9th International Doctoral School on Biological Crystallization (ISBC2026)
Training
Date: 04-Oct-2026 to 09-Oct-2026
We are pleased to announce the 9th International Doctoral School on Biological Crystallization (ISBC2026), to be held in Granada (Spain) during October 4th to 9th, 2026.
This year’s School will provide 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.
Topics to be discussed include:
- 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.
Grants are available. For more information, see our website.
