09:45-10:00 WELCOME

Chair : Carlo van Mierlo (Univ. of Wageningen, The Netherlands)

10:00-10:45 Sheena Radford (Astbury Cte Struct. Mol. Biol., Univ. Leeds, U.K.) “Exploiting protein-protein interactions to ameliorate amyloid disease”

10:45-11:15 COFFEE BREAK

11:15-12:00 Camille Goemans (de Duve Institute, U.C.Louvain, Belgique) “The uncommon strategy of a chaperone to protect its substrates from over-oxidation”

12:00-12:45  Karen Stroobants (University of Cambridge, U.K.) “Interacting with proteins, from artificial enzymes to amyloid fibrils”12:00-12:45

12:45-13:45 LUNCH

13:45 –14:30 Mireille Dumoulin (Centre for Protein Engineering, University of Liège, Belgium) “Use of Nanobodies to study protein misfolding and aggregation”

14:30-15:15 Kerensa Broersen (University of Twente, The Netherlands) “On the transmission of tau and aggregation of amyloid beta in Alzheimer-affected cellular interactions”

15:15-16:00 Stefan Rüdiger (Bijvoet Center Biomol. Res., Utrecht University, The Netherlands) “Mechanism of action of molecular chaperones in protein folding”

16:00 General assembly of the BBSc and RECEPTION

Contact: Prof André Matagne (amatagne@ulg.ac.be).

Registration is required via www.biophysics.be . Admission is free for members; non-members of the Biophysical Society (http://www.biophysics.be) should pay their membership (10 EUR to be paid to the account of the Belgian Biophysical Society, IBAN BE73 0000 1463 3660, BIC BPOTBE1, P/A Yves Engelborghs, Celestijnenlaan 200 G-box 2403, B3001 Leuven).