Name: Joint Meeting of PSRS Members and SOLARIS Centre Users
Start: 2026-09-14T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-16T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Faculty of Chemistry Jagiellonian University

Joint Meeting of PSRS Members and SOLARIS Centre Users

from Monday, 14 September 2026 (08:00) to Wednesday, 16 September 2026 (15:00)

Monday, 14 September 2026

11:30

11:30 - 12:30

13:00

13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Polish Synchrotron Radiation Society – supporting the Polish photon-science community - Agnieszka Witkowska (Institute of Nanotechnology and Materials Engineering, Gdańsk University of Technology)

14:15 Update from SOLARIS Centre - accelerators, beamlines, cryo-electron microscopy facility - Adriana Wawrzyniak (SOLARIS) Artur Biela (NSRC SOLARIS, Jagiellonian University) Marcin Sikora (NCPS Solaris, Jagiellonian University)

15:00 Support for Polish Users of EuXFEL - Ryszard Sobierajski (INSTYTUT FIZYKI POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK)

15:15 New grant for Poland’s participation in the ESRF - Anna Wolska (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 ATP-dependent DNA damage recognition by UvrA: The use of Cryo-EM in the study of protein conformational changes - Mariusz Czarnocki-Cieciura

16:30 Ribosomes at work: Visualizing translational dynamics directly in cells via cryo-electron tomography - Magdalena Schacherl

16:50 Building beyond the icosahedron: novel virus-like particles and the structural basis of their assembly - Joanna Śliwiak

17:10 The enigma of NIF3. structure without the function - Elżbieta Wątor-Wilk
17:30

17:30 - 20:00
Tuesday, 15 September 2026
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 From static structures to molecular movies: time-resolved serial crystallography of light-sensing receptors - Przemysław Nogły

09:30 CryoEM-Guided Engineering of Extracellular Vesicles for Regenerative Medicine and Precision Genome Editing - Sylwia Bobis-Wozowicz

09:50 Capturing “Protein Spaghetti”: Biosaxs And Frap Analysis Of Phase-Separated Plant Cwc22 - Marta Gapińska

10:10 Scientific capabilities of the s-SNOM/AFM-IR endstation - Maciej Roman (SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre)
10:30

10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Measurement Approaches In Solid Oxide Cell Technology: From Ex Situ To Operando Characterization - Bartłomiej Lemieszek (Gdańsk University of Technology)

11:30 Structural divergence in ferrite-silica nanocomposites - Adam Czempik (Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach)

11:50 X-ray absorption spectroscopy investigation of pressure-driven spin crossover in a two-dimensional Hofmann clathrate - Wojciech Sas (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland)

12:10 Enhancing the power density of a multinuclear Cobalt (II) cluster by the addition of a redox active electrolyte - Javed Shah

12:30 Studying low-dimensional antiferromagnets with synchrotron radiation - Michał Ślęzak
13:00

13:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Mapping Out Element-Specific Carrier Relaxation Pathways in Double Perovskite Nanocrystals with Femtosecond X-ray Absorption - Łukasz Kłopotowski

14:30 Mapping magneto-chemical heterogeneity in laser-synthesized bimodal colloids via synchrotron XAS and STXM - Mohammad Sadegh Shakeri (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences)

14:50 Analysis of Ti and TiO2 nanolayers irradiated with HCI Xeq+ using SR-GIXRF and SR-XRR methods - Regina Stachura

15:10 First demonstration of X-ray ptychography at the SOLARIS STXM - Krzysztof Matlak (SOLARIS National Synchrotron Radiation Centre, Jagiellonian University)
15:30

15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Contributions

16:00 Exploring Earth’s earliest ecosystems with synchrotron-based techniques: implications for the search for life on Mars - Keyron Hickman-Lewis

16:30 Experimental validation of a CMOS-based Bragg crystal spectrometer at the SOLARIS synchrotron - Żaneta Szaforz

16:50 Autonomous Sampling α-Fe2O3 Hollow Microspheres with Carbon-Stabilized Defects: Calcination-Tuned Humidity Sensor Performance - Islam Gomaa

17:10 Neutron Activation Analysis Laboratory at NCPS Solaris - Michał Silarski
19:00

19:00 - 23:00
Room: 3rd floor
Wednesday, 16 September 2026
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 General presentation of CERIC-ERIC - Ornela De Giacomo

09:20 Towards Elettra 2.0: new challenges and opportunities for Science at CERIC - Lisa Vaccari

09:35 Small-Angle Scattering at TU Graz: Facilities and Scientific Highlights - Heinz Amenitsch

09:50 NMR Spectroscopy in Structural Studies - Janez Plavec

10:05 PPR@CERIC: An Integrated Research Infrastructure for Pathogen Research Including Advanced Genomics, Single-Cell Multi-Omics and Virology Unit - Federica Mantovani

10:20 10 years of SOLARIS at CERIC-ERIC - Marek Stankiewicz
10:30

10:30 - 11:10
11:10
11:10 - 12:50
Contributions

11:10 Towards Understanding the Beneficial Impact of SOFC Anode Catalytic Layers through Complementary Studies at SOLARIS and ESRF - Beata Bochentyn

11:40 The Cecomec Project: Ceria-Based Compounds As Effective Catalyst For Electrochemical Cells - Simone Amatori

12:00 AI-Driven Automation and Assistance at Synchrotron Facilities - Maciej Jankowski

12:20 TBA - Juraj Krempasky
12:50

12:50 - 14:00