Well done to 1st year PhD student Giovanna, for being awarded the IUCr Best Poster award at #BCA25 meeting at Leeds. With Prof MR Probert and Newcastle Chemistry

It’s been nonstop this week at #bca25 but no where else I’d rather be! Thank you to everyone who contributed to the flash presentations and outreach workshop and also to those who stayed around on Thursday for my presentation 👩‍🏫

A presentation on a big screen and a speaker stood at the front of a room.

Thank you to everyone who attended Rupesh Chikhale's presentation on Generative AI and Classical Modeling Methods for the Discovery of Novel Anti-TB Molecules at #BCA25.

This collaboration with BIOVIA focuses on developing new drug molecules to treat tuberculosis.

Suman Bhattacharya gives a talk at the 2025 BCA Spring Meeting

Suman Bhattacharya (U. Limerick) presents piezoelectric multicomponent materials engineered to include amino acid molecules at #BCA25

Sam Lewis presenting a talk

Sam Lewis (Cardiff and @diamondlightsource.bsky.social ) discusses serial crystallography and transient polymorphs at the #BCA25 CCG open session

Thank you to Ellie Dempsey (University of Edinburgh), Stephen Brown (University of Warwick), Sam Lewis, and Hamish Yeung for organizing and inviting the CCDC to participate in an insightful workshop aimed at inspiring future crystallographers 🌟 #BCA25

Side-by-side photographs, the left showing three people stood smiling at the camera with the middle person holding up a certificate, the right showing a presenter pointing to research on a projector screen.

Congratulations to Wojciech Stawski from Ulm University for winning the CCDC/CCG Prize 2025, announced this afternoon at the @crystallography.org.uk Spring Meeting.

Discover more about Wojciech Stawski's ground-breaking work here: ccdc-info.com/4imVWF3

#Crystallography #BCA25

Alexandra Gibbs (St Andrews and BCA President) wraps up the Rietveld refinement workshop at #BCA25 with words of wisdom and favourite paper recommendations on neutron diffraction

Thanks to our #BCA25 commercial exhibitors for giving us updates on their latest products and developments, whilst keeping within a strict five minute constraint! Go and visit their stands for more information and discussion.

Alexandra Longcake lecturing at BCA Spring Meeting 2025

Alex Longcake (Newcastle) tells #BCA25 about a high throughput in-situ X-ray diffraction workflow during the BSG/CCG in-situ session

Lucia Maini gives the CCG plenary lecture at #BCA25 "Be a crystallographer to to investigate the past present and future"

Robert Palgrave lecturing on the role of AI in materials discovery

@robertpalgrave.bsky.social delivers the PCG plenary lecture at #BCA25 "The role of AI in materials discovery"

Olivia Breen talks about latest studies of metal ammonia oxolate hydrate coordination polymers

Olivia Breen (UCD) on the diverse polymorphism in metal ammonia oxolate hydrate coordination polymers at BCA Spring Meeting 2025 #BCA25

Amy Hall delivers a lecture on hydrogen bonds in cocrystals at the 2025 BCA Spring Meeting

Amy Hall @amyvhall.bsky.social (Durham) kicks off the #BCA25 polymorphism, hydrates and co-crystals session with "Are hydrogen bonds really queen in molecular cocrystals?"

A room of people looking at a presentation on a big screen and a speaker at the front.

Fantastic presentation from Cameron Wilson from @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social featuring a racoon and candy floss while talking about high pressure crystallography 🤔 #BCA25
@crystallography.org.uk

A room full of people sat looking at a presentation on a screen at the front.

Thank you to those who joined Emma Hawking's talk at #BCA25 yesterday about polymorphism and how it’s a crucial aspect that affects drug stability during manufacturing.

Learn more: ccdc-info.com/3EqBchV

#MaterialsScience #Pharma #DrugDevelopment

This year's Lonsdale prize lecture opens #BCA25 and is delivered by Emma McCabe on Strategies and consequences of breaking inversion symmetry. See crystallography.org.uk/prizes for the history of this lecture

Let’s go! #bca25

Jere Tidey presenting a talk at the BCA Spring Meeting.

Jere Tidey (U. Warwick) closes the ESCG session at #BCA25 with a career (so far) summary "3D electron diffraction via the scenic route"