Biomolecules and Nanostructures 6

10-14 May 2017, Podlesice, Poland

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