Schedule

26th ACT Larson Workshop
Faegre Drinker Offices
2200 Wells Fargo Center, Minneapolis, MN 55402

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Sun
May 17
4:00-6:00 pm Vendor Display Setup

7:00- 9:00 pm Welcome Reception – Union Rooftop, 731 Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis

Mon
May 18
7:00 am - 5:00 pm Registration

7:00- 8:00 am Breakfast (provided)/Vendor Display Set-Up

8:00 am Welcome/Announcements

R. Dennis Vigil, Iowa State University, ACT Steering Committee chair  

8:15 am Session I: Fundamentals of Crystallization

Session Chairs: Alpana Thorat (Pfizer) and Christopher Burcham (University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne)

8:20 am Replacement to the Ostwald Rule of Stages

Peter Vekilov, University of Houston

9:10 am From Seashells to Synthesis: Bio-Inspired Approaches for Controlling Crystallisation

Fiona Meldrum, University of Leeds

10:00 am Morning Break

10:20 am Understanding, Modeling and Scale Up of Nucleation

Jan Sefcik, University of Strathclyde

11:10 am Panel Discussion

12:15-1:30 pm Lunch (provided)

1:30 pm Session II: Crystallization Process and Product Design

Session Chairs: Eric Sirota (Merck) and Elena Simone (Politecnico Torino)

1:30 pm Crystallization of Critical Materials - Bridging Fundamental Phenomena and Industrial Impact

Kerstin Forsberg, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

2:20 pm Elucidating Crystallization Pathways in Lead Halide Perovskites

Lara Estroff, Cornell University

3:10 pm Afternoon Break

3:30 pm The Future of Agrochemical Crystallization: From Art to Automated Science

Jennifer Webb, Syngenta

4:20 pm Panel Discussion

6:00-8:00 pm Reception and Banquet (provided)

Blondette, 5th Floor Rand Tower Hotel, 527 S Marquette Avenue, Minneapolis

Tue
May 19
7:15 am - 5:00 pm Registration

7:15- 8:15 am Breakfast (provided)

8:20 am Session III: Crystallization in Digital Space

Session Chairs: Martha Grover (Georgia Tech) and Nandkishor Nere (AbbVie)

8:20 am From Computational Solid-State Chemistry to Molecular Design: Unlocking Opportunities in Modern Drug Discovery and Development

Ahmad Sheikh, AbbVie

9:10 am Opportunities for ML and AI to Advance Crystallization Design in Synthetic Drug Substance Process Development

Dan Griffen, Amgen

10:00 am Morning Break

10:20 am Data-Rich Autonomous Labs for Accelerated Nanocrystal Discovery

Milad Abolhasani, North Carolina State University

11:10 am Panel Discussion

12:15-1:30 pm Lunch (provided)

1:30 pm Session IV: SnapTalks

Session Chairs: Dan Green (GSK) and Mahmoud Mirmehrabi (Solid State Pharma)

1:30 – 4:30 pm 15-minute talks by workshop attendees with 15 minute break at 2:30;

Detailed schedule being arranged based upon registration

5:00 – 6:00 Steering Committee Meeting

Workshop participants – dinner on their own

Wed
May 20
7:15 am - 1:00 pm Registration

7:15- 8:15 am Breakfast (provided)

8:20 am Session V: Emerging and Novel Technologies

Session Chairs: Deniz Erdemir (Bristol-Myers-Squibb) and Fredrik Nordstrom (Boehringer Ingelheim)

8:20 am From Solutes in Solution to Solids and Surfaces: Insight into Speciation of Organic Molecules and Their Local Interactions from Advanced X-ray Analysis

Sven Schroeder, University of Leeds

9:10 am High Throughput Nanoscale Crystallization of Small Organic Molecules for SCXRD

Michael Hall, Newcastle University

10:00 am Morning Break

10:20 am Controlled Two-Dimensional Polymerizations

William Dichtel, Northwestern University

11:10 am Panel Discussion

12:00 pm Adjourn, Box Lunches (provided)