Dear BB,

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.

Given the wide interests of this board, I wanted to advertise all four of the sessions, for which the (official) deadline is TODAY: 

- Structural biology of coronaviruses
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 particular view to integrative uses of crystallography in connection with other methods.

New methods to fight the pandemic
This session covers new methods in crystallography and structural biology to better understand SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 pandemic, including advances in computational methods, beamline instrumentation and integrative structural biology.

- Crystallography against Corona
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.

Using crystallography for education during the pandemic 
Using crystallography for education during the pandemic 

*** 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! ***

For each session, 4 relevant abstracts will be selected for 20-minute presentations.

You can submit your abstracts through the conference website: https://iucr25.org/scientific/

Looking forward to reading the abstracts,
Session co-chairs