Porto 2017 presentations
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Day 1 Wednesday , March 22
Welcome: Frederico Silva and Mário Barbosa, i3S Director
Overview: Patrick England, France
KEYNOTE with the support from Bionavis: Surface Plasmon Resonance and Optofluidics Characterization of Extracellular Vesicles. Fredrik Höök, Sweden
SESSION 1 MEMBRANES: LIPIDS, PROTEINS AND BEYOND
- Nicolas Mignard, Wyatt Technologies
- Building Bridges with Biophysics: antimicrobial peptides as new antibiotic paradigm – bridging biophysical approaches to their pathogen effects. Margarida Bastos, Portugal
- Interactions of amyloid oligomers with lipid membranes: Implications for cytotoxicity. Rima Budvytyte, Lithuania
- Real-time characterization of interactions between proteins and lipidic membranes: a 15 year overview of biosensor-based methods and applications. Patrick England, France
- David Witte, NanoTemper Technologies GmbH
Flash communications:
- Christine Ebel, France
- Bárbara Gomes, Portugal
- Marcin Makowski, Portugal
- Milos Mojovic, Serbia
- Marjetka Podobnik, Slovenia
- Tina Daviter and Tom Jowitt, UK
- Conformational changes governing dengue virus capsid protein function and its inhibition by pep14-23. Nuno C. Santos, Portugal
- Membrane physics behind bacterial cell membranes and their interactions with antimicrobial peptides characterized by electrochemical methods. Kaori Sugihara, Switzerland
Day 2 Thursday, March 23
SESSION 2 STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS
- Protein dynamics probed by site-directed spin labeling EPR: towards in cell studies. Valérie Belle, France
- From single living cells to tissues: bio-mechanical and bio-chemical analysis by simultaneous µ-Brillouin and µ-Raman spectroscopies. Silvia Caponi, Italy
- Structural Basis of Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Response to Cytochrome c Phosphorylation at position 48. Irene Díaz-Moreno, Spain
- Attila Aranyos, Pall ForteBio LLC
KEYNOTE with the support from Malvern: Viscosizer TD: From Proceedings of the Royal Society in the 1950s to advancing novel biophysical measurement capabilities for biologics in the twenty-first century. David Goodall, UK
- Protein quality control by infrared spectroscopy: towards high throughput with Infrared imaging of high density protein microarrays. Erik Goormaghtigh, Belgium
- The role of active site flexible loops in catalysis and of zinc in conformational stability of Bacillus cereus 569/H/9 b-lactamase. André Matagne, Belgium
STSM grantees communications:
- Sebastien Brule, France
- Nerijus Karalius, Lithuania
- Ondrej Skorepa, Czech Republic
- Maria Sunnerhagen, Sweden (on behalf of Alexandra Ahlner)
- Levente Szekeres, Hungary
SESSION 3 INTERACTION ANALYSIS
- Protein-Protein and Protein-DNA interactions by SwitchSENSE: comparison with other approaches. Paloma Fernández-Varela, France
- What does make an amyloid toxic: morphology, structure or interaction with membrane? Sophie Lecomte, France
- Elucidating protein-polymer interactions using QCM-D and MP-SPR. Iliane Rafaniello, Spain
- Hanna Mueller-Landau, Dynamic Biosensors GmbH
KEYNOTE with the support from Beckman-Coulter: Measuring Interactions in the Solution Phase: Adding a Spectral Dimension to Analytical Ultracentrifugation. Borries Demeler, USA
- Precision of the isothermal titration calorimetry technique and a database of protein–ligand binding enthalpies, entropies, Gibbs energies, and crystallographic structures for drug design. Daumantas Matulis, Lithuania
- MST as a standard tool in modern drug discovery operations. Alexey Rak, France
Flash communications:
- Francesca Cutruzzolà, Italy
- Nadica Ivoševic DeNardis, Croatia
- Vaněk Ondřej, Czech Republic
- Marcelo T. Augusto, Portugal
- Clare Stevenson, UK
KEYNOTE: Quality management for Research Infrastructures and their platforms. Auriane Denis-Meyere, France