ACCADEMIA NAZIONALE DEI LINCEI
FONDAZIONE «GUIDO DONEGANI»
IVANO BERTINI’s MEMORIAL CONFERENCE
STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
8 – 9 Aprile 2014
Comitato ordinatore: R. UGO, A. BALLIO, L. BANCI, M. BOLOGNESI, M. BRUNORI, S. CALIFANO, S. CARRÀ,
D. GATTESCHI, G. GIACOMETTI, C. LUCHINAT, G. MARINO, S. PONTREMOLI
Comitato organizzatore: L. BANCI, M. BRUNORI (Chair), D. GATTESCHI, C. LUCHINAT, G. MARINO
PROGRAMMA - INVITO
Tuesday, 8 April
14.00 Welcome addresses: the President of the Accademia dei Lincei and Renato UGO (Linceo, Milano)
14.30 Claudio LUCHINAT (Università di Firenze): Ivano Bertini's human and scientific legacy
Session 1 - Chairs: Israel PECHT (Rehovot, IL) - Sergio CARRÀ (Linceo, Milano)
15.00 Israel PECHT (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, IL): Proteins' three dimensional structures: more
avenues to functional insights?
15.10 Kurt WÜTHRICH (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2002, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA, and
ETH Zürich, CH): From inorganic chemistry to NMR with proteins
16.10 Henriette MOLINARI (Università di Verona): Intracellular lipid binding proteins as versatile hosts of small
hydrophobic ligands
16.55 Coffee break
Session 2 - Chairs: Maurizio BRUNORI (Linceo, Roma) - Dante GATTESCHI (Linceo, Firenze)
17.15 Lucia BANCI (Università di Firenze): From single proteins to cellular functions: the unique contribution of
NMR
18.00 The EMBO Lecture by Ada E. YONATH (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2009, Weizmann Institute of
Science, Rehovot, IL): Can Structures lead to better therapeutics?
19.00 Conclusion
Wednesday, 9 April
Session 3 - Chairs: Harry B. GRAY (Linceo, Pasadena, USA) - Sandro PONTREMOLI (Linceo, Genova)
9.15 David STUART (University of Oxford, UK): Integrated structural biology and viruses
10.00 Martino BOLOGNESI
vaccinology
10.45 Coffee break
(Linceo, Università di Milano): Chasing melioidosis antigens through structural
Session 4 - Chairs: Alessandro BALLIO (Linceo, Roma) - Gennaro MARINO (Linceo, Napoli)
11.15 Silvio AIME (Università di Torino): From relaxation enhancers to frequency-encoding agents: the role of
paramagnetic metal complexes in MRI
12.00 Maurizio BRUNORI (Linceo, Sapienza Università di Roma): Protein folding and binding dynamics
12.45 Break
Session 5 - Chairs: Vincenzo BARONE (Linceo, Pisa) - Vincenzo SCHETTINO (Linceo, Firenze)
14.00 Michele PARRINELLO (Linceo, ETH Zürich and USI Lugano, CH): Simulating millisecond processes
without special-purpose computers
14.45 Paolo CARLONI (German Research School for Simulation Sciences, Jülich, DE): Predicting conformational
ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins using molecular simulation
15.30 Coffee break
Session 6 - Chairs: Salvatore CALIFANO (Linceo, Firenze) - Giovanni GIACOMETTI (Linceo, Padova)
16.00 Anna TRAMONTANO (Sapienza Università di Roma): Macromolecular interactions: the computational
perspective
16.45 Alex PINES (University of California, Berkeley, USA): Hyperactive NMR
17.30 Harry B. GRAY (Linceo, Caltech, Beckman Institute, Pasadena, USA): Structures and dynamics of
metalloproteins: a tribute to Ivano Bertini
18.15 Closing of the conference
The Conference is organized with the support of
EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY ORGANIZATION
BRACCO IMAGING SPA
BRUKER BIOSPIN
SAPIO PRODUZIONE IDROGENO OSSIGENO SRL
ROMA
PALAZZO CORSINI - VIA DELLA LUNGARA, 10
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