CIPKeBiP startup conference

Conference will be held at Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana, main lecture hall. March 15-16.

March 14 - arrival of guests - dinner downtown

8:30 Registration

9:00 Opening words
Dusan Turk (CIPKEBIP, acting Director) (in Slovene language)
9:10 Welcome greetings
Gregor Golobic (Minister of science, higher education and technology of Republic Slovenia)(in Slovene language)

9:15 Structure Leading in Biological Discovery
Wayne Hendrickson (opening lecture) (Columbia University, NY, USA)

5' break

10:10 Clean technological fixes and messy biological problems, examples from synchrotrons and viruses respectively David Stuart (Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford, UK)
10:50 Light-driven ion pumping: Europe vs. USA
Hartmud Luecke (UCI Irvine, CA, USA)

11:30 Coffee break - 30'

12:00 The interplay between macromolecular crystallography and single-particle electron microscopy: structural basis of the MCM helicase activity.
Silvia Onesti (Elettra, Trieste, Italy)
12:25 Structure and function of the small laccase from Streptomyces coelicolor.
Jan Dohnalek (Inst. of Macromolecular Chemistry, Academy of Sciences, Prague, Check Republic)
12:50 The Structure of Environmental Allergens and Structure-based Epitope Mapping.
Walter Keller (Inst. for Molecular Sciences, Graz, Austria)
1:15 Intracelluar protein degradation, basic research and application.
Robert Huber (MPI Martinsried, Germany)

2:00pm Lunch break - 1h30'

3:30 Franc Strle (UKC)
3:40 Variability of bacterial virulence factors and correlation with disease severity.
Maja Rupnik. (ZZV-MB)
3:50 Vesicle Traffic in Astrocytes.
Marko Kreft (MF, UNI-LJ)
4:00 Lysosomes and lysosomal proteases in anticancer treatment.
Boris Turk (IJS)
4:10 Secretory phospholipases A2 in health and disease.
Igor Krizaj (IJS)
4:20 Protein modifications in regulated exocytosis.
Marjan Rupnik (MF, UNI-MB)
4:30 Insights into biomolecular mechanisms at atomic level.
Dusan Turk (IJS)

4:40pm Coffee break - 30'

5:10 Green organic chemistry. Chemistry for a sustainable development.
Stojan Stavber (IJS)
5:20 Machine learning for integrative data analysis.
Saso Dzeroski (IJS)
5:30 Impact of Tyr to Ala mutations on alpha-synuclein fibrillation and structural properties.
Natasa Poklar (BF, UNI-LJ)
5:40 Extremophilic fungi as a source of proteins involved in adaptation to stressful conditions.
Nina Gunde Cimerman (BF, UNI-LJ)
5:50 Rational design of polyketide natural products.
Hrvoje Petkovic Acies Bio
6:00 Lek Pharmaceuticals d.d. - an industry member of the CoE CIPKeBiP.
Ales Premzl (Lek-Sandoz)

10:45 Coffee break - 30'

Wet lab resources - main lecture hall

2:15 Novosti v opremi in tehnologijah za studij bioloÅ¡ko pomembnih molekul na celicnem in proteinskem nivoju
Nadja Kern Prezelj Kemomed d.o.o. (Invitrogen, BioTek, Sanyo, Custom Biogenic Systems)
2:45 Characterization of Proteins with analytical instruments from Shimadzu
Marcus Mreyern (Shimazdu Europe)
3:15 AKTAxpress - a system with intelligent automation for multi-step purification of Monoclonal antibodies and Recombinant proteins.
Richard Feike GE Heralthacare Life Sciences

3:45pm Coffee break - 30'

4:15 QIAGEN Automated Solutions
Martin Krestanpol Qiagen
4:45 Tecan High end multimode Readers & Liquid Handling automation. Solutions for Genomics and Proteomics
Herbert Reisenbichler Tecan Austria GmbH
5:15 Natasa Majcen & Mojca Vek (Mikro + Polo)

Mass spectroscopy & light microscopy - B220

2:15 Carl Zeiss-Excellence in Micro and Nanoworld
Peter Amend (Carl Zeiss GMBH)
2:45 New Dimensions in the High End Microscopy
Thorsten Kues & Annette Bergter (Carl Zeiss GMBH)
3:15 Nikon confocal microscopes.
Herman Fennema (Nikon Europe)

3:45pm Coffee break - 30'

4:15 Nikon Super Resolutin N-Sim in N-Storm.
Herman Fennema (Nikon Europe)
4:45 Solutions for Chemistry and Biology of Proteins in areas of Liquid Chromatography, Mass Spectroscopy and Microcalorimetry
Primoz Koselj & Primoz Meh (Instrumentalia)
5:15 Bruker Daltonics solutions for bioanayltical challange Kreso Mesaric (Bruker, Analitica)