DAY 1 - Thursday 6th July 2023

09.15-13.45

Registration

  

09:40-12:15

Tours of PSB facilities (only if you are already registered)

11.30-13:30

Lunch in the canteen

  

13:45

Kristina Djinovic Carugo

EMBL Grenoble, FR

Conference Welcome

14:00-18:25

Session 1: Dynamics across membranes

Chairs: Matthew Bowler (EMBL) & Malene Jensen (IBS)

14:00

Jonas Ries                                        EMBL Heidelberg, DE

Super-resolution microscopy for dynamic structural cell biology

14:35

Cécile Breyton                    Institut de Biologie Structurale, FR

Structural basis of bacteriophage T5 host recognition, infection trigger and E. coli cell wall perforation

14:50

Luca Costa                                  Centre de Biologie Structurale, FR

Correlative AFM and Fluorescence Microscopy/Spectroscopy for Structural Biology 

15:25

Andrea Florres Ibarra     Jagiellonian University, PL

Fixed-target time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography on a Light-Oxygen-Voltage 1 (LOV1) domain

15:40

Alexey Amunts                    University of Stockholm, SE    (EMBO Young Investigator Lecture) 

How genes become machines in mitochondria

16:15

coffee break

 

16:45

Enrica Bordignon                  University of Geneva, CH

Effects of pH and point mutations on the kinetics of the prepore-to-pore transition of a Tc toxin

17:20

Guillaume Tresset              Université Paris Sud, FR

Energetics and kinetic assembly pathways of Hepatitis B virus in the presence of antivirals

17:35

Sophie Korn                             Goethe University, DE

The SARS-CoV-2 Nucleocapsid NTD prefers transient RNA stemloops

17:50

Gabriel Waksman                 Birkbeck - University College London, UK

Structural and Molecular Biology of Conjugative Transfer Systems in Gram-negative bacteria

18:25

end of the session

  

18:30 - 21:30

Cocktail reception Buffet dinner + poster session

DAY 2 - Friday 7th July 2023

 

 

09:00-12:30

Session 2: Observing molecular dynamics in biological systems

Chairs: Daniele de Sanctis (ESRF) & Malene Jensen (IBS)

09:00

Toshio Ando                         Kanazawa University, JP

Directly watching protein molecules in dynamic action by high-speed AFM

09:35

Jörg Standfuss                              Paul Scherrer Institute, CH

Watching the release of a photopharmacological drug from tubulin using time-resolved serial crystallography

09:50

Karin Kornmueller                  Medical University of Graz, AT

The quest for order in a dynamic system: Low density lipoprotein structure and dynamics in the light of different scattering techniques

10:25

Coffee break + group picture

 

11:05

Marius Schmidt                      University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, US

Time-resolved serial crystallography at XFELs

11:40

Stéphanie Hutin                           CEA Grenoble, FR

Order in the disordered - Molecular determinants of phase separation and its physiological role in plant temperature sensing

11:55

Hashim Al-Hashimi                Columbia University, US

RNA conformational propensities determine cellular activity

12:30-13:30

lunch

 

13:30-18:45

Session 3: Dynamics of biological processes

Chairs: Judith Peters (UGA/ILL) & Matthew Bowler (EMBL)

13:30

Irina Gutsche                              Institut de Biologie Structurale, FR

Tricks, turns and secrets of the Respiratory Syncytial Virus nucleocapsid from a cryo-EM standpoint

14:05

Jaime Martin-Benito Romero Centro Nacional Biotecnologia, ES

High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy Reveals Real-Time Dynamics of Influenza A Virus Transcription

14:20

Fabio Sterpone                          Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, FR

Multiscale modelling of biological systems: crowding and aggregation processes

14:55

Nikolai Klena                           Human Technopole, IT

Correlating protein localization in cryo-electron tomograms using ultrastructural expansion microscopy

15:10

Héloisa Bordallo                  University of Copenhagen, DK

The same, but different: Structural and dynamical interplay in bio-interfaces tracked using scattering

15:45

Coffee break

 

16:15

Hugo Van Ingen                         Utrecht University, NL

NMR-driven integrative studies of nucleosome assembly & remodeling

16:50

Amit Meir                                    MRC-University of Glasgow, UK

Cryo-EM studies of the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid-gRNA interaction reveal its dynamic assembly mechanism

17:05

Antonino Caliò                               European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, FR

Unravelling the mechanisms of adaptation to high pressure in proteins

17:20

Ilme Schlichting                       Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, DE

Insight into the workings of fatty acid photodecarboxylase

17:55

Stephen Cusack                             EMBL Grenoble, FR

Closing lecture – Conformational dynamics of the influenza transcription/replication machine

17:55

Michael Krisch                           European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, FR

Closing remarks
  Transfer from EPN to Conference Dinner venue by tram and cable car

20:00

Cocktail and Conference Dinner at Le Restaurant O2 Téléphérique