52nd Meeting of the Italian Crystallographic Association
8-11 September 2026, Bari
Scientific program: Thursday 10 September
The 52nd AIC meeting offers a rich scientific program, including five plenary lectures, ten microsimposia, and a poster session.
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| 9:00 – 9:45 | Plenary Lecture 3 – Chair: Cinzia Giannini Aula Magna Simona Galli University of Insubria, Como, Italy Functional coordination polymers: opportunities and challenges of powder diffraction | |
| 9:45 – 10:00 | Sponsor talk Aula Magna Alessandro Torboli- G.N.R. srl, Agrate Conturbia (NO), Italy. GNR Analytical Instruments Group – Worldwide Solutions for Advanced Materials Analysis | |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee break | |
| 10:30 – 12:20 | MS5 – New frontiers in X-ray sources for materials science Room A Chairs: Cinzia Giannini, Vincent Olieric | MS6 – Crystal growth, from fundamentals to applications Room D Chairs: Rosalba Fittipaldi, Linda Pastero |
| 10:30 – 10:55 | Nicola Casati (Invited) Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland Evolving Diffr-Action for Materials Science at the Swiss Light Source | Gianfranco Ulian (Invited) University of Bologna, Italy Experimental and theoretical analysis of Biomineral-Biomolecules surface interactions |
| 10:55 – 11:20 | Vincenzo Formoso (Invited) University of Calabria, Rende, Italy STAR — A Compact Inverse Compton Scattering X-ray Source for Multiscale Materials Characterisation: Design, Commissioning, and Perspectives | Liberato Manna (Invited) Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals Heterostructures |
| 11:20 – 11:35 | Cecilia Pozzi University of Siena, Italy Serial crystallography studies on the ferroxidase and biomineralization mechanisms of human H ferritin | Silvia Marino University of Bologna, Italy Manganese substitution in monetite: influence of the synthesis route on phase evolution and crystal structure |
| 11:35 – 11:50 | Teresa Sibillano CNR-IC, Bari, Italy From scattering to structural maps: advanced SAXS/WAXS characterization of fibrous materials | Onofrio Tau University of Salento, Lecce, Italy From Benzene to Triphenylene: Atomistic Mechanisms of Early Graphene Nucleation on Cu(111) During Low-Temperature CVD |
| 11:50 – 12:05 | Jeta Lica University of Bari, Italy Micro-CT study of biomass-induced porosity in clay bricks | Alessia Bacchi University of Parma, Italy Co-crystals formation from low melting eutectic mixtures |
| 12:05 – 12:20 | Fabiana Crucitti University of Bologna, Italy Structural and morphological characterization of bio-inspired superhydrophobic coatings for sustainable agricultural applications | Rabbia Tahir University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Growth of strain-free InGaAs/InAlAs QDs via LDE as C-band single photon emitter |
| 12:20 – 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 – 14:45 | Plenary Lecture 4 – Chair: Anna Moliterni Aula Magna Fabia Gozzo Excelsus Structural Solutions (Swiss) AG, Villigen, Switzerland Synchrotron XRPD for Pharmaceutical Solids: From Trace Phase Detection to Quantitative Characterization | |
| 14:45 – 16:35 | MS7 – The role of applied mineralogy in bridging resources, materials, environment and health Room A Chairs: Alessandro Gualtieri, Nicoletta Marinoni | MS8 – Protein structures for modeling, function and drug design Room D Chairs: Filomena Sica, Paola Storici |
| 14:45 – 15:10 | Ángeles G. de la Torre (Invited) University of Malaga, Spain Unlocking the potential of 2:1 clays as supplementary cementitious materials | Enrico Di Cera (Invited) Saint Louis University, USA Cryo-EM of coagulation factor V |
| 15:10 – 15:35 | Alessandro Pacella (Invited) Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Understanding Carcinogenic Mineral Fibers through a Mineralogical-Crystallographic Lens
| Laura Cendron (Invited) University of Padua, Italy Structure-guided inhibition of the bacterial SOS response as an anti-virulence strategy |
| 15:35 – 15:50 | Tommaso Magni University of Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy Structural characterization of the aluminosilicate network in alkali-activated binders from thermally treated mineral wool with ssNMR | Matteo Ardini University of L’Aquila, Italy Ring-Interface Plasticity and Client Recognition in a Stress-Activated Peroxiredoxin Revealed by Cryo-EM |
| 15:50 – 16:05 | Carlotta Giacobbe Thermo Fisher Scientific, Cheseaux-sur-Lausanne, Switzerland Resolving symmetry in complex clinker systems: the crystallographer’s role in cement plant decision-making | M. Giovanna E. Papadopoulos CNR-IC, Bari, Italy Comparative Molecular Dynamics Study of MPS I-Associated Mutations in α-L-Iduronidase |
| 16:05 – 16:20 | Riccardo Bono University of Milan, Italy Nano ferrites via sol-gel synthesis for Pb and Ni adsorption: analysis on ion-structure relationships | Ilaria Silvestri CNR-IC, Caserta, Italy Structural basis of selectivity in small molecules targeting carbohydrate binding site in galectins |
| 16:20 – 16:35 | Enrico Mugnaioli University of Pisa, Italy Using three-dimensional electron diffraction and TEM to address environmental issues | Flavia Squeglia CNR-IBB, Naples, Italy Structure-function insights into phage-derived depolymerases targeting multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae: potential antibiotic adjuvants |
| 16:35 – 17:05 | Flash Presentations 3 (3 min for each presenter) Room A | Flash Presentations 4 (3 min for each presenter) Room D |
Marco Milanesio Linda Pastero Emanuele Priola Alice Colli Riccardo Fantini Alessandro F. Gualtieri Aurora Loredana Macchiarella. Daniele Malferrari Serena Chiara Tarantino Rita Berisio | Martina D’Auria Giuseppe Gabellini Vittoria Nanna Valeria Napolitano Filomena Sica Paola Storici Mara Colombo Lucia Garzia Annalisa Guerri Chiara Massera Linda Pastero | |
| 17:00 – 17:35 | Coffee Break | |
| 17:00 – 19:00 | Poster session | |