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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