BCA Spring Meeting 2009.

University of Loughborough, 21-23^rd April 2009
Industrial Group Contributions - More information and details of other sessions is available on the BCA meeting page.
NOTE: 26th October is the deadline for contributed ORAL talks! Follow the abstract submission link from the BCA meeting page link above and make sure your abstact is supplied using the template available for download from the "abstract upload page" link.

Chris Staddon is the XRD representative on the planning committee.

Link to XRF programme.

More details will be posted here as they become available.

Plenary

Wednesday 22^nd April 2009, 09:00-09:45
Chair: Anne Kavanagh.
Environmental Analysis with XRF and XRD
Nick Marsh (Leicester)

Sessions

Joint XRF and XRD session on Environmental Analysis
Wednesday 22^nd April 2009, 10:15-11:45
Chair: Richard Morris

10:15 New applications in the use of X-ray diffraction at the Health and safety Laboratory:-
A case study using XRD to assess emissions across construction sites
Peter Stacey, Health and Safety Laboratory.

10:45 Heavy metals in sediments of the canal network in the Black Country.
Clive Roberts, Woverhampton University.

11:15 Matching XRF and XRD Solutions with Analytical needs for cleaner, safer and healthier environment.
Ravi Yellepeddi, Thermo Fisher Scientific.

11:45 Industrial Group AGM

Joint IG/BACG Session 1: Monitoring crystals, crystallization and transformations
Wednesday 22^nd April 2009, 13:30-15:00
Chair: Nick Blagden (BACG)

13:30 Monitoring nucleation of cocrystals: a solution chemistry perspective.
Roger Davey, University of Manchester.

14:00 Opportunities for observing the synthesis and behaviour of functional materials using synchrotron X-Ray diffraction.
Paul Barnes, Birkbeck College.

14:30 Application of Process Analytical Techniques in Monitoring and Controlling the Crystallization of Fine Chemical Products.
Kevin Roberts, University of Leeds.

Joint IG/BACG Session 2: Monitoring crystals, crystallization and transformations - including the IG YC prize talk
Wednesday 22^nd April 2009, 15:30-17:00
Chair: Alison Burke (IG)

15:30 2009 Industrial Group Young Crystallographer prize talk
To be announced at the meeting

16:00 Exploring Crystallisation Phase Space - Expect the Unexpected?
Chick Wilson, University of Glasgow.

16:30 A Retrospective of the Time-Resolved in-situ EDXRD Data we Collected at the SRS.
Andrew Fogg, University of Liverpool.

Thursday 23^rd April
09:00 - 09:45 Foundation Lecture "Method Validation to Achieve ISO 17025 Accreditation"
David Lowe, United Kingdom Accreditation Service (UKAS).
Chair: Ros Schwarz
This XRF Foundation Lecture will be of interest to a wide range of delegates, and especially those who work in a standards based environment.

Understanding API Phase Transitions
Thursday 23^rd April 2009, 10:15-11:45
Chair: Brett Cooper

10:15 The use of real-time variable temperature Raman microscopy to monitor temperature related API phase transitions.
Dr Paolo Avalle, Merck Sharp & Dohme Development Laboratories

10:45 Solid-solid phase transformations in channel hydrate during dehydration.
Ji Yi Khoo, Surfaces & Particle Engineering Laboratory (SPEL), Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College.

11:15 Identification of Driving Forces in High Pressure Phase Transitions Using the Pixel Method.
Russell Johnstone, School of Chemistry and CSEC, University of Edinburgh.

Crystallography in the Pharmaceutical pipeline
Thursday 23^rd April 2009, 12:00-13:30
Chair: Matthew Johnson

12:00 Crystallography for Drug Development.
Cheryl Doherty, Pfizer.

12:30 The crystal structure is the gold standard for proof of structure of the API: What can be achieved for the drug product?
David England, Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH.

13:00 From the industrial via the academic laboratory to the court room: Ciclovirs - a pharmaceutical PXRD case study.
Jeremy K. Cockcroft, University College London.

13:30 CLOSE.

Industrial Group AGM

The 26^nd ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the Industrial Group will be held at Loughborough on 22^ndApril 2009 at 11:45

Nominations are sought to fill vacancies for Vice Chair, Treasurer and committee members to serve for three years from April 2009.

Nominations, which shall be proposed by not less than two members of the Group and shall be accompanied by the written consent of the nominee, shall be sent to reach the Honorary Secretary of the Group not later than seven days before the Annual General Meeting.

Approval will be sought for the following addition to item 11 of the constitution:

11 COMMITTEE. The affairs of the Group shall be managed by a Committee consisting of the Officers of the Group together with no more than six Ordinary Members of Committee. The BCA representative to the ICDD shall be a member of the committee ex officio. There shall be a representative of the Young Crystallographers Group who shall be a member of the committee ex officio. Additional members may be co-opted from time to time under Rule 13. The Committee shall be broadly based, with no one field, discipline or type of institution unduly favoured. Only members of the Group shall be eligible for Membership of the committee.

Contact the Secretary

View a PDF copy of the Agenda.