Programme
March 31st, Monday
08:30
Registration
10:00
Opening session
10:20 – 12:40
Chairpersons:
Session I
Structural Biology
Giuseppe Zanotti (Padova) – Martino Bolognesi (Milano) – Menico
Rizzi (Novara)
10:20
Guillermo Montoya (Madrid, Spain)
Structural insignts into the TRiC/CTT complex function and
mechanism
10:50
Sebastiano Pasqualato (Milano)
Structural insight into the mechanism of action of Nedd4 family HECT
ubiquitin ligases
11:20
Roberto Battistutta (Padova)
Structural basis of protein kinase CK2 regulation by autoinhibitory
oligomerization
11:40
Nicola Doniselli (Parma)
Synergic and opposite effects of two stringent response modulators on
bacterial transcriptional initiation complexes
12:00
Vincenzo De Filippis (Padova)
Novel Interactions of Thrombin
12:20
Stefano Stella (Madrid)
BuD, a novel DNA-binding domain for genome modification
12:40
Lunch – NH Mantegna Restaurant (12th floor)
14:00 – 16:00
Chairpersons:
14:00
Session II
Enzymology
Loredano Pollegioni (Varese) – Andrea Mozzarelli (Parma)
Nicholas Turner (Manchester, UK)
Design and Evolution of New Biocatalysts for Organic Synthesis
Programme
14:30
Riccardo Percudani (Parma)
Identification and characterization of enzymes for their use in a genetic
form of hyperuricemia
15:00
Francesca Valletti (Torino)
A novel [FeFe]-hydrogenase from c. perfringens. Characterization and
immobilization on TiO2 electrodes as catalyst for hydrogen producing
devices
15:20
Deborah Balzano (Madrid)
Mechanisms of Phosphorylation of Protein Kinase B
15:40
Stefano Bruno (Parma)
Targeting Cystalysin, a virulence factor of treponema denticola-supported
peridontitis
16:00
Coffee break (bar, ground floor) and Poster session (1st floor)
17:40
Sponsored Presentation – NanoTemper
18:00 – 19:00
Chairperson:
Plenary Lecture
Silvia Onesti (Trieste)
18:00
Musa Mhlanga (Pretoria, South Africa)
Chromosomal Contact Permits Transcription between Co-regulated Genes
20:00
Social Dinner – NH Mantegna Restaurant (12th floor)
April 1st, Tuesday
0900 – 11:30
Chairpersons:
Session III
Protein Folding and Misfolding
Vittorio Bellotti (Pavia) – Stefano Gianni (Roma)
09:00
John Christodoulou (London, UK)
Protein folding on the ribosome
09:30
Stefano Piana-Agostinetti (New York, USA)
Long-timescale equilibrium simulations of protein folding
10:00
Coffee Break (bar, ground floor)
10:30
Laura Tosatto (Cambridge, UK)
Single molecule fluorescence approach to investigate alpha-synuclein
oligomer formation
Programme
10:50
Stefano Ricagno (Milano)
D76N Beta-2 microglobulin an amyloidogenic and pathologic mutant
(clues on the native and on the fibrillar states)
11:10
Elisa Bianchini (Padova)
Smalls molecules “to cure” -sarcoglycan mutated protein: new perspectives
for a neglected muscular dystrophy
11:30
Poster session (1st floor)
12:30
Lunch – NH Mantegna Restaurant (12th floor)
14:00 – 16:00
Session IV
Computational Biology
Chairpersons:
Rita Casadio (Bologna) – Silvio C.E. Tosatto (Padova)
14:00
Alex Bateman (Cambridge, UK)
Why biologists should care about Wikipedia
14:30
Gianni Cesareni (Roma)
Combining protein interaction and logic networks to understand the
anti-tumor activity of the anti-diabetic drug metformin
15:00
Gustavo Parisi (Quilmes, Argentina)
Conformational diversity: the missing link in protein structure prediction
15:20
Antonio Trovato (Padova)
The BACH scoring function: a common approach to evaluate the quality
and predict the affinity of protein complexes
15:40
Massimo Bellanda (Padova)
Structural peculiarities of monothiol Grx1 from the parassite Trypanosoma
brucei
16:00
Closing Remarks