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The congress
will have ten sessions, with two sessions being held simultaneously.
Each session will
have two chairpersons, and will have 3 invited communications of 25+5 minutes
each per session. Three poster presenters will be selected to give short talks
of 10+5 minutes.
Session Lectures
| Session |
Chairs |
Speaker #1 |
Speaker #2 |
Speaker #3 |
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Membrane
Domains |
Nuno Santos (U. Lisboa, Lisbon, PT),
John Seddon (Imperial C., London, UK) |
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?" |
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Lipid
-Protein Interactions |
Margarida Bastos (U. Porto, Porto, PT),
Juan Carmelo Gómez Fernández (U. Murcia, SP) |
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" |
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Protein
Structure Energetics and Dynamics |
Anjos Macedo (U. Lisboa, Lisbon, PT), Rob Cooke
(GlaxoSmithKline, UK) |
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" |
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Protein Folding and Assembly |
Gordon Roberts
(U. Leicester, Leicester, UK), Arturo Muga (U.
País Vasco, Bilbao, SP) |
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" |
| Molecular
Bioenergetics |
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" |
| Carriers,
Channels and Pumps |
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" |
| Computational
Biology and Bioinformatics |
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" |
| Molecular
Basis of Disease |
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" |
| Supramolecular Assemblies |
Tony Wilkinson
(U. York, York, UK), José M.Andreu (Centro de
Investigaciones Biológicas, Madrid, SP) |
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" |
| Nanobiophysics |
Mariano
Carrión-Vázquez (Instituto Cajal,CSIC. Madrid, SP), Anthony Watts (U.
Oxford, Oxford, UK) |
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" |
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There will be 4
plenary lectures of about 45 minutes.
Plenary Lecture I
Gunnar von Heine (Stockholm U., SE)
Energetics of membrane integration
of α-helices in the ER
Plenary Lecture II
Miguel Castanho (U. Lisboa, Lisbon, PT)
(S)low (but effective) throughput
biophysical methodologies in drug discovery and development - The example of
membrane-active peptides.
Plenary Lecture III
Juan A. Subirana (U. Politech. Catalunya, Barcelona,
SP)
DNA structure and genomics:
Hoogsteen DNA and microsatellites
Plenary Lecture IV
Iain Campbell (Oxford U., Oxford, UK)
Protein-protein interactions in
cell migration
Bruker prize lecture SBE
Jose Garcia de la Torre (U.
Murcia, SP)
“Macromolecular structures from
solution properties”
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