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<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As you might be aware, there are a few microsymposia that have been added to this year’s IUCr conference on developments around SARS-CoV-2.</div>
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<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Given the wide interests of this board, I wanted to advertise all four of the sessions, <b class="">for which the (official) deadline is TODAY: </b></div>
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<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b class="">- Structural biology of coronaviruses</b></div>
<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="">This session covers new structural and functional insights about the life cycle and virus-host interaction of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses with a </span><span class="">particular
view to integrative uses of crystallography in connection with other methods.</span><br class="">
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<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b class="">- <span class="">New methods to fight the pandemic</span></b></div>
<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="">This session covers new methods in crystallography and structural biology to better understand SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic, including</span><span class=""> </span><span class="">advances
in computational methods, beamline instrumentation and integrative structural biology.</span><br class="">
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<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b class="">- Crystallography against Corona</b></div>
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<div class="">This session covers the efforts of the crystallographic community to find drug candidates for COVID-19 both in-silico and in the lab by using structural models of viral proteins.<br class="">
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<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b class=""><span class="">- </span><font color="#000000" class=""><span class="">Using crystallography for education during the pandemic </span></font></b></div>
<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font color="#000000" class="">Using crystallography for education during the pandemic </font></div>
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<div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b class="">*** Please submit your abstracts today! If this isn’t possible, email us to let us know you intend to submit an abstract in the coming days! ***</b></div>
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<div class=""><span class="">For each session, 4 relevant abstracts will be selected for</span><span class=""> 20-minute presentations.</span></div>
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<div class="">You can submit your abstracts through the conference website: <a href="https://iucr25.org/scientific/" class="">https://iucr25.org/scientific/</a></div>
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<div class="">Looking forward to reading the abstracts,</div>
<div class="">Session co-chairs</div>
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