Workshop on Sample Delivery for Serial Crystallography

8 Sept 2025, 13:00 → 9 Sept 2025, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

Seminarroom I/II (CFEL)

Join us for an exciting international workshop bringing together leading experts from renowned institutions to share the latest trends, developments, and applications in sample delivery for serial crystallography.

The program will feature insightful talks, interactive discussions, and opportunities to connect with researchers at the forefront of this rapidly evolving field.

 

*Online participation is enabled, alongside in-person attendance in Hamburg.

*For speakers and participants who are attending the workshop online, please use the Zoom link: https://kth-se.zoom.us/s/61046501894

Monday 8 September

13:45 → 14:15 Welcome Speech

14:15 → 15:45 Plenary Talk: Session 1

14:15 Applications of droplet-on-demand in serial-crystallography

Speaker: Pierre Aller (Diamond Light Source)

15:00 Synchronized droplet nozzle for in-vacuum X-ray scattering experiments (Online)

Speaker: Adil Ansari (Arizona State University)

15:45 → 16:15 COFFEE

16:15 → 18:00 Plenary Talk: Session 2

16:15 Sample Delivery at European XFEL

Speaker: Joana Valerio (EuXFEL)

17:00 Acoustofluidic sample delivery for serial crystallography in synchrotrons

Speaker: Varun Kumar Rajendran (FS DOOR-User (FS DOOR-User))

17:30 Acoustofluidic media switching for serial crystallography in synchrotrons

Speaker: Patricia Almudena Lopez Ramirez (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

Tuesday 9 September

09:00 → 10:15 Plenary Talk - Day 2: Session 1

09:00 Experimentally validated computational modelling of microfluidic sample delivery systems (Online)

Speaker: Božidar Šarler, Krištof Kovačič, Rizwan Zahoor, Bor Zupan (University of Ljubljana)

09:45 Acoustofluidic flow cell for sample delivery at synchrotrons

Speaker: Anusha Keloth (CFEL)

10:15 → 10:45 Coffee Break

10:45 → 12:15 Plenary Talk - Day 2: Session 2

10:45 Methods development for serial protein crystallography from physics perspective

Speaker: Michal Wawrzyniec Kepa (Paul Scherrer Institut)

11:30 Bottom Up Approach to Precision for Sample Delivery at Synchrotrons and X-Ray Free Electron Lasers (Online)

Speaker: Peter Docker (Diamond Light Source)

12:00 → 13:15 LUNCH

13:15 → 15:00 Plenary Talk - Day 2: Session 3

13:15 Sample delivery methods and opportunities at MicroMAX.

Speaker: Monika Bjelcic (MAX IV)

13:45 Current and future serial crystallography capabilities at MicroMAX

Speaker: Dean Lang (MAX IV)

14:15 Insights to SSX at DESY beamline P11

Speaker: Johanna Hakanpää (DESY)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee Break & Group Photo

15:30 → 17:15 Plenary Talk - Day 2: Session 4

15:30 Selective laser etching of quartz glass microsystems for sample delivery systems

Speaker: Sven Bohne (TUHH)

16:00 Serial crystallography data processing at MicroMAX (Online)

Speaker: Cecilia Casadei (MAX IV)

16:30 Two high-impact applications for acoustic manipulation of protein crystals (Online)

Speaker: Thomas Lane (CFEL)

17:15 → 17:45 Discussion

17:45 → 18:00 Summarizing Discussion - End of Workshop