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Prof Mihail Atanasov University of Fribourg, Switzerland The Ligand Field Paradigm and New Insight into the Electronic Properties of Transition Metal Complexes Based on Modern Electronic Structure Calculations
Prof Ivan Bernal University of Houston, USA Is polymorphism caused by molecular conformational changes?
Prof Joel Bernstein Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel Co-crystals and Serendipity
Prof Jan Boeyens University of Pretoria, South Africa The holistic molecule
Prof Elena Boldyreva Novosibirsk State University & Institute of Solid State Chemistry SB RAS, Russia Polymorphism of crystalline amino acids - a link between chemistry, materials science and biology
Dr Lee Brammer University of Sheffield, UK t.b.a.
Prof Peter Comba University of Heidelberg, Germany Models for isomeric bispidine complexes and their properties. Accurate prediction vs. thorough understanding
Prof Gautam R. Desiraju University of Hyderabad, India Some Challenges in Crystal Engineering
Prof Jan Dillen University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Mock or Marvel? The Metamorphosis of the Dative Bond. Some musings by a computational Minstrel
Prof Howell Edwards University of Bradford, UK Raman Spectroscopy of Biological Modifications of Life in Extreme Environments: From Mars Oasis, Antarctica, to Planet Mars
Prof Martin Egli Vanderbild University, USA Protein-Protein Interactions in the Cyanobacterial KaiABC Circadian Clock
Prof John Helliwell University of Manchester, UK Unravelling the mechanism of the bathochromic shift in the lobster carapace; the protein crystal structures of Crustacyanin in its Carotenoid bound and unbound forms.
Prof John Ogilvie Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica Unravelling the mysteries behind theoretical and experimental models of molecules.
Prof Yuji Ohashi Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Structure Determination of Unstable Species
Prof Emer. Eiji Osawa NanoCarbon Research Institute Limited, Japan Nanodiamond, the King of Nanocarbon Materials
Prof Zorka Papadopolos University of Tübingen, Germany Clusters in icosahedral quasicrystals.
Other speakers invited to contribute:
Prof Alessia Bacchi University of Parma, Italy Structural metrics of solvation-desolvation processes for inorganic diols.
Prof Dr Roland Boese University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Between Cocrystallization and Chemical Reactions. Some do it, others don’t
Prof Savo Bratos Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France X-ray visualization of atomic motions in chemical reactions
Dr Jacqueline Cole St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, UK Single-crystal X-ray diffraction studies of photo-induced molecular species
Dr Howard Flack University of Geneva, Switzerland Using and understanding the Flack parameter.
Dr Madelein Helliwell University of Manchester, UK Unravelling the mechanism of the bathochromic shift in the lobster carapace; new structures of unbound Carotenoids including Astaxanthin and Canthaxanthin.
Prof Dr Bert Hulshof Eindhoven University of Technology / DSM Research Geleen, The Netherlands The 4 M’s in my chemist’s life
Prof Andrzej Katrusiak Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland Tiny structural features and their huge macroscopic effects
Dr Thomas Koetzle Argonne National Laboratory, USA Finding the Needle in the Haystack: Locating Hydrogen Atoms and Uncovering Subtle Structure Details using Neutron Diffraction
Prof Gert Kruger Johannesburg University, South Africa Polymorphism in the Long-chain n-Alkylammonium Halides
Prof Ashwini Nangia University of Hyderabad, India Conformation and Lattice Energy Compensation in Kinetic and Thermodynamic Polymorphs
Prof Luigi Nassimbeni University of Cape Town, South Africa Clathrates with mixed guests - structure and competition
Prof Casper Schutte University of Pretoria / Unisa / National Bioinformatics Network (NBN), South Africa The structures and symmetries of endohedral C60 compounds
Dr Gideon Steyl University of the Free State, South Africa The many faces of tropolone chemistry: Ligands and complexes
Prof Karl Törnroos University of Bergen, Norway Understanding the fickle and elusive collective behaviour in molecular crystals
Prof Daniel Vercauteren Facultés Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix, Belgium Genetic algorithm based protein-protein docking using 3D reduced representations.
Prof Mike Zaworotko University of South Florida, USA The role of co-crystals in supramolecular and solid-state chemistry
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