MXCuBE-ISPyB Joint Meeting, DLS, UK (17 - 19 November 2025)

17 Nov 2025, 08:30 → 19 Nov 2025, 18:00 Europe/London

Room G59 (Diamond House)

Welcome to the joint MXCuBE-ISPyB meeting co-organised by Diamond Light Source (DLS) and Global Phasing Ltd and hosted at Diamond House (DLS). The MXCuBE-ISPyB meeting (November 17^th-19^th) will comprise brief facility reports, scientific presentations and group discussions. Remote participation is possible via Zoom.

Monday 17 November

09:30 → 10:30 Diamond beamline tour for early arrivals

11:00 → 12:00 Arrival and Registration (with refreshments)

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:20 ISPyB: Status Reports

13:30 Welcome

13:40 ALBA (Barcelona, Spain)

Speaker: Marc Armenter Hierro (ALBA)

ALBA_MarcArmentierHierro_Ispyb_Meeting_Diamond_2025.pptx

13:50 MAX IV (Lund, Sweden)

Speaker: Alberto Nardella (MAXIV)

MAXIV_AlbertoNardella_ISPyB_Meeting_Diamond_2025.pdf

14:00 DESY (Hamburg, Germany)

Speaker: Johanna Hakanpaeae (DESY)

DESY_JohannaHakanpaa_ISPyB_2025_2.pdf

14:10 Oulu University (Finland)

Speaker: Ed Daniel (Oulu University)

Oulu_EdDaniel_ISPyB.pptx

14:30 SOLEIL (Paris, France)

Speaker: Mohsen Dahesh (Soleil)

SOLEIL_MohsenDahesh_Status-report-MXCuBE-ISPyB Diamond-Nov-2025_bis.pdf

14:40 ELETTRA (Trieste, Italy)

Speaker: Alessandro Olivo (Elettra)

Elettra_AlessandroOlivo_2025_11_17_ISPyB_status_report.pdf

14:50 DLS (Oxford, UK)

Speaker: James Hall (DLS)

DLS_JamesHall_Update_to_ISPyB_Meeting_at_Diamond.pptx

15:00 Global Phasing (Cambridge, UK)

Speaker: Rasmus Fogh (Global Phasing Ltd.)

GPhL_RasmusFogh_ISPyB_status_final.pdf

15:10 ESRF (Grenoble, France)

Speaker: Alex de Maria (ESRF)

ESRF_AlexDeMaria_ISPyB_MXCube Nov 2025 DLS ESRF-1.pdf

15:20 → 15:45 Coffee break

15:45 → 16:45 ISPyB: Scientific Presentations

15:45 Crystal Size Matters: Triaging Approaches for Micro- and Nano-crystals at Diamond

Speaker: Anna Warren (DLS)

DLS_AnnaWarren_Crystal Size Matters: Triaging Approaches for Micro- and Nano-crystals at Diamond.pptx

16:15 Electron diffraction: why it is difficult and why it is (hopefully) worth it

Speaker: David Owen (DLS)

DLS_DavidOwen_Electron diffraction: why it is difficult and why it is (hopefully) worth it.pptx

16:45 → 17:00 Open Discussion: Introduction to committees discussion - Joint Session

17:00 → 17:30 Parallel Sessions ISPyB: Developers

17:00 → 17:30 Parallel Sessions ISPyB: Steering Comittee

17:30 → 18:00 Reports of StC+Dev Parallel Discussions: ISPyB

Steering_Committee_Report.txt

18:30 → 20:30 Dinner

Tuesday 18 November

08:30 → 10:00 Scientific Session - Addressing the Fragmentation of Communication between Synchrotrons, Developers and Industrial MX Users: Part-1 (Interoperability in Synchrotron Logistics)

08:30 Rationale and Purpose of Day 2

Addressing the Fragmentation of Communication between Synchrotrons, Developers and Industrial MX Users.

Speaker: Gerard Bricogne (Global Phasing Ltd.)

GPhL_GerardBricogne Rationale and Purpose of Day 2.pptx

08:50 A tale of six synchrotrons

Speaker: May Sharpe (FFCS, Paul Scherrer Institute)

PSI_MaySharpe_MXCuBE_ISPyB_November_2025.pptx

09:00 A close-up view of synchrotron diversity from a user’s viewpoint

Speaker: Dennis Stegmann (FFCS, Paul Scherrer Institute)

PSI_DennisStegmann_MXCube_meeting_DLS_2025_fin.pptx

09:15 Synchrotron logistics with MXLIMS, starting with standardised experiment submission and result retrieval

Speaker: Rasmus Fogh (Global Phasing Ltd.)

GPhL_RasmusFogh_MXLIMS_Diamond_2025_final.pdf

09:40 OAuth2 and authentication standardisation across facilities

Speaker: Guilherme Francisco de Freitas (Diamond Light Source)

DLS_GuilhermeFranciscoDeFreitas OAuth2 and authentication standardisation across facilities.pptx

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 11:40 Scientific Session - Addressing the Fragmentation of Communication between Synchrotrons, Developers and Industrial MX Users: Part-2 (Interoperability in Synchrotron Logistics)

10:30 Overcoming the Challenges of Scaling MX in the Cloud

Speaker: Oleg Mikhailovskii (CryoCloud B.V.)

CryoCloud_OlegMikhailovskii 20251118 MX Pipeline-2.pptx

10:50 Complexity of multi-synchrotron operations for a Pharma company

Speaker: Patrik Johansson (AstraZeneca Sweden)

AZ_PatrikJohansson_ISPYB_MXCUBE_meeting_2025.pdf

11:05 Complexity of multi-synchrotron operations for a small CRO

Speaker: Christian Becke (MoloX)

MOLOX_Christian_Becke_20251118_ISPyB_meeting_final.pptx

11:20 Standardising (auto-)processing and access to its results while avoiding Procrustean beds

Speaker: Clemens Vonrhein (Global Phasing Ltd.)

GPhL_ClemensVonrhein_Standardising-auto-processing-and-access-to-its-results-while-avoiding-Procrustean-beds.pdf

11:40 → 12:00 Open Discussion: Prospects for achieving interoperability between synchrotrons

11:40 Prospects for achieving interoperability between synchrotrons

12:00 → 13:30 Lunch

13:30 → 15:00 Scientific Session - Addressing the Fragmentation of Communication between Synchrotrons, Developers and Industrial MX Users: Part-3 (Data Quality Assurance Measures)

13:30 The XDS crisis: a spontaneously-arising stress test of our coordinated response capabilities

Speaker: Gerard Bricogne (Global Phasing Ltd.)

GPhL_GerardBricogne The XDS crisis.pptx

13:55 Lessons learned from the assessment of successive problematic XDS versions

Speaker: Clemens Vonrhein (Global Phasing Ltd.)

GPhL_ClemensVonrhein_XDS-Saga-Lessons-Learned.pdf

14:20 Reproducibility checks in the Dectris Cloud

Speaker: Camilla Buhl Larsen (Dectris Ltd.)

Dectris_CamillaBuhlLarsen_Scientific_reproducibility_pipelines.pptx

14:40 The Industrial Access Beamline Validation Proposal

Speaker: Gerard Bricogne (Global Phasing Ltd.)

The Industrial Access Beamline Validation Proposal.pptx

15:00 → 15:30 Open Discussion

15:00 Discussion on QA, including ...

• visibility of beamline validation
• collective vigilance
• rapid reaction
• digging deeper into Data Quality Metrics

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break & Group Picture

16:00 → 17:00 Scientific Session - Addressing the Fragmentation of Communication between Synchrotrons, Developers and Industrial MX Users: Part-4 (Direct Metadata Capture at Synchrotrons for AI/ML-related depositions)

16:00 The DRI Project and forthcoming activities to support metadata-rich depositions

Speaker: Genevieve Evans (PDBe)

PDBe_GenevieveEvans_2025_MXCUBE_ISPyB_GLE-DH.pdf

16:25 Homebrewed Crystallographic Data Management in an Academic Setting

Speaker: Marko Hyvönen (Cambridge University)

UCambridge_MarkoHyvonen_MXcube_meeting_20251119.pptx

16:40 Metadata quality assurance in (group) depositions

Speaker: Clemens Vonrhein (Global Phasing Ltd.)

GPhL_ClemensVonrhein_Metadata-quality-assurance-in-group-depositions.pdf

17:00 → 18:00 Open Discussion: The Art of the Possible - Pledges and Priorities.

18:00 → 21:30 Conference Dinner

18:00 Drinks

19:00 Dinner

Wednesday 19 November

08:30 → 10:04 MXCuBE: Status Reports - Part 1

08:30 Beamline remote access at the Australian Synchrotron

Speaker: Andreas Moll (ANSTO (Australian Synchrotron))

ANSTO_Andreas_Moll_MXCuBE_ISPyB_Nov_2025_ANSTO.pdf

08:45 Expression of interest in the MXCuBE Collaboration

Speaker: Mi-Jeong Kwak (Pohang Accelerator Laboratory (PAL))

4GSR_Mi_Jeong_Kwak_20251119_MXCuBE_meeting.pdf

09:08 NFPSS (Shanghai, China)

Speaker: Kangwen Bao (NFPSS/SSRF)

SSRF_Kangwen_Bao_StatusofNCPSSMXbeamlinesatSSRF.pdf

09:16 ALBA (Barcelona, Spain)

Speaker: José Centeno Gabadinho (ALBA)

ALBA_JoseCentenoGabadinho_MXCuBE_SiteReport_ALBA_Nov2025.pdf

09:24 HZB-BESSY (Berlin, Germany)

Speaker: Michael Hellmig (HZB)

09:32 DESY (Hamburg, Germany)

Speaker: Andrey Gruzinov (DESY)

DESY_Andrey_Gruzinov_MXCuBE_DESY_Report_Nov2025.pdf

09:40 ELETTRA (Trieste, Italy)

Speaker: Alessandro Olivo (Elettra)

Elettra_AlessandroOlivo_2025_11_19_MXCuBE_status_report.pdf

09:48 EMBL (Hamburg, Germany)

Speaker: Gleb Bourenkov (EMBL-HH)

09:56 MAX IV (Lund, Sweden)

Speaker: Ezequiel Panepucci (MAXIV)

MAXIV_EzequielPanepucci_MXCuBE_Status_report.pdf

10:04 → 10:28 Coffee Break

10:28 → 11:24 MXCuBE: Status Reports - Part 2

10:28 MANACA @ LNLS (Campinas, Brazil)

Speaker: Pedro Benetton (LNLS)

LNLS_PedroBenetton_MXCuBE_Presentation_2S2025.pdf

10:36 ESS (Lund, Sweden)

Speaker: Lais Pessine Do Carmo (ESS)

ESS_LaisPessineDoCarmo_SiteReport_MXCuBE_ESS__Diamond_nov25.pdf

10:44 LS-CAT @ APS (Chicago, United States)

Speaker: Joe Brunzelle (LS-CAT)

LSACT_JoeBrunzelle_MXCuBE_LSCAT_Mtg_20251119.pptx

10:52 SOLARIS @ NSRC (Krakow, Poland)

Speaker: Michal Gucwa (SOLARIS)

SOLARIS_MichalGucwa_ARYA_MXCuBE_Meeting_Nov_2025_.pptx

11:00 SOLEIL (Paris, France)

Speaker: Martin Savko (Soleil)

SOLEIL_MartinSavko_Status-report-MXCuBE-ISPyB_Diamond-Nov-2025.pptx

11:08 ESRF (Grenoble, France)

Speaker: Marcus Oskarsson (ESRF)

ESRF_MarcusOskarsson_status_report_mxcube_november_2025.pptx.pdf

11:16 Global Phasing, UK

Speaker: Rasmus Fogh (Global Phasing Ltd.)

GPhL_RasmusFogh_MXCuBE_status_final.pdf

11:24 → 11:39 MXCuBE: Scientific Presentations

11:24 Report from the Automation Working Group

Speaker: Didier Nurizzo (ESRF)

ESRF_DNurizzo_Automation_WG_Status.pptx

11:39 → 12:30 Open Discussion: MXCuBE Developments

12:30 → 13:45 Lunch

13:45 → 14:30 Parallel Sessions MXCuBE: Developers

MXCuBE_Diamond2025_developers.docx

13:45 → 14:30 Parallel Sessions MXCuBE: Steering Committee

MXCuBE_Diamond2025_steering.docx

14:30 → 15:00 Reports of StC+Dev Parallel Discussions: MXCuBE

15:00 → 16:00 Coffee break & Early Leave