* A stands for activity, D for demonstration, DTP for “Discussion Triggering Presentation”, L for a lecture,
LSB for “leg stretching break”, S for the session, SP for sponsored presentation and T for a tutorial.
** Titles of the lectures and tutorials in the table are, for the sake of clarity, not complete. For the full title of a given lecture or tutorial and the abstract, just follow the link
Sunday, 16th April 2023 |
15:30 – 17:45 Registration
Registration will take place at the lobby of the Sheraton Dubrovnik Riviera Hotel, Srebreno
chair: Zoran Štefanić
17:45 – 18:30 Opening ceremony (Sheraton Dubrovnik Riviera Hotel, Orlando C lecture hall)
18:30 – 19:15 Welcome cocktail, along with A1: Bring your sample (sample collection)
19:15 – 21:00 Dinner
Monday, 17th April 2023Hot Topic 1 |
Morning session chair: Aleksandar Višnjevac
08:30 – 09:30 Terese Bergfors: How to Crystallize a Protein: the Basic Concepts
09:30 – 09:45 NT8 by Formulatrix
09:45 – 10:45 Areej Abuhammad: Macromolecular Crystallization Techniques
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 12:00 Martin Caffrey: Crystallising Membrane Proteins in Lypidic Systems
12:00 – 12:45 Terese Bergfors: A Protein Crystallization Strategy for Screening and Optimization
for Structure-Based Drug Design
12:45 – 14:30 Lunch break
Afternoon session chair: Areej Abuhammad
14:30 – 15:30 Arne Meyer: The Advanced Applications of in-plate Dynamic Light Scattering
15:30 – 15:45 LSB
15:45 – 16:30 Elspeth Garman: Cryo-cooling: Why and How?
16:30 – 17:15 Elspeth Garman: Radiation Damage in Macromolecular Crystallography
17:15 – 17:45 Coffee break
17:45 – 19:15 Elspeth Garman: Cryocooling
19:15 – 21:00 Dinner
21:00 – 23:00 DTP1 (Students’ Discussion triggering presentations, chaired by Terese Bergfors)
Tuesday, 18th April 2023Hot Topic 2 |
Morning session chair: Martina Vrankić
08:30 – 09:30 Edward Lowe: Fundamentals of Macromolecular Crystallography
09:30 – 09:45 LSB
09:45 – 10:45 Edward Lowe: Basics of X-ray Data Processing
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00 Edward Lowe: Data Processing, Scaling, and Merging
12:00 – 12:45 Eugene Krissinel: Structure Solution in CCP4 Cloud
12:45 – 14:30 Lunch break
Afternoon session chair: Alen Bjelopetrović
14:30 – 15:30 Eugene Krissinel & Maria Fando: Automatic and Fundamental Molecular Replacement
15:30 – 15:45 LSB
15:45 – 16:30 Rob Nicholls: Refinement in CCP4
16:30 – 17:15 Rob Nicholls: CCP4 Cloud Tutorial – Refinement with REFMAC5, Ligand Dictionary Generation with
AceDRG, and Interactive Model Building & Ligand Fitting with Coot
17:15 – 17:45 Coffee break
17:45 –18:30 Maria Fando: Automatic Model Building, Refinement, and Ligand Fitting
18:30 –19:15 Bring your sample
19:15 –21:00 Dinner
21:00 –23:00 DTP2 (Students’ Discussion triggering presentations, chaired by Areej Abuhammad)
Wednesday, 19th April 2023Hot Topic 3 |
Morning session chair: Elspeth Garman
08:30 –09:30 David Armstrong: Introduction to PDB Data, Access, and Validation
09:30 – 09:45 LSB
09:45 – 10:45 David Armstrong: Finding and Interpreting PDB Structures at PDBe
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:00 David Armstrong: PDBe Knowledge-Base (PDBe-KB): Changing the Context of Structure Data
12:00 – 12:45 David Armstrong: Analysing Large Scale PDB Data Using PDBe-KB
12:45 – 14:30 Lunch break
Afternoon session chair: Zoran Štefanić
14:30 – 15:30 David Armstrong: AlphaFold DB – Accessing a wealth of predicted protein structure data
15:30 – 15:45 LSB
15:45 – 16:30 David Armstrong: Programmatic Access of Macromolecular Structure Data
16:30 – 17:15 Rupesh Chikhale: Introduction to the CSD, CSD-Core and CSD-Discovery
17:15 – 17:45 Coffee break
17:45 – 18:30 Rupesh Chikhale: Mining Crystallographic Databases Using CSD-CrossMiner
18:30 –19:15 Rupesh Chikhale: Exploring Interactions in the CSD and PDB Using IsoStar and SuperStar
19:15 –21:00 Dinner
Thursday, 20th April 2023Hot Topic 4 |
Morning session chair: David Armstrong
08:30 –09:30 Zoran Štefanić: Visualizing Allosteric Pathways in Oligomeric Enzymes
09:30 – 09:45 LSB
09:45 – 10:45 Zoran Štefanić and Boris Gomaz: Exploring the Structural and Dynamic Data
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45 Rupesh Chikhale: How to Perform Ensemble Docking with GOLD?
12:45 – 14:30 Lunch break
Afternoon session chair: Jasminka Popović
14:30 – 15:30 Eugene Krissinel: Model Validation and Deposition
15:30 – 15:45 LSB
15:45 – 16:30 Closing Ceremony & Best in Show Awards