The Heart of Europe Bio-Crystallography Meeting (short HEC-Meeting) is an annual academic conference on structural biology, in particular protein crystallography. Researchers from universities, other research institutions and industry from Austria, Czech Republic, Germany and Poland meet to present and discuss current topics of their research. The talks are predominantly given by PhD students (doctoral students). An exception is the invited HEC lecture, which is held by a renowned scientist of the research field. The format of the HEC meeting has been adopted from the eleven years older Rhine-Knee Regional Meeting on Structural Biology.

History of the HEC-Meeting

The HEC-Meeting dates back to an initiative in the year 1998 of Manfred Weiss and Rolf Hilgenfeld, who were researchers at the Institute for Molecular Biotechnology (IMB) in Jena and intended to establish a meeting format similar to the Rhine-Knee Regional Meeting on Structural Biology in the New Länder.[1] Both conferences are regional meetings of German scientists together with scientific research groups of the neighbouring countries. Nine groups from Germany (the new states and West-Berlin), Poland and Czech Republic participated in the first HEC-Meeting from 8 to 10 October 1998. Later also groups from Austria and the Old Federal States participated. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, no meeting was organized in 2020 and HEC-23 took place as an online meeting.

Former HEC-Meetings:

MeetingyearlocationorganiserparticipantsHEC-lectureWeblink
HEC-11998Walkmühle in the Mühltal, GermanyR. Hilgenfeld, M. Weiss, IMB Jena 41-[2]
HEC-21999Lübben, GermanyU. Heinemann, Y. Muller, MDC Berlin 53V. Lamzin[3]
HEC-32000Poznan, PolandM. Jaskolski, CBB Poznan 53G. SheldrickWebpage,[4]
HEC-42001Bedřichov, Czech RepublicJ. Sedlacek, IMG Prague 48Z. Otwinowski[5]
HEC-52002Goslar, GermanyD. Heinz, GBF Brunswick 68A. Yonath
HEC-62003Wittenberg, GermanyS. König, M. Stubbs, MLU Halle 113T. Bergfors
HEC-72004Krzyżowa, PolandM. Bochtler, IIMCB Warsaw 101A. Wlodawer
HEC-82005Karlovy Vary, Czech RepublicJ. Sedlacek, IMG Prague 101Z. Dauter[6]
HEC-92006Teistungenburg, GermanyR. Ficner, Univ. Göttingen 128E. GarmanWebpage
HEC-102007Będlewo, PolandM. Jaskolski, CBB Poznan 116G. DodsonWebpage
HEC-112008Greifswald, GermanyW. Hinrichs, Univ. Greifswald 102P. Nissen
HEC-122009Třešť, Czech RepublicP. Rezacova, IMG Prag 107P. EmsleyWebpage,[7]
HEC-132010Schöneck/Vogtl., GermanyN. Sträter, Leipzig University 107A. PopovWebpage,[8]
HEC-142011Żagań, PolandM. Jaskolski, CBB/PTPS Poznan 101Z. DerewendaWebpage
HEC-152012Beilngries, GermanyY. Muller, Univ. Erlangen 93B. RuppWebpage
HEC-162013St Georgen im Attergau, AustriaK. Djinovic-Carugo, Univ. Vienna 114P. TompaWebpage,[9][10]
HEC-172014Akademie Berlin-Schmöckwitz, GermanyM. Weiss, U. Müller, HZB Berlin 134G. KlebeWebpage,[11]
HEC-182015Kutná Hora, Czech RepublicJ. Dohnálek, IBT Prague 120R. ReadWebpage
HEC-192016Warberg, GermanyW. Blankenfeldt, A. Scrima, HZI Brunswick 119I. SchlichtingWebpage
HEC-202017Wojanów Palace, PolandM. Bochtler, M. Nowotny, IIMCB Warsaw 112T. ClausenWebpage
HEC-212018Quedlinburg, GermanyM. Stubbs, MLU Halle 126 M. RossmannWebpage
HEC-222019Obergurgl, AustriaK. Scheffzek, Med. Univ. Innsbruck V. RamakrishnanWebpage,[12]
HEC-232021online conferenceC. Steegborn, Univ. Bayreuth 122H. NarWebpage
HEC-242022Lipno - Dolní Vltavice, Czech RepublicI. K. Smatanová, Univ. South Bohemia 108K. DiederichsWebpage
HEC-252023Salem, Malchin, GermanyM. Lammers, Univ. Greifswald 113 F. WittinghoferWebpage

References

  1. ↑ Mariusz Jaskolski und Michal M. Sikorski: 15 Years of Heart of Europe bio-Crystallography Meetings – Reminiscences. Poznan 2013, ISBN 978-83-927740-1-3
  2. ↑ DGK-Mitteilungen, vol. 18 (1999), http://dgk-home.de/veroeffentlichungen/mitteilungen/
  3. ↑ IUCr Newsletter vol. 7, no. 3, http://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-7/number-3/deep-in-the-heart-of-europe
  4. ↑ IUCr Newsletter, vol. 8, no. 4, http://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-8/number-4/biocrystallography-meeting
  5. ↑ IUCr Newsletter vol. 10, no. 1, http://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-10/number-1/heart-of-europe
  6. ↑ IUCr Newsletter, vol. 13, no.4, http://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-13/number-4/heart-of-europe
  7. ↑ IUCr Newsletter, vol. 18., no. 3, http://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-18/number-3/12th-heart-of-europe-meeting
  8. ↑ DGK AK1 Newsletter http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~straeter/newsletter/AK1_newsletter_2010_12.html
  9. ↑ DGK Mitteilungen, vol. 44, p. 92, 2014, http://dgk-home.de/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/DGK-44.pdf
  10. ↑ IUCr Newsletter, vol. 22, no. 2, http://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-22/number-2/MR-HEC16.pdf
  11. ↑ IUCr Newsletter vol. 22, no. 4, http://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-22/number-4/hec-17
  12. ↑ IUCr Newsletter vol. 27, no. 4, https://www.iucr.org/news/newsletter/volume-27/number-4/heart-of-europe-bio-crystallography
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