Teaching material
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Day 1 – Monday 20 July 2026 – From Diffraction to Structure Determination
- Opening Lecture – Carmelo Giacovazzo (CNR-IC, Bari, Italy) – The Phase Problem in Crystallography: A Challenge Worthy of a Nobel Prize
- Dritan Siliqi (CNR-IC, Bari, Italy) – Structural Biology: An Amazing World
- Anna Moliterni (CNR-IC, Bari, Italy) – Solving Small-Molecule Structures Using Single-Crystal Diffraction
- Dritan Siliqi (CNR-IC, Bari, Italy) – Structural Studies of Proteins: From Early Techniques to Modern Approaches
- Michele Zema (Department of Earth and Geoenvironmental Sciences, University of Bari, Italy) – Advancing Crystallography Through Education and Infrastructure
Day 2 – Tuesday 21 July 2026 – Structure Solution and Refinement: Methods and Software
- Angela Altomare (IC-CNR, Bari, Italy) – X-ray Powder Diffraction for Structure Determination
- Enrico Mugnaioli (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Pisa, Italy) – Electron Diffraction in Structure Determination
- Benedetta Carrozzini (CNR-IC, Bari, Italy) – SIR: Versatile Software for Single-Crystal Structure Solution (Software presentation)
- Corrado Cuocci (CNR-IC, Bari, Italy) – EXPO: Software for Structure Solution from Powder Diffraction Data (Software presentation)
- Enrico Mugnaioli (Department of Earth Sciences, University of Pisa, Italy), Benedetta Carrozzini (IC-CNR, Bari, Italy) – Structure Solution from Electron Diffraction Using SIR
- Benny Danilo Belviso (CNR-IC, Bari, Italy) – Software Packages for Biological Macromolecules Crystallography (Software presentation)
Day 3 – Wednesday 22 July 2026 – Methods, Techniques and Computation in Crystallography
- Cinzia Giannini (CNR-IC, Bari, Italy) – Diffraction from Advanced Materials and Nanostructures
- Rocco Caliandro (CNR-IC, Bari, Italy) – Pair Distribution Function (PDF) Analysis: Methodology and Applications
- Francesco Scattarella (CNR-IC, Bari, Italy) – SUNBIM: A Software Suite for the Analysis of Nanoscale Materials (Software Presentation)
- Andy Maloney (CCDC, Cambridge, UK) – The Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) and Beyond (Software Presentation)
- Davide Ceresoli (Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Chimiche “G. Natta” – SCITEC-CNR, Milan, Italy) – The Quantum ESPRESSO Package: DFT for Crystallography (Software presentation)
Day 4 – Thursday 23 July 2026 – The Multifaceted and Interdisciplinary Character of Crystallography
- Maria Lacalamita (Department of Earth and Geoenvironmental Sciences, University of Bari, Italy) – Crystallography of Natural Materials
- Fabia Gozzo (Excelsus Structural Solutions, Villigen, Switzerland) – X-Ray Diffraction and Crystallography for the Characterization of Pharmaceuticals
- Rocco Caliandro (CNR-IC, Bari, Italy) – Artificial Intelligence for Crystal Structure Solution
- Benny Danilo Belviso (CNR-IC, Bari, Italy) – Protein crystallization: understanding and tackling the bottleneck
- Vittoria Nanna (CNR-IC, Bari, Italy) – Modern Computational Tools for Drug Design
- Angela Altomare (IC-CNR, Bari, Italy) – IUCr Journals: Disseminating High-Quality Crystallographic Research