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We are excited to announce a symposium highlighting the latest advancements and achievements in the rapidly evolving field of serial crystallography. This event also celebrates  the commencement of user operations at the MicroMAX Beamline at MAX IV Laboratory, an important milestone in our ongoing efforts to push the boundaries of structural biology and crystallography.

Join us for an exciting series of presentations, panel discussions, and networking opportunities with leading experts in serial crystallography. Whether you’re an experienced researcher or new to the field, this event offers valuable insights into the future of crystallography and its transformative impact on science.

When: 22–24 September 2025

Where: LINXS, The Loop, Rydbergs torg 4, Lund, Sweden

Organisers: LINXS, MAX IV

Fee: A registration fee will be charged for the event. Regular 500 SEK, students/postdocs 250 SEK. The fee covers  lunch and coffee breaks on both days and the conference dinner. Participants are expected to arrange for their own travel and stay.

About the symposium

Serial crystallography opens possibilities to study protein dynamics on a wide range of time scales and also of irreversible reactions. It is also a powerful method to study protein structures at room temperature as the impact of radiation damage is reduced. Serial crystallography at X-ray free-electron lasers and synchrotrons has also applications that extend beyond structural biology.

This symposium will showcase some of the exciting scientific advances achieved through serial crystallography and time-resolved crystallography, in structural biology and other areas.

It will feature presentations from invited speakers, selected oral presentations based on submitted abstracts and poster sessions. The symposium will be held at LINXS (www.linxs.se) at its new location in Science Village located between MAX IV Laboratory (www.maxiv.lu.se) and the European Spallation Source (www.ess.eu). Attendees will also be invited for a tour of MAX IV beamlines on the evening of 23 September.

This event is organized to mark the recent start of user operations at the MicroMAX beamline at MAX IV Laboratory, which is funded by the Novo Nordisk Foundation (www.novonordiskfonden.dk) who are also the sponsors of this symposium.

Who Should Attend?

• Structural biologists, chemists, and physicists working with macromolecular structures.

• Graduate students and early-career researchers interested in exploring serial crystallography techniques.

• Researchers and engineers involved in beamline instrumentation and synchrotron facilities.

A workshop focusing on 'Time-Resolved Methods for Life Sciences at MAX IV ' will be organized back-to-back (September 24-26) at the same location.

• Confirmed speakers

  Mark Wilson, University of Nebraska–Lincoln - “Electrostatically Gated Enzyme Dynamics During Catalysis”

  Kirill Kovalev, EMBL-Hamburg - "Time-resolved crystallography of light-driven ion transporters at synchrotrons and free electron lasers"

  Tobias Weinert, Paul Scherrer Institut - “Some questions can only be answered by time: how time-resolved crystallography reshapes structural biology”

  Przemysław Nogły, Jagiellonian University - “Time-resolved X-ray crystallography on membrane proteins: Watching ions moving in time and space."

  Volha Chukhutsina, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam - “Using advanced crystallographic approaches to resolve how orange carotenoid protein photocycle works”

  Martin Högbom, Stockholm University - “Serial femtosecond crystallography of high-valent metal sites and protein radicals”

  Daniele de Sanctis, ESRF - The European Synchrotron - “Serial Microsecond Crystallography with the ESRF Extremely Brilliant Source”

  Aina Cohen, Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource - TBD

  Pedram Mehrabi, University of Hamburg - “Investigating enzyme mechanisms by multidimensional crystallography”

  Mark Warren, Diamond Light Source - “Electrostatically Gated Enzyme Dynamics During Catalysis”

  Helena Käck, AstraZeneca - "The potential for serial crystallography in drug discovery"

  Michael Thompson, University of California, Merced - "Turning Up the Heat on Dynamic Proteins with Temperature-Jump X-ray Crystallography"

  Jie Nan, MAX IV Laboratory - ”Recent Advances and Scientific Highlights from MicroMAX”

• Organisers

  Thomas Ursby, MicroMAX, MAX IV

  Cecilia Casadei, MicroMAX, MAX IV

  Dean Lang, MicroMAX, MAX IV

  Isha Raj, Training and Education Coordinator, MAX IV

  For further information and questions about the agenda etc, please contact Isha Raj, (isha.raj@maxiv.lu.se)

Sponsors

For practical questions, please contact shandana.mufti@linxs.lu.se

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