Single Crystal Users' Meeting 2024

We are pleased to announce that we will be holding our annual two-day user’s meeting on October 9-10, 2024, at our Rigaku Europe HQ in Neu Isenburg near Frankfurt Airport.

The meeting will start at 10.30 am on Wednesday, October 9, running until the afternoon of Thursday, October 10.

Date: October 9-10, 2024
Venue: Rigaku Europe SE
Hugenottenallee 167
63263 Neu-Isenburg, Germany
Contact: Fraser White Fraser.White@rigaku.com

Please join us to discover the latest developments at Rigaku in single crystal diffraction and to chat about your research, experiences, and issues.

We will assemble the program and speaker list closer to the time and post it on this page. Please register below to stay updated.

Please note that this is an in-person-only meeting, so places will be limited. Please register early to save your seat.

Day 1
10:00-10:30	Arrival and coffee
Session 1	10:30-12:00	Software session
10:30-10:40	Welcome and Introduction	Fraser White
10:40-11:20	CrysAlisPro: An update for X-ray and electron diffraction data	Mathias Meyer
11:20-11:50	What's New in Olex2	Horst Puschmann
11:50-12:20	Modulated and twinned structures processed by CrysAlis and Jana2020	Michal Dusek
12:20-13:30	Lunch
Session 2	13:30-15:00	ED Session
13:30-13:50	3D-ED in Glasgow: First impressions	Claire Wilson
13:50-14:10	3D ED as a National Facility: The Wisdom a Year Makes	Jere Tidey
14:10-14:30	Tips & Tricks: Troubleshooting Sample Preparation for Electron Diffraction	Jessica Burch
14:30-15:00	Automation and Multi-Crystal Workflows for Electron Diffraction in CAP44	Robert Bücker
15:00-15:30	Coffee break
Lab session	15:30-17:00	Tour of RESE labs, chat with staff etc
19:00	Dinner
Day 2
Session 3	9:00-10:30	X-ray Session
9:00-9:30	Tips & Tricks in CrysAlisPro	Chris Schürmann
9:30-10:00	A tale of two CD(W)s	Michael Merz
10:00-10:30	What will I do with my new instruments?	Gary Nichol
10:30-11:00	Convincing Xenon to Bond and Form Crystals	Matic Lozinšek
11:00-11:30	Coffee Break
Session 4	11:00-13:30	Staff talks
11:30-12:00	Variable Temperature Diffraction and Polymorph Screening with the XtaLAB Synergy-ED	Christian Göb
12:00-12:30	Data processing with options: When, why, and how you can beat CAP auto-pipeline	Khai Truong
12:30-13:00	The Rigaku School for Practical Crystallography: Going Viral	Joseph Ferrara
13:00-13:30	Hardware Updates from Rigaku Oxford Diffraction	Jakub Wojciechowski
13:30-14:30	Lunch
14:30	Close of the main meeting
14:30	Monthly Meeting of XtaLAB Synergy-ED Users
Chairs: Khai Truong & Robert Bücker