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Registrations for our spring symposium are open!

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We are pleased to join forces with the Dutch Association for Crystal Growth (DACG) for the Spring Symposium. The event will be hosted by Maastricht University on May 30 & 31, 2024, and registrations are open till May 15, 2024.

This event aims to provide ample opportunity for fruitful discussion and dialogues between experts from different fields of crystallization and to incite collaborations at the international level between the different disciplines on the area of nucleation, crystallization, crystal growth and self-assembly.

An early career event will be hosted on May 30, focusing on MSc, PhD students and postdocs future career opportunities. All participants to the early career gathering are kindly invited to bring a poster about their research. Please send your abstract before April 30, 2024 at info@dacg.nl. We will have two poster sessions dedicated to networking and brainstorming. Please indicate in your registration if you will be taking up this opportunity. The posters will remain in display throughout May 31st.

The DACG & NVK Spring Symposium will take place on May 31 featuring invited talks by renown researchers from the Netherlands and neighboring countries, contributed talks.

We hope to welcome you, please register here.

ECA video contest and women in crystallography grant

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We received two interesting invitations for young scientist from ECA.

Firstly, they announce the start of the European Crystallography Video Contest! The goal of this contest is to introduce young students to the exciting and challenging world of crystal growth and crystallography, and is open to all schoolchildren from European countries. You can find more information, including how schools can participate and important dates, on the ECA website.

Secondly, our attention was addressed to the recently announced call for the assignment of grants from the funds of the “Women in Crystallography” fundraising project. These grants are intended to provide financial support for Early Career female scientists to attend meetings, congresses, and schools of crystallographic interest. You can find more information, including how to apply for these grants, on the ECA website

Sven Hennig and colleagues published on covalent bicyclization of quaternary protein complexes

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Congratulations to our member Sven Hennig and his colleagues Tom Grossmann (Biomimetic Chemistry) from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Saskia Neubacher (incircular) for the publications on the covalent bicyclization of quaternary protein complexes in Chem. Great work in which they show not only the successful crosslinking and stabilization of the Pseudomonas fluorescens esterase (Pfe) trimer via the INCYPRO technology, but also solved its crystal structure (PDB ID 8pi1).

Save the date! – Joint meeting NVK and DACG

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A joint symposium of NVK together with DACG (Dutch Association for Crystal Growth) will be organized at the Science Campus of Maastricht University on 31 May 2024. On the afternoon before, 30 May,  we will organize a satellite meeting for young researchers with an interesting evening program and overnight stay.  Details following soon.

Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!

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We wish you a very pleasant and peaceful Christmas and a Happy New Year. We hope for an interactive, inspiring and fruitful 2024!

We hope to see you at our spring-symposium, stay tuned for updates!

NVK symposium was a great success!

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On 24.11.2023 we held our annual general meeting of the NVK (ALV) at the Amsterdam Science Park organized by Roland Bliem and the ARCNL institute. Apart from the official ALV, the day was full of scientific talks and exchange, as we embedded it into our autumn symposium, this year on the topic of ‘Crystallography in Materials’. We had an exciting panel of speakers especially Ruud den Adel (Unilever), Tom de Vries (Nijmegen), Mirijam Zobel (Aachen), Alexey Pustovarenko (Malvern Panalytical), Adrian Graham (ESA/ESTEC) and Jarek Mazurek (Ardena).

A sphere impression of the day!

Special thanks belong to our speakers of the young researcher session (Grisha Shipunov (UvA), Falk Pabst (UvA) and Charlotte Vrolijk (Maastricht)), which was a great success and gave our next generation researcher a platform to discuss their achievements.

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Find the full program here. If you got curious, please join our next Symposium in Spring 2024! Details will follow.  

 

 

 

We invite you for our symposium ‘Crystallography in Materials’

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It’s time again for the yearly NVK symposium and Algemene Leden Vergadering (ALV)! We cordially invite you to our autumn symposium focusing on ‘Crystallography in Materials’ at the Matrix ONE building in Amsterdam. Find more information and register here. Feel free to spread the word, and take your colleagues, students and fellow researcher along.