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Last update: July 10, 2006
Preliminary Program
  Preliminary program (PDF document)

Thursday, June 29

The symposium will start in the late afternoon at National Institute of Chemistry (in Slovene language: Kemijski institut, postal address: Hajdrihova 19, Ljubljana )


16.00
  Registration and visit to the lab
18.00
 

Welcome addresses

  • Peter Venturini, director, National Institute of Chemistry
  • Jure Zupan, minister, Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology
  • Janez Plavec, head of NMR centre
  • Robert Kaptein, Utrecht University
19.00
  Buffet-Dinner


Friday, June 30

The scientific program will start on Friday, June 30 at 9 am at Cankarjev dom (Kosovel Hall), which is a cultural and congressional centre in the centre of Ljubljana (postal address: Presernova 10, Ljubljana ). Cankarjev dom is within walking distance from the hotels where most of the participants will be accommodated.

8.00   Registration    
Morning Session
Chair: Janez Dolinsek
9.00-9.05   Opening  
9.05-9.50   Kurt Wüthrich: Proteins in solution - the NMR view  
L1
10.00-10.45   Robert Kaptein: Specific and non-specific protein - DNA interactions  
L2
10.55-11.15   Break  
11.15-11.35   Gerd Gemmecker: Conformational studies of the radio pharmacons Ga- and Y-DOTATOC  
O1
11.40-12.00   Uro¹ Urleb: From enzymes to molecular mechanism of action: medicinal
chemistry approach
 
O2
12.05-12.25   Primo¾ Pristov¹ek: Structural approach towards endotoxin and microbial inhibition  
O3
12.30-14.00   Lunch break & Posters (poster size)    
Afternoon Session
Chair: Primoz Pristovsek
14.00-14.45   Lyndon Emsley: Solid-State NMR Studies of Protein Structure, Dynamics and Hydration
 
L3
14.55-15.15   Francis Taulelle: NMR crystallography of powders: Principles  
O4
15.20-15.40   Gregor Mali: Solid-state NMR spectroscopy of zeolitic materials  
O5
15.45-16.05   Break  
16.05-16.50   Harald Schwalbe: Dynamics of RNA studied by NMR  
L4
17.00-17.20   Janez Plavec: NMR structural studies of DNA G-quadruplexes and cation interactions  
O6
17.25-17.45   Gyula Batta: Diffusion NMR study of supramolecular polymers of G4 type from ditopic guanosine PEG macromonomers  
O7
17.50-18.10   Robert Konrat: Chemistry-supported biomolecular NMR  
O8
18.25   Bus transfer to Arboretum    
19.00   Conference dinner (Varian evening)    


Saturday, July 1
Morning Session
Chair: Janez Plavec
9.00-9.45   Christian Griesinger: Parkinson's disease and more: An NMR spectroscopic view  
L5
9.55-10.15   Simona Goliè Grdadolnik: Unraveling the physical origin of backbone conformational propensities of amino acid residues in peptides and fully denatured proteins  
O9
10.20-10.40   Oliver Zerbe: Folding of a small peptide in solution and when associating with membranes  
O10
10.45-11.05   Michael Overduin: Determination of protein-membrane structures by NMR  
O11
11.10-11.30   Break  
11.30-12.15   Ivano Bertini: Copper trafficking and more  
L6
12.25-12.45   Eriks Kupèe: Fast multidimensional NMR  
O12
12.50-14.00   Lunch break  
14.00-15.00   Poster session (poster size);
Posters will be displayed during the whole symposium
 
Afternoon Session
Chair: Simona Golic-Grdadolnik
15.00-15.45   Dale F. Mierke: Peptides targeting PDZ domains for therapeutic intervention  
L7
15.55-16.15   Vladimír Sklenar: Dynamics of protein-ligand interactions  
O13
16.20-16.40   Alberto Spisni: From structural studies to the optimization of a vaccine: the case of the protein Sm14 from S. mansoni  
O14
16.45-17.05   Break  
17.05-17.25   Wiktor Kozminski: Multidimensional fourier transform of arbitrarily sampled NMR data sets  
O15
17.30-18.15   Horst Kessler: Interactions of protein domains as a key to understand function  
L8
18.20   Closing remarks  


 
Plenary Lectures
Kurt Wüthrich
  ETH Zürich
Ivano Bertini
  University of Florence
Lyndon Emsley
  Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
Christian Griesinger
  Max Planck Institute, Göttingen
Robert Kaptein
  Utrecht University
Horst Kessler
  Technical University München
Dale F. Mierke
  Brown University, Providence
Harald Schwalbe
  Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt
   
Invited Speakers
Gerd Gemmecker
  Technical University München
Robert Konrat
  University of Vienna
Wiktor Kozminski
  University of Warsaw
Michael Overduin
  University of Birmingham
Vladimir Sklenar
  Masaryk University, Brno
Alberto Spisni
  University of Parma
Uros Urleb
  Lek Pharmaceuticals, Ljubljana
Oliver Zerbe
  ETH Zürich
   
Best poster award

Poster by Michal Respondek "Mapping the Orientation and Insertion Depths of Helices
in Micelle-Bound Peptides by Paramagnetic Waves
" was awarded as the best poster of the symposium.

Poster board size is 1.00 m (width) x 2.10 m (height) and recommended poster size is 0.95 m x 1.50 m.


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