Program
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| Sunday September 4, 2011 | ||
| chairperson: Marek Cieplak | ||
| 15:00 - 22:00 | Registration | |
| 18:00 | Welcome reception - garden party | |
| 19:30 - 20:30 | I-1 David B. Searls, University of Pennsylvania, USA Macromolecules, Languages, and Automata | |
| 20:30 - 20:40 | Anna Niedźwiecka, Institute of Physics, PAS;
University of Warsaw, Poland The NanoFun Project | |
| 20:40 - 22:00 | Dinner at bonfire | |
| Monday September 5, 2011 | ||
| chairperson: Marek Cieplak | ||
| 9:00 - 9:40 | I-2 Bertrand Garcia-Moreno, Department of Biophysics, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, USA Charges in the Hydrophobic Interior of Proteins | |
| 9:50 - 10:25 | I-3 Mariusz Jaskólski, Faculty of Chemistry, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan,
Poland Structure and Function of Chito-oligosaccharide N-Methylase: a Small Step Towards Understanding Plant-Bacterium Symbiosis | |
| 10:25 - 10:50 | Coffee break | |
| chairperson: Mariusz Jaskólski | ||
| 10:50 - 11:25 | I-4 Ard A. Louis, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Oxford University, UK Coarse-grained Model for Self-assembling DNA | |
| 11:30 - 12:05 | I-5 Mariano Carrion-Vazquez, Cajal Institute, Madrid, Spain The Nanomechanics of Neurotoxic Proteins | |
| 12:10 - 12:45 | I-6 Michał Dadlez, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Warsaw, Poland Ion Mobility Separation Coupled with MS Detects Two Structural States of Alzheimer's Disease Aβ1-40 Peptide Oligomers | |
| 12:45 - 15:00 | Lunch | |
| chairperson: Cornelia G. Palivan | ||
| 15:00 - 15:35 | I-7 Dror Noy, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel Light Energy Harvesting and Dissipation in de novo Designed Bacteriochlorophyll Proteins | |
| 15:40 - 16:15 | I-8 Wiesław I. Gruszecki, Institute of Physics, Maria Curie-Sklodowska
University, Lublin Regulation of Excitation Density at the Level of Single Photosynthetic Antenna Complex LHCII | |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Coffee break | |
| chairperson: Bertrand Garcia-Moreno | ||
| 16:45 - 17:20 | I-9 Daniel Reich, Department of Physics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA Probing Sub-Cellular Force Dynamics with Arrays of Magnetic Microposts | |
| 17:25 - 18:00 | I-10 Harald Janovjak, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg,
Austria Optical Control of Cellular Signaling | |
| 18:05 - 18:40 | I-11 Sophie Jackson, Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University, UK A Tangled Problem: the Structure, Function and Folding of Knotted Proteins | |
| 18:40 - 19:40 | Dinner | |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Poster Session 1 (P1 - P20) | |
| Tuesday September 6, 2011 | ||
| chairperson: Harald Janovjak | ||
| 9:00 - 9:35 | I-12 Joanna Sułkowska, University of California, San Diego, USA Folding and Unfolding of Proteins with Knots | |
| 9:40 - 10:15 | I-13 Emanuele Paci, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, School of Physics and Astronomy, Univeristy of Leeds, Leeds, UK Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Mechanics of Structured and Unstructured Polypeptides | |
| 10:20 - 10:55 | I-14 Pilar Cossio, SISSA, Trieste, Italy Enhanced Sampling of Proteins' Conformational Space beyond the PDB | |
| 10:55 - 11:15 | Coffee break | |
| chairperson: Andrzej Sienkiewicz | ||
| 11:15 - 11:50 | I-15 Cornelia Palivan, Department of Chemistry, University of Basel, Switzerland Enzyme - Containing Nanoreactors | |
| 11:55 - 12:30 | I-16 Marcin Nowotny, International Institute of Molecular and cell Biology in
Warsaw Structural Studies of DNA Repair | |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30 - 17:15 | Excursion | |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Coffee break | |
| chairperson: Anna Niedźwiecka | ||
| 17:30 - 18:05 | I-17 Andrzej Dziembowski, Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Warsaw, Poland Biochemical and Structural Analysis of Protein Complexes Involved in RNA Metabolism | |
| 18:10 - 18:45 | I-18 Ryszard W. Adamiak, Institue of Bioorganic Chemistry, Poznan, Poland HIV-2 Leader RNA Structure: the Interplay Between Experiment and Modeling | |
| 18:50 - 19:25 | I-19 Ryszard Stolarski, Univeristy of Warsaw, Poland eIF4E Recognition Specificity for Mono- and Trimethylated Structures of mRNA 5'cap - an Open Question | |
| 19:30 - 20:15 | Dinner | |
| 20:15 - 22:00 | Poster Session 2 (P21 - P37) | |
| Wednesday September 7, 2011 | ||
| chairperson: Daniel H. Reich | ||
| 9:00 - 9:40 | I-20 Jose Onuchic, University of California San Diego, USA Exploring the Landscape for Protein Folding: from Function to Molecular Machines | |
| 9:45 - 10:20 | I-21 Christopher M. Johnson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK Fluctuation Correlation Spectroscopy: from Peptides to Molecular Machines | |
| 10:25 - 11:00 | I-22 Jose Maria Valpuesta, Centro Nacional de Biotechnologia, CSIC, Madrid, Spain Molecular Chaperones: Nanomachines in the Protein Folding Assembly Line | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee break | |
| chairperson: Emanuele Paci | ||
| 11:30 - 12:05 | I-23 Thomas Weikl, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam Discrete Energy Landscapes in Protein Folding and Function | |
| 12:10 - 12:45 | I-24 Marek Langner, Institute of Physics, Wroclaw Technical University, Poland Lipid Bilayer - the Simplest Biological System | |
| 12:50 - 13:25 | I-25 Paolo De los Rios, Ecole Polytechnique Lausanne, Switzerland Protein Rehabilitation by the Hsp70 Chaperone | |
| 13:25 - 15:00 | Lunch | |
| chairperson: Sophie Jackson | ||
| 15:00 - 15:35 | I-26 Dimitrios Fotiadis, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine,
University of Bern, Switzerland Membrane Protein Structure Determination by High-resolution Microscopy Techniques | |
| 15:40 - 16:15 | I-27 Ramunas Valiokas, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius, Lithuania Nanopatterning of Soft Surfaces for Organizing Proteins and Cells | |
| 16:20 - 16:55 | I-28 Piotr Szymczak, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland Protein Translocation Through a Pore | |
| 16:55 - 17:30 | Coffee break | |
| Main lecture place, chairperson: Ryszard Stolarski | ||
| 17:30 - 18:05 | I-29 Dorota Wolicka, Warsaw University, Faculty of Geology, Warsaw, Poland Mineralogical Processes under Sulphate Reducing Condition in Soils Contaminated by Crude Oil | |
| 18:10 - 18:45 | I-30 Joanna Wesoły, Biology Department, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań,
Poland Signal Transducers and Activators of Transcription in Renal Transplantation and Renal Cell Carcinoma | |
| 18:50 - 19:30 | I-31 Mikołaj Olejniczak, Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry PAS, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland The Kinetic and Thermodynamic Framework of the Chaperone Protein Hfq Interactions with Bacterial RNAs | |
| Poster room place, chairperson: Ard A. Louis | ||
| 17:30 - 17:55 | I-34 Ulrich H.E. Hansmann, Department of Physics, Michigan Technological University, USA Enhanced Sampling in Protein Simulations | |
| 18:00 - 18:25 | I-32 Andrzej Koliński, Chemistry Department, Warsaw University, Poland Modeling of Protein Folding and Docking Pathways - a Multiscale Approach | |
| 18:30 - 18:55 | I-33 Kay-Eberhard Gottschalk, Department of Experimental Physics, University of Ulm, Germany Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Interactions of Amino Acids and Proteins with Gold Surfaces | |
| 19:00 - 19:25 | I-35 Paul Barker, University of Cambridge, Chemistry Department, UK Control of Protein Fibril Superstructure by the Conformation of Pendant Domains | |
| 19:45 | Conference banquet | |
