Event series

Howard Flack Crystallographic Lectures Series

Below you will find the most recent events of this lecture series.

Image: Michael Wörle

After having had to postpone the Flack Lectures of 2020 the SGK/SSCr has decided to dedicate the 2021 edition of this lecture series to timely topics evolving around macromolecular crystallography and structural biology. Lectures will take place as online events, please consult this page for updates on the program.

7.-11.11.2022
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The Howard Flack Crystallographic Lecture Series 2022: electron crystallography

Howard Flack speaker 2022: Lukáš Palatinus

Image: SSCr

This year’s Howard Flack Lecture Series will focus on electron crystallography, with Dr. Lukáš Palatinus. The event takes place in November and includes a series of Swiss universities and research

15.11.2021
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Howard Flack Crystallographic Lectures Series 2021/6

Prof. Amedeo Caflisch from the University of Zurich presents "Fragment-based drug design" as invited speaker of the Swiss Society of Crystallography.

11.10.2021
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Howard Flack Crystallographic Lectures Series 2021/5

Prof. Jan Pieter Abrahams from the University of Basel and the Paul Scherrer Institut presents "Catalytic cycling of human mitochondrial Lon protease homolog" as invited speaker of the Swiss Society

13.9.2021
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Howard Flack Crystallographic Lectures Series 2021/4

Prof. Michael Hothorn from the University of Geneva presents "Plant signal transduction cascades – from atoms to phenotypes and back"

18.5.2021
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Howard Flack Crystallographic Lectures Series 2021/3

Image: IBMM, Uni Bern

Prof. Dimitrios Fotiadis – at the Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine (IBMM), University of Bern, Switzerland – presents per video "Role of water molecules and networks in ligand binding

12.4.2021
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Howard Flack Crystallographic Lectures Series 2021/2

Prof. Stefan Salentinig (University of Fribourg)

Image: Uni FR

Prof. Stefan Salentinig – Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Fribourg, & Head of the Biocolloids Lab – presents per video "Bioinspired materials for functional foods".