Crystallography in School @ECM34
A half-day workshop to share teaching modules and export good practices on crystallography-related subjects in school
26th August 2024
13:30-16:30
Padova Congress Center
Donatello room
Padova
Italy
Organising Secretariat
Sistema congressi srl
Scientific and Organising Committee
John Helliwell (University of Manchester, UK)
Erhard Irmer (University of Göttingen, Germany)
Chiara Massera (University of Parma, Italy)
Annalisa Guerri (University of Firenze, Italy)
Kamil Dziubek (University of Wien, Austria)
Consiglia Tedesco (University of Salerno, Italy)
Normally, students only come into contact with crystallographic topics, and in particular with X-ray structure analysis, late in their university studies. Public events often focus on a playful approach to crystals or symmetry. Only very rarely are crystallographic topics integrated into school lessons in STEM subjects. However, the method of crystal structure analysis and working with its results offer many possible applications in chemistry, physics or biology lessons.
In the workshop, we would like to work out such curricular anchor points together and use best-practice examples to encourage an exchange of experiences for working with pupils and teachers. After two keynote lectures, there will be a series of presentations (ca. 10-15 minutes) and a concluding panel discussion. If you like to contribute practical examples, please send us your abstract by writing to gig3eca@unipr.it not later than the 31 of May.
The template for the abstract can be downloaded at https://www.ecm34.org/abstracts. Registration is free. For organising purposes, we ask you to register at: https://www.ecm34.org/registrations.
Programme
13:30 -13:35 Welcome and Opening
13:35 - 14:00 Erhard Irmer (Uni-Göttingen, Germany) Crystallography in School?! A teachers' view
14:00 - 14:25 Andrea Ienco (CNR-ICCOM, Florence, Italy) Making a Diffractometer using Programmable Lego© Robot: an educational activity to promote crystallography among high school students
14:25 - 14:40 Ilaria Gimondi (CCDC, Cambridge, UK)
Using Crystal Structures from the Cambridge Structural Database in Schools
14:40 - 14:55 Deepti Gupta (PDB Europe, Hinxton, UK) Leveraging PDBe, PDBe-KB, and AlphaFold Protein Structure Database for Enhanced Structural Biology
14:55 - 15:15 Coffee-break
15:15 - 15:30 Nico Graw (Uni-Göttingen, Germany)
Implementing X-ray crystallography into courses at a student laboratory
15:30 - 15:45 Simona Galli (Univ. dell'Insubria, Como, Italy) "Crystallography: X-ray vision” A textbook for secondary school and university teachers and students
15:45 -16:00 Alessia Bacchi (Univ. di Parma, Italy) A Museum of Molecular Models
16:00- 16:15 Laura Folkers (STOE & Cie GmbH, Darmstadt, Germany) The “Maus” – one of Germany’s longest running science TV shows for children explains crystallography using the shape of CO2 as an example.
16:15-16:20 Josefina Perles Hernáez (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain) The European Crystallography Video Contest
16:20-16:30 Concluding remarks
With the support of
PDB-E
Protein Data Bank in Europe
