This International School will focus on the fundamentals of crystallization from solution and its applications to the field of the crystallization of biologics.
ISBC2026 will offer five days of lectures and hands-on demonstrations focused on the crystallization of biologics, including peptides, with a strong emphasis on pharmaceutical and industrial applications. Particular attention will be given to protein crystallization as a downstream purification process, positioning it as an alternative to chromatographic techniques, with discussion of scalability and the role of crystallization in enabling efficient and sustainable biomanufacturing.
The School is intended for postgraduate and postdoctoral students as well as for research scientists from industrial and academic backgrounds that deal everyday with crystallization but seek fundamental knowledge on the behavior of crystallizing solutions.
We invite students from all over the world to join us to learn from selected international experts, to hear case study presentations, to watch practical hand-on demonstrations, to participate in round-table discussions and to present their research results in the dedicated poster sessions. The language of the School will be English.
- Bernhard Rupp, k. k. Hofkristallamt, US.
- Daniela Tesekova, UCTM, Bulgaria.
- Martin Caffrey, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
- Filipa Castro, U. Minho, Portugal.
- Dominique Maes, VUB, Belgium.
- Jerry Heng, ICL, UK
- Simon Kuhn, KUL, Belgium.
- Juan Manuel Garcia-Ruiz, DIPC, Spain.
- Ricardo Pereira, U. Minho, Portugal.
- José A. Gavira, IACT-CSIC, Spain.
- Nadine Candoni, CINaM-CNRS, Marseille, France.
- Clara Anduix, JANSSEN, Belgium.
- Sergio Martínez, UGR, Spain.
- Pavlína Řezáčová, University of Prague, Czech Republic.
- Wim De Malsche, VUB, Belgium.
- Patrick Stuard, Douglas Instruments, UK.
- Botond Szilágyi, BME, Hungary.
- Eva Pusztai, BME, Hungary.
- Fermin Otálora, IACT, IACT-CSIC, Spain.
- Simon Tanley, MD, UK.
- Jose Manuel Martin-Garcia, IQBC-CSIC, Spain.
- Cláudia Galinha, NOVA, Portugal.
- Alexey Rak, SANOFY, France.
- Christos Xiouras, JANSSEN, Belgium
- Tiziano Sanvito, EOS, Italy.
- Lars Redecke, University of Lüebeck, Germany.
- Bart Rimez, Secoya, Belgium.
- Isaac Rodríguez, CNRS, Toulouse, France.
- Romain Grossier, CINaM-CNRS, Marseille, France
- Nucleation: Classical and non-classical approaches.
- Crystal growth kinetics and mechanisms.
- Impurities in protein crystallization: definition and influence.
- Screening: The search for crystallization conditions
- Crystallization techniques: Batch, Vapour and Counter Diffusion, MMS, How do they work?
- Crystallization and diffusion transport: gels, microfluidics and microgravity.
- Crystallization at large scale for pharma and industrial application.
- In vivo crystallization.
- Serial Crystallography.
- Polymorphism in protein crystals.
- Membrane protein crystallization: Lipid cubic phase, bicelles and detergents.
- AI & ML in protein crystallization prediction.