Scientific program:
Wednesday 3 September
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9:00 – 9:45 |
Plenary Lecture 2 – Chair: Fernando Camara Room 8 Jean-Paul Itié Synchrotron SOLEIL The magic scroll of the future Aampus museum of writing |
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9:45 – 10:00 |
Sponsor talk – Bruker Room 8 |
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10:00 – 10:30 |
Coffee break |
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10:30 – 12:20 |
MS1 – Mineralogy and Crystallography: Two Sides of a Same Coin Room 1 Chairs: Ernesto Mesto, Daniela Mauro |
MS2 – Crystal Growth and Epitaxy Room 8 Chairs: Elena Simone, Chiara Coppi |
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10:30 – 10:55 |
Giovanni Ferraris (Invited) University of Turin Does Avogadro hypothesis root in Haüy’s theory of crystal structure? |
Rosalba Fittipaldi (Invited) CNR-SPIN Synthesis of High-Quality Single Crystals for Experiments at Advanced Research Infrastructures |
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10:55 – 11:20 |
Paolo Lotti (Invited) University of Milan Crystallographic exploration at non-ambient conditions: Discovery of a novel high-P and high-T polymorph of leucite |
Michele Baldrighi (Invited) Industriale Chimica S.r.l. Crystals and Crystallization according to a Generics API manufacturer’s daily life |
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11:20 – 11:35 |
Alice Taddei University of Florence Diving into åsgruvanite-(Ce): A structural marvel made of alternating REE–arsenite layers and tunnel-like cavities |
Cecilia Fiore Politecnico of Torino Structural and functional characterization of Levofloxacin-Quercetin cocrystal solvates for controlled release in antibacterial formulations |
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11:35 – 11:50 |
Fernando Camara University of Milan 3ED studies of a potential new Y-silicate in metabauxite from Vanoise (Savoie, France) |
Matteo Savastano University San Raffaele Roma Green Polyiodides: An Aperiodic Tale |
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11:50 – 12:05 |
Benedetta Chrappan Soldavini University of Milan Polytypism and swelling properties of 11.5 Å phase: a major water carrier to the mantle transition zone |
Margherita Vacchini University of Milan How small a molecular crystal can be? Looking for Hidden Crystalline Aggregates in Dissolving Benzoic Acid Nanoparticles |
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12:05 – 12:20 |
Lisa Baratelli University of Pavia High-pressure effects on local geometrical distortions in ordered omphacite |
Luca Sironi University of Milan Nucleation rate and stacking propensity of benzoic acid derivatives: an experimental and molecular dynamics study |
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12:20 – 13:50 |
Lunch |
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13:50 – 14:35 |
Plenary Lecture 3 – Chair: Alessia Bacchi Room 8 Roberta Sessoli University of Florence Two asymmetries in one: spins in chiral structures |
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14:35 – 16:25 |
MS3 – Hybrid Functional Materials Room 1 Chairs: Marco Taddei, Consiglia Tedesco |
MS4 – Integrative Structural Biology Room 8 Chairs: Ilaria Silvestri, Antonio Chaves Sanjuan |
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14:35 – 15:00 |
Gabriella Cavallo (Invited) Politecnico of Milano Engineering New Functional Materials through Halogen Bonding and Fluorous Effects |
Riccardo Miggiano (Invited) University of Eastern Piedmont DnaB and DciA: mechanisms of helicase loading and translocation on ssDNA during the DNA replication initiation in human pathogenic bacteria |
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15:00 – 15:25 |
Matteo Lusi (Invited) University of Limerick Not all single crystal transformations are single crystal transformations: guest diffusion versus recrystallization in an organic clathrate. |
Francesco Angelucci (Invited) University of L’Aquila The “Doorstop Pocket” In Thioredoxin Reductases – An Unexpected Druggable Regulator of the Catalytic Machinery |
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15:25 – 15:40 |
Filippo Ballerini University of Milan Stretched Non-Negative Matrix Factorization: A Novel Approach for Deciphering Temperature- and Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions in Metal-Organic Frameworks |
Melissa Milazzo University of Milan Structural characterization of pathological protein aggregates in a cat affected by systemic AA amyloidosis |
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15:40 – 15:55 |
Danilo Marchetti University of Parma Exploring the reversible dynamical behaviour of nanocrystalline interpenetrated diamonodoid metal-organic frameworks |
Valeria Napolitano IBB-CNR Integrative structural biology approach to unveil the CPS degradation machinery of bacteriophages against Klebsiella pneumoniae |
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15:55 – 16:10 |
Enrico Podda University of Cagliari Ultra-Low Optical Loss in Single Crystal Waveguides of Fluorene/Fluorenone CdII Coordination Polymers |
Simona Fermani University of Bologna From cyanobacterial to eukaryotic phosphoribulokinase: a structural perspective |
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16:10 – 16:25 |
Meriem Goudjil University of Florence Adaptable Self-Assembly in Cu(II)-Based Bispidine Coordination Polymers: Diverse Topologies and Dynamic VOCs Adsorption |
Roberto Marotta Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia Dissecting the interactions among inhibited AB-GAPDH oligomers |
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16:25 – 17:00 |
FP1 (MS4 – MS9 – MS10) – Chair: Martina Lippi Room 1 (3 min for each presenter) |
FP2 (MS1 – MS3) – Chair: Giovanni O. Lepore Room 8 (3 min for each presenter) |
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Giovanni Macetti Serena Spadone Federica Mastropirro Doriano Lamba Chiara Baroni Alessia Bacchi Andrea Ienco Lisa Baratelli |
Camilla Ferrari Lorenzo Gatti Andrea Daolio Dario Giovanardi Mattia Lopresti Marco Moroni Alessia Boesini Alice Colli Daniela Mauro Sabrina Nazzareni
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17:00 – 17:30 |
Coffee break |
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17:30 – 19:00 |
AIC meeting Room 1 |
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20:00 – 23:00 |
Social Dinner at Palazzo Non Finito |
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