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COST CM1003 and CM1105

COMBINED PRACTICAL AND LECTURE COURSE

CHEMISTRY OF METALS IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

Relais Mercure, Louvain-la-Neuve

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Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve

12th - 19th May, 2013

Provisional program

Sunday 12th May Registration/Opening lectures

13h00 Registration

15h00 Robert CRICHTON (Louvain-la-Neuve) - Metals in Biology

17h00 Bernhard KEPPLER (Vienna) - Metals in Medicine

19h00 Get together party

Monday 13th May Introductory Lectures

8h30 Frank NEESE (Mühlheim) - Ligand Field Theory

10h30 Margarida ARCHER (Oeiras) - X-ray crystallography of metalloproteins

12h00 Lunch

13h30 Rob ROBSON - Molecular biological approaches to Metalloproteins

15h30 Vincent FOURMOND (Marseilles) - Electrochemical methods for the functional analysis of metalloproteins

17h00 Fred HAGEN (Delft)- EPR spectroscopy

19h00 Dinner

20h00 Poster presentations

Tuesday 14th May Spectroscopic techniques

9h00 Eckard BILL (Mühlheim) - Mössbauer spectroscopy

11h00 Ricardo LOURO (Oeiras) - Metals and biomolecular NMR

13h00 Lunch

14h30 Martin FEITERS (Nijmegan) - EXAFS spectroscopy

16h30 Valeria CONTE (Rome) Vanadium Enzymes

19h00 Dinner

20h00 Poster presentations

Wednesday to Friday Tutorial Sessions

15th to 17th May Bioelectrochemistry (3h) Vincent Fourmond

EPR spectroscopy (3h) Fred Hagen

EXAFS spectroscopy (3h) Martin Feiters

Molecular Biology (3h) Rob Robson

Mössbauer spectroscopy (3h) Eckhard Bill

NMR spectroscopy (3h) Ricardo Louro

9h00 - 12.00 Tutorial 1 to 6 for groups of 8 students in rotation

14h00 - 17.00 Tutorial 1 to 6 for groups of 8 students in rotation

19h00 Dinner

Wednesday: 20h30 Luigi CASELLA (Pavia) - What can we learn from biomimetics?

Thursday: 20h30 Roland SIGEL (Zurich) - Metal-nucleic acid interactions

Friday: 18h00 Round table discussions of the Tutorial sessions

Saturday 18th May Applications

9h00 Ricardo LOURO (Oeiras)- Electron transfer in multicentre redox proteins

10h30 Bill RUTHERFORD (London) - Manganese and Photosystem II

12h00 Lunch

13h30 Peter KRONECK (Konstanz) - Copper proteins

15h00 Eric MEGGERS (Marburg) - Organometallics in Medicine and Chemical Biology

16h30 Robert CRICHTON (Louvain-la-Neuve) - Metal homeostasis

20h00 Banquet, presentation of poster prizes and conclusions

Sunday 19th May Departure