The 9^th International Conference on Structural Biology was held on September 18-20, 2017 in Zurich, Switzerland with the presence of professional researchers, scientists involved in the development of high-quality education in all aspects.

Structural Biology 2017 witnessed an amalgamation of peerless speakers who enlightened the crowd with their knowledge and confabulated on various new-fangled topics related to the field of structural biology and biophysics. The highly exalted conference hosted by Conference Series was marked with the attendance of renowned and brilliant researchers, business delegates and talented student communities representing more than 20 countries around the world. The conference has tried grounding every aspect related to Structural Biology and Biophysics, covering all the possible research areas and crux.  

The conference aimed a parallel rail with theme “Let's Gear the Future with Structural Biology’’. The meeting engrossed a vicinity of cognizant discussions on novel subjects like 3-D Structure Determination, Computational Approaches in Structural Biology, Hybrid Approaches for Structure Prediction, Structural Biology and Single Molecules, Structural Bioinformatics and Proteomics, Structural Molecular Biology, Structural Virology, Sequencing, Signalling Biology, Molecular Modeling and Dynamics, Drug Designing, Frontiers in Structural Biology, Structural Biology Complexity Arenas and Recent Advances in Structural Biology. The three days event implanted a firm relation of upcoming strategies in the field of Structural Biology with the scientific community. The conceptual and applicable knowledge shared, will also foster organizational collaborations to nurture scientific accelerations.

We are thankful to all our speakers for encouraging and supporting us to conduct the conference and catapulting the same to pinnacle of success.

The Organizing Committee would like to thank the moderators: Jungsan Sohn, John Hopkins University, USA and Matthias Buck, Case Western Reserve University, USA,  for their valuable contribution which resulted in smooth functioning of the conference.

We would also like to thank our Poster judge Timothy A Cross, Florida State University & National High Magnetic Field Lab USA for the evaluation of Poster Presentations.

The meeting was embarked with an opening ceremony followed by Keynote Sessions and followed by series of lectures delivered by Honourable Guests and members of the Keynote forum. The highlights of the meeting were the eponymous lectures, delivered by:

Henry M Sobell, University of Rochester, USA

Shigeyuki Yokoyama, RIKEN Structural Biology Laboratory, Japan

Tilman Schirmer, University of Basel, Switzerland

Timothy A Cross, Florida State University and National High Magnetic Field Lab, USA

Wladek Minor, University of Virginia, USA

Yuri L Lyubchenko, University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA

Robert Craigie, National Institutes of Health, USA

Toshiya Senda, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), Japan

Christina Scharnagl, Technical University of Munich, Germany

Shuanghong Huo, Clark University, USA

Kurt Ballmer-Hofer, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

Jianyong Li, Virginia Tech, USA

Petra Fromme, Arizona State University, USA

Maria Bykhovskaia, Wayne State University, USA

Qiu-Xing Jiang, University of Florida, USA

Charles W. Carter, Jr, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Ulf Skoglund, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

Joachim Krebs, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany

Vesa P. Hytönen, University of Tampere, Finland

Guo-Ping Zhou, Gordon Life Science Institute, Boston, USA

Tzu-Ching Meng, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Tobias Pfluger, NanoTemper Technologies, Germany

Al of them provided their fruitful contributions in the form of highly informative presentations and made the conference a top notch one.

Conference Series is prerogative to thank the Organizing Committee Members, Keynote speakers, Chair and Co-chairs on transcribing the plenary sessions and workshops in a diversified and variegate manner to make this conference an enviable artefact.

Conference Series offers its heartfelt appreciation to our Ad sponsor “ARI and Dun, Germany". We also express our sincere thanks to all the media partners for the promotion of our event to glory.

The Best Poster presentation was awarded to Ameena M Ali, Groningen University, Netherlands. On behalf of the committee, we congratulate the Best Poster awardee for her outstanding performance in the field of Structural Biology and appreciates all the participants who put their efforts in poster presentations and sincerely wishes them success in future endeavours.

Structural Biology 2017 would not have reached the pinnacle if not with the support of International, multi-professional steering committee and coordination of the Journal of Proteomics & Bioinformatics, Structural Chemistry & Crystallography Communication, Cellular and Molecular Biology

With the grand success of Structural Biology 2017, we are glad to announce our next upcoming conference “14^th International Conference on Structural Biology” which is going to be held in Berlin, Germany during September 24-26, 2018.

Bookmark your dates…

Hoping to meet you again coming year at Berlin!!!