Programme
All posters will be viewed during the whole time of the conference. Please, place your poster immediately after arrival and dismount it not earlier than after the CLOSING LECTURE
Wednesday, May 10, 2017
15:00 - 22:00 REGISTRATION
18:00 - 19:00 WELCOME RECEPTION - GARDEN PARTY
THE OPENING Chairperson: Marek Cieplak
19:00 - 19:10 Marek Cieplak
Welcome address
19:10 - 19:55 Ed Bayer
Designer cellulosomes: A treasure trove for synthetic nanobiotechnology
20:00 - 22:00 DINNER AT BONFIRE
Thursday, May 11, 2017
PROTEIN FOLDING Chairperson: Marek Cieplak
9:00 - 9:40 George Rose
Protein folding: Non-specific interactions promote highly specific chain organization
9:40 - 10:10 Feng Gai
Assessing and manipulating protein folding energy landscape
10:10 - 10:40 COFFEE BREAK (long)
DISORDERED PROTEINS Chairperson: Anna Niedźwiecka
10:40 - 11:10 Wim Vranken
Capturing the ambiguous behaviour of proteins from sequence-based predictions
11:10 - 11:40 Sonia Longhi
How order and disorder orchestrate paramyxoviral transcription and replication
11:40 - 12:10 Anna Zawadzka-Kazimierczuk
Studying intrinsically disordered proteins with NMR experiments of high dimensionality
12:10 - 14:30 LUNCH
LARGE BIOCOMPLEXES Chairperson: George Rose & Piotr Marszałek
14:30 - 15:00 Mariano Carrión Vázquez
Learning from good and bad amyloids in the brain
15:00 - 15:30 Wojciech Dzwolak
Superstructures of amyloid fibrils: a story with many twists
15:30 - 16:00 Joseph Marsh
Implications of protein complex assembly for human genetic disease
16:00 - 16:15 COFFEE BREAK (short)
16:15 - 16:45 Mai Suan Li
Protein aggregation and neurodegenerative diseases
16:45 - 17:15 Aleksandra M. Walczak
Diversity of immune repertoires
17:15 - 17:45 Bartosz Różycki
Assembling cellulosomes by molecular simulations and SAXS experiments
17:45 - 18:00 COFFEE BREAK (short)
18:00 - 18:15 Vito Foderà
Hydration controls the mechanical properties and morphologies of amyloid-like superstructures: going beyond protein fibrils as biomaterials
18:15 - 18:35 Piotr Wardega, Nanotemper (sponsored)
Quantitative biomolecular analytics in solution
18:35 - 18:50 Yani Zhao
Structural changes in barley protein LTP1 isoforms at air-water interfaces
18:50 - 20:00 DINNER
20:00 - 22:00 POSTER SESSION I (odd numbers presenting authors)
Friday, May 12, 2017
SINGLE-MOLECULE STUDIES Chairperson: Mariano Carrion-Vazquez
9:00 - 9:30 Arek Kulczyk
Replisome structure: Multiple interactions coordinate DNA synthesis
9:30 - 10:00 Piotr E. Marszalek
Mechanical unfolding, refolding and misfolding of large proteins by single molecule force spectroscopy
10:00 - 10:30 Adam Round
Single particles to biological macromolecules - imaging and crystallographic studies with XFEL's and research opportunities at the SPB/SFX beamline
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK (long)
BIOMEMBRANES Chairperson: Joseph Marsh
11:00 - 11:30 Mark S.P. Sansom
Molecular simulations of biomembranes: protein-lipid interactions in complex membranes
11:30 - 12:00 Evzen Boura
Hijacking of human co-factors by +RNA viruses to phosphorylate membranes: Structural and functional point of view
12:00 - 12:20 Gregor Anderluh, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana (sponsored)
Perforin interactions with lipid membranes
12:20 - 12:35 Remigiusz Worch
The role of conserved C-terminal residues of influenza fusion peptide in membrane fusion
12:35 - 19:00 LUNCH AND FREE TIME FOR EXCURSIONS
19:00 - 20:00 DINNER
20:00 - 22:00 POSTER SESSION II (even numbers presenting authors)
Saturday, May 13, 2017
KNOTTED BIOMOLECULES & POLYMERS Chairperson: Michael Feig
9:00 - 9:30 Patricia Jennings
The role of pierced lassos in modulating disease: Threading or folding?
9:30 - 10:00 Cristian Micheletti
Knots in biomolecules and in self-assembling systems
10:00 - 10:15 Joanna I. Sułkowska
Topological knots and links in proteins
PROTEINS IN ACTION Chairperson: M. Madan Babu & Joanna Trylska
10:15 - 10:45 Thomas Leonard
Allosteric activation and autoinhibition of Akt
10:45 - 11:15 COFFEE BREAK (long)
11:15 - 11:45 Diego U. Ferreiro
Quantifying energetic heterogeneities in repeat proteins
11:45 - 12:00 Michael Feig
Protein-protein interactions in crowded environments from simulation and experiment
12:00 - 12:15 Michał Rażew
Structure and function of the mitochondrial RNA degradosome mtEXO
12:15 - 12:30 Ksenia Maximova
Proteinase! Don’t touch our membranes!
12:30 - 12:45 Mateusz Sikora
Refining non-bonded interactions of carbohydrates in MARTINI forcefield, a combination of theory and experiment
12:45 - 14:30 LUNCH
METHODS IN BIOMOLECULAR SCIENCE Chairperson: Andrzej Kłoczkowski
14:30 - 15:00 Adam Liwo
Implementation of geometry-consistent local and correlation potentials in the UNRES force field
15:00 - 15:15 Bogdan Lesyng
Analysis of the dynamical properties of (bio)molecules – an approach towards a better understanding of their functionality
15:15 - 15:30 Peter Røgen
ProteinAlignmentObstruction – detecting and quantifying steric and topological obstructions to structural alignments of proteins
15:30 - 15:45 Maciej Paweł Ciemny
Modelling large-scale conformational changes in protein-peptide and protein-protein docking
15:45 - 16:00 Tomasz A. Kowalewski
Tumbling, rotating and coiling of nanofilaments in an oscillating microchannel flow
16:00 - 16:10 Ebtisam A. Aldaais
A decoupled mean-field theory for increased accuracy in estimating the intermolecular interactions in an inhomogeneous environment
16:10 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK (medium)
FINALE BIO-NANO Chairperson: Chris Johnson
16:30 - 17:00 Cornelia Palivan
Protein-polymer membranes as functional membranes for development of artificial organelles
17:00 - 17:30 Wiesław I. Gruszecki
Self-organization of molecules of antibiotic amphotericin B
17:30 - 17:45 Zuzana Garaiová
Carbosilane dendrons with entrapped gold nanoparticles as carriers for HIV-derived peptides - a possible HIV vaccination platform
17:45 - 18:15 COFFEE BREAK (long)
CLOSING LECTURE - EPS Invited Speaker Chairperson: Chris Johnson
18:15 - 19:00 Gerd Ulrich Nienhaus
Quantitative fluorescence microscopy of nanoparticles interacting with proteins and cells
19:00 - CONFERENCE CONCERT AND BANQUET
Sunday, May 14, 2015
Breakfast and departure to Zawiercie, Kraków (airport and city), Katowice airport