(New) The Book Of Abstracts is available in PDF 
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| Chemical-Biology section | Molecular assemblies section | ||
| 9:30-10:00 |
Dr Gonçalo Bernardes (University of Cambridge): "Chemistry on Proteins for Basic Biology and Protein Therapeutics" |
Prof. Alfonso de Simone (Imperial College London): "Recognition and Binding by Intrinsically Disordered Proteins" |
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10:00-10:30 |
Dr Francisco Corzana (Universidad de La Rioja): "Design of novel cancer vaccines based on MUC1" |
Prof. Germán Rivas (CIB, CSIC): "Systems biochemistry of bacterial division: Reconstructing minimal divisomes in the test tube" |
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10:30-11:00 |
Dr Maria Barile (University of Bari): "Biosynthesis of flavin cofactors in humans and model organisms. Importance for mitochondriopathies" |
Coffee break |
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11:00-11:30 |
Coffee break |
Prof. Salvador Ventura (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona): "Repositioning Tolcapone as a potent inhibitor of transthyretin amyloidogenesis and associated cellular toxicity" |
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11:30-12:00 |
Dr Iñaki Delso: "Study of the molecular recognition of novel fungal transglycosylase ligands" Matilde de las Rivas: "Deciphering the non-equivalence of serine and threonine O-glycosilation points in biological systems" |
Dr Douglas Laurents (Instituto Quimica-Física "Rocasolano, CSIC): "Structure of TDP-43's Q/N-rich Motif and N-terminal Domain"
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| 12:00-12:30 |
Rafael Clavería: "Disordered regions in MeCP2 contribute to its structural stability" Fátima Lucas: "How experiments and molecular simulations can help understand selective C25-hydroxylation of vitamin D by fungal peroxygenases" |
Closing lecture: Prof. Juan Hermoso (Instituto Quimica-Física "Rocasolano, CSIC): "Structural basis for the allosteric mechanism controlling antibiotics resistance in PBP2A from MRSA" |
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| 12:30-13:00 |
Dr Valerie Belle: "Site Directed Spin labeling EPR spectroscopy to probe recognition mechanisms between a molybdoenzyme and its dedicated chaperone" Chiara Pallara: "Characterization of protein interactions of biological interest: insights from computational models" |
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| 13:00-13:30 |
María Fillat (Universidad de Zaragoza): "Fur (ferric uptake regulator) proteins: a versatile family of transcriptional regulators with novel activities" |
Concluding remarks (Prof. Javier Sancho, BIFI) |
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| 13:30-14:30 |
Lunch break
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| 14:30-15:00 |
Inscription |
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| 15:00-15:30 |
Welcome ceremony |
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Advanced Technical Developments |
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15:30-16:00 |
Opening Lecture: Prof. Jesús Jiménez-Barbero (CIC BIOGUNE, Bilbao): "NMR and molecular recognition. Glycan-protein interactions" |
Dr. Rafael Fernández Leiro (University of Cambridge): "The bacterial DNA replication machine caught in the act by cryo-EM" |
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16:00-16:30 |
Dr Steven F. Lee (University of Cambridge): "New single-molecule & super-resolution tools for imaging single biomolecules" |
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Advanced Computational Developments |
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16:30-17:00 |
Prof. Isabel Usón (IBMB): "ARCIMBOLDO and BORGES: Supercomputing Methods for Macromolecular Crystallographic Ab Initio Phasing" |
Dr Raúl Pacheco (MALVERN): "Microcalorimetry: A versatile tool for the characterization of biomolecular interactions" |
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17:00-17:30 |
Coffee break |
Coffee break |
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17:30-18:00 |
Dr Gonzalo Jiménez-Osés (Universidad de La Rioja): "Active site structure and dynamics in designed and evolved enzymes" |
Valentín Iglesias: "PrionW: a server for the prediction of prion-like domains and their amyloid cores" Pedro Latorre: "c.A2456C-substitution in Pck1 changes the enzyme kinetic and functional properties modifying fat distribution in pigs" |
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18:00-18:30 |
Prof. Steve Perkins (University College London): "CCP-SAS – a community consortium for the atomistic modelling of scattering data: example applications" |
Dr Eva Muñoz (AFFINIMETER): "AFFINImeter: an advanced analytical tool to characterize molecular interactions" |
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| 18:30-19:00 |
Poster Session |
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| 19:00-19:30 |
Prof. Vicente Rubio (Instituto de Biomedicina de Valencia, CSIC): "Macromolecular structure, function and inborn metabolic errors: a bidirectional path to discovery" |
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| 19:30-20:00 |
BIFI Council Meeting |
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| 20:00-20:30 |