Crystallography Education

Crystallography School Information: 

The sub-committee tracks US and Canadian crystallography school information. In the past two years, several schools have not occurred or have been virtual due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

• ACA Summer School, June 12-18, 2022, Purdue
  • Info/Application link: https://acasummercourse.net/2022-application/
• CCP4/APS School in Macromolecular Crystallography: From data collection to structure refinement and beyond, virtual June 13-24 (weekdays only), 2022
  • Info/Application link: https://www.ccp4.ac.uk/schools/APS-2022/
• 24^rd National School on Neutron and X-ray Scattering, APS/ORNL, July 10-22, 2022.
  • Info/Application link: https://neutrons.ornl.gov/nxs
• 5^th US School on Total Scattering Analysis, September 12-15, 2022
  • Info/Application link: https://conference.sns.gov/event/346

Crystallography Meetings Offering Workshops: 

• American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting, July 29th-August 3, 2022
  • Info/Application link:
  • 8 workshops associated with this meeting:
    • Applications of Small Angle Scattering to Structural Biology: An Introduction
    • Crystallographic and cryo-EM Structure Solution with Phenix
    • Cryo-Electron Tomography: State of the Art Methods
    • Hands-on Single-Particle Cryo-EM Data Analysis with Cryo EDU
    • CryoEM Sample Preparation Training using Center Merit Badges
    • Advanced Software Tools for Single Crystal Diffraction
    • Visualizing Structure
    • Microcrystal Electron Diffraction (MicroED)
• 79^th Pittsburg Diffraction Conference, October 2-4, 2022
  • Info/Application link: https://cvent.me/bnd2a5
  • Satellite event: school on basic and advanced data analysis methods of powder X-ray diffraction (XRD) and total scattering for pair distribution function (PDF) analysis of inorganic materials, https://www.aps.anl.gov/Structural-Science/SRS-Courses

In addition, the CCDC is also trying to keep track of crystallography conferences/events, including international ones like ECM, and related meetings such as the ACS national meetings that may have educational/workshop components:

https://www.ccdc.cam.ac.uk/News/Events/

For information on CryoEM related schools, a well-kept list was curated by EMDataResource:

https://www.emdataresource.org/

Crystallography Education Policies for the Physical and Life Sciences (ACA and USNC/Cr)