All posters can viewed during the whole time of the conference. Please, place your poster immediately after arrival and dismount it after the CLOSING LECTURE

 
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 - 19:50 Vladimir Uversky
Unusual biophysics and strange biology of intrinsic disorder

20:00 - 22:00 DINNER AT BONFIRE

 

MISFOLDING AND DISORDER                                    Chairperson: Anna Niedźwiecka

9:00 - 9:40 Sheena E. Radford
Seeing amyloid: Beautiful structures and toxic mechanisms

9:40 - 10:10 Nathalie Sibille
Interplay of protein disorder in retinoic acid receptor heterodimer and its coregulators in gene expression

10:10 - 10:40 Paul Robustelli
Elucidating molecular recognition mechanisms of intrinsically disordered proteins at atomistic resolution

10:40 - 11:00 Łukasz Mioduszewski
Intrinsically disordered proteins in an α-C-based coarse-grained model

11:00 - 11:20 COFFEE BREAK (medium)

FOLDING AND ORDER                                                         Chairperson: Marek Cieplak

11:20 - 11:50 George D. Rose
Protein folding: a different perspective

11:50 - 12:20 Flavio Seno
Correlation between self-entanglement and amino acid sequence in proteins

12:20 - 12:40 Artur Biela
An extremely stable, inducible protein cage with “impossible” geometry

12:40 - 14:30 LUNCH

BETWEEN ORDER AND DISORDER (CONFORMATIONAL DYNAMICS)           Chairperson: Bertrand Garcia-Moreno

14:30 - 15:00 Annalisa Pastore
Electrostatic frustration of cold denaturation

15:00 - 15:30 Meni Wanunu
Nanopores and light: controlling light, temperature, and force on single biomolecules

15:30 - 16:00 Marina Guenza
Protein dynamics: fluctuations and binding

16:00 - 16:30 COFFEE BREAK (long)

(LARGER) COMPLEXES AND (BROADER) CONTEXTS           Chairperson: Feng Gai

16:30 - 17:00 Andrzej Joachimiak
Social life of microbial communities and the contact-dependent growth inhibition system

17:00 - 17:30 Mikael Oliveberg
Physicochemical code for protein solubility in live cells and adaptation to extreme environments

17:30 - 17:50 Tymoteusz Oleniecki
PyDesc: environment for contact-oriented analysis of biopolymer structures

17:50- 18:10 Mateusz Sikora
Sticking together - structure and regulation of cadherin-mediated cell-cell adhesion

18:30 - 20:00 DINNER

20:00 - 22:00 POSTER SESSION I (odd numbers presenting authors)

 

NEW APPLICATIONS AND APPROACHES (TO THE BIO-NANO WORLD)        Chairperson: Andrzej Kłoczkowski

9:00 - 9:30 Emma Danelius
MicroED: conception, practice and future opportunities

9:30 - 9:50 Jonathan Heddle
Building new nanostructures of life

9:50 - 10:20 Joanna Niedziółka-Jonsson
Plasmonic structures for biosensing

10:20 - 10:40 Kamil Awsiuk
ToF-SIMS characterization of polymer-protein biointerface properties

10:40 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK (medium)

PROTEINS AND DRUGS (IN ACTION)                                      Chairperson: Andrzej Joachimiak

11:00 - 11:30 Władek Minor
Impact of reproducibility and artificial intelligence on structure based drug discovery

11:30 - 12:00 Wiesław Nowak
Towards light control of insulin release. Computational and bioinformatics modeling of photoactive drugs action

12:00 - 12:20 Bogdan Lesyng
A quantum-classical molecular dynamics simulation study of the enzymatic process involving KPC β-lactamase and a model ligand for a novel class of boron-based antibiotics

12:20 - 13:30 LUNCH

13:30 - 14:00 Tomas Obsil
Allosteric regulation of enzyme activity by 14-3-3 proteins

14:00 - 14:20 Veronika Obsilova
14-3-3 protein masks the nuclear localization sequence of caspase-2

14:20 - 14:40 Piotr Setny
Cholesterol dependence of influenza virus fusion peptide behaviour within lipid bilayers

14:40 - 18:30 FREE TIME FOR EXCURSION

18:30 - 20:00 DINNER

20:00 - 22:00 POSTER SESSION II (even numbers presenting authors)

 

LIGHT ON SINGLE-MOLECULES                                             Chairperson: Simon Alberti

9:00 - 9:30 Sua Myong
Single molecule fluorescence detection of protein-nucleic acid interactions

9:30 - 10:00 Feng Gai
Site-specific interrogation of protein conformational dynamics

10:00 - 10:20 Andres M. Vera
Cohesin-dockerin: a multi-faceted protein-protein interaction at the core of the autoassembly of cellulosomes protein complexes

10:20 - 10:40 COFFEE BREAK (medium)

PROTEINS IN THE WORLD OF NUCLEIC ACIDS                     Chairperson: Adam Liwo

10:40 - 11:10 Shoji Takada
Nucleosome dynamics: sliding, eviction, and disassembly

11:10 - 11:40 Marcin Nowotny
Dynamic conformational readout of DNA sequence in DNA repair and reverse transcription

11:40 - 12:00 Karolina M. Górecka
RuvC resolvase: from structure to mechanism of action

12:10 - 14:30 LUNCH

14:30 - 15:00 Paul Whitford
Quantifying collective dynamics in the ribosome

15:00 - 15:30 Andrzej Dziembowski
Regulation of gene expression by non-canonical poly(A) and poly(U) polymerases

15:30 - 15:50 Małgorzata Figiel
Coordination between the polymerase and RNase H activity of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase and the mechanism of polypurine tract primer generation

15:50 - 16:10 COFFEE BREAK (medium)

FINALE - MOLECULAR SWITCHES                                         Chairperson: Sua Myong

16:10 - 16:40 Bertrand Garcia-Moreno
Electrostatic principles for the engineering of pH switch proteins

16:40 - 17:10 Simon Alberti
A phosphorylation-controlled conformational switch drives stress granule formation by unlocking RNA multivalency

17:10 - 17:40 COFFEE BREAK (long)

CLOSING LECTURE - EPS INVITED SPEAKER                       Chairperson: Chris Johnson

17:40 - 18:30 Dennis E. Discher
Nanoscience & engineering of “self” recognition by microphages

18:30 - CONFERENCE BANQUET

 

Breakfast and departure to Gdańsk (airport and city)