ADVANCED LECTURE COURSE
CHEMISTRY OF METALS IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS
Ibis Styles Hotel & Meeting Center, Louvain-la-Neuve
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Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve
September 07th - 14th, 2014
Sunday 7th September Registration/Opening lectures
13h00 Registration
15h00 Robert CRICHTON - Opening lecture - Metals in Biology *
16h30 Pause
17h00 Angela CASINI - Medicinal Inorganic Chemistry – metal complexes as modulators of enzyme activity for therapy and imaging (CM1105)
19h00 Get together party
Monday 8th September Introductory Lectures
8h30 Frank NEESE - Ligand Field Theory
10h00 Pause
10h30 Margarida ARCHER - X-ray crystallography of metalloproteins
12h00 Lunch
13h30 Rob ROBSON - Molecular biological approaches to metalloproteins
15h00 Pause
15h30 Vicent FOURMOND - Electrochemical methods for the functional analysis of metalloproteins
17h00 Nils METZLER-NOLTE - Metal complexes as antibiotics, anticancer agents and biosensors (CM1105)
19h00 Dinner
20h00 Poster presentations
Tuesday 9th September Spectroscopic techniques
9h00 Eckard BILL - Mössbauer spectroscopy
10h30 Pause
11h00 Fred HAGEN - EPR spectroscopy
13h00 Lunch
14h30 Ricardo LOURO - NMR spectroscopy (CM1003)
16h00 Pause
16h30 Wesley BROWNE - Resonance Raman spectroscopy (CM1003)
19h00 Dinner
20h00 Poster presentations
Wednesday to Friday Tutorial Sessions
10th to 12th September Bioelectrochemistry (3h) Vincent Fourmond
EPR spectroscopy (3h) Peter-Leon Hagedoorn
Resonance Raman (3h) Wesley Browne
Molecular Biology (3h) Rob Robson
Mössbauer spectroscopy (3h) Eckhard Bill
NMR spectroscopy (3h) Ricardo Louro
9h00 Tutorial 1 to 6 for groups of 8 students in rotation
12h30 Lunch
14h00 Tutorial 1 to 6 for groups of 8 students in rotation
19h00 Dinner
Wednesday: 20h30 Angelina LOMBARDI - Biomimetics and artificial metalloenzymes (CM1003)
Thursday: 20h30 Roland SIGEL - Metal-nucleic acid interactions (CM1105)
Friday: 18h00 Round table discussions of the Tutorial sessions
Saturday 13th September Applications
9h00 Ricardo LOURO - Electron transfer in multicentre redox proteins
10h30 Pernilla WITTUNG-STAFESHEDE - Metalloprotein folding
12h00 Lunch
13h30 Peter KRONECK - Copper proteins
15h00 William RUTHERFORD - Manganese proteins and photosynthesis
16h30 Robert CRICHTON - Metal homeostasis
20h00 Banquet, presentation of poster prizes and conclusions
Sunday 14th September Departure
* All lectures are 90 min (including discussion)
