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IUCr2026 @iucr2026.bsky.social · 6d

We’re thrilled to announce that abstract submissions for IUCr 2026 are officially OPEN 🎉

🗓 Deadline: February 15, 2026
📍 Location: Calgary, Canada

🔗 Submit your abstract today: www.iucr2026.org/

#IUCr2026 #CallForAbstracts #Crystallography #StructuralScience #science #IUCr

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IUCr2026 @iucr2026.bsky.social · 21d

🧪 The countdown to IUCr2026 is officially on. The Call for Abstracts opens October 1, 2025, & this is your opportunity to share your discoveries on the global crystallography stage.

Stay informed and get the details first at 👉 iucr2026.org
Let science, structure, and scenery collide.

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Gerald F. Audette @gfaudette.bsky.social · 29d

I'm looking forward to taking Calgary Cal with me to the upcoming #LACA-ABCr2025 meeting in Fortaleza, Brazil. Looking forward to meeting with colleagues and promoting @iucr2026.bsky.social and @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

#WhereIsCal #IUCr2026 #CrystalClearTravels

IUCr2026 @iucr2026.bsky.social · Sep 1

Where in the world is Calgary Cal? 🌍🐴

Take him with you — from lab bench to mountain peak!

🚨 First 20 people to DM or comment get a Calgary Cal sent their way.
Let’s see how far science can travel. ✈️

#WhereIsCal #IUCr2026 #CrystalClearTravels

Gerald F. Audette @gfaudette.bsky.social · Jul 23

A very big thank you to the @acastructuralsci.bsky.social team for making the #ACA2025 meeting such a success! Looking forward to seeing everyone at @iucr2026.bsky.social in Calgary, AB, next year!

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IUCr2026 @iucr2026.bsky.social · Jul 22

Experience world class structural science at the gateway to the Canadian Rockies at 2025 Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography #IUCr2026
www.travelalberta.co...

Calgary | Canada's Alberta

Learn about the amazing things to do and placed to go in Calgary, Alberta. Contemporary Canadian culture meets the Wild West in Alberta's largest city - only a short drive from the Canadian Rockies.

www.travelalberta.com

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Gerald F. Audette @gfaudette.bsky.social · Jul 22

Our #ACA2025 Tuesday sessions include our biannual Fiber Diffraction session. I really enjoy this session! Leading off is Joseph Orgel talking on fiber diffraction of collagen and paleontologic studies. @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

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Gerald F. Audette @gfaudette.bsky.social · Jul 21

Our 2025 Fankuchen Mermorial Award lecture by Prof. Chris Malliakas #ACA2025 @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

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RCSB Protein Data Bank @rcsbpdb.bsky.social · Jul 20

Not at #aca2025? Sign up for updates using the "expression of interest" form at www.iucr2026.org

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Gerald F. Audette @gfaudette.bsky.social · Jul 20

Our #ACA2025 Bau Neutron Diffraction Award Winner, Dr Craig Brown, and his talk "Adsorption and separations of small molecules in porous media". @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

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Gerald F. Audette @gfaudette.bsky.social · Jul 20

And now @biophyskrys.bsky.social giving a hot strucutres talk on BoPDA, a polysaccharide deacetylase. Another great study and talk! #ACA2025 @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

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Gerald F. Audette @gfaudette.bsky.social · Jul 20

Another Etter Student talk at #ACA2025 ... This time in our Hot Strucutres Session (2.1.2) @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

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IUCr2026 @iucr2026.bsky.social · Jul 19

Cal the Calgary Stampede horse is having a blast visiting the exhibitors at #ACA2025! Come visit the #IUCr2026 booth at #ACA2025 to find Cal and gear up for Calgary!

Cal the stampede horse inside a 3D printed model of the VIPP1 thylakoid membrane structural protein assembly

Cal the stampede horse next to a liquid handling robot and cocktail mixer

Cal the stampede horse next to some unipucks

Cal the stampede horse at the IUCr2026 booth along with some other great IUCr2026 merch

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Gerald F. Audette @gfaudette.bsky.social · Jul 20

Starting Sunday with the session on combining predictive models with experimental data for structure determination (2.1.6) #ACA2025 @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

Gerald F. Audette @gfaudette.bsky.social · Jul 20

Our #ACA2025 YSIG Mixer was a great success! Apparently the YSIG has an informal games night tonight after the poster session. I may have to check it out 🤔😀 @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

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Gerald F. Audette @gfaudette.bsky.social · Jul 19

Transactions part 2 ... An update on the PDB-IHM and structures from integrative methods #ACA2025 @acastructuralsci.bsky.social @rcsbpdb.bsky.social

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Gerald F. Audette @gfaudette.bsky.social · Jul 19

Starting our #AC2025 Transactions session is Simon Billinge from Columbia discussing AI/ML methods in PDF Analysis, signal analysis etc. @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

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sarahejbowman @xtalmaker.bsky.social · Jul 19

Professor Stephen Burley @rcsbpdb.bsky.social gave an amazing Keynote at the opening of the @acastructuralsci.bsky.social 75th Annual Meeting this evening! @gfaudette.bsky.social
#structure #research #impact #science #ACA2025

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Gerald F. Audette @gfaudette.bsky.social · Jul 19

And away we go! #ACA2025 is a go! A great Keynote from Stephen Burley form the @rcsbpdb.bsky.social to kick off our opening ceremonies. Then our reception ... Great to see everyone! @acastructuralsci.bsky.social Tomorrow ... Sessions begin!

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Gerald F. Audette @gfaudette.bsky.social · Jul 17

On my way to #ACA2025! Looking forward to seeing everyone in Lombard and a great scientific progam!

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Gerald F. Audette @gfaudette.bsky.social · Jan 14

I'm looking forward to Nick's talk as the CNCC's 6th instalment of the Penelope Codding Lecture Series on Jan. 30th. @acastructuralsci.bsky.social xtallography.ca/index.php/co...

Lecture 6 – N. Bragagnolo – Canadian National Committee for Crystallography

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Structural Biology @actacrystd.iucr.org · Dec 10

Our final issue of 2024 is out: tinyurl.com/4efts8bb

The cover shows the refinement of the coordination of a magesium cation in a cryoEM structure of chlorophyll using metal-coordination restraints extracted from the Crystallography Open Database tinyurl.com/3w8zrdmf

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Gerald F. Audette @gfaudette.bsky.social · Dec 9

A very productive day at the @aip.bsky.social for their Society Leadership Workshop with Kristin and Danielle (our incoming VP) @acastructuralsci.bsky.social

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Gerald F. Audette @gfaudette.bsky.social · Dec 5

Happy to have my first Bluesky post be to report that some excellent work by Nick Bragagnolo in my group has been published in @actacrystd.bsky.social @acastructuralsci.bsky.social doi.org/10.1107/S205...

The 1.3 Å resolution structure of the truncated group Ia type IV pilin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain P1

The structure of a type IV pilin from a human-pathogenic strain of P. aeruginosa was solved to 1.3 Å resolution using molecular replacement with an AlphaFold-generated search model. It is the first st...

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ACA: The Structural Science Society @acastructuralsci.bsky.social · Dec 3

🌟 Meet the next American Crystallographic Association Early Career Scientist Spotlight: Naba Krishna Das! A grad student, he researches RNA structural biology. Formerly a chemistry teacher with a passion for research, collaboration, and connecting with others. www.amercrystalassn.org/ys-spotlight...

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Kushol Gupta @guptapenn.bsky.social · Dec 5

(not to get all proud PI and everything, but...)

One of our very talented lab undergraduates Nancy An will be presenting during the ACA YSIG Zoom Event on Dec 13th at 12PM ET - come hear her talk about a very neat poxvirus protein!

www.linkedin.com/posts/americ...

American Crystallographic Association on LinkedIn: #crystallography #structuralscience

Join us Friday, Dec13th at noon ET for the next YSIG Popup Series, featuring two ACA2024 poster prize winners! 🎉 Read more about the event and register now!…

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