Dear Colleague,and friends,
We are pleased to announce the 9th International Doctoral School on Biological Crystallization (ISBC2026), to be held in Granada (Spain) during October 4th to 9th, 2026 (http://www.isbcgranada.org/).
This year’s School will provide five days of lectures and hands-on demonstrations focused on the crystallization of biologics, including peptides, with a strong emphasis on pharmaceutical and industrial applications. Particular attention will be given to protein crystallization as a downstream purification process, positioning it as an alternative to chromatographic techniques, with discussion of scalability and the role of crystallization in enabling efficient and sustainable biomanufacturing.
Grants are available!!!!
Looking forward to seeing you in Granada.
Best regards,
ISBC 2026 Organizing Committee
INVITED SPEAKERS
· Bernhard Rupp, k. k. Hofkristallamt, US.
· Daniela Tesekova, UCTM, Bulgaria.
· Martin Caffrey, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
· Pavlína Řezáčová, University of Prague, Czech Republic.
· Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, DIPC, Spain.
· Ricardo Pereira, U. Minho, Portugal.
· Dominique Maes, VUB, Belgium.
· Jeroen Mester, University of Lüebeck, Germany.
· Simon Kuhn, KUL, Belgium.
· Jerry Heng, ICL, UK
· Filipa Castro, U. Minho, Portugal.
· José A. Gavira, IACT-CSIC, Spain.
· Nadine Candoni, CINaM-CNRS, Marseille, France.
· Sergio Martínez, UGR, Spain.
· Clara Anduix, JANSSEN, Belgium.
· Wim De Malsche, VUB, Belgium.
· Patrick Stuard, Douglas Instruments, UK.
· Botond Szilágyi, BME, Hungary.
· Eva Pusztai, BME, Hungary.
· Fermin Otálora, IACT, IACT-CSIC, Spain.
· Simon Tanley, MD, UK.
· Jose Manuel Martin-Garcia, IQBC-CSIC, Spain.
· Cláudia Galinha, NOVA, Portugal.
· Alexey Rak, SANOFY, France.
· Christos Xiouras, JANSSEN, Belgium
· Tiziano Sanvito, EOS, Italy.
· Lars Redecke, University of Lüebeck, Germany.
· Bart Rimez, Secoya, Belgium.
· Isaac Rodríguez, CNRS, Toulouse, France.
· Romain Grossier, CINaM-CNRS, Marseille, France
· Arianna Rech, BioOrbit, Portugal.
· Vaighav Bhatia, Lamark, France.
TOPICS
· Nucleation: Classical and non-classical approaches.
· Crystal growth kinetics and mechanisms.
· Impurities in protein crystallization: definition and influence.
· Screening: The search for crystallization conditions
· Crystallization techniques: Batch, Vapour and Counter Diffusion, MMS, How do they work?
· Crystallization and diffusion transport: gels, microfluidics and microgravity.
· Crystallization at large scale for pharma and industrial application.
· In vivo crystallization.
· Serial Crystallography.
· Polymorphism in protein crystals.
· Membrane protein crystallization: Lipid cubic phase, bicelles and detergents.
· AI & ML in protein crystallization prediction.
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