IUCr 2020 microsymposia

List of IUCr commissions with acronyms

MS ID, details, chairs	MS title	Proposed	Supported by
97	Composite and incommensurate modulated crystals: structural and physical properties	CAC
98	Structure, modeling and properties of quasicrystals	CAC
153	Macromolecular machines and hybrid methods to crystallography	CBM
156	Structural biology of proteostasis, ubiquitination, protein quality control	CBM
157	Protein design and engineering	CBM
159	Structural biology of eukaryotic immune systems	CBM
151	Macromolecular neutron diffraction	CBM	CNS CommDat
152	Structural biology of receptors, signaling and membrane proteins	CBM
163	Ultra-high resolution macromolecular crystallography and quantum biocrystallography	CBM	CBM CQC CSynr CommDat
164	Reproducible science – diffraction data quality and structure validation	CBM	CommDat
166	Structural biology of viruses – in memory of Michael Rossmann	CBM
167	Fragment Screening, LCP, and Automation	CBM	CQC CSynr CommDat
168	Nucleic acids and binding proteins structure and function	CBM	CBM
160	Validation of cryoEM structures and maps	CBM	CEC CommDat
144	Crystallization techniques and in cellulo protein crystallization	CBM	CCGCM
39	Integrative structural biology: The next 50 years of the Protein Data Bank	CBM	CSynr CommDat
148	Structure guided drug design and antibiotic resistance targets	CBM
147	Structural biology of enzymes, mechanism and regulation	CBM
54	X-ray spectrometry and X-ray diffraction in art and archaeology	CCACH	CXAFS
55	Global cultural heritage challenges and crystallography: Where do we stand?	CCACH
53	Science meets art: Crystallography and cultural heritage	CCACH	CAC CMTC
200	Automation in bio-crystallography: tools, perspectives and applications	CCC	CBM
203	High troughput vs. careful planning: How to get the best data?	CCC	CSynr CommDat
201	Handling of big data in crystallography	CCC	CSynr CommDat
96	Data-driven discovery in crystallography	CCC	CCC CCM CIMS CommDat
202	Machine learning in biological and structural sciences	CCC	CBM CCT
190	Structural bioinformatics	CCC	CBM
138	The mineral/life interface – prebiotic chemistry, biomineralization, advanced biomimetic materials	CCGCM	CQC CIMS CXAFS
141	2D type crystals and their heterostructures	CCGCM
102	Hydrogen rich compounds: design, properties & phase transitions at high pressures	CCM
105	Topological materials: prediction. synthesis, characterizations	CCM
108	Nanocrystalline materials	CCM
110	Crystal structure prediction	CCM	CCC
109	Energy materials	CCM	CEC
117	Social media and new frontiers for spreading crystallographic	CCT
116	Crystallography schools to promote interdisciplinarity in science	CCT
80	CryoEM for macromolecules – from single particles to microcrystals	CEC	CBM CSynr
78	Combination of X-ray and electrons for structure characterization	CEC	CPD CSynr
73	Application of electron crystallography to functional materials	CEC	CCGCM CIMS
76	Analysis of the fine structure in electron diffraction data	CEC	CAC CommDat
75	In-situ and time resolved electron crystallography	CEC
79	Crystal structures of pharmaceutical and organic compounds from electron diffraction	CEC
74	Recent advances in electron crystallography techniques	CEC
93	Texture, strain and structure in metals and ceramics	CIMS	CCM CPD
94	Organic minerals, metal-organic frameworks, and metal-oxygen clusters: the emergent interface of geochemistry and crystal engineering	CIMS	CSC
95	Modular structure of inorganic and mineral compounds	CIMS	CMTC
91	Complex structures of minerals and inorganic materials	CIMS
63	Magnetic structures of novel and functional materials	CMS	CIMS CNS
67	Methods and software developments for magnetic-structure analysis	CMS	CAC CCC CNS
72	Molecular magnets and metal-organic frameworks including quantum crystallography approaches	CMS	CQC CSC
65	Magnetic structures at extreme conditions and in extreme samples	CMS	CHP CIMS CNS
66	Symmetry aspects of magnetic order and magnetic properties	CMS	CAC CMTC CPD
71	Frustrated magnetic order and emerging science	CMS	CCGCM CNS
70	Structural, electronic and magnetic ordering: From fundamental physics to functionality	CMS	CIMS CNS
114	Beyond pure point diffraction: Theory and application of diffuse scattering	CMTC	CAC CQC
111	Graphs, tilings and crystal structures	CMTC	CQC
112	Generalizations of crystallographic groups and their applications	CMTC	CQC
240	Polymorphism and structural transformation of organic crystals from synthesis to characterization	CNMR	CSC
237	New methods and strategies in NMR crystallography	CNMR
189	Advanced neutron sources in biological and materials sciences	CNS
41	Pre and post publication peer review of crystallographic data	CommDat	CAC CBM
5	In-situ and operando studies of battery materials	CPD	CNS
137	Diffraction imaging, grain mapping in materials and art	CPD	CCACH
130	Structure solution and poorly crystalline materials	CPD
131	Total scattering	CPD	CNS
135	Phase transitions in complex materials (structure and magnetism)	CPD
136	Perovskites	CPD
120	Materials for energy conversion and storage	CPD
56	Combining X-ray diffraction and spectroscopy to characterise materials	CPD	CPD
89	Quantum crystallography in materials science	CQC	CAC
84	Quantum crystallography challenges and newest accomplishments	CQC	CAC
220	Quantum crystallographic studies on intra/inter-molecular interactions	CQC	CSC
90	Large scale facilities for quantum crystallography research	CQC
172	Solution scattering and combined techniques for biological systems, including component dynamics	CSAS	CBM CQC
69	Topological magnetic order and quasiparticles	CSAS	CMS CNS
180	Integrative methodologies for novel thin film structures	CSAS	CCM CPD CSC
176	Time-resolved phase evolution, interaction & crystallization in soft matter: Integrative approaches	CSAS	CQC
177	Small- and Wide-Angle Scattering for industrial materials far from equilibrium	CSAS
209	Function and application of porous crystals	CSC
236	New trends in pharmaceutical materials	CSC
215	Ab initio powder structure analysis for polymorphism and phase transformation studies with pharmaceutical applications	CSC	CEC
206	Crystallographic approaches for designing new framework materials (including post-synthetic modification)	CSC
210	Porous framework materials for gas adsorption/separation	CSC	CNMR
211	Dynamic frameworks	CSC
228	Crystal chemistry with emerging technology	CSC
216	Crystallization mechanisms of small molecule systems	CSC
226	Stimuli-responsive crystalline compounds	CSC
224	Solid state reactions and dynamics	CSC
222	Non-covalent interactions in crystal engineering	CSC
221	Theory and practice of supramolecular synthons in crystal engineering	CSC
48	New applications of coherent scattering	CSynr	CBM CMS
46	Ptychography: present and near future	CSynr	CEC
45	Time-dependent phenomena in the fs to ns regime (studied using ultrashort x-ray pulses)	CSynr	CBM CSC
37	Matter at extreme conditions at SR and XFEL: complementarity of spectroscopy and diffraction	CSynr	CQC CHP CPD CXAFS
181	4th generation SR and XFEL Facilities	CSynr	CBM CXAFS
60	Catalysis: functionalized materials studied by XRD and XAFS	CXAFS
61	XAS and crystallography allied for geomaterials and environmental problems	CXAFS	CIMS CPD
57	Advanced methods for analysis of XAFS and crystallographic data	CXAFS	CommDat
59	Disordered materials: spectroscopic and scattering techniques	CXAFS	CEC CNS CPD
58	Spectroscopy applied to electrochemistry: operando studies	CXAFS	CNMR
101	Characterization and consequences of non-hydrostatic stress on crystals	CHP	CCM
100	Crystallography using large volume presses and diamond anvil cells	CHP
99	Crystallography and dynamic compression	CHP
246	Recent advances in instrumentation	other