last update September 18, 2009, at 03:46 PM
by Stefano Deiuri

Programme

Last update: 02.12.2009
Monday, 14 December, 2009
8:30
Registration
9:30
Paolo Carloni (Sissa, Trieste) and Annalisa Pastore (NIMR, London)
Opening address
Session I - ThermodynamicsChair: Attilio Cesaro
9:45
George Rose (Baltimore)
Prospecting in the Coil Library
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
Ernesto Freire (Baltimore)
Unstructured proteins define new allosteric mechanisms
11:45
George Feller (Liege)
Stability-activity relationships in natively unstable proteins
12:30
Lunch
14:00
Two selected talks
Session II – Flexible or Unstructured ProteinsChair: Paolo de los Rios
14:30
Dmitri Svergun (Hamburg)
Small angle X-ray scattering to study protein flexibility in solution
15:15
Peter Tompa (Budapest)
Transient complexes of intrinsically disordered proteins
16:00
Coffee break
16:30
Bruno Samori' (Bologna)
Probing conformational equilibria in monomeric amyloidogenic proteins by single molecule methodologies
17:15
Marek Cieplak (Warsaw)
Mechanical unraveling of proteins and virus capsids
Poster Session
18:00

18:30
Poster Session
 
Tuesday, 15 December, 2009
Session III – Fold and stabilityChair: Silvia Onesti
9:30
Richard Goldstein (London)
The Evolution of Stability and Function: Lessons from Simple Models
10:15
Pierre Goloubinoff (Lausanne)
A chaperone working at Vmax: The catalytic properties of Hsp70/Hsp40 as an ATP-fuelled protein unfoldase
11:00
Coffee break
11:30
Selected talks
12:30
Lunch
Session IV – Low TemperaturesChair: Pierandrea Temussi
14:00
Selected talks
14:30
Giuseppe Graziano (Benevento)
On the molecular origin of cold denaturation and the possible role of alcohols
15:15
Thomas Szyperski (Buffalo)
NMR based structural biology in supercooled water: protein cold denaturation and more
16:00
Coffee break
16:30
Brian Sykes (Alberta)
What is the ‘active’ structure of Antifreeze Proteins?
17:15
Felix Franks (London)
Undercooling and vitrification of liquid water: in vivo, in vitro, and as technological tools for biostability control
Poster Session
18:00

18:30
Poster Session
 
Wednesday, 16 December, 2009
Session V - Closing SessionChair: Cristian Micheletti
9:00
Giancarlo Franzese (Barcelona)
Interfacial water: effects on protein stability
9:45
Gert Vriend (Nijmegen)
Evolutionary optimized instability in a thermostable protease
10:30
Coffee break
11:00
Peter Privalov (Baltimore)
The stability of proteins that form complexes
11:45
Doriano Lamba (Trieste)
Concluding Remarks
12:00

14:00
Lunch and departure