Joint Meeting of the Belgian and British Biophysical Societies
Palace of Academies, Brussels, 22 – 23 February 2018
Thursday February 22nd
Protein Folding, Misfolding, Assembly and Design
10:00-10:30 Sheena Radford(Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds)
“Exploiting protein-protein interactions to ameliorate amyloid disease”
10:30-11:00 ArnoutVoet(Laboratory of biomolecular modelling and design, KUniversityLeuven)
“RE3Volutionary Design of Symmetric Protein Building Blocks”
11:00-11:20 Student/Postdoc talk
Coffee break
11:50-12:20 Sergi Garcia Manyes (Department of Physics & Randall Centre for Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King’s College London’)
"Linking mechanochemistry with protein folding with single bond resolution”
12:20-12:50 Kenneth Verstraete (VIB-UGentCenter for Inflammation Research, University of Gent)
"Molecular and evolutionary insights into the structure and mechanism of the giant citrate-cleavage enzyme”
Lunch and special ERC session
13:30-14:20InoAgrafioti(coordinator of the ERC panel LS1 Molecular Biology, Biochemistry, Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics).
“How to apply for an ERC grant”
Protein Folding, Misfolding, Assembly and Design (continued)
14:20-14:50 Justin Benesch (Department of Chemistry, University of Oxford)
“Biophysics of selective protein self- and co-assembly”
14:50-15:20 Mireille Dumoulin (Centre for Protein Engineering, University of Liège)
“Use of structural probes to study protein misfolding and aggregation”
15:20-15:40 Student/Postdoc talk
Coffee break
16:10-16:40Paula Booth (Department of Chemistry, King's College London)
“Folding alpha helical membrane proteins”
16:40-17:10 Jan Steyaert (VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology, VUniversityBrussels)
“Title pending”
17:10-17:30 Student/Postdoc talk
Friday March 23rd
Proteins and Membranes
10:00-10:30 Jean-Marie Ruysschaert (Laboratory for the Structure and Function of Biological Membranes, UniversitéLibre de Bruxelles, Brussels)
“New activators of Toll-like Receptors:from self-assembled lipids to amyloids”
10:30-11:00 Frank Sobott ((Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds)
“Dynamic protein structure: from protein disorder to membrane pores”
11:00-11:20 Student/Postdoc talk
Coffee break
11:50-12:20 Anthony Watts (Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford)
“Exploiting multiple spectroscopies to study GPCR siganlling”
12:20-13:40 Student/Postdoc talk
Protein Folding, Misfolding, Assembly and Design (ending)
12:40-13:10 Tuomas Knowles (Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge)
Probing proteins in small volumes"
Lunch
Imaging
14:00-14:30 Johan Hofkens (Department of Chemistry, KUiniversityLeuven)
14:30-15:00 Corinne Smith (School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick)
Resolving clathrin cage interactions using high resolution cryoEM
15:00-15:20 Student/Postdoc talk
Coffee break
15:50-16:20 RouslanEfremov (VIB-VUB Center for Structural Biology VUniversityBrussels)
Structure and mechanism of ryanodine receptor resolved by single particle cryo-EM
16:20-16:50 David Alsteens (NanoBioPhysics of cells, UniversityCLouvain)
High-Resolution Imaging and Nanomechanical Mapping of Receptors on Living Cells
16:50-17:10 Student/Postdoc talk