SAXS excites
International SAXS Symposium
Graz, Austria
Background
SAXS excites, the International SAXS Symposium, won’t just give you insights into the diversity of SAXS, but it’ll also give you a chance to reflect on current trends and exchange ideas about the future.
The goal of the symposium is to continuously expand the SAXS family. By doing so, we want to encourage interdisciplinary cooperation and the open exchange of views between renowned scientists, young researchers, and industry leaders.
The first three SAXS excites symposia were held in 2017, 2019, and 2023. Combined, these had over 200 participants from around the globe. With world-renowned keynote speakers, captivating talks, and engaging poster sessions, these events were unforgettable.
Benefits
- Share your thoughts and ideas with internationally recognized key scientists, young researchers, and other attendees from complementary fields.
- Distribute the benefits of SAXS to related methods and applications.
- Establish contacts, broaden your horizon, and discuss the future of this fascinating X-ray structure analysis technique.
The third International SAXS excites symposium was held at the Graz University of Technology from April 4 to April 5, 2023. More than 80 participants from 18 countries discussed the latest science and expanded their network.
Previous SAXS excites Meetings
Please register here to receive access to the digital abstract book
SAXS (Small Angle X-Ray Structure) is one of the leading technologies for the analysis of crystalline-, molecular-, and nanostructures. For a long time, SAXS was regarded as pure basic research only, but nowadays it is an established method in modern analytics and applied research in the industry.
SAXS contributes significantly to the knowledge and understanding of the stability and mode of action of biomolecules, e.g. proteins, enzymes and antibodies, and thus the development of new active ingredients (APIs) and medicaments in solid and liquid formulations. Antibiotic resistance and the increasing number of allergies are only two key points which underline the importance of SAXS as an analytical method.
A further future field for the SAXS method is the control and analysis of nanoparticles during production. Today, nanoparticles are the norm in many everyday products, e.g. in cosmetics, detergents, clothing and solar cells. They give the different products their special characteristics. There are many more future-oriented applications using SAXS as a leading technology.
Previous Speakers
Jill Trewhella
The University of Sydney, Australia
Mitsuhiro Shibayama
Institute for Solid State Physics, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Detlef Smilgies
Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source, Cornell School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, USA
Michal Hammel
Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Georg Pabst
University of Graz, Austria
Tobias Madl
Medical University of Graz, Austria
Dmitri Svergun
EMBL, Germany
Andreas Thünemann
Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Germany
Otto Glatter
Graz University of Technology, Austria
Heinz Amenitsch
Graz University of Technology, Austria
Jan Ilavsky
Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Jan Skov Pedersen
Aarhus University, Denmark
Yongfeng Men
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Michael Krumrey
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany
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Stephan Roth
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden & Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany
Karen Edler
University of Bath, United Kingdom
Denise Erb
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany
Sylvio Haas
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Germany
Cy Jeffries
EMBL Hamburg, Germany
Stefan Salentinig
Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
Organizing committee
The organizing committee of
SAXS excites includes:
Monika Filzwieser, TU Graz (Austria)
Barbara Seibt, TU Graz (Austria)
Marius Kremer, Anton Paar GmbH (Austria)
Heiner Santner, Anton Paar GmbH (Austria)
