PROGRAM

TUESDAY | OCTOBER 6TH

 
11:30-14:00   Registration
 
14:00-14:10   Welcome address | Silvio Tosatto & Sandra Macedo-Ribeiro
 
14:10-15:00   PLENARY LECTURE  | Chair: Silvio Tosatto
    Chair: Silvio Tosatto
    Odd Biophysics of Intrinsic Disorder
    Vladimir Uversky | USF, USA
 
15:10-16:00   Flash posters
 
16:00-16:40   Coffee Break
 
16:40-18:20   SESSION I  | Chairs: Sandra Macedo-Ribeiro & Sonia Longhi
 
16:40-17:10   Protein repeats: From sequence to structure and function
    Andrey Kajava | CNRS, France
 
17:10-17:40   Function of PolyQ repeats in protein interactions
    Miguel Andrade | JGU/IMB, Mainz, Germany
 
17:40-18:00   TAAs: rigid, fibrous adhesins on the bacterial cell surface
    Dirk Linke | MPI for Developmental Biology, Germany
 
18:00-18:20   Repeat proteins as scaffolds for nanotechnology
    Aitziber L. Cortajarena | IMDEA Nanociencia, Spain
 
18:30-20:00   COST ACTION BM1405 Core Group Meeting (closed)
 

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WEDNESDAY | OCTOBER 7TH

9:00-11:00   SESSION II  | Chair: Marco Punta & Zsuzsanna Dosztanyi
 
9:00-9:30   Non-globular proteins: Towards an understanding of the "dark matter" in the
protein universe
    Silvio Tosatto | University of Padua, Italy
 
9:30-10:00   Muscle proteins: 'perfect' examples of non globular proteins
    Annalisa Pastore | King's College London, UK
 
10:00-10:20   Multi-level machine learning prediction of protein-protein interactions
    Julian Zubek & Dariusz Plewczynski | Centre of New Technologies,
University of Warsaw, Poland
 
10:20-10:40   Relation between early folding, dynamics and conformation in proteins
    Wim Vranken | VIB and Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
 
10:40-11:00   ITRANS database - sorting structural motifs in cellular transporters
    Afonso Duarte | ITQB, Portugal
 
11:00-11:30   Coffee Break
 
11:30-13:10   SESSION III  | Chairs: Miguel Andrade & Annalisa Pastore
 
11:30-12:00   Finding functional regions within intrinsically disordered proteins
    Zsuzsanna Dosztànyi | Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary
 
12:00-12:30   Intrinsically disordered protein families
    Marco Punta | University Pierre and Marie Curie, France
 
12:30-12:50

  Intrinsically Disordered Proteins /Protein Regions: Implications for
Environmental Adaptation of Archaea and Bacteria
    Gordana Pavlovic-Lazetic | University of Belgrade, Serbia
 
12:50-13:10

  Large-scale analysis of protein conformational diversity and intrinsic
disorder suggests the existence of three main structure-function relationships
    Gustavo Parisi | Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina
 
13:10-14:00   Lunch
 
14:00-15:00   POSTER SESSION I
 
15:00-17:00   SESSION IV  | Chairs: Andrey Kajava & Gian Tartaglia
 
15:00-15:30   What makes a protein sequence prionic?
    Salvador Ventura | UAB, Spain
 
15:30-16:00   De novo design of biologically active amyloids
    Frederic Rousseau | VIB, Belgium
 
16:00-16:20

  What can the kinetics of amyloid fibril formation tell us about
off-pathway aggregation?
    Pedro M. Martins | University of Porto, Portugal
 
16:20-16:40   pH-driven polymorphism of insulin amyloid-like fibrils
    Vytautas Smirnovas | Vilnius University Institute of Biotechnology, Lithuania
 
16:40-17:00

  Influence of Homo-Repeats and Repeats on Functions and Aggregation
Propensities of Protein Chains
    Galzitskaya Oxana | Institute of Protein Research, Russia
 
17:00-17:30   Coffee Break
 
17:30-18:30   Flash posters
 
20:30   Social Dinner
     

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THURSDAY OCTOBER 8TH

 
9:00-11:00   SESSION V  | Chairs: Toby Gibson & Frederic Rousseau
 
9:00-9:30   The tripartite degron model: The role of structural disorder in protein quality control
    Peter Tompa | VIB, Belgium
 
9:30-10:00   Combinatorial and Evolutionary Protein Engineering
    Andreas Plükthun | Zurich University, Switzerland
 
10:00-10:20   A Bio-NMR View of the Conformational Ensemble of Intrinsically Disordered WIP
    Jordan Chill | Bar Ilan University, Israel
 
10:20-10:40   What drives coupled folding and strong binding of an α-helix-forming MoRF?
    Jurij Lah | University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
 
10:40-11:00

  The AMSH/SH3 complex as an example of the interaction between a
multi-domain protein and an unstructured peptide
    Maggy Hologne | Université de Lyon, France
 
11:00-11:30   Coffee Break
 
11:30-13:00   SESSION VI  | Chairs: Andreas Plückthun & Peter Tompa
 
11:30-12:00   Mechanisms of partner recognition by intrinsically disordered proteins
    Sonia Longhi | CNRS and Aix-Marseille University, France
 
12:00-12:30   Fuzzy complexes and their biological functions
    Mónika Fuxtreiter | University of Debrecen, Hungary
 
12:30-12:50

  Conformational changes governing dengue virus capsid protein disordered
N-terminal region and its inhibition by pep14-23
    André F. Faustino | IMM, Portugal
 
12:50-13:10   The Nature and role of stress-regulated protein disorder in cellular proteostasis
    Dana Reichmann | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
 
13:10-14:00   Lunch
 
14:00-15:00   POSTER SESSION II
 
15:00-16:30   Round Table Discussion
 
16:30-17:00   Coffee Break
 
16:30-18:00   COST ACTION BM1405 MC Meeting (open)
     

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FRIDAY | OCTOBER 9TH

 
09:00-11:00   SESSION VII  | Chairs: Mónika Fuxreiter & Silvio Tosatto
 
09:00-09:30   Function, regulation and evolution of proteins with homorepeats
    Sreenivas Chavali | MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
 
09:30-10:00   Detecting, validating and cataloguing short linear motifs
    Toby Gibson | EMBL, Germany
 
10:00-10:20

  Disentangling tandem repeats and their evolutionary histories using
statistical prediction
    Maria Anisimova | Zürich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
 
10:20-10:40   Studying local compositional bias in protein sequences: novel tools and
methods and biological applications
    Vasilis J. Promponas | University of Cyprus, Cyprus
 
10:40-11:00

  The TOPCONS web server for consensus prediction of membrane protein
topologyand signal peptides
    Konstantinos Tsirigos | Stockholm University, Sweden
 
11:00-11:30   Coffee Break
 
11:30- 12:50   SESSION VIII  | Chairs: Sreenivas Chavali & Salvador Ventura
 
11:30-12:00   Structural Disorder and Aggregation of RNA-binding Proteins
    Gian G. Tartaglia | CRG, Barcelona, Spain
 
12:00-12:30   Polyglutamine proteins: More than simple repeats
    Sandra Macedo-Ribeiro | IBMC/i3S, Portugal
 
12:30-12:50

  Prediction of amyloid aggregating sequences and hot-spots:
Can one predict co-aggregating proteins?
    Antonio Trovato | Padova University, Italy
 
12:50-13:00   Poster Awards and Closing Session | Sandra Macedo-Ribeiro & Silvio Tosatto
   
 

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