Hours

10/07 - Thursday

11/07 - Friday

12/07 - Saturday

13/07 - Sunday

Symp. I
(Memb. Dom.)

Symp. III
(Prot. Struct.)

Symp. II
(Lipid-prot.)

Symp. VII
(Comp.Biol)

Symp. V
(Mol.Bioener.)

Symp. X
(Nanobiophys.)

Coffe break

Coffe break

Coffe break

Symp. I -Cont.

Symp. II - Cont

Symp. V- Cont

11h45

Posters Symp. I - IV e IX
Lunch

Posters Symp. V - VII e X
Lunch

Plenary Lecture IV
Closing

Registration

Symp. VI
(Carriers...)

Symp. IV
(Prot. Fold.)

Symp. IX
(Supr.Assem.)

Symp. VIII
(Mol.Basis)

16h30

Coffe break

Coffe break

Reception

17h45

Plenary Lecture I

Plenary Lecture II

Plenary Lecture III

18h30

Bruker prize lecture SBE

General assembly SPBf, SBE, BBS

Congress dinner

Membrane Domains

Manuel Prieto (IST-UTL, Lisbon, PT)

"Ceramide, sphingomyelin and unsaturated lipids in the absence of cholesterol: Phase diagrams, gel phases and their biological relevance"

Felix Goñi (UPV, Bilbao, SP)

"Characterizing the sphyngomyelinase and phospholipase activities of Clostridium perfringens alpha-toxin"

Paul O'Shea (U. Nottingham, UK)

"Microdomains in cells and model membranes:

if they exist are they the same?"

Lipid -Protein Interactions

Cristina Casals (U. Complutense, Madrid, SP)

"Lipid-protein interactions at the alveolar interface"

Paula Gameiro (U. Porto, Porto, PT)

"E.coli outer membrane proteins in liposomes: a mimetic model for antibiotic translocation"

Anthony G. Lee (U. Southampton, Southampton, UK)

"The importance of lipids for Ion Channel Function"

Protein Structure Energetics and Dynamics

Gordon Roberts (U. Leicester,, Leicester, UK) 

"Domain movement and electron transfer in cytochrome P450 reductase"

Nico A.J. van Nuland (U. Granada, Granada, SP)

"Multiplicity in ligand binding: the SH3 domains of CD2AP"

Maria João Romão (U. Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, PT)

"The celullosome: a multi-enzymatic and dynamic machine for the

degradation of cellulose"

Gian G. Tartaglia (U. Cambridge, Cambridge,UK)

"Quantitative predictions in cell biology using physico-chemical properties of proteins"

Claudio Gomes (U. Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras PT).

"Frataxin misfolding and functional impairment in neurodegeneration"

Nuria Verdaguer (Institut de Biologia Molecular de Barcelona, CSIC, Barcelona, SP).

"Solving the crystal structure of the vault ribonucleoprotein complex"

Manuela Pereira (U. Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, PT), Carlos Gomez Moreno (U.Zaragoza, Zaragoza, SP)

Irene Díaz Moreno (U. Sevilla, Sevilla, SP)

"Electron transfer in photosynthesis: geometry of plastocyanin copper site"

Arnaldo Videira (U.Porto, Porto, PT)

"Respiratory chain complex I in life and

death"

Stuart Ferguson (U. Oxford, Oxford, UK)

"The complexities of making c-type cytochromes"

Graça Soveral (U. Lisboa, Lisbon, PT), José Manuel González-Ros (U. Miguel Hernández, Elche, SP)

Manuel Criado (U. Miguel Hernández, Elche, SP)

"Different domains of a7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors contribute to link agonist binding to channel gating"

Dennis Wray (U.Leeds, Leeds, UK)

"Intracellular regions of potassium channels"

José Feijó (Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Oeiras and U.Lisboa, Lisbon, PT)

"Excitement in sexual plant reproduction: the remarkable biophysics of pollen tubes"

José Leal (Inst. Gulbenkian Ciência, Oeiras, PT), Liz Hounsell (Birkbeck C., London, UK)

David R Westhead (U Leeds, Leeds, UK)

"metaTIGER: metabolic network reconstruction and the importance of evolution"

Ana Teresa Freitas (IST-UTL, Lisbon, PT)

"Methods for the analysis of the state spaces of biological networks"

Xavier Daura, U. Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, SP)

"Polypeptide folding on a conformational-space network: dependence of network topology on the structural discretization procedure"

Ana Margarida Damas (U. Porto, Porto, PT), Guillermo Alvarez de Toledo (U. Sevilla, Sevile, SP)

Lucia Tabares (U.Seville, Seville, SP)

"Functional alterations in the synapse in the absence of the vesicle protein

Cysteine String Protein (CSP)"

Tiago Bandeiras (U. Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, PT)

"Structure of wild-type Plk-1 kinase domain in complex with a selective DARPin"

Dann van Aalten (U. Dundee, Dundee, UK)

"Structures and mechanisms of O-GlcNAcylation"

Neil Isaacs, (University of Glasgow, UK)

"Supramolecular assemblies in membranes"

Oscar Llorca (Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas CSIC, Madrid, SP)

"3D structure and function of macromolecular complexes involved in DNA repair using electron microscopy"

Margarida Archer (U. Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, PT)

"Molecular machinery involved in sulphate respiration in anaerobic sulfate reducing bacteria"

Andreas Engel (U. Basel, Basel, CH)

"Single Molecule Imaging, Manipulation and Analysis by Scanning Probe Microscopy"

Alberto Diaspro (U. U. degli Studi di Genova, Genoa IT)

"Single and multiphoton photoactivation of fluorescent proteins: impact on tracking and nanoscopy"

Felix Ritort (U. Barcelona, Barcelona, SP)

"Mechanical manipulation of nucleic acids at 1kT energy resolution"