Serock, Poland, 3-5 March 2017

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Agenda (tentative)


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Friday, 3rd of March

10:00Bus from Warsaw (CeNT) to Serock (Nicola Conference Center)
11:30 – 11:35Opening Speech
11:35 – 12:20Eric RawdonIntroduction to the study of entanglement in nature
12:20 – 12:40Paweł Dąbrowski-Tumański Two pathways of proteins with Gordian (52) knot folding
12:40 – 13:00Wanda NiemyskaGauss Linking Number reveals new nooks in entangled proteins!
13:00 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 – 14:45Adam Kubas Theoretical approaches for understanding gas-processing metalloenzymes: the case of [FeFe]-hydrogenases
14:45 – 15:05Agata Perlińska Role of the magnesium in a knotted methyltransferase
15:05 – 15:25 Vasilina Zayats Modeling of yeast ion translocation protein Trk1 using combined theoretical and experimental approaches
15:25 – 15:45Aleksandra Jarmolińska Would evolution stop membrane proteins from knotting?
15:45 – 16:0 Coffee break
16:00 – 16:45 Maria GórnaHow do IFITs fit together in defense against viruses?
16:45 – 17:05 Matthew Merski The RAP domain: structure, function, evolution and bioinformatics
17:05 – 17:25 Marcin Ziemniak Structural basis of mRNA-cap recognition by Dcp1/Dcp2 complex
17:25 – 17:55 Gregor Weiss The influence of hydrophobicity on kinetics of ligand-receptor association
17:55 -18:10 Coffee break
18:10 – 18:30Gaja Klaudel Generic trace in proteins
18:30 – 18:50 Aleksandra Gierut PyLasso - plugin to detect and analyze lasso type of entanglement in (bio) polymers
18:50 – 19:10 Józef Przytycki Topologist reflects on pseudoknots
19:20 – 20:20 Dinner

Saturday, 4th of March

08:00 – 08:55 Breakfast
09:00 – 09:45 Sebastian Glatt Lost in translation – revisiting the tRNA wobble base
09:45 – 10:05 Monika GaikUncovering molecular mechanisms of translational control with structural biology
10:05 – 10:25 Marta Smejda The role of regulatory proteins in tRNA modifications in human cells
10:25 – 10:45 Anna Salerno-Kochan Structural insights into the role of RNA-binding proteins in stem cell maintenance and differentiation
10:45 – 11:05 Karol Zakrzewski Structural insights into the role of binding regulatory factors to Elongator subunit in the context of tRNA modification process
11:05 – 11:20 Coffee break
11:20 – 12:05 Bartosz TrzaskowskiComputer-aided drug design, a tale of two succesfull (?) stories
12:05 – 12:25 Joanna Macnar The influence of the QM- calculated ligands’ charge distribution on the docking results
12:25 – 12:45 Rafał Jakubowski Toward a better life: in silico study of transthyretin related amyloidosis
12:45 – 13:05 Jan KutnerStructure and function studies of RNA-binding with FAST motifs and a RAP domain
13:10 – 14:10 Lunch
14:30 – 19:00 Paintball
19:30 Dinner

Sunday, 5th of March

08:30 – 09:45 Breakfast
10:00 Bus from Serock (Nicola Conference Center) to Warsaw CeNT

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Important details:

Dates:
March 3-5, 2017
Location:
Nicola Conference Center
Organizers:
Aleksandra Gierut (CENT, UW)
Aleksandra Jarmolińska (CENT, UW)
Gaja Klaudel (CENT, UW)
Piotr Setny (CENT, UW)
Joanna Sułkowska (CENT, UW)
Marta Wiśniewska (CENT, UW)

Funding

EMBO European
Molecular
Biology
Organization
cent uw logo Center for New Technologies
University of Warsaw