

Lamellarity transformations in protein-loaded nanovesicles tuned by a polysaccharide

Aristeidis Papagiannopoulos, Aggeliki Sklapani, Adél Len, Aurel Radulescu, Ewa Pavlova, Miroslav Slouf

The applications of DFT calculations in the studies of molecular crystals

Łukasz Szeleszczuk, Anna Mazurek 

The viral oncoprotein vFLIP activates the NF-κB pathway

Claire Bagnéris, Swathi L. Senthil Kumar, Hannah M. Britt, Konstantinos Thalassinos, Mary K. Collins, Tracey E. Barrett

Nature of S-states of photosynthetic water splitting catalyst resolved by high-energy resolution fluorescence detected X-ray absorption spectroscopy

Maria Chrysina, Maria Drosou, Rebeca G. Castillo, Michael Reus, Frank Neese, Vera Krewald, Dimitrios A. Pantazis, Serena DeBeer

Coffee Break / Poster Session

Opening Session

Chairpersons: K. Bethanis, G. Spyroulias

Invited Lecture: NMR insights into the functional role of  Human  &  Viral  protein  homologues Implicated in ADP ribosylation 

Georgios Spyroulias

Invited Lecture: A membrane structural biologist’s “tricks and tools of the trade”

Dr. Petra Lukacik

Keynote Lecture: The NMR contribution to Cellular Structural Biology 

Professor Lucia Banci

Invited Lecture: Structural characterisation of EDEM:PDI, the glycoprotein folding ERAD checkpoint 

Charlie J. Hitchman, Andrea Lia, Gábor Tax, Yusupha Bayo, Maria De Benedictis, Angelo Santino, Pietro Roversi 

Structure of the whole photosynthetic apparatus from a green sulfur bacterium reveals an asymmetrical architecture

Hao Xie, Alexandros Lyratzakis, Myrto Koutantou, Hartmut Michel, Georgios Tsiotis 

Invited Lecture: Developing robust crystallography platforms to support structure-based drug design

Andrew Turnbull

Biochemical characterization of plastidial starch phosphorylase from Solanum Tuberosum tubers

Symeon M. Koulas, Efthimios Kyriakis, Anastasia S. Tsagkarakou, Demetres. D. Leonidas

Invited Lecture: Cryo-electron microscopy unveils the gating mechanism of the human potassium channel Kir2.1

Catherine Venien-Bryan

Company presentation: XRD has changed: Advancing Instrumental Methods of Analysis with Bruker’s Groundbreaking XRD Technology

Minos Ziagkos

Invited Lecture: Design and structural characterization of RNase-based antimicrobial drugs against antimicrobial resistance

Ester Boix, Guillem Prats-Ejarque, Jiarui Li, Pablo Fernández-Millán 

An efficient crystallization method for membrane proteins

Sofia Trampari, Nissen Poul 

Development of novel activators for human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2)

Oleksii Kupreienko, Nikolaos Alevizopoulos, Myrto-Athina Balachouti, Andreas Mores, Dimitriοs Georgiadis, Marios Zouridakis, Petros Giastas 

Invited Lecture: Molecular architecture of the glycogen committed PPI/PTG holoenzyme.  A putative target for Lafora disease

Marta Stefania Semrau, Gabriele Giachin, Sonia Covaceuszach, Alberto Cassetta, Paola Storici, Graziano Lolli 

Invited Lecture: Strategies for transforming liquid ingredients into crystalline smart materials

Alessia Bacchi

Magnetostructural correlations in mononuclear 3d-metal complexes

Panagiotis Kyritsis

Crystallographic Analysis of Cannabidiol Inclusion Complexes with Native,

Dimethylated, and Permethylated Beta-Cyclodextrins

Elias Christoforides, Kostas Bethanis, Athena Andreou, Aggelos Balios, Georgia Frygana

Development of tailor-made heterometallic metal–organic frameworks for gas storage/separation applications

Ioannis Bratsos, Christos Tampaxis, Ioannis Spanopoulos, Georgia Charalambopoulou, Pantelis Trikalitis, Theodore Steriotis 

Invited Lecture: Rational strategies for conformation-selective drug discovery 

Evripidis Gavathiotis

Catalytic potential of fungal oxidative enzymes towards plant biomass degradation

Christos Kosinas, Anastasia Zerva, Angelina Chalima, Anthi Karnaouri, Evangelos Topakas, Mats Sandgren, Maria Dimarogona 

Invited Lecture: Structure-assisted design of small molecules targeting prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) 

Cyril Barinka

Invited Lecture: Synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction, a unique tool to decipher the properties of materials

Catherine Dejoie

Crystallography of semiconducting clathrates: past, present and future of a class of inclusion compounds for thermoelectric applications 

Andreas Kaltzoglou

The study of clinker samples with the Rietveld method and structure relations of Belite and Alite polymorphs

M. Chatzigeorgiou, M. Katsiotis, V. Psycharis 

Temperature dependent EXAFS spectroscopy on silica coated Fe-triazole nanoparticles

Ε. Petsali, F. Pinakidou, V. Tangoulis, F. D’Acapito, E. C. Paloura, M. Katsikini 

HeCrA conference closing ceremony - “Nikos Oikonomakos” and "Kyriakos Petratos" awards