I recently attended the 30th annual Spring meeting of the British Crystallographic Association at the University of Warwick from 16th-19th April 2012. The program was chaired by Kirsten Christensen (University of Oxford), and included a broad range of lectures from all areas of crystallography. The Young Crystallographers Group satellite opened the meeting. This is an excellent [...]
“My Sister Rosalind Franklin”, with Jenifer Glynn, author 17th May 2012, 6-7 pm Wood-Legh Room, Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge Cambridge AWiSE and Lucy Cavendish College are delighted to welcome writer and [ Read More ]
During National Science and Engineering Week March 2012, the YCG held an outreach event on Crystallography in Reading, in association with the Thames Valley Branch of the British Science Association. [ Read More ]
A few weeks ago, I attended the 6th annual meeting of the “Control and Prediction of the Organic Solid State” (CPOSS) project in the Old Refectory of University College London. The meeting was themed ‘Crystals or not – where do we go from here?’. There were over 100 delegates in attendance, with both academic and [...]
Professor Sally Price works at University College London in the UK. Her group focuses on developing the accurate modelling of intermolecular and intramolecular forces, in order to predict which crystal structures of an organic molecule are thermodynamically feasible. These are contrasted with experimental searches for polymorphs in order to understand the factors which lead to [...]
BCA/CCP4 Summer School in Protein Crystallography Tuesday 28th August – Sunday 2nd September 2012 The BCA/CCP4 Protein Crystallography Summer School is intended for students and researchers new to crystallography. Its [ Read More ]
Dear User, I11 Long Duration Experiments (LDE) Workshop Date: Fri. 15th June 2012 Venue: G53 & 54, Diamond House As part of a major upgrade project on the I11 powder [ Read More ]
Last September the Directed Assembly Network trialled a meeting for Early Career Researchers, with research interests crossing all theme areas covered by the Network, to meet each other, discuss their [ Read More ]
Monday 16th April: 12:00 – 13:00 Registration 13:00 Welcome: Duncan Sneddon (MRC Harwell) Session YC1: 13:00 – 15:00 Chair: Samantha Callear (ISIS) 13:00 – 13:30: Plenary: Kenneth Shankland (Reading) Downhill [ Read More ]
Carbaborane C-H groups are acidic and so are able to form hydrogen bonding interactions as donors. This can be exploited in the use of carbaboranes as coordinating anions that can be involved in agostic interactions with diverse metal centres. Agostic and electrostatic interactions for Ag···H-B are very rare. In this advance article, Luís Cunha-Silva and Michaele Hardie report the [...]