Programme

	Ewald Prize Olga Kennard
	Braggs Prize James Fraser Targeting COVID-19 Viral Enzymes in an Evolving Landscape of Publishing and Peer Review
	Braggs Prize Jean-Philippe Julien Structure-guided design of next-generation malaria vaccine

	Helen Berman *How data have revealed the structural universe*
	David Eisenberg *The structural biology of pathogenic amyloid fibrils*
	Clare Grey *In situ studies of battery materials with NMR crystallography*

	Abakumov Artem Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Moscow Russia *Order and disorder in metal-ion battery materials*
	Artioli Gilberto University of Padova Padova Italy *Crystallography and cultural heritage – On beauty, science and passion*
	Arulandu Arockkiasamy International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) New Delhi India *Structure guided inhibitor discovery targeting a membrane receptor involved in atherosclerosis*
	Blagov Aleksandr NRC Kurchatov Institute Moscow Russia *4th generation SR and XFEL facilities: new era in crystallography and material science*
	Boscherini Federico University of Bologna Bologna Italy *X-ray absorption spectroscopy and materials science: recent advances*
	Contreras-Garcia Julia Pierre and Marie Curie University Paris France Electron density, and its interplay with the energy and properties of molecules and solids
	Fantini Marcia Instituto de Fisica Sao Paulo Brasil *The contribution of crystallography to new vaccine formulations*
	Fisher Zoe European Spallation Source Lund Sweden *Neutron structural biology*
	Fujita Makoto University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan *Crystalline sponge, metal-organic assemblies*
	Garcia-Ruiz Juan Manuel Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra Granada Spain The crystal and the rose: On the impact of crystals and crystallography in art and mind
	Gonen Tamir University of California Loas Angeles USA Universidad de Los Andes MicroED: conception, practice and future opportunities
	Goodwin Andrew University of Oxford Oxford UK *Structural flexibility and disorder in functional materials*

	Grey Clare University of Cambridge Cambridge UK *In situ studies of battery materials with NMR crystallography*
	Grimm Uwe The Open University Milton Keynes UK *State of the art understanding of diffraction from aperiodic crystals*
	Haynes Delia Stellenbosch University Stellenbosch South Africa Dithiadiazolyl radicals as building blocks for molecular materials

	Hovmoller Sven Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University Stockholm Sweden *Gjonnes medal lecture*
	Chamard Virginie Aix-Marseille Université Marseille France *Novel insights on biomineralization using x-rays and optical coherent diffraction based imaging*
	Jayatilaka Dylan University of Western Australia Perth Australia *Quantum Crystallography: Past, Present, and Future*
	Kolb Ute Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Germany *Gjonnes medal lectures*
	Krivovichev Sergey St. Petersburg University St. Petersburg Russia *Complexity in crystals and minerals*
	Kroon-Batenburg Loes Utrecht University Utrecht Netherlands *Metadata and checkCIF for raw diffraction data in realising ultimate crystallographic objectivity*
	Ma Yanming Jilin University Changchun China *Record high superconductivity in sodalite-like rare-earth hydrides stabilized at high pressures*
	Macchi Piero Dep. of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano Milano Italy *Quantum crystallography and spintronic materials*
	Oliva Glaucius Universidade de Sao Paulo Sao Paulo Brasil A Crystallographic Snapshot of SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Maturation Process and the Discovery of Inhibitors
	Palatinus Lukas Institue of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences Prague Czech Republic *Electron crystallography of molecular crystals*
	Pearson Arwen R. University of Hamburg Hamburg Germany *Time resolved macromolecular crystallography*
	Rauch Edgar University of Grenoble Grenoble France *Identification of secondary phase structure using 4D Precession Electron Diffraction*
	Reddy Malla IISER Kolkata India *Mechanical properties of crystals*
	Reutzel-Edens Susan Eli-Lilly Company Indianopolis USA Crystal forms in pharmaceutical applications
	Reusse Gwenaelle College de France Paris France *In-situ and in-operando diffraction studies of Li ion battery electrodes*
	Shibayama Mitsushiro University of Tokyo Tokyo Japan Soft Matter
	Stark Holger MPI for Biophysical Chemistry Goettingen Germany The symbiosis of cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography in structure determination of large macromolecular systems
	Stokes Harold Brigham Young University Provo, Utah USA *The science of symmetry breaking*
	Strynadka Natalie University of British Columbia Vancouver Canada *Structural hybrid methods to probe membrane transport nanomachines in pathogenic bacteria*
	Thorn Andrea Institute for Nanostructure and Solid State Physics, Universität Hamburg Hamburg Germany The Coronavirus Structural Task Force
	Yang Wei Laboratory of Molecular Biology, NIDDK Bethesda, MD USA *Structural biology insights into antibody diversity through gene recombination mechanisms*
	Heinemann Udo Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin Germany Gene expression regulation
	Dubrovinsky Leonid Bayreuth University Bayreuth Germany *Stress state in a diamond anvil cell at megabar pressures at ambient and high temperatures*

MS title	Proposed	Supported by
Composite and incommensurate modulated crystals: structural and physical properties	CAC
Structure, modeling and properties of quasicrystals	CAC
Macromolecular machines and hybrid methods to crystallography	CBM
New methods to fight the pandemic	Others	CBM
Structural biology against coronavirus/covid-1	Others	CBM
Protein design and engineering	CBM
Structural biology of eukaryotic immune systems	CBM

Ultra-high resolution macromolecular crystallography and quantum biocrystallography	CBM	CBM CQC CSynr CommDat
Fragment Screening, LCP, and Automation	CBM	CQC CSynr CommDat
Nucleic acids and binding proteins structure and function	CBM	CBM
Validation of cryoEM structures and maps	CBM	CEC CommDat

Integrative structural biology: The next 50 years of the Protein Data Bank	CBM	CSynr CommDat
Structure guided drug design and antibiotic resistance targets	CBM
Structural biology of enzymes, mechanism and regulation	CBM
X-ray spectrometry and X-ray diffraction in art and archaeology	CCACH	CXAFS

Science meets art: Crystallography and cultural heritage	CCACH	CAC CMTC
Automation in bio-crystallography: tools, perspectives and applications	CCC	CBM
High troughput vs. careful planning: How to get the best data?	CCC	CSynr CommDat
Handling of big data in crystallography	CCC	CSynr CommDat
Data-driven discovery in crystallography	CCC	CCC CCM CIMS CommDat
Machine learning in biological and structural sciences	CCC	CBM CCT
Structural bioinformatics	CCC	CBM
The mineral/life interface – prebiotic chemistry, biomineralization, advanced biomimetic materials	CCGCM	CQC CIMS CXAFS
2D type crystals and their heterostructures	CCGCM
Hydrogen rich compounds: design, properties & phase transitions at high pressures	CCM
Topological materials	CCM
Nanocrystalline materials	CCM
Crystal structure prediction	CCM	CCC
Social media and new frontiers for spreading crystallographic	CCT
Crystallography schools to promote interdisciplinarity in science	CCT
CryoEM for macromolecules – from single particles to microcrystals	CEC	CBM CSynr
Combination of X-ray and electrons for structure characterization	CEC	CPD CSynr
Application of electron crystallography to functional materials	CEC	CCGCM CIMS
Analysis of the fine structure in electron diffraction data	CEC	CAC CommDat
In-situ and time resolved electron crystallography	CEC
Crystal structures of pharmaceutical and organic compounds from electron diffraction	CEC
Recent advances in electron crystallography techniques	CEC
Texture, strain and structure in metals and ceramics	CIMS	CCM CPD
Organic minerals, metal-organic frameworks, and metal-oxygen clusters: the emergent interface of geochemistry and crystal engineering	CIMS	CSC
Modular structure of inorganic and mineral compounds	CIMS	CMTC
Complex structures of minerals and inorganic materials	CIMS
Magnetic structures of novel and functional materials	CMS	CIMS CNS
Methods and software developments for magnetic-structure analysis	CMS	CAC CCC CNS
Molecular magnets and metal-organic frameworks including quantum crystallography approaches	CMS	CQC CSC
Magnetic structures at extreme conditions and in extreme samples	CMS	CHP CIMS CNS
Symmetry aspects of magnetic order and magnetic properties	CMS	CAC CMTC CPD
Frustrated magnetic order and emerging science	CMS	CCGCM CNS
Structural, electronic and magnetic ordering: From fundamental physics to functionality	CMS	CIMS CNS
Beyond pure point diffraction: Theory and application of diffuse scattering	CMTC	CAC CQC
Graphs, tilings and crystal structures	CMTC	CQC
Generalizations of crystallographic groups and their applications	CMTC	CQC
Polymorphism and structural transformation of organic crystals from synthesis to characterization	CNMR	CSC
New methods and strategies in NMR crystallography in – Honour of Francis Taulelle	CNMR
Neutron scattering sources, applications	CNS
Pre and post publication peer review of crystallographic data	CommDat	CAC CBM
In-situ and operando studies of battery materials	CPD	CNS
Diffraction imaging, grain mapping in materials and art	CPD	CCACH
Structure solution and poorly crystalline materials	CPD
Total scattering	CPD	CNS
Phase transitions in complex materials (structure and magnetism)	CPD
Perovskites	CPD
Materials for energy conversion and storage	CPD
Combining X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy to characterise materials	CPD	CPD
Quantum crystallography in materials science	CQC	CAC
Quantum crystallography challenges and newest accomplishments	CQC	CAC
Quantum crystallographic studies on intra/inter-molecular interactions	CQC	CSC
Large scale facilities for quantum crystallography research	CQC
Solution scattering and combined techniques for biological systems, including component dynamics	CSAS	CBM CQC

Integrative methodologies for novel thin film structures	CSAS	CCM CPD CSC
Time-resolved phase evolution, interaction & crystallization in soft matter: Integrative approaches	CSAS	CQC
Small- and Wide-Angle Scattering for industrial materials far from equilibrium	CSAS
Function and application of porous crystals	CSC
New trends in pharmaceutical materials	CSC
Ab initio powder structure analysis for polymorphism and phase transformation studies with pharmaceutical applications	CSC	CEC
Crystallographic approaches for designing new framework materials (including post-synthetic modification)	CSC
Porous framework materials for gas adsorption/separation	CSC	CNMR
Dynamic frameworks	CSC
Crystal chemistry with emerging technology	CSC
Crystallization mechanisms of small molecule systems	CSC
Stimuli-responsive crystalline compounds	CSC
Solid state reactions and dynamics	CSC
Non-covalent interactions in crystal engineering	CSC
Theory and practice of supramolecular synthons in crystal engineering	CSC
New applications of coherent scattering	CSynr	CBM CMS
Ptychography: present and near future	CSynr	CEC
Time-dependent phenomena in the fs to ns regime (studied using ultrashort x-ray pulses)	CSynr	CBM CSC
Matter at extreme conditions at SR and XFEL: complementarity of spectroscopy and diffraction	CSynr	CQC CHP CPD CXAFS
4th generation SR and XFEL Facilities	CSynr	CBM CXAFS
Catalysis: functionalized materials studied by XRD and XAFS	CXAFS
XAS and crystallography allied for geomaterials and environmental problems	CXAFS	CIMS CPD
Advanced methods for analysis of XAFS and crystallographic data	CXAFS	CommDat
Disordered materials: spectroscopic and scattering techniques	CXAFS	CEC CNS CPD
Spectroscopy applied to electrochemistry: operando studies	CXAFS	CNMR
High-pressure Crystallography	CHP	CCM
Crystallography using large volume presses and diamond anvil cells	CHP

Recent advances in instrumentation	other

*MS original ID, details, chairs*	MS title	Proposed	Supported by
Online crystallography: Tools, apps and web services	CCT
Advances in data and model validation in biomolecular Small-Angle Scattering: Impacts on data and meta-data recording and data archiving	CBM	CommDat
Session in the memory of An-Pang Tsai: from quasicrystals to catalysis	CAC
Exemplary practice in chemical, biological and materials database archiving	CBM	CommDat
Using crystallography for education during the pandemic	CCT

Preliminary schematic time schedule

Prize Winners

Plenary Lectures

Keynote Lectures

List of all standard sessions with co-chairs and invited speakers

Special sessions

Poster sessions