Heart of Europe Bio-Crystallography Meeting

The Heart of Europe Bio-Crystallography Meeting (short HEC-Meeting) is an annual academic conference on structural biology, in particular protein crystallography. Researchers from universities, other research institutions and industry from Austria, Czech Republic, Germany and Poland meet to present and discuss current topics of their research. The talks are predominantly given by PhD students (doctoral students). An exception is the invited HEC lecture, which is held by a renowned scientist of the research field. The format of the HEC meeting has been adopted from the eleven years older Rhine-Knee Regional Meeting on Structural Biology.

History of the HEC-Meeting

The HEC-Meeting dates back to an initiative in the year 1998 of Manfred Weiss and Rolf Hilgenfeld, who were researchers at the Institute for Molecular Biotechnology (IMB) in Jena and intended to establish a meeting format similar to the Rhine-Knee Regional Meeting on Structural Biology in the New Länder.[1] Both conferences are regional meetings of German scientists together with scientific research groups of the neighbouring countries. Nine groups from Germany (the new states and West-Berlin), Poland and Czech Republic participated in the first HEC-Meeting from 8 to 10 October 1998. Later also groups from Austria and the Old Federal States participated.

Former HEC-Meetings:

Meeting year location organisor participants HEC-lecture Weblink
HEC-1 1998 Walkmühle in the Mühltal, Germany R. Hilgenfeld, M. Weiss, IMB Jena 41 - [2]
HEC-2 1999 Lübben, Germany U. Heinemann, Y. Muller, MDC Berlin 53 V. Lamzin [3]
HEC-3 2000 Poznan, Poland M. Jaskolski, CBB Poznan 53 G. Sheldrick Webpage,[4]
HEC-4 2001 Bedřichov, Czech Republic J. Sedlacek, IMG Prague 48 Z. Otwinowski [5]
HEC-5 2002 Goslar, Germany D. Heinz, GBF Brunswick 68 A. Yonath
HEC-6 2003 Wittenberg, Germany S. König, M. Stubbs, MLU Halle 113 T. Bergfors
HEC-7 2004 Krzyżowa, Poland M. Bochtler, IIMCB Warsaw 101 A. Wlodawer
HEC-8 2005 Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic J. Sedlacek, IMG Prague 101 Z. Dauter [6]
HEC-9 2006 Teistungenburg, Germany R. Ficner, Univ. Göttingen 128 E. Garman Webpage
HEC-10 2007 Będlewo, Poland M. Jaskolski, CBB Poznan 116 G. Dodson Webpage
HEC-11 2008 Greifswald, Germany W. Hinrichs, Univ. Greifswald 102 P. Nissen
HEC-12 2009 Třešť, Czech Republic P. Rezacova, IMG Prag 107 P. Emsley Webpage,[7]
HEC-13 2010 Schöneck/Vogtl., Germany N. Sträter, Univ. Leipzig 107 A. Popov Webpage,[8]
HEC-14 2011 Żagań, Poland M. Jaskolski, CBB/PPTS Poznan 101 Z. Derewenda Webpage
HEC-15 2012 Beilngries, Germany Y. Muller, Univ. Erlangen 93 B. Rupp Webpage
HEC-16 2013 St Georgen im Attergau, Austria K. Djinovic-Carugo, Univ. Vienna 114 P. Tompa Webpage,[9][10]
HEC-17 2014 Akademie Berlin-Schmöckwitz, Germany M. Weiss, U. Müller, HZB Berlin 134 G. Klebe Webpage,[11]
HEC-18 2015 Kutná Hora, Czech Republic J. Dohnálek, IBT Prague 120 R. Read Webpage
HEC-19 2016 Warberg, Germany W. Blankenfeld, A. Scrima, HZI Brunswick I. Schlichting Webpage

References

  1. ↑ Mariusz Jaskolski und Michal M. Sikorski: 15 Years of Heart of Europe bio-Crystallography Meetings – Reminiscences. Poznan 2013, ISBN 978-83-927740-1-3
  2. ↑ DGK-Mitteilungen, vol. 18 (1999), http://dgk-home.de/veroeffentlichungen/mitteilungen/
  3. ↑ IUCr Newsletter vol. 7, no. 3, http://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-7/number-3/deep-in-the-heart-of-europe
  4. ↑ IUCr Newsletter, vol. 8, no. 4, http://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-8/number-4/biocrystallography-meeting
  5. ↑ IUCr Newsletter vol. 10, no. 1, http://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-10/number-1/heart-of-europe
  6. ↑ IUCr Newsletter, vol. 13, no.4, http://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-13/number-4/heart-of-europe
  7. ↑ IUCr Newsletter, vol. 18., no. 3, http://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-18/number-3/12th-heart-of-europe-meeting
  8. ↑ DGK AK1 Newsletter http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~straeter/newsletter/AK1_newsletter_2010_12.html
  9. ↑ DGK Mitteilungen, vol. 44, p. 92, 2014, http://dgk-home.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DGK-44.pdf
  10. ↑ IUCr Newsletter, vol. 22, no. 2, http://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-22/number-2/MR-HEC16.pdf
  11. ↑ IUCr Newsletter vol. 22, no. 4, http://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-22/number-4/hec-17
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