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The following schedule is only a guideline and is subject to change.

Sunday – 18 November

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1630	Registration Opens (1630 - 1800)
1800	Welcome Reception Parkside Foyer, SCEC

Monday – 19 November

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8:30	Opening Ceremony
8:45	Greg Warr Amphiphilicity and Structure in Ionic Liquid Systems Co-Chairs: Duncan McGillivray and Jill Trewhella Sponsored by:
9:30	Aaron Eberle A small-angle scattering characterization of unconventional shale-gas reservoirs Co-Chairs: Duncan McGillivray and Jill Trewhella
10:00	Morning Tea
10:30	A1: Complex Fluids 1 Chair: John White	B1: Structural Biology 1 Chair: Naoto Yagi	C1: Time Resolved 1 Chair: Jan Skov Pedersen	D1: Porous Materials Chair: Heinz Amenitsch
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10:30 Keynote Peter Lindner Colloidal quasi-crystals with exceptional diffraction symmetry Dmitri Svergun Advanced SAS Data Interpretation with ATSAS Hideki Seto Formation of a Multiscale Aggregate Structure through Spontaneous Blebbing of an Interface Cedric J. Gommes Three-dimensional reconstruction of liquid phases confined in disordered porous media: an in situ synchrotron SAS analysis 10:50 Gary Bryant Dynamics of concentrated colloidal suspensions via XPCS and DLS. Michal Hammel Integrative approach to define accurate macromolecular conformations and flexibility in solution Wye Khay Fong Light Responsive Liquid Crystalline Nanostructures as On-Demand Drug Delivery Systems Maxim Erko A combined scattering study on confined water using X-rays, neutrons, and light 11:05 Manja Anne Behrens Tuning Inter-Micelle Interactions by Changing External Parameters Emre Brookes Parsimonious Spatial Models from Small Angle Scattering of Biological Macromolecules Christine M. Papadakis Kinetics of collapse and aggregation in thermoresponsive micellar block copolymer solutions - a time-resolved SANS investigation Peter Laggner CO2-sorption and nanostructure of coal - pressure-scanning SAXS 11:20 Victoria Anne Coleman Characterizing nanoparticles in complex matrices Giancarlo Tria Advanced Ensemble Optimization Method for flexible systems Uri Raviv RNA encapsidation by SV40-derived nanoparticles follows a rapid two-state mechanism Gerhard Fritz-Popovski Wood templated inorganic nanoporous materials: formation and water adsorption studied by in situ SAXS experiments 11:35 Tae-Hwan Kim SANS Studies of Self-Assembled Structures of Amphiphilic Molecules Induced by External Conditions Frank Gabel A simple protocol to refine and evaluate bio-macromolecular rigid-body models based on SAS and NMR restraints Ben Boyd Using time resolved SAXS to elucidate rapid solvent-mediated polymorphic transitions in solid state pharmaceuticals Olivier Diat Quantitative small angle scattering on mesoporous silica powders: from morphological features to specific surface estimation 11:50 Pierre Bauduin Design of "green" oxidizing polyphasic microdispersed reaction media. SAXS study on microemulsions Terrence Mulhern Reaching beyond the low hanging fruit: applications of synchrotron SEC-SAXS in structural biology Lionel Porcar Lipids and Cholesterol Transfer in Model Lipid Membranes: Flip-Flop and Exchange Alexandra Chumakova Study the artificial opals and inverted oral-like crystals by SAXSS 12:05 Joao Cabral Surfactant mixtures under microflow fields: mechanistic insight into processing by SAXS Cristiano L. P. Oliveira Modeling polydisperse flexible systems using small-angle x-ray scattering Lutz Willner Chain Exchange in Amphiphilic Block Copolymer Micelles - Effect of Morphology Sabrina Sartori The Role of Small-Angle Scattering on Nano-Confined Hydrides for Hydrogen Storage
12:20	Lunchtime
12:20	Bruker sponsored Lunch Session Parkside 110B
12:40	Lunchtime Session: Publication Guidelines for SAS-derived Biomolecular Structural Interpretation
14:00	Kazuo Sakurai Characterizing Self-assembled Nanopaticles Employed in Drug Delivery Chair: Yoshiyuki Amemiya
14:45	Daniel Franke Automation of solution SAXS experiments and data analysis Chair: Yoshiyuki Amemiya Sponsored by:
15:15	Afternoon Tea
16:00	A2: Polymers 1 Chair: Kevin Jack	B2: Structural Biology 2 Chair: Nigel Kirby	C2: Applications and Technology 1 Chair: Ben Boyd	D2: Metals 1 Chair: Kenneth Littrell
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16:00 Keynote Liliana De Campo Star-Polyphile Liquid Crystals: Experiment and Theory of Bicontinuous Cubic Phases with a Demixed Hydrocarbon/ Fluorocarbon Bilayer Marcus Gallagher-Jones Development of a Digital Ion Trap (DIT) mass spectrometer for gas phase scattering experiments at SACLA John White High internal phase emulsion stability – oil solvency effects Kuhu Sarkar Mesoporous zinc oxide morphologies for applications in hybrid photovoltaics 16:20 Ben Kent Structural uniformity and texture of the gyroid phase in butterfly wing scales Helmut Durchschlag Effects of Radiation on Biomolecules Olivier Diat Driving forces towards formation of surfactant-free micelles and microemulsions: A combined SANS/WNS contrast variation and SAXS/WAXS study Heinz Amenitsch Exploring the self-assembly of mesoporous materials in the gas-phase in situ 16:35 Wei-tsung Chuang New SmCG Phases in a Hydrogen-Bonded Bent-Core Liquid Crystal Featuring a Branched Siloxane Terminal Group Shuji Akiyama Tracking and Visualizing Intramolecular Feedback in Cyanobacterial Clock Protein KaiC C. G. (Kees) De Kruif SANS and SAXS on Casein Micelles Vikram Singh Raghuwanshi Structural analysis of magnetic Fe/Mn nanoparticles embedded in silicate glass using SANSPOL and ASAXS 16:50 Akifumi Matsushita Domain Spacing of Microphase-Separated Structures in Triple Selective Solvents Eleonora Shtykova Solution structure of virus matrix protein M1 revealed by SAXS Ronald Gebhardt Structure of casein micelles in membrane deposits Volker Urban Protein Localization in Silica Nanospheres Derived via Biomimetic Mineralization 17:05 Michael Thomas Nematic Director-Induced Switching of Assemblies of Hexagonally Packed Anisotropic Gold Nanostructures Anna Sokolova The structure of the 750 kDa protein complex, magnesium chelatase, by SAXS and SANS Jorg Stellbrink Neutrons for green polymers: Structural analysis of polymerisation reactions via real-time scattering techniques Zhonghua Wu SAXS study on size and shape changes of gold and platinum nanoparticles 17:20 Oliver Diat A Theta-Shaped Amphiphilic Cobaltabisdicarbollide Anion Mahmudul Hasan SAXS Studies on Human and Yeast Leukotriene A4 Hydrolase: Important for Revealing Comparison of a Bifunctional Catalytic Mechanism. Jitendra Mata Structure of Casein Micelles in Milk Protein Concentrate Powders via Small Angle X-ray Scattering Craig E. Buckley Nano-Confined Metal Hydrides in Mesoporous Scaffolds 17:35 Leslie Foster Polyhydroxylaknoates and their biopegylated hybrids: characterisation using biodeuteration and sans. Renata Naporano Bicev Structural investigation of Proteasome Complex Vasyl Haramus The partioning of emulsifier in O/W emulsions: a comparative study of SANS, ultrafiltration and dialisys Andrey Chumakov Using of SANS and SAXS methods at the study of anodic alumina membranes
17:50	Break
19:00	Nigel Kirby, Jan Skov Pedersen and Jill Trewhella Introduction to Small-Angle Scattering

Tuesday – 20 November

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8:30	Alex Holmes Small Angle Scattering Measurements at High Magnetic fields - on Viruses to Superconductors Chair: Dale Schaefer
9:15	Kathryn Krycka Magnetic Core-Shell Morphology of Structurally Uniform Magnetite Nanoparticles Chair: Dale Schaefer
9:45	Morning Tea
10:30	A3: Networks Chair: Tsang-Lang Lin	B3: Membranes 1 Chair: Paul Butler	C3: Magnetic Materials Chair: Kathryn Krycka	D3: Instruments and Methods 1 Chair: Anna Sokolova
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10:30 Keynote Stuart W Prescott Structures of confined soft-matter: non-uniform dehydration and odd-even effects in polyelectrolyte multilayers Sung-Min Choi Neutron Spin-Echo Investigations of Lipid Membranes Interacting with Proteins Kai Schlage Imaging the structural growth and magnetic birth of self-assembled superferromagnetic iron dots and nanostripes Charles David Dewhurst D33 – Massive dynamic q-range time-of-flight SANS instrument: Description, Commissioning and First Results 10:50 Karen Edler Hierarchical structure formation from NM to microns in CTAB/SDS solutions Gianluca Bello Human antimicrobial peptides induce structural changes on rough lipopolysaccharide aggregates Masayasu Takeda Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Study on Neodymium-Iron-Boron (Nd-Fe-B) Sintered Magnets Robert Cubitt Refractive Analysis of Interfaces with Neutron Beams Optimized for a White Spectrum (RAINBOWS) 11:05 Markus Ruppel Broken Affinity in Near-Critical Block Copolymer Solutions in the Presence of an Electric Field Rafael Leite Rubim Effects of fatty acids in structural parameter of lipid membranes by SAXS investigations. Sabrina Disch Shape dependent magnetization distribution in iron oxide nanoparticles Markus Strobl Multiple potential of TOF spin-echo induced spatial beam modulation (SEMSANS) 11:20 Mitsuhiro Shibayama Comparison of Tetra-PEG Ion gels and Hydrogels Investigated by Small-angle Neutron Scattering Jacqueline Knobloch Cellular membrane interactions of plant annexin Gh1 following oxidative stress Sebastian Muehlbauer Time resolved stroboscopic small angle neutron scattering and TISANE on vortex lattices in superconductors and skyrmion lattices in chiral magnets Aurel Radulescu Upgrading of the KWS-2 High-Flux / Wide Q-Range Small-Angle Neutron Diffractometer with Tunable Resolution at the FRM II 11:35 Andreas Schmid Structural and dynamic behaviour of zwitterionic microgel suspensions Dorthe Posselt Small-angle neutron scattering study of reversible chloroplast membrane reorganizations during photosynthesis Wangchun Chen SANS polarization analysis with a polarized 3He neutron spin analyzer Andrew Jackson Small angle scattering at the European Spallation Source 11:50 Alexander Ozerin Nanoparticles and polymers. Subtle balance of colloid entities Reg Rehal Investigation into the membrane defence mechanisms of Staphylococcus aureus Pawel Kozikowski Quantitative analysis of precipitates formation in Fe-Si-Cu-B melt-spun ribbons by small angle X-ray scattering John M Carpenter Current Status of the Time-of-Flight Ultra-Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (TOF-USANS) Instrument Development at SNS 12:05 Denise Erb Nanopatterning via self-assembly: Highly ordered metal nanostructures grown on diblock-copolymer templates Selma Maric Development of a stealth carrier-system for SANS studies of membrane proteins William Anthony Hamilton Ordering of aqueous ferrofluid emulsions under external magnetic fields Jun-ichi Suzuki Development of the Small and Wide Angle Neutron Scattering Instrument TAIKAN of J-PARC
12:30	POSTER SESSION 1		Lunch
14:00	Michael Gradzielski Applying SANS to the Study of Soft-Matter - Going to More Complexity Chair: Karen Edler
14:45	Adam Perriman Small angle scattering from synthetic biomaterials Chair: Karen Edler
15:15	Afternoon Tea
16:00	A4: Surfaces 1 Chair: Thomas Arnold	B4: Structural Biology 3 Terrence Mulhern	C4: Metals 2 Chair: Ralph Gilles	D4: Theory and Modelliing 1 Chair: Richard Weinkamer
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16:00 Keynote Peter Muller-Buschbaum Determination of the inner morphology of organic solar cells with grazing incidence small angle neutron scattering Matthew Wilce Molecular detection of viral RNA within the cytoplasm by RIG-I. Masato Ohnuma Cluster strengthening of steels ~ Importance of characterization for the heterogeneities with a few nanometer scale ~ Brian Pauw Monte-Carlo: Now in 2D! 16:20 Henrich Frielinghaus Dynamics of microemulsions confined by a planar wall Youli Li SAXS investigation of two-dimensional packing of short-DNA with non-sticky overhangs in cationic liposome-DNA complexes Hiroshi Okuda Developments of Long Period Stacking Order (LPSO) microstructures with in-plane ordering in Mg-Y-Zn ternary alloys examined by SWAXS. Roberto Coppola Optimisation of SANS data analysis for modelling microstructural radiation damage in nuclear steels 16:35 Jianqi Zhang In-situ real-time GISAXS study of diblock copolymer thin films with perpendicular lamellar structure during solvent vapor treatment and drying Chun-Jen Su Nucleosome-like Structure from Dendrimer-induced DNA Compaction Eunjoo Shin SANS Study on the Ultrasonic Fatigued Alloys Sigrid Bernstorff GISAXS analysis of quantum dot lattices 16:50 Yohei Kamata The hydration and ordering of lamellar block copolymer films prior to the formation of polymer vesicles Annette Eva Langkilde Structural characterization of pre-fibrillar intermediates and amyloid fibrils Kirill Napolski Kinetics and Mechanism of Long-Range Orientational Pores Ordering in Anodic Films on Aluminum: Microradian X-ray Diffraction Study Michael Krumrey X-ray scattering and reflection techniques for dimensional nanometrology 17:05 Gemma Elizabeth Newby Interface Morphology of Micellar Aggregates Haydyn David Thomas Mertens Domain flexibility as a new target for therapeutics: the Urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR). Matias Rodriguez Ion Tracks in Amorphous Metals: Tracks Relaxation and Recrystallization of the Matrix Anne Tuukkanen Improved water modeling for calculating solution x-ray scattering intensity of macromolecules 17:20 Guinther Kellermann Formation of thin CoSi2 nanohexagon arrays buried in single crystalline Si substrates. Effects of the orientation of the external surface of the Si host Agata Rekas Structure of dopamine-induced α-synuclein oligomers : A small angle scattering study Thomas Bierschenk Ion-tracks in swift heavy ion irradiated amorphous germanium Gunthard Benecke DPDAK: Directly Programmable Data Analyses Kit for online analysis of 2d scattering data 17:35 Tsang-Lang Lin Small-Angle Neutron and X-ray Scattering Studies on the Adsorption of DNA by Cationic Diblockcopolymer/ Lipid Complexes and Diblockcopolymer Micelles Prof Bente Vestergaard Time resolved analysis of an oligomerisation pathway of a novel insulin analogue facilitated by buffer exchange on the on-line hplc setup at 'swing' Kenneth C Littrell Measuring thermal stability of nano-precipitates in advanced high-strength steel using SANS Helmut Durchschlag Bridging Crystallography, Electron Microscopy, Small-Angle Scattering and Hydrodynamics
17:50	Break
19:00	Maxim Petoukhov, Jan Ilavsky, Paul Butler and Katheryn Krycka Advanced Data Interpretation and Validation Workshop

Wednesday – 21 November

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8:30	Lise Arleth Using Small-Angle Scattering in studies of membrane proteins Chair: Sung-Min Choi
9:15	Cy Jeffries Insight, discovery and new directions: small-angle scattering and cardiac myosin binding protein c Chair: Sung-Min Choi Sponsored by:
9:45	Morning Tea
10:30	A5: Polymers 2 Chair: Mitsuhiro Shibayama	B5: Membranes 2 Chair: Lise Arleth	C5: Time Resolved 2 Chair: Hideki Seto	D5: Theory and Modelling 2 Chair: Andrew J. Allen
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10:30 Keynote Fumitoshi Kaneko Time-Resolved SANS and SAXS Studies on Guest Exchange Processes in Crystalline Complexes of Syndiotactic Polystyrene Nicholas Skar-Gislinge Using Nanodiscs as a platform for low resolution studies of membrane protein Theyencheri Narayanan Probing Soft Matter Self-Assembly using Millisecond Time-Resolved SAXS Adrian R. Rennie What is learnt about SANS Instruments and Data Reduction from Round Robin Measurements? – A Polymer Latex ‘Standard’ 10:50 Jean-Bang Jeng Conformational Ordering, Molecular Dynamics and Hierarchically Structural Evolution during Cold Crystallization of Poly(trimethylene terephthalate) Ilaria Idini Phospholipid bilayer nanodiscs Albrecht Wiedenmann Stroboscpopic SANS Techniques For Dynamical Studies In Sub-Milliseconds Time Range Richard Heenan Data reduction for time of flight SANS 11:05 Konrad Schneider Investigation of structural changes in semi-crystalline polymers during deformation by online-xray scattering Grethe Vestergaard Jensen Phospholipid Bicelles for Protein Solubilization Investigated by SAXS Thomas Zinn “Goldilocks” Polymers – On the Exchange Kinetics of Hydrophobically End-Capped PEO Micelles as seen by TR-SANS Peter Jemian The canSAS format for storage and interchange of reduced multi-dimensional small-angle scattering data 11:20 Toshiji Kanaya Precursor in Shear-induced crystallization of Polymers by Micro-beam SAXS AND WAXS Stephanie Phan Real time SAXS studies for understanding nanostructure in digesting lipid systems Kang Wei Chou Time-Resolved Characterization of the Nanoscale Structure and Morphology of Spin-Cast Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells Andreas Thünemann Standardization of Small-Angle Scattering: Current Status and Future Developments 11:35 Shigeru Okamoto Paracrystalline Analysis of Thermoreversible Order-Order Transition between OBDD and OBDG in PS-b-PI / PI Blends Paul Butler Insights into membrane thickness fluctuations Aldo Craievich In Situ Study of Phase Separation in a 55PbO-45B2O3-(3SnO) Glass James Hester The datamodel: key to developing a SAS data transfer framework 11:50 Koichiro Sadakane Periodic distribution of ions confirmed by contrast variation small-angle neutron scattering in water, 2,6-Lutidine, and NaBPh4 mixture Søren Kynde A hybrid approach to modeling of protein-lipid complexes Mattia Rocco Structural kinetics of biopolymeric filamentous networks studied by stopped-flow with simultaneous Multi-Angle Laser Light Scattering (MALLS) and Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS). Set-up and application to fibrin polymerization. Peter Laggner Quality factor in SAXS instrumentation 12:05 Guiseppe Portale Probing polymer crystallization in processing conditions with synchrotron X-ray radiation Bruno Demé Probing a Gd-labeled lipid bilayer with an evanescent neutron wave Bridget Ingham Watching nickel nanoparticles grow in real time: An in situ synchrotron SAXS study Zohreh Omidi Effects of neutron scattering and evaluate its impact on the correct resolution Neutron radiography using Monte Carlo code calculations (MCNPX)
12:20	Lunchtime
12:20	Xenocs sponsored lunch session – Xenocs workshop Parkside 110B
12:40	Lunchtime Session: Parkside 110A canSAS: Progress & plans for collaboration on a web portal, data, shared software, and standardisation
14:00	Free Afternoon or Visit to OPAL (including Quokka, Bilby, Kookaburra and SAXS instruments) and National Deuteration Facility

Thursday – 22 November

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8:30	Andrew Allen In situ SAXS and SANS measurements to overcome materials technology barriers Chair: Aldo Felix Craievich
9:15	Yuya Shinohara X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy of Filled Rubber Chair: Aldo Felix Craievich
9:45	Morning Tea
10:30	A6: Liquid Crystals 1 Chair: Liliana De Campo	B6: Structural Biology 4 Chair: Matthew Wilce	C6: Contrast Methods 1 Chair: Peter Holden	D6: Instruments and Methods 2 Chair: David Cookson
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10:30 Keynote Ivan Krakovsky SANS study of the response of nanophase separated epoxy hydrogels to temperature changes Wouter Habraken A spatially resolved SAXS and spectroscopy study of amorphous calcium carbonate in crayfish gastroliths Satoshi Koizumi In-situ Observation of Operating Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell (PEFC) by Neutron Small-Angle Scattering - Contrast Variation by Using Deuterium Gas Nigel Kirby Low Instrument Background and Accurate Normalisation for Synchrotron SAXS Analysis of Weakly Scattering Samples 10:50 Yachin Cohen Evidence of a dense water layer on polymers adsorbed onto carbon nanotubes by contrast variation SANS measurements Naoto Yagi Light-induced Structural Changes in Retinal Rod Outer Segments of Frog and Mouse U-Ser Jeng Contrast Variation of Neutron and X-ray Reflectivity for In-depth Distributions of the Conjugate Polymer and Fullerene-derivatives in Bulk Heterojunction Thin Film Solar Cells Adam Round Upgraded ESRF BioSAXS beamline (BM29) for highly automated SAXS on proteins in solution 11:05 Laurent Rubatat Structural studies of ionomer membranes made of fluorous copolymers bearing partially sulfonated polystyrene grafts Nathan Cowieson SAXS provides a direct assay for plasminogen activation. Tamim Darwish Molecular Deuteration for Contrast Variation in Neutron Studies of Multi-Component Nanoscale Systems Clement Blanchet Conventional and microfluifdic setups for high throughput synchrotron solution SAXS at EMBL Hamburg. 11:20 Martine Philipp Cononsolvency of thermoresponsive polymer in binary solvents - a kinetic SANS study Magda Moller A Microfluidic Mixing System For X-ray Solution Scattering: Screening The Structural Space Of Glutaminace C, A Therapeutically Relevant Enzyme In Cancer Research Søren Roi Midtgaard Elucidating the finer structural details of discoidal lipoprotein particles by selective protein deuteration Melissa Graewert An in-line biophysical characterization and purification set-up at the P12 SAXS beamline of the EMBL-Hamburg 11:35 Duy Tap Tran Hierarchical Structure Analysis of Poly(ethylene-co-tetraflouroethylene)-Based Graft-Type Polymer Electrolyte Membranes by Small Angle X-ray Scattering Martha Elisabeth Brennich Salt induced structural changes in intermediate filaments as investigated by SAXS Yohei Noda Proton Spin Contrast Variation Approach : from Basic Polymer to Fuel-Efficient Tire Rubber Thomas Arnold GISAXS measurements on Beamline I07 at Diamond 11:50 Norbert Stribeck Injection-moulded TPU: Effects of melt-temperature on structure evolution under mechanical load and on the mechanical properties Jørn Døvling Kaspersen A small angle x-ray scattering study of outer membrane-spanning protein a solubilized with the surfactant dodecyl maltoside Andre Heinemann Contrast Variation in Small Angle Scattering – A Unifying Approach Nick Terrill From old bones to aerosols – micro focus SAXS at I22 12:05 Tiberio Ezquerra Grazing incidence small angle x-ray scattering of soft and hard nanofabricated gratings Johannes Möller Exploring the intermolecular interactions and the phase behavior of dense protein solution: high pressure SAXS studies Cheng Wang Soft X-ray Scattering of Soft Materials Andreas Kleine Multilayer Optics for Novel Instrumentation in Small Angle X-ray Scattering Applications
12:20	POSTER SESSION 2		Lunch
14:00	John Tainer Biological Small Angle X-Ray Scattering: Genesis, Misconceptions and Major Strengths Going “Forward” Chair: Dmitri Svergun Sponsored by:
14:45	Nozomi Ando Structural interconversions modulate activity of Escherichia coli ribonucleotide reductase Chair: Dmitri Svergun
15:15	Afternoon Tea
15:45	A7: Surfaces 2 Chair: Yachin Cohen	B7: Medicine Chair: Duncan McGillivray	C7: Coherent Scattering and Imaging Chair: Theyencheri Narayanan	D7: Theory and Modelling 3 Chair: Jan Ilavsky
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15:45 Keynote Dale W. Schaefer Formation And Sealing of Anodic Aluminum Oxide (AAO) Films Nick Terrill Investigating the Nano-Structural and Mechanical Behaviour in the Mineralized Matrix of Metabolic Bone Disease Phenotypes using Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction Birgit Fischer Finding orientational correlations in hard sphere glasses beyond the static structure factor Chris Garvey Analysing small-angle-scattering data using the linear correlation function 16:05 Matthias Schwartzkopf From atoms to layers: in situ gold growth kinetics during sputter deposition Richard Weinkamer Relation between mineral particle characteristics and the osteocyte cell network in bone - A scanning SAXS study Norbert Stribeck SAXS computed-tomography of polymer fibre materials Gundol Schenk Normal mode analysis for flexible SAXS refinement 16:20 Sebastian Bommel Real-time and in-situ growth study of the fullerene C60: Time-resolved organic thin film morphology studied by Grazing Incidence Small-Angle X-ray Scattering (GISAXS) Zoltan Varga Structural characterization of unilamellar liposomes by means of small-angle scattering Orsolya Czakkel Effect of Molybdenum on Structure and Dynamics of Resorcinol – Formaldehyde Hydrogels Stephen Thomas Mudie scatterBrain: An advanced software package for small angle scattering data acquisition, reduction, and analysis. 16:35 Stephan Roth Observing the growth of metal-polymer-nanocomposite thin films in-situ and in real time Sergey Filippov Macromolecular HPMA-based nanoparticles with cholesterol for solid tumour targeting: how do they look like from inside. The origin of functionality. Tad Koga Marker grazing-incidence XPCS studies on nanoconfined polymer films - Interplay between the two interfacial effects on local viscosity Robert Rambo A Quantitative interpretation of biopolymer flexibility using the Porod-Debye Law.
16:50	Presentation of the Guinier Prize
17:00	Presentations for SAS2018 Host Site and Voting
	Break
18:30	Conference Party Doltone House

Friday – 23 November

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8:30	Peter Fischer Small-angle Scattering Applications in Food Chair: C.G. (Kees) De Kruif
9:15	Tomotaka Oroguchi Protein dynamics investigated by small angle X-ray solution scattering and molecular dynamics simulations Chair: C.G.(Kees) De Kruif
9:45	Morning Tea
10:30	A8: Complex Fluids 2 Chair: Nick Terrill	B8: Polymers 3 Chair: Robert Knott	C8: Applications and Technology 2 Chair: Bridget Ingham	D8: Instruments and Methods 3 Chair: Edy Giri Rachman Putra
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10:30 Keynote Janne-Mieke Meijer Self-Assembly in Sedimentary Crystals of Magnetic Colloidal Cubes Hideaki Yokoyama Grazing incident small angle x-ray scattering (GISAXS) study of fluctuating block copolymer lamellae in egg carton mode Matthias Girod The impact of digestion on the physicochemical properties of silver nanoparticles and their toxicity for intestinal cells Michael Agamalian The Advanced Multi-Wavelength Bonse-Hart Ultra-Small-Angle Neutron Scattering (USANS) Technique for the Study of Hierarchical Structures 10:50 Ellen Moon Deducing the nanostructure of zirconium colloids formed in sulphate-based mineral processing liquors Taiki Hoshino Study of anomalous diffusion of polystyrene grafted nanoparticles studied by X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy Patrick Kluth SAXS study of ion tracks: morphology and recovery kinetics Michihiro Furusaka Small and Intermediate-Angle Neutron Scattering Instruments at a Compact Accelerator Driven Neutron Source 11:05 Andrei Petukhov Order and disorder in colloidal crystals in direct and reciprocal space Eva M. Herzig Influence of a third component on the morphology of conducting binary polymer blends for photovoltaic applications David Cookson Using SAXS to shed new light on surface wetting Jan Ilavsky Combined USAXS/SAXS instrument with nearly 5 decades scattering vector range 11:20 Stephan Roth Gold Nanoparticle Deposition onto Polymer-coated Substrates Using a Flow-Stream Technique Yuri Melnichenko Partial collapse and reswelling of a polymer in the critical demixing region of good solvents Dietmar Schwahn Scaling of RO-Membranes in Desalination of Wastewater and the Effect of organic Matter on Calcium-Phosphate Mineralization Geert Vanhoyland Liquid metal jet micro-focus X-ray source: Highest brilliance for SAXS home lab instrumentation 11:35 Tae Gyu Shin The Self-Assembly of Surfactants in Ordered Mesoporous Silica Studied by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering Mikihito Takenaka Shear-induced enhancement of density fluctuations in glassy polymers David Bucknall Effect of Phase Morphology on Device Efficiency in Model Poly(thiophene)-Fullerene Organic Photovoltaics Chun-Yu Chen Integration and Standardization of SAXS/WAXS Measurements at the NSRRC BL23A SWAXS Endstation 11:50 Sugam Kumar SANS study of block copolymer induced long range depletion interaction and clustering in silica nanoparticles Tikhon Kurkin Small-angle X-Ray scattering study of detonation nanodiamond particles morphology: from stable suspensions to bulk polymer nanocomposites Kristin Høydalsvik In situ SAXS studies of Co Catalyst Nanoparticles in the Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis Peter Boesecke TRUSAXS, a new time-resolved USAXS station at the ESRF Sztucki, M. Van Vaerenbergh, P. Gorini, J. 12:05 Jan Perlich Pattern formation of colloidal suspensions by dip-coating: An in situ grazing incidence X-ray scattering study Go Matsuba Stereocomplex crystallization process under shear flow of poly(L-lactic acid)/poly(D-lactic acid) blends Heiner Santner Fast SAXS Studies of CdSe Quantum Dots Synthesized By Microwave Irradiation Christine Rehm Ultra-Small-Angle Neutron Scattering in the Southern Hemisphere
12:20	Lunch
13:30	A9: Liquid Crystals 2 Chair: Peter Lindner	B9: Structural Biology 5 Chair: John Tainer	C9: Contrast Methods 2 Chair: Adrian Rennie	D9: Time Resolved 3 Chair: Richard Heenan
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13:30 Keynote Anke Leferink Op Reinink Orientation dynamics of the goethite columnar liquid crystal phase studied at the nanoscale using SAXS Jan Skov Pedersen Enhancement of the secondary structure of a protein by confinement in water-in-oil micro-emulsion studied by SAXS and dynamic light scattering Sylvio Haas Which ASAXS analysis technique can be used? Comparison of the applicability of various analysis methods. Andreas Menzel In-situ characterization of nanoparticle formation by pulsed laser ablation 13:50 Marc Malfois Synthesis and characterization of porphyrin nanorings Stéphane Longeville Influence of macromolecular crowding on protein folding and stability Rainer T. Lechner Characterisation of PbS/CdS Nanocrystal Core-Shell Structures by ASAXS Sebastian Jaksch Kinetics of the collapse transition and aggregation of thermoresponsive poly(2-oxazoline)s in aqueous solution – a time resolved SANS study 14:05 Wim Bras Alignment and phase separation of microtubules in external fields Javier Pérez Detergent Organization Around Aquaporin-0 Revealed Using Small Angle X-ray Scattering Armin Hoell Nanocrystallization of BaF2 and CaF2 from oxy-fluoride glasses studied by ASAXS Charlie Yao Dong Effect of surfactants on the internal structure and solubilization of cubosomes and hexosomes 14:20 Christian W. Pester Time-Resolved SAXS-Studies of Copolymer Reorientation Mechanisms in Electric Fields Soren Skou Nielsen A Microfluidic Device For Sample Dialysis In Conjunction With Biological SAXS P. Klaus Pranzas ASAXS and SANS Investigations of Solid State Hydrogen Storage Materials Kristian Joy Tangso Investigation of spiropyran derivatives as light responsive liquid crystalline components
14:35	Afternoon Tea
15:10	Do Yeung Yoon Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Solid-State NMR Study of Linear Low-Density Polyethylenes Chair: Andrew Jackson
16:25	Ilja Voets A small-angle view on macromolecular self-assembly: from supramolecular interactions to supramolecular structures Chair: Andrew Jackson
16:55	Closing Session including Otto Kratky and ANSTO Awards

Confirmed Plenary Speakers and Topics

• Lise Arleth, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
  Using Small-Angle Scattering in studies of membrane proteins
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  Prof. Lise Arleth obtained her PhD in Biophysics at Risø National Laboratory and The Royal Danish Veterinary and Agricultural University in 2002 under prof. Jan Skov Pedersen. During her early career she has performed research with Prof. Thomas Zemb at CEA Saclay in France and with Prof. Stjepan Marcelja at ANU, Australia. After a Post Doctoral stay with Prof. Rex Hjelm at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2002-2003, she returned to research positions in Denmark. Over the last five years she has established a research group at University of Copenhagen that specializes in Small-angle X-ray and Neutron Scattering of biological macromolecules. Lise Arleth became professor in physics in 2011 in the combined fields of "Scattering and Synthetic Biology". The present central research project of Lise Arleth's group is to develop the so-called nanodisc system into a platform that enables SAXS and SANS based low-resolution structural studies of membrane proteins in solution. This requires a strong joint effort in order to, on one side, control the complex behavior and properties of biological molecules and their self-assembly and on the other hand, develop mathematical modeling software tools to analyze the obtained SAXS and SANS data. Read more?

  Lise Arleth has been strongly involved in the European Spallation Source (ESS) project during the last ten years and has been a member of the ESS Scientific advisory committee during the last five years. In the context of her ESS involvement she participates in an instrument design project that has the aim of developing a SANS instrument for the ESS that is fully optimized for investigation of small and weakly scattering biological samples.

• Alex Holmes , University of Birmingham, United Kingdom
  Small Angle Scattering Measurements at High Magnetic fields - on Viruses to Superconductors
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  Alex Holmes is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Birmingham. He studied Natural Sciences at Cambridge University, and received a PhD from the University of Geneva in 2004. He then moved to Osaka University as a JSPS Fellow, followed by a SUPA Advanced Fellowship at the University of St. Andrews before joining the group of Prof. Ted Forgan in Birmingham in 2009. He started his graduate studies and initial postdoctoral research studying strongly correlated electrons systems and novel mechanisms of superconductivity under extreme pressures. In the last 3 years he has been at the heart of the development of a 17 Tesla cryomagnet for beamline use, which provides the largest field currently available for SANS & SAXS measurements. It has a sample stage capable of being cooled to 1.6 K for hard condensed matter applications (a further reduction in base temperature by a factor 40 is planned in the near future) and also a room temperature, atmospheric pressure bore which allows the exploitation of magnetic effects in nominally non-magnetic soft matter.
• John Tainer, Scripps Research Institute and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, United States
  Biological Small Angle X-Ray Scattering: Genesis, Misconceptions and Major Strengths Going “Forward”
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  Dr. Tainer graduated cum laude in Zoology and Anthropology from Trinity College. NC. the worked Scripps control Research Institute, a Member of the Skaggs Institute of Chemical Biology, and Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. At Berkeley he designed, developed, and runs the combined small angle x-ray scattering (SAXS) SIBYLS (Structurally Integrated BiologY for Life Sciences) to determine accurate structures, conformations and assemblies both in solution and at high resolution (see http://bl1231.als.lbl.gov/). Dr. Tainer has seven patents for his research and publications control, metalloenzymes, DNA damage responses, and microbial complexes. As in focuses relevant reactive 2) dynamic efforts concern the combination of crystallographic and SAXS technologies for informative aims biology with applications to therapeutics and biotechnology.
• Michael Gradzielski, Technical University, Berlin, Germany
  Applying SANS to the Study of Soft-Matter - Going to More Complexity
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  Michael Gradzielski was born in 1962 in Bayreuth (Germany) and studied chemistry at the Universität Bayreuth (Germany) and the University of Wisconsin – Madison (USA). He did his dissertation at the Universität Bayreuth on the topic of microemulsions and micromulsion gels in 1992 in the group of Prof. H. Hoffmann. After a post-doctoral stay at the Ecole Normale Superieure,(Paris) with Prof. D. Langevin, he finished his habilitation for Physical Chemistry at the Universität Bayreuth in 2000. Since 2004 he is full professor for Physical Chemistry at the Technische Universität Berlin in the field “Physikalische Chemie/Molekulare Materialwissenschaften”. In 2010/2011 he stayed 6 months as visiting scientist at the ILL, Grenoble, France. Read more?

  He is a member of various national and international research boards, vice-dean of the faculty II (Mathematics and Natural Science) of the TU Berlin, and received in 2009 the “Raphael-Eduard-Liesegang Preis” of the German Colloid Society for his research contributions in the field of colloids. His research interests are in the field of soft-matter with a particular emphasis on self-aggregating systems – surfactants and amphiphilic copolymers – but also investigating other colloidal systems such as nanoparticles, biomacromolecules, and mesoporous systems. The focus of this research is on a detailed structural characterisation of these systems, mostly by employing scattering techniques such as SLS, DLS, SAXS, and SANS but also combining them with other complementary methods. One particular aspect are time-dependent structural investigations of morphological transitions in colloidal systems as for more complex arrangements the formed structures are often metastable and therefore dependent on the pathway of formation. This detailed structural picture then serves as basis for obtaining thorough insights into the correlation between molecular composition, mesoscopic organisation and the resulting macroscopic properties of the respective systems. The general aim is to go to increasingly complex colloidal systems, to control their functionality and thereby to obtain smart colloidal systems.

• Greg Warr, University of Sydney, Australia
  Amphiphilicity and Structure in Ionic Liquid Systems
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  Greg Warr has been the Head of the School of Chemistry at the University of Sydney since 2007. He completed his PhD in Physical Chemistry at the University of Melbourne in 1986, became a Fellow of the Royal Australian Chemical Institute in 1998, and was chair of its Division of Colloid and Interface Science from 1998-2000. During his career he has held visiting appointments at Princeton University, the University of Bordeaux, the Centre Nationale de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and the US National Institute of Standards and Technology Center for Neutron Research. He has served on the Editorial Advisory Boards of the Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Langmuir, and the Australian Journal of Chemistry. Read more?

  Our research is aimed at understanding the behaviour of amphiphilic compounds in bulk phases (solutions, lyotropic liquid crystals, complex fluids), in colloidal systems (emulsions, foams, dispersions), and at interfaces. We are pursuing a wide range of projects examining the structure and dynamics of bulk phases and dispersions using techniques including neutron and x-ray scattering (SANS and SAXS), optical microscopy, rheology and calorimetry, and interfacial structure by neutron reflectometry, atomic force microscopy, and surface force measurements. By combining these techniques we are discovering new structures formed when surface-active molecules adsorb at the solid/liquid interface or when complex fluids abut an interface, and use this to design new nanostructured materials. Over 130 papers and book chapters have been published on all areas of molecular self-assembly, most recently focussing on amphiphilicity in ionic liquids and novel polymeric amphiphiles.

• Andrew Allen, NIST, United States
  In situ SAXS and SANS measurements to overcome materials technology barriers
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  Andrew Allen is a physicist in the Ceramics Division of the Material Measurement Laboratory at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, Maryland, U.S.A. His main research interests lie in the development and application of advanced neutron and X-ray scattering methods to address measurement barriers in technological materials by means of their microstructure characterization. Dr. Allen received his Bachelor’s degree from Oxford University, U.K., and both his Master’s degree and Doctorate from the University of Birmingham, U.K. From 1980 to 1991, he worked at the U.K. Atomic Energy Authority’s (later AEA Technology) Harwell Laboratory in England. Read more?

  During this time, Dr. Allen was primarily concerned with neutron investigations of materials associated with nuclear energy, including SANS characterization of cement, concrete and porous rock relevant to radioactive waste containment. He was also among the first to work in the (then) nascent field of neutron diffraction residual stress measurement. During a sabbatical from 1988 to 1989 at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, U.S.A., working on SANS and SAXS studies of high- strength steels, Dr. Allen became acquainted with synchrotron-based SAXS and USAXS, and started several collaborations still thriving today. Since 1991 Dr. Allen has been based at NIST, and has applied SANS and SAXS methods to many applied materials, including ceramic thermal barrier coatings, nanocrystalline ceramics, modified cements, solid oxide fuel cells, solution-mediated nanoparticle assemblies, dental composites, high-k dielectric films, and advanced CO2 sorbent materials. Dr. Allen is the author or co-author of some 80 archival journal publications, over 50 conference proceedings and published reports, and has presented 50 invited lectures. Currently, he is Deputy Editor of the Journal of Applied Crystallography.

• Peter Fischer, ETH, Switzerland
  Small-angle Scattering Applications in Food
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  Greg Peter Fischer studied physics in Regensburg (Germany) and received his PhD from University Essen (Germany) in the group of Heinz Rehage. In 1996/1997 he worked as Postdoc with Gerry Fuller in Chemical Engineering at Stanford University and moved in 1998 to ETH Zurich (Switzerland). In 2006/2007 he stayed 4 months at the University of Queensland (Brisbane, Australia) with Justin Cooper-White. Research activities focus on soft matter and food material sciences, in particular on interfacial rheology and morphology, viscoelastic surfactant solution, and biopolymers. He is editor of Applied Rheology and main organizer of the International Symposium of Food Rheology and Structure.
• Kazuo Sakurai, University of Kitakyushu, Japan
  Characterizing Self-assembled Nanopaticles Employed in Drug Delivery
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  Kazuo Sakurai (KS) is a professor at the department of chemistry and biochemistry in University of Kitakyushu. KS has spent 16 years at the central research center of Kanebo Ltd., (synthetic fibers, functional polymers, and pharmaceutical products) and involved in the fundamental research and business development of conductive polymers for batteries, optical polyester resin, and drug delivering system for insulin. He spent three years (1990-1993) in US working for Prof. MacKnight in Univ. Mass, and received PhD from Osaka University in 1996. He worked for Pro. Sinkai in JST Project at Kurume from 1999-2001 and has been a professor of the since 2001. Read more?

  His major research interests are polysaccharides, polysaccharide/polynucleotide complexes, synthesis of lipids for gene delivery, including their biological assays and physical characterization with synchrotron small-angle X-ray scattering. KS has wide-ranging experience within the field of supramolecular chemistry and X-ray scattering. KS published over 100 papers in international peer reviewed journals. He is also the named inventor on 35 international patents. KS was involved in construction of synchrotron beam BL03XU line at SPring-8. KS is a founder of a bio-venture company. He recently obtained several research funds from CREST/JST and National Institute of Biomedical Innovation (NIBIO), which are well-known as the most competitive funds in Japan.

• Do Yeung Yoon, Seoul National University, South Korea
  Small-Angle X-ray Scattering and Solid-State NMR Study of Linear Low-Density Polyethylenes
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  Do Y. Yoon received a Ph.D. degree from the polymer science and engineering dept. of Univ. Massachusetts Amherst (1969-1973), did a postdoctoral study with Paul J. Flory in chemistry dept. of Stanford University (1973-1975), and worked in IBM Research Laboratory in San Jose, California as research staff member and manager of polymer physics group (1975-1999). From 1999 to 2012, he was a professor in chemistry dept. of Seoul National University in South Korea. Currently, he is a consulting professor in chemical engineering dept. of Stanford University. His research areas include molecular conformations, dynamics and morphology of polymers, surface and thin film characteristics, and structure-property relationships of polymers for nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, and fuel cells.

Confirmed Early Career Researchers

• Dr Nozomi Ando, MIT, United States
  Structural interconversions modulate activity of Escherichia coli ribonucleotide reductase
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  Following her physics education at MIT, Dr. Nozomi Ando performed her PhD research on the topic of protein folding thermodynamics in the group of Prof. Sol Gruner (Cornell Physics). Currently, she is conducting her postdoctoral research on metalloenzymes with importance to health and environment in the group of Prof. Catherine Drennan (MIT Chemistry). Dr. Ando has expertise in the molecular biophysics of proteins, both in the context of folding and function. Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is a primary tool in her research. Her recent accomplishments include the deconvolution of rapidly interconverting states in ribonucleotide reductase (a central enzyme in DNA metabolism) using SAXS, in understanding their roles in allosteric regulation. As a recent recipient of the Pathway to Independence Award from the National Institutes of Health, she looks forward to new challenges in the investigation of dynamic enzymes and interacting protein systems.
• Dr Aaron Eberle, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, USA
  A small-angle scattering characterization of unconventional shale-gas reservoirs
  
  Dr. Aaron Eberle is a Senior Research Scientist in ExxonMobil Research and Engineering at Clinton, New Jersey, USA. He completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering at Virginia Tech (USA) in 2008 where he studied in the areas of polymer processing and rheology. Following his doctorate he held a postdoctoral position at the University of Delaware (USA) working under the guidance of Prof. Norman Wagner, and afterward he was awarded a National Research Council fellowship at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (USA) where he worked with Dr. Paul Butler. During his postdoctoral appointments Dr. Eberle studied the fundamentals of gelation, structure at interfaces, and flow-induced structural reorganization in model particulate systems utilizing small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) and neutron reflectivity (NR). This work was completed in connection with the development of state-of-the-art sample environments that combine flow with scattering, and data acquisition modules for time resolved measurements designed in a collaborative effort with Dr. Lionel Porcar at the Institute Laue Langevin (ILL, Grenoble, France). Currently, Dr. Eberle leads the efforts within ExxonMobil to apply scattering to problems of industrial importance that encompasses both hard and soft matter.

• Dr Daniel Franke, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Germany
  Automation of solution SAXS experiments and data analysis
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  Daniel Franke received a degree in Mathematics at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, Germany, in 2002 and in 2006 his PhD in human biology at the Medical University in Luebeck, Germany. Since then, he is working as a post-doc and staff member in the BioSAXS group of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Hamburg, Germany. His research focuses on methods development for Small Angle X-Ray Scattering (SAXS), in particular on the experiment setup and data analysis for biological macromolecules in solution.

  He is an author of several publicly available programs from the ATSAS computer package, including cross platform versions of data analysis and visualization tools, and the rapid ab initio shape determination program DAMMIF (2009). His work on BioSAXS beamline automation not only allows for unattended and autonomous (2012), but also for remote operation of the beamlines. The first remote experiments in biological SAXS were conducted in 2009. In the frame of the WeNMR initiative (http://wenmr.org) he establishes contacts with the NMR methods developers and works to make the computational resources of the grid available to the SAS community.

• Cy Jeffries, ANSTO, Australia
  Insight, discovery and new directions: small-angle scattering and cardiac myosin binding protein c
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  Cy Jeffries is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation and a former research associate of the University of Sydney specialising in the application of small-angle scattering techniques to probe the organisation of biomacromolecules and their complexes in solution. His research background incorporates an array of diverse techniques in the field of structural molecular biology - which includes but is not limited to (i) the design and cloning of genes and strategies for the over expression and isolation of recombinant proteins (ii) the optimisation of sample conditions for both small-angle X-ray (SAXS) and neutron scattering (SANS) (iii) the subsequent computational modelling and analysis of scattering data. His interest in SAXS and SANS is rooted in their deep methodological elegance as well as their efficacy - indeed, their provisioning of complementary structural information that arguably prompts the genesis of novel insights which might otherwise evade the scrutiny of more traditional structural biological techniques.

• Dr Kathryn Krycka, National Institute of Standards and Technology, United States
  Magnetic Core-Shell Morphology of Structurally Uniform Magnetite Nanoparticles
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  Kathryn Krycka received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Massachusetts and a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 2007. During her graduate career she studied the behavior of ultra-thin magnetic thin films using a combination of multi-energy resonant x-ray scattering and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism with advisor Dr. Chi-Chang Kao at the Brookhaven National Laboratory. She then joined the NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) as a National Research Council post-doctoral researcher with advisor Dr. Julie Borchers. There she utilized the newly available, high-polarization 3He spin filters of capable of analyzing a divergently scattered beam to study magnetic patterned media and self-assembled nanoparticles. Since 2009 she has continued on at the NCNR as research staff member with the specialization of neutron spin analysis. Read more?

  In particular, Kathryn has developed polarization analysis capabilities for small-angle neutron scattering that allow the underlying magnetic morphology to be determined with vectorial sensitivity. This has provided new insight into how the “missing” spins are collectively arranged within close-packed nanoparticle systems. Other developments have included the time-dependent polarization-leakage correction software, Pol-Corr, and mathematical algorithms designed specifically to analyze non-isotropic systems. The latter is currently being implemented into the SANSView/SASView data fitting and analysis suite for general usage by the scattering community.

• Dr Tomotaka Oroguchi, Keio University, Japan
  Protein dynamics investigated by small angle X-ray solution scattering and molecular dynamics simulations
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  Dr. Tomotaka Oroguchi received a B.S. degree in Engineering in 2002, and a Ph.D. degree in Science from The University of Tokyo in 2007. In his Ph.D. research, he characterized the structural changes along protein folding in atomic details using kinetic experiments and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations in the group of Prof. Kunihiro Kuwajima. He then joined the group of Prof. Mitsunori Ikeguchi at Yokohama City University as a postdoctoral fellow. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor in the group of Prof. Masahiro Nakasako in the Department of Physics at Keio University. Read more?

  One of his major research interests is the relationship between protein dynamics and functions. To detect protein structures in solution at an atomic resolution, he has developed the novel structural analysis method called MD-SAXS, which combines small-angle X-ray solution scattering (SAXS) experiments and all-atom MD simulations. One of the innovations of this method is that it enables correct evaluation of X-ray scattering from explicit water molecules hydrating proteins. Therefore MD-SAXS offers a link between the low-resolution structural information from SAXS and three-dimensional high-resolution structures, and has revealed the importance of intrinsic dynamics of a DNA-binding protein, EcoO109I, in its function. His recent research activities include structure-function analyses of intrinsically disordered proteins using MD-SAXS, and development of novel structural analysis method by coherent X-ray diffraction microscopy.

• Dr Adam Perriman, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
  Small angle scattering from synthetic biomaterials
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  Adam Perriman‘s research career began in 2002 at the Australian National University where he won an AINSE Postgraduate Research Award to study under the tutorage of Professor John White before taking up a Postdoctoral research position with Prof. Steve Mann in 2007 at the Centre of Organized Matter Chemistry, University of Bristol. In 2010 he was awarded an Engineering and Physical Research Council (EPSRC) Postdoctoral Fellowship supported by the Cross-Disciplinary Interfaces program, and his recent research efforts have been focused on the unprecedented development of novel solvent-free protein liquids. His work has been featured nationally in Nature, Nature Materials, RSC’s Chemistry World and The Chemical Engineer, and internationally in the ACS’s Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN), Medical News, The Engineer, and In Pharma. In 2010 he was interviewed on BBC 4’s Material World, which was broadcast live nationally. Read more?

  SAS has featured as the primary technique in Perriman’s research, and he has successfully applied SANS to help elucidate the structure of the synthetic virus-like particles (SVLPs) {collaboration involving Prof. J. Robinson (Uni. Zurich), Dr. A. Jackson (NIST) and Dr. I. Grillo (ILL) (ChemBioChem, 2011)}, and developed a synthetic strategy to produce novel hybrid constructs incorporating ultra-thin layers of amorphous calcium phosphate (Small, 2010). Other ongoing SAS-based research includes the use of Synchrotron Radiation SAXS to study the electric field-driven re-orientation of gold nanorods dispersed in thermotropic liquid crystals; and the assembly of artificial light harvesting complexes using pressure-induced dissociation and re-association of bacterial ferritins. Perriman’s recent research efforts have also been focused on understanding the structures and interactions in solvent-free liquid proteins. Specifically, he has used contrast variation SANS at the Institut Laue-Langevin and ISIS to probe the structures of liquid myoglobin and green fluorescent protein (GFP) and their aqueous precursors at nanometer resolution.

• Dr Yuya Shinohara, The University of Tokyo, Japan
  X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy of Filled Rubber
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  Yuya Shinohara received his PhD from The University of Tokyo (2011) and has been an assistant professor in the group of Professor Yoshiyuki Amemiya since 2007. His research activities focus on SAXS and its application to soft matters. He has worked on the development of SAXS techniques, including time-resolved two-dimensional USAXS, microbeam SAXS, anomalous SAXS at low energy, X-ray near-field scattering, and X-ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (XPCS). He has developed XPCS at SPring-8 and applied it to industrial materials such as rubber filled with nanoparticles. His major research interests are relationship between macroscopic properties of soft matters and their spatially/temporally hierarchical structures.
• Dr Ilia Voets, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
  A small-angle view on macromolecular self-assembly: from supramolecular interactions to supramolecular structures
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  Dr. Ilja Voets graduated cum laude in Molecular Sciences in 2004 from Wageningen University (the Netherlands). She obtained her PhD degree in the Physical Chemistry and Colloid Science group of Prof. Martien Cohen Stuart cum laude from the same university in 2008. She spent two years as a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Aldolphe Merkle Institute at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) in the group of Prof. Peter Schurtenberger. Currently, she is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry and the Institute for Complex Molecular Systems at Eindhoven University of Technology, TU/e (the Netherlands). Her research focuses on self-assembly processes in biological and soft matter to gain fundamental insights and support the development of rational design strategies for novel functional soft materials. Research activities include electrostatically driven self-assembly of copolymers and proteins, self-assembly of chiral supramolecular polymers and colloids, conformational transitions of graft copolymers and polymer-peptide conjugates, and structure-property relationships of anti-freeze proteins.

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