Organization changes of CIISB at the Institute of Biotechnology
The CIISB facilities at IBT have been undergoing the following organizational changes.
The congress principal topics are Biological and macromolecular crystallography; Physics and fundamental crystallography; Materials and minerals; Chemical crystallography, crystal structures; Methods and instruments; Theory, computation, modelling, data, standards. All the abstracts from these topics as well as their combination and overlapping topics are warmly welcome .
The congress was postponed from 2020 and it will be held this year, 14-22 August. If the circumstances allow, the event will take place in a hybrid form with a part of the participants present onsite in Prague, Czech Republic and the rest of participants present remotely online. In case this will not be possible, the congress will be purely virtual with the online presentations as a sole option. The programme shall be kept the same in either form of the congress, hybrid and virtual. The online from will allow discussions on sessions and lectures before, during and after the congress. Everything should be available online for all for registered participants up to two months after the congress. The programme consists of a few plenary lectures, 35 keynote lectures, over 100 sessions, poster sessions and exhibition.
We invite all the interested authors to submit their abstracts via the registration system. The deadline for abstracts for oral presentations is April 30, 2021, abstracts for posters can be sent till June.
You can create a free account in the Conftool registration system at www.conftool.com/iucr2020 to see more, for example detailed conference schedule, and by doing this you can help us also with the organization of the congress in this difficult time.
If you have any questions regarding the abstract submission or the congress in general, please contact us at info@iucr2020.org.
Kind regards,
25th IUCr Congress Organisers
The CIISB facilities at IBT have been undergoing the following organizational changes.
To honor the memory of Prof. Vladimír Sklenář, an internationally renowned scientist and an important organizer of scientific activities in the Czech Republic, CEITEC Masaryk University awards the Vladimír Sklenář Scholarship. The scholarship is intended for students of doctoral studies at universities in the Czech and Slovak Republics working with NMR spectroscopy and can be used to cover the costs related to their studies. The intention is to improve the conditions for the awardee’s personal and career development.
The scholarship in the amount of CZK 100,000, which may be taxable according to the practice of the institution and/or the tax regulations of the beneficiary's country, is sponsored by Měřicí technika Morava. The scholarship will be awarded to one person per year.
The application deadline for the 2026 scholarship is February 28, 2026.