ACA – Chemical Crystallography

ACA 2013 – Double Award Winners

Jul 242013

The Annual Meeting of the American Crytsallographic Association was held from July 20-24 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The programme included a broad range of crystallographic topics on structure validation, materials for a sustainable future, structural enzymology, thin films, data mining, and neutron & synchrotron sources.

Karim Sutton represented Chem Cryst, and was awarded a Margaret C. Etter Student Lecturer Award for his contribution on the application of macromolecular phasing techniques to small molecule crystallography. Andrew Cairns from Oxford also attended and gave a talk on designing new materials with large negative linear compressibility, for which he was also awarded a Student Lecturer Award. Congratualtions to them both!

Summer Conferences – ACA Annual Meeting 2012, ECM 27 and Aperiodic 2012

Aug 102012

Summer is conference season and the members of Chem. Cryst. have been on the road to the ACA in Boston and the ECM in Bergen. In September, Kirsten will also be attending the 7^th International Conference on Aperiodic Crystals, to be hosted in Cairns, Australia. Contributions include:

David J. Watkin, Richard I. Cooper & Anna Collins
Z’>1 Structures. Just a Nuisance or Something More Interesting? (ACA; Oral presentation)

Karim J. Sutton, Richard I. Cooper, Kirsten E. Christensen, Amber L. Thompson, David R. Allan & Sarah A. Barnett
Exploiting the Tunable Wavelength Capabilities of Synchrotron Radiation for Small Molecule Single Crystal X-ray Crystallography (ACA; Prize winning oral presentation)

Richard I. Cooper
CRYSTALS: Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks (ACA; Oral presentation)

Amber L. Thompson
When Small Molecules Get Large – A Journey into the Unknown (ECM; Oral presentation)

Anthony Linden & Amber L. Thompson
Hot topics and Structures in Molecular Chemistry (ECM; Microsymposium)

Kirsten E. Christensen & Amber L. Thompson
New Challenges in Chemical Crystallography (Aperiodic; Oral presentation)

Along the bryggen in Bergen

In Bergen

Something smells a little fishy

A BIG fishy!

It really *IS* that expensive in Norway!

Albert Einstein or Edvard Greig?

Norwegian Humour

ACA Student Lecturer Award

Aug 022012

Congratulations to Karim Sutton, who has been awarded a Margaret C. Etter Student Lecturer Award at the recent American Crystallographic Association annual meeting in Boston.

He presented his recent research determining oxidation states in mixed-valent materials using tunable synchrotron radiation on Diamond beamline I19.

The awards were established to honour the memory of Professor Etter (1943-1992), who was a major contributor to the field of organic solid-state chemistry.

ACA Meeting 2011

May 202011

David Watkin was presented with his ACA Fankuchen Award at the ACA 2011 meeting. He gave a plenary lecture entitled “X-ray Crystallography. Is the Gold Standard becoming Tarnished?”

ACA Annual Meeting 2010

Jul 292010

The ACA was held at the Sheraton Hotel in Chicago, IL. Contributions from Chem. Cryst. include:

James Haestier, Amber L. Thompson, David J. Watkin, George C. Feast, Jeremy Robertson & Lee Page
Why is P2₁/n a Standard Non-Standard Space Group? (Poster)

Amber L. Thompson & David J. Watkin
Unpublishable” Data: Does My R-factor Look Big in This? (Poster)

Amber L. Thompson
Absolute Structure Determination – Interpreting the Flack Parameter (Presentation)

Fankuchen Award 2010

Jun 152010

Dr David Watkin, an Honorary Member of the BCA, has been awarded the 2010 Fankuchen Award by the American Crystallographic Association. The award recognizes contributions to crystallographic research by one who is known to be an effective teacher of crystallography.

The Award will be presented at the ACA Annual Meeting in New Orleans 2011 at which David will also be delivering a Plenary Lecture.