The Biological Structures Group of the British Crystallographic Association organises its virtual Winter Meeting 2020 on Friday 18th December. It celebrates Rosalind Franklin’s 100th Birthday with a line-up of worldleading international speakers presenting some of the newest and exciting achievements in structural biology, including a substantial number of presentations related […]
2020 was a particular year, keeping communication on the scientific scene on an extremely low level. SIG4, therefore, decided to fill the information gap and organize a short workshop on 17 December 2020 for keeping the community alive and updated on the progress in the field of electron crystallography. The […]
PhD’s, postdocs and other researchers in the Netherlands and beyond are invited to join an online course in Powder X-ray diffractometry (PXRD) that will be held from 24th to 26th of November of this year 2020. With this online workshop and school on Powder Diffraction we intend to help participants […]
The Zurich School is intended primarily for young researchers in the chemical, molecular and solid state sciences. Applicants from all regions of the world will be considered. The goal is that the participants gain hands-on experience plus a theoretical background in the art and science of routine crystal and molecular […]
This week the 7th CSP Blind Test begins – a major challenge in computational chemistry. It will see the world leading methods in Crystal Structure Prediction put to the test on real targets – with a high bar set by previous work. The 7 test systems have been sourced from […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced ECA to postpone the European Crystallographic School to be held this July in Budapest, Hungary, to next year. The next European Crystallographic Meeting which was planned for August 2021 will be held in August 2022 in Versailles, France. This event needed to be postponed because […]
Dirk (Dick) Feil passed away on the 22nd of April 2020 at the age of 87. Dirk Feil was born in Zeist, the Netherlands, in 1933. Married in 1958, Dirk and his young wife Annet set out to see something of the world. In 1959, despite misgivings about the apartheid […]
The SARS-COV-2 virus responsible for the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, which is progressively spreading throughout the world, belongs to the coronavirus family, the first members of which were identified almost a century ago [1]. These enveloped viruses possess an RNA (ribonucleic acid) genome and characteristic surface projections, recognizable by electron microscopy […]
The ECA Executive Committee met for its annual Winter Meeting at SOLEIL over the weekend of February 28th to March 1st. Three colleagues who could not travel due to the Coronavirus crisis joined via Skype. In addition to the day-to-day business of the Committee, considerable time was devoted to discussing […]
ECA supports the campaign started by the Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE) asking Member States to keep their commitment to Horizon Europe as high as proposed by the Parliament despite an overall lower investment in the Multiannual Financial Framework, encouraging many more signatures ahead of the Special European Council, […]
On September 1st, 2019, Sybolt Harkema, former Assistant Professor at the Technical University Twente, died at the age of 78 years. Sybolt Harkema was born in Noordeloos, the Netherlands, as the son of vickar Harke Harkema and his wife Agaath. He visited the secondary school (lyceum) in Zeist at the […]
It is with great sorrow that we report that our colleague Professor Catalina Ruiz-Pérez passed away on August 8 when she was sixty-two. Catalina Ruiz-Pérez was born in Valencia (Spain) in 1957 and she was Full Professor of Applied Physics in the Department of Physics at Universidad de La Laguna […]
The Alajos Kálmán Prize preserves the memory of the late Alajos Kálmán, an eminent scientist in the field of chemical crystallography. The Prize is established by the Hungarian Chemical Society and is endorsed by European Crystallographic Association (ECA). This year the prize goes to Professor Luigi Nassimbeni from Cape Town […]
