Program

PCISBIO day – 5 July 2018
ITQB, Oeiras

Instruct - ERIC and the Portuguese participation

10:00 - 10:05  Welcoming address – Cláudio Soares - ITQB NOVA Director 

10:05 - 10:20  Participation of Portugal in Instruct-ERIC - Maria Arménia Carrondo - PCISBIO Coordinator, ITQB NOVA Abstract 

10:20 - 11:00  Current status of Instruct-ERIC – Susan Daenke, coordinator of  Instruct-ERIC Management Abstract

11:10 - 11:30   Coffee Break

Short reports on successful use of Instruct -ERIC by representatives of other countries

11:30 - 12:00  France, Cryo-Electron Microscopy for high-resolution structure determination of biomolecules – Alberto Podjarny – Instruct-ERIC Centre France 1  Abstract

12.00 - 12:30  UK, Dynamic protein structure: from protein disorder to membrane pores – Frank Sobott - University of Leeds, UK Abstract

12:30 – 14:00   Lunch Break

Short reports on successful participation by Portugal on Instruct-ERIC various activities

Internships

14.00 – 14:30  Biophysical characterization of nanobody:protein interactions relevant in Alzheimer’s disease – Joana Cristóvão – BioISI/FC-UL  Abstract

14:30 – 15:00  From protein structure to biological function through interactomics – an integrated view, second edition – Bruno Manadas - UC Abstract

R&D projects

15:00 – 15:30  Structural Characterization of Engineered Zika Virus Antigens with Human Antibodies  – Margarida Archer – ITQB NOVA  Abstract

Access

15:30– 16:00  A perspective of Instruct@CEB-UMINHO – Maria Madalena Santos Alves – UM  Abstract

16:00 – 16:30  Crystallographic and functional studies on MurT-GatD shed light in Staphylococcus aureus pepdigolycan amidation – Franscisco Leisico – FCT NOVA  Abstract

16:30 - 16:45   Coffee Break

Portuguese infrastructures on NMR and MS and Instruct

16.45 - 17:15  Interactions between PTNMR and Instruct -ERIC – Eurico Cabrita- FCT NOVA

17:15 - 17:45  Interactions between RNEM and Instruct - ERIC – Carlos Cordeiro- FC-UL

17:45 – 18:00 Concluding remarks