Programme

An overview of the programme for the conference can be viewed below. As speakers are confirmed, details will be added to the programme. Here is some other practical information regarding the schedule of the conference.

  • The conference will open on at 14:00 on Monday the 5th of June and end at 12:30 on Wednesday the 7th of June.
  • The conference will take place at the Patio de la Infanta, Zaragoza.
  • Participants are invited to a conference dinner on the evening of the 6th of June.
  • For MOSBRI partners only, the general assembly will take place on the afternoon of the 7th June, starting at 14:00.

After the conclusion of the conference, many of the presentations from the conference will be available to view online.

Monday 5th June 2023

13:30Welcome coffee
14:00Opening/Welcome

SESSION 1: Protein stability, quality control and standards
Organisers: EMBL-SPC, EMBL, Hamburg, DE and AU-SRCD, Aarhus University, Aarhus, DK
Chair(s): María García (EMBL-SPC), Søren Vrønning Hoffmann (AU-SRCD, Aarhus, DK)
14:15
Andre Matagne

University of Liège, Belgium
Talk
14:40How and why do we develop standard proteins?
Maelenn Chevreuil

Molecular Biophysics, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Talk
15:05

TNA beneficiary or
Selected poster
15:20

TNA beneficiary or
Selected poster
15:35Applied Photophysics

Company presentation
15:45Calneos

Company presentation
15:55Coffee break
SESSION 2 Redesigning Biomolecules to improve performance
Organisers: Malvern, Malvern, UK and BIFI-LACRIMA, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, ES
Chair(s): Natalia Markova (MALVERN) and Adrián Velázquez-Campoy (BIFI-LACRIMA)
16:30Tuning protein stability through charged mutations and multivalent excipients
Matja Zalar

University of Maribor, Slovenia
Talk
16:55Protein stabilization made simple: new bioinformatics tools for stability design
Javier Sancho

University of Zaragoza, Spain
Talk
17:20

TNA beneficiary or
Selected poster
17:35

TNA beneficiary or
Selected poster
17:50Fox Biosystems

Company presentation
18:00Nanotemper

Company presentation
18:10Poster / networking session and cocktail dinner

Tuesday 6th June 2023

08:30Welcome coffee
SESSION 3 Macromolecular interactions: kinetics and thermodynamics
Organisers: ISMB-BIOPHYSX, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK and BIFI-LACRIMA, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, ES
Chair(s): Mark Williams (ISMB-BIOPHYSX) and Maria Sunnerhagen (ProLinC)
09:00Intrinsically disordered regions in proteins: Implications for physiology and drug discovery
Adrián Velázquez-Campoy

University of Zaragoza, Spain
Talk
09:25Four different biophysical methods and simulations reveal that protein quaternary structures in solution are a mixture of multiple forms
Gideon Schreiber

Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Talk
09:50

TNA beneficiary or
Selected poster
10:05

TNA beneficiary or
Selected poster
10:20Dynamic Biosensors

Company presentation
10:30Fluidic Analytics

Company presentation
10:40Coffee break
SESSION 4 Architecture of macromolecular assemblies, allostery and protein dynamics
Organisers: EPR-MRS, CNRS & Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, FR and Pasteur-PFBMI, Institut Pasteur, Paris, FR
Chair(s): Pierre DORLET (EPR-MRS) and Bertrand RAYNAL (Pasteur-PFBMI)
11:15Role of allostery and oligomerization in tuning one-component systems controlling bacterial biofilm maintenance
Serena Rinaldo

Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Talk
11:40The role of highly dynamic regions from PP2A inhibitors in orchestrating the binding to respiratory cytochrome c
Irene Díaz-Moreno

Universidad de Sevilla, Spain
Talk
12:05

TNA beneficiary or
Selected poster
12:20

TNA beneficiary or
Selected poster
12:35Wyatt

Company presentation
12:45RedShiftBio

Company presentation
12:55lunch
SESSION 5 Single molecule and time resolved analyses
Organisers: RUG-BP, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, Groningen, NL and DSB-UROM – Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, IT
Chair(s): Francesca Cutruzzola (DSB-UROM), Wouter H. Roos (RUG-BP)
14:00Protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions in nucleotide metabolism
Francesca Cutruzzola

Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Talk
14:25Single Molecule Manipulation and Imaging of complex DNA-protein interaction
Gijs Wuite

Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Talk
14:50

TNA beneficiary or
Selected poster
15:05

TNA beneficiary or
Selected poster
15:20Lumicks

Company presentation
15:30Refeyn

Company presentation
15:40Coffee break
SESSION 6 Membranes and condensates
Organisers: NIC, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, SI and ULB, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, BE
Chair(s): Gregor Anderluh (NIC) and Felix M. Goñi
16:15Ceramide effects on lipid bilayer dynamics and structure
Felix M. Goñi

Biofísika Institute, Leioa, Spain
Talk
16:40Modification of pore-forming toxins and their interactions with lipid membranes by directed evolution and insertion of non-canonical amino acids
Ana Crnković

National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Talk
17:05

TNA beneficiary or
Selected poster
17:20

TNA beneficiary or
Selected poster
17:35Poster / networking session

20:00Congress dinner

Wednesday 7th June 2023

08:30Welcome coffee
SESSION 7 Molecular bioimaging
Organisers: LAMBS, Universita Degli Studi Di Genova, Genoa, IT
Chair(s): Claudio Canale (LAMBS) and Ornella Cavalleri (University of Genova, Italy)
09:00Binding strategies of SARS-Cov-2 spike variants viewed on the single molecule level
Peter Hinterdorfer

Institut of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University (JKU) Linz, Austria
Talk
09:25From super-resolution to correlative microscopy, studying the effects of photosensitizers in cells and pathogens.
Paolo Bianchini

Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy
Talk
09:50

TNA beneficiary or
Selected poster
10:05

TNA beneficiary or
Selected poster
10:20Bruker Daltonics

Company presentation
10:30I&L Biosystems

Company presentation
10:40Group Photo

10:45Coffee break
SESSION 8 Computational approaches in biophysics
Organisers: MoB-IBT, Institute of Biotechnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Vestec, CZ and AFFINImeter, Santiago de Compostela, ES
Chair(s): Emil Dandanell Agerschou (MoB-IBT) and Juan Sabin (AFFINImeter)
11:15Shining a Light on Dynamic Data: From generation to interpretation
Osvaldo Burastero

EMBL Hamburg, Germany
Talk
11:40Making integrative structures accessible through PDB-Dev: From single molecules to dynamic macromolecular assemblies
Brinda Vallat

RCSB PDB at Rutgers, The State university of New Jersey, USA
Talk
12:05

TNA beneficiary or
Selected poster
12:20

TNA beneficiary or
Selected poster
12:35Concluding remarks