Organizing Committee: | ||
Kostas Poulas | ||
Stavros Topouzis | ||
Kostas Flytzanis | ||
John Matsoukas | ||
Georgios Spyroulias | ||
Conference & Cultural Center | ||
WEDNSESDAY 9th MAY2012 | ||
15:30 – 17:15 |
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Chairpersons | J. Matsoukas (Patras, Hellas) & I. Margiolaki (Patras, Hellas) | |
15:30 – 16:05 | The importance of a “Chemical Reverse Approach” to modulate peptide secondary structures inducing specific and high affinity biological recognition Prof. Anna-Maria Papini Department of Chemistry Ugo Schiff, University of Florence, Italy | |
16:05 – 16:35 | Regulation of MDM2 Function by p110b/LSD1 | |
16:35 – 16:55 | Microwave-assisted approach in solid-phase peptide synthesis: case study of PTHrP(1-34)NH2 | |
16:55 – 17:10 | Coffee Break | |
17:10 – 18:50 | 2nd Session: Peptides and Protein Production for Structural Studies | |
Chairpersons | F. Rizzolo (Florence, Italy) & T. Tselios (Patras, Hellas) | |
17:10 – 17:45 | An unorthodox molecular approach to the targeting of proteins in vitro and in vivo using synthetic polypeptides conjugated to small organic molecules. | |
17:45 – 18:10 | Macromolecular Powder Diffraction: Current Status & Future Prospect | |
18:10 – 18:30 | Protein production & labeling strategies for Biomolecular NMR studies | |
18:30 – 18:50 | Expression of Cys-loop receptors in prokaryotic & eukaryotic systems | |
20:30 – 22:30 | Social Event - Cultural & Conference Center of the University of Patras | |
THURSDAY 10th MAY2012 | ||
09:45 – 11:50 | 3rd Session: Protein Production in Prokaryotic & Eukaryotic systems | |
Chairpersons | A. Papapetropoulos (Patras, Hellas) & S. Topouzis (Patras, Hellas) | |
09:45 – 10:20 | Smelling Vibrations | |
10:20 – 10:55 | Multiple functions of polysaccharide deacetylases from Bacillus anthracis | |
10:55 – 11:30 | Insect cell-based expression technologies as tools for structural and functional analysis of eukaryotic proteins | |
11:30 – 11:50 | Antisense Masking Reveals Contributions of mRNA-rRNA Base Pairing to Translation of GTX and FGF2 mRNAs | |
11:50 – 12:10 | Coffee Break | |
12:10 – 13:50 | 4th Session:Protein Production & Structural Studies of Biomolecules | |
Chairpersons | K. Poulas (Patras, Hellas) & G.A. Spyroulias (Patras, Hellas) | |
12:10 – 12:45 | General principles of heterologous protein production systems – A case study | |
12:45 – 13:20 | Mechanism of activity regulation in calcium/calmodulin regulated protein kinases | |
13:20 – 13:50 | Structural biology sheds light on biocatalysts function | |
13:50 – 15:30 | Light lunch & Coffee | |
15:30 – 16:50 | FP7 Info Session | |
Chairperson | G.A. Spyroulias (Patras, Hellas) | |
New FP7 calls in HEALTH, IDEAS (for health Sciences), Marie Curie & Enterprise Europe Network-Hellas - Discussion | ||
16:30 – 18:05 | 5th Session: Structure-Activity Correlation Studies of Biomolecules | |
Chairpersons | K. Poulas (Patras, Hellas), T. Tselios (Patras, Hellas) | |
16:30 – 17:05 | Protein Modules Involved in Chromatin Remodeling: Structures and Interactions with Chromatin Components | |
17:05 – 17:20 | Lessons from the small RNAs role in plant biochemistry for human diseases’ cure | |
17:20 – 17:35 | Crucial role of granulocytic myeloid-derived suppressor cells in the regulation of central nervous system autoimmune disease | |
17:35 – 17:50 | The Nrf2 antioxidant system in the thyroid gland | |
17:50 – 18:05 | Future Networking Activities of the SEE-DRUG project – The 2nd SEE-DRUG Workshop |
You can download the program of the meeting in PDF format here