Thursday October 16th, 2014
08.00 Registration
08.30 Welcome from authorities
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09.00 Danilo Belviso, Institute of Crystallography – CNR (I) – A new composite material to efficiently crystallize protein molecule.
09.20 Matteo Colombo, Institute de Biologie Structurale (F) – TET3 aminopeptidase: three metals are better than two.
09.40 Prof. David Blake, NASA-AMES (USA) – Crystallography on Mars
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Prof. Paul J. Steinhardt, Princeton University (USA) – Impossible Crystals
11.50 Cecilia Casadei, Institut Laue Langevin, Grenoble (F) – Transient states in heme peroxidases: a multidisciplinary approach.
12.10 Giovanna Di Nardo, University of Turin (I) – Structural basis for the functional roles of critical residues in human aromatase
12.30 Lunch
13.45 Poster session
14.30 Nanotemper Technologies GmbH – Demonstration
15.00 Coffee Break
15.30 Prof. Menico Rizzi, Università Piemonte Orientale (I) – Macromolecular tools for evolutionary success of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: structural insight
16.10 Josè M. Duarte, Paul Scherrer Institute (CH) – Understanding interfaces in protein crystals: evolution comes to the rescue
16.30 Prof. Roger Sunhara, University of Michigan (USA) – Structural and functional analysis of hormone-stimulated G protein activation
17.20 Jia Tsing Ng, Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Oxford (UK) – Using Textons to Rank Crystallization Droplets by Likely Presence of Crystals.
17.45 Open discussion on the issues of the day
20.00 Social Dinner

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Friday October 17th, 2014
09.00 Torsten Schwede, University of Basel (CH) – title to be defined
09.50 Juergen Bosch, John Hopkins University (USA) – Identification of protein-protein interaction inhibitor from the MMV Malaria Box active against P. falciparum and related apicomplexan parasites.
10.10 Mirella Vivoli Vega, University of Exeter (UK) – Unravelling the Burkholderia pseudomallei heptokinase WcbL: from Structure to Drug Discovery
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Prof. Eddy Arnold, Ruetgers University (USA) – HIV-1 reverse transcriptase structure and function: drugs by design and recent innovations
11.50 Marina Mapelli, IEO Milan (I) – The structure of LGN in complex with Inscuteable reveals a novel role of LGN in priming cortical sites for spindle orientation
12.10 Barbara Calisto, ESRF Grenoble (F) – Structural Determinants of the Formation and Functioning of the Terminal Organelle Wheel Complex of Motile Mycoplasmas
12.30 Lunch
13.40 Silvia Onesti, Elettra Synchrotron Trieste (I) – Beyond crystallography: an integrated approach to structural biology
14.00 Prof. Ada Yonath (Nobel Laureate) – Crystallizing macromolecular Complexes: The Ribosome
15.00 Concluding Remarks, Awards