30 June – 4 July 2025
ROME – Italy

30 June – 4 July 2025 – ROME – Italy

Schedule

13:00 – 15:00

EBSA-EC meeting#1  (Delegates only)

 17:00 – 17:30

Welcome Address

 17:30 – 18:30

Aula Magna

Opening Lecture – sponsored by BPS
Tomaso Poggio (Cambridge Massachussets USA)

Science and Engineering: the race to understand intelligence

18:30

Welcome Cocktail

8:30 – 10:30

Aula Magna

15 | Self-assembly in life science

Chairs: Nuno C. Santos (Portugal)
André Matagne (Belgium)

Invited talks

Jean-François Collet, Belgium
Assembling the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria

Sandra Macedo-Ribeiro (Portugal)
Title TBH

Short talks

Daniel Otzen, Denmark
Molecular structure and self-assembly in functional amyloid

Ewelina Lindbladh, Sweden
On the Self-Assembly of the Molecular Chaperone αB-Crystallin

Roi Asor, UK
Oligomerisation-driven avidity correlates with SARS-CoV-2 cellular binding and inhibition

Kristyna Pluhackova, Germany
Beyond Phosphorylation: How PIP2 Lipids Sculpt β2-Adrenergic Receptor-β-Arrestin Complexes

HALL 1

17 | Molecular modeling and simulation

Syma Khalid (UK)
Gianluca Lattanzi (Italy)

Invited talks

Siewert J. Marrink, Netherlands
Title TBH

Jonathan Essex, UK
Multiscale modelling combining atomistic and coarse-grained molecular simulations with low-resolution SAXS data: a route to the rational engineering of antibody structure and function

Short talks

Gil Olgenblum, Israel
Mechanism of Protein Stabilization by Sugars in Crowded Solution and Preservation in Desiccated Glass

Ksenia Korshunova, Finland
Rab21 GTPase and its interaction with cell membrane: Computational study of post-translational modifications

Domenico Scaramozzino, Sweden
An efficient coarse-grained method to unravel conformational pathways in large proteins and protein-nucleic acid complexes

Gianfranco Bocchinfuso, Italy
Exploring Protein Conformational Transitions in the Second Timescale through Multiscale Molecular Dynamics: The Case of SHP2 Activation

HALL 2

12 | Cellular biophysics in diseases (cancer, rare diseases, infectious diseases)

Laszlo Matyus (Hungary)
E.
Ada Cavalcanti-Adam (Germany)

Invited talks

Gyorgy Panyi, Hungary
Molecular pathology of ion channels in diseases and their pharmacological targeting

Josef Käs, Germany
The metastatic cascade- does oncology need the physics of cancer?

Short talks

Dehours Cloé, France
Stiff matters for the genome: extracellular matrix rigidity and DNA repair dynamics in cancer

Kamil Ziaja, Italy
Elevated Pressure Modulates Glioblastoma and Astrocyte Responses: Insights from Flow-Based Cell Model.

Domenico Caudo, Italy
Robust assessment of asymmetric division in colon cancer cells

Dario Conca, Sweden
Variant-Specific Interactions at the Plasma Membrane: Heparan Sulfate’s Impact on SARS-CoV-2 Binding Kinetics

HALL 3

20 | X-ray and Neutron Techniques in Biophysics

Maria Grazia Ortore (Italy)
Martin Weik (France)

Invited talks

Thomas J Lane, Germany
Time-resolved crystallography captures light-driven DNA repair

Marité Cardenas, Spain
Lipoprotein structure and its role on dysfunction: from atherosclerosis to covid-19

Short talks

Mark Tully, France
How do plants sense temperature?
Nanostructure characterization of biological hydrogels formed by the prion-like domain EARLY FLOWERING 3 using SAXS

Francesco Stellato, Italy
Metal Ions in Amyloid-β Misfolding and Aggregation: an X-ray Journey from Static Structures to Dynamic Processes

Uri Raviv, Israel
Structures, Energetics, and Dynamics of Active Tubulin Self-Organization

Lukas Gajdos, France
Neutron crystallography of Pseudomonas aeruginosa lectins LecA and LecB: Insights into carbohydrate recognition

10:30 – 11:15

Coffee Break

 

11:15 – 12:15

Aula Magna

Plenary Lecture Arwen Pearson (Germany)

Pushing the boundaries of macromolecular crystallography: time-resolved and perturbative methods to study protein structure-function-dynamics relationships

12:15 – 14:45

 Lunch Break & Poster Session 1 – President Meeting (National Delegates only)

14:45 – 16:45

Aula Magna

05 | Biophysics of biological barriers: membrane structure and organization

Gregor Anderluh (Slovenia)Lorenzo Stella (Italy)

Invited talks

Ilya Levental, USA
Novel dimensions of living membrane asymmetry

Sebastien Mongrand, France
News insights on plant plasma membrane lipids to understand regulation of homeoviscosity during temperature fluctuation

Short talks

Dmitrii Linnik, Netherlands
Structural and functional implications of in vivo phase separation of membrane protein in in Escherichia coli

Veronika Dzupponova, UK
Understanding the forces transmitted to the outer membrane during bacteriocin import

Matilde Accorsi, Germany
Sprouting vesicles and far-reaching nanotubes: a journey to lipid networks

Rainer A. Böckmann, Germany
The Multi-faceted Role of Cholesterol in Cellular Membranes and Lipid Nanoparticles

HALL 1

28 | New and Notable

Anthony Watts (UK)
Elena Pohl (Austria)

Invited talks

Maria Garcia Alai, Germany
Contemporary Interactive Tools for the Analysis of Biophysical Data Across Techniques

Achillefs Kapanidis, UK
Spatial organisation of bacterial transcription via phase separation of transcription factors

Short talks

Arthur Felker, Germany
A versatile toolbox for nanoscale interrogation of multi-protein assemblies in living cells

Jana Susanne Anton, Switzerland
Structural characterization of aerolysin in a membrane-like environment

Elena Ambrosetti, Italy
Characterization of nanoscale protein clusters at the cell membrane with DNA nanotechnology: an innovative tool to define a novel paradigm in oligomerization of membrane receptors

Jaroslaw Jacak, Austria
Multiphoton Lithography Scaffolds for Time-Resolved Mesenchymal Stem Cells Differentiation Studies at the Molecular Level

HALL 2

18 | Advanced microscopy techniques (Brillouin, cryoEM, HS-AFM, …)

Giuliano Scarcelli (USA)
Silvia Caponi (Italy)

Invited talks

Kareem Elsayad, Austria
Measuring transient changes in mechanical properties during biological processes

Stephanie Möllmert, Germany
Across Scales and Systems: Mechanical Signatures in Retina, Spinal Cord, and Mucus

Short talks

Nicolo Incardona, Italy
Multimodal characterization of biological samples through label-free and fluorescence microscopy

Claudia Testi, Italy
Brillouin Microscopy reveals altered biomechanics in Kabuki Syndrome murine bone tissues

Changjiang You, Germany
Long-term single molecule localization microscopy uncovers dynamic co-assembly of LRP6 and ROR2 into Wnt-signalosomes

Marta Rubio-Huertas, Denmark
Visualizing Permeation Enhancement of the Intestinal Epithelium Using Label-Free Live-Cell Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) Microscopy

HALL 3

11 | Biophysical Mechanisms of Brain Plasticity: From Molecular Dynamics to Network Adaptation in Learning and Memory

Marja-Leena Linne (Finland)
Ausra Saudargiene (Lithuania)

Invited talks

TBH
Title TBH

Avrama Blackwell, USA
Signaling Pathways underlying Striatal Synaptic Plasticity

Short talks

Risa Yamada, Japan
Multi-component phase separation of postsynaptic density is controlled by membrane geometry via valency and volume effects

Marianna Angiolelli, Italy
How Criticality shapes structure-function relationships and human brain dynamics

Tuomo Mäki-Marttunen, Finland
Biochemically detailed modelling reveals genetic mechanisms for impaired synaptic plasticity in schizophrenia

Isabel Alves, France
Membrane lipid poly-unsaturation selectively affects Dopamine D2 receptor signaling

16:45 – 17:30

Cooffee Break

 

17:30 – 18:30

Aula Magna

Plenary Lecture Maria Soledad (Córdoba, Argentina) Sponsored by IUPAB

Phase transitions of Tau and a-synuclein: implications for overlapping neuropathologies

8:30 – 10:30

Aula Magna

02 | Protein aggregation in disease: the next phase

Elizabeth Meiering (Canada)
Annalisa Pastore (UK)

Invited talks

Mei Hong, USA
Deconstructing and reconstructing tau by solid-state NMR

Hilal Lashuel, Switzerland
Protein post-translational modifications: markers or pathology or master regulators of amyloid formation and pathogenicity

Short talks

Siân C. Allerton, UK
Molecular Rotors Detect the Formation and Conversion of α-Synuclein Oligomers

Anthony Legrand, Czech Republic
Revealing the mechanism of inhibition of Amyloid-β aggregation and membrane perforation by Apolipoprotein E through kinetic analysis

Venus Singh Mithu, Germany
How pH and Membranes Shape hIAPP Amyloid Fibril Structure in Type 2 Diabetes

Fabrizio Chiti, Italy
Structural convergence determined by physicochemical principles in the complex polymorphism of the amyloid state of proteins

HALL 1

21 | NMR: towards cell process characterization

Miquel Pons (Spain)
Maria Sunnerhagen (Sweden)

Invited talks

Bjorn Burmann, Sweden
Bacterial OMVs as novel tools for the in-situ characterization of bacterial envelope proteins

Irene Diaz-Moreno, Spain
Biomolecular Condensates: Illuminating a Novel Source of Cellular Order Emerging from Molecular Disorder in Health and Disease

Short talks

Morwenna Hall, UK
RhoB: an unstable G protein mutated in bladder cancer

Miriam Simma, USA
Defining the Lipid Specificities of Saposin Lipid Transfer Proteins

Jakob Schneider, Austria
Protein dynamics in mitochondrial biogenesis – Structural insights into Tom70-mediated protein translocation

Anirban Ghosh, Czech Republic
Fluorine-detected NMR for resolving Non-Canonical Nucleic Acid folding, conformational polymorphism, and ligand binding interactome in vitro and in-cellular environment

HALL 2

8:30 – 9:30

19 | Teaching Biophysics in 2025 and beyond

Mark Wallace (UK)
Coralie Bompard (France)

Invited talks

Pietro Cicuta, UK
Title TBH

Gianluca Lattanzi, Italy
Title TBH

Frank Gabel, France
Teaching biophysics in 2025: a focus on neutron scattering from biological systems

9:30 – 10:30

29 | MOSBRI Special Session

Patrick England (France)

Invited talks

Jan Dohnalek, Czech Republic
Molecular Biophysics Database of raw data – MBDB

Bertrand Raynal, France
A short journey through the research activities of the MOlecular-Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure (MOSBRI)

Francesca Cutruzzolà, Italy & Patrick England, France
The MOlecular-Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure (MOSBRI) transnational initiative: overview of major activities and results

HALL 3

14 | Biomaterials and 3D Bioprinting

Shery Huang (USA)
Loredana Casalis (Italy)

Invited talks

Marcy Zenobi-Wang, Switzerland
The space within: Engineering scaffold voids to advance tissue regeneration

Andrew Daly, Ireland
4D Bioprinting Shape-Morphing Tissues in Granular Support Hydrogels: Sculpting Structure and Guiding Maturation
Short talks

Julia Shifman, Israel
Mapping binding landscapes of Ras-effector interactions in health and disease

Martynas Gavutis, Lithuania
Properties and application of sparsely tethered bilayer lipid membranes

Stelian Arjoca, Romania
Refining Extrusion-Based Bioprinting Through Hydrogel Flow Rate And Extrusion Speed Measurements

Paolo Blesio, Spain
Conductive protein-based biomaterials: from the design to the application

 

10:30 – 11:15

Coffee Break

 

11:30 – 12:30

Aula Magna

Plenary Lecture Lucia Banci (Sesto Fiorentino, Firenze, Italia)

In-cell NMR: a powerful approach for understanding functional processes

12:15 – 14:45

 Lunch Break & Poster Session 2 – EBJ Meeting

14:45 – 16:45

Aula Magna

23 | Bionanophotonics and single molecule fluorescence

Erwin Peterman (Netherlands)
Giancarlo Ruocco (Italy)

Invited talks

Francesca Cella Zanacchi, Italy
Single-molecule localization microscopy to study chromatin organization during cells differentiation on specific substrates

Francisco Balzarotti, Austria
Title

Short talks

Jan-Philipp Günther, Switzerland
Disordered Regions Speed Up Diffusive Search of Proteins on DNA

Sabrina Zappone, Italy
Fluorescent aptamer-based detection of the NEAT1 short isoform in paraspeckles

Jiri Kratochvil, UK
When surface nanoengineering meets mass photometry: Quantification of weak protein interactions

Veronika Frank, Germany
Ultrafast Molecule-Spanning Dynamics in a Multi Domain Protein Uncovered and Quantified by Single-Molecule Fluorescence

 

HALL 1

04 | Biophysics and Function of Protein/Peptide-Membrane Interactions

Matthias Buck (USA)
Nathalie Reuter (Norway)

Invited talks

Kalina Hristova, USA
Biophysics of growth factor receptor signaling in the membrane

Reidar Lund, Norway
Mechanism(s) of antimicrobial peptides: what can we learn from x-ray & neutron scattering techniques?

Short talks

Sarah Crocoll, Germany
Membrane Interactions of Daptomycin:
A Comparative Study with a Novel Cyclic Lipopeptide

David Valdivieso González, Spain
Rotation movement of ATP synthase as membrane remodelling effector

Robert Vacha, Czech Republic
Design Guidelines for Antimicrobial Peptides that Kill Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria via Transmembrane Pores

Fabio Lolicato, Germany
Molecular mechanism of membrane pore formation triggered by PI(4,5)P2-dependent FGF2 oligomerization

 

HALL 2

09 | Cell communication: Membrane transport & Ion channels

Teresa Giraldez (Spain)
Michael Pusch (Italy)

Invited talks

Crina Nimigean, USA
Mechanism of propofol inhibition of HCN1 channels

Antonios Pantazis, Sweden
192 conformations, or: regulation of CaV2.1 by the membrane potential

Short talks

Peter Rory Hall, UK
Decoding TASK Channel Function with Cryo-EM: Structural Basis of pH Sensitivity, Disease, and Therapeutic Targeting

Atiyehsadat Sharifzadeh, Italy
Animal-free recombinant nanobody rescues HCN4 channel deficit in sinus node dysfunction

María Navarro Pérez, Spain
Deciphering Kv1.3 Spatial Organization at the Immunological Synapse of Human T Cells

Sofia Oliveira, UK
How can nonequilibrium MD simulations help understand drug resistance and allostery in proteins?

HALL 3

25 | Synthetic Biology and Astrobiology

Roman Jerala (Slovenia)
Claudia Bonfio (UK)

Invited talks

Tina Lebar, Slovenia
Homology-guided engineering of tyrosine recombinase nucleotide specificities

Petra Schwille, Germany
Title TBH

Short talks

Fatma Mihoubi, UK
Compositional and functional diversity of minimal primitive coacervates in a nucleic acid-peptide world

Fahmy Karim, Germany
The plasma membrane lipidome governs the metabolic cost of cell division in synthetic minimal cells

Pedro Moreira, Portugal
Computational design of monobody binders to target viral therapeutical epitopes

Valerio Guido Giacobelli, Czech Republic
Ancient Protein Folds with a Reduced Primordial Amino Acid Alphabet

16:45 – 17:30

Coffe Break

 

17:30 – 18:30

Aula Magna

Plenary Lecture Alberto Diaspro (Genoa, Italy)

The molecular artificial optical microscope. A route for combining molecular content fluorescence and label-free optical microscopy with machine learning

18:30

General Assemly

8:30 – 10:30

Aula Magna

24 | Nanotechnology and Nanoscale Pores: Advances and Applications in Biophysics and Beyond

Giovanni Maglia (Netherlands)
Chan Cao (Switzerland)

Invited talks

Mauro Chinappi, Italy
Electrohydrodynamic coupling in nanopore systems

Shuo Huang, China
Title TBH

Short talks

Alberto Giacomello, Italy
Designing Bioinspired hydrophobically gated memristive nanopores for neuromorphic applications

Ajit Seth, India
Cholesterol modulated assembly of graphene oxide nanoflakes around a phospholipid monolayer at air-water interface

Gerard Carrera i Cardona, Belgium
Hanging Drop Bilayers: a novel platform for simultaneous optical and electrical observation of bilayers

Michel Mom, Germany
A Computational Study on the Detection of Citrulline Modifications Using an Aerolysin Nanopore

HALL 1

26 | Powering life: photosynthesis and respiration

Roberta Croce (Netherlands)
Petra Hellwig (France)

Invited talks

Wojciech Wietzynski, Switzerland
Correlative light and electron microscopy reveals structural rearrangements of photosynthetic membranes in changing light

Pia Adelröth, Sweden
The branched respiratory chains of Mycobacteria

Short talks

Erik Endres, Finland
Energetics and conformational dynamics of histidine switch in respiratory complex I probed by enhanced sampling simulations

Gianluca Parisse, Italy
Rate-Determining Protein Functions in Photosynthetic Oxygen Evolution: Insights from D1-N298A Photosystem II Variant

Eduard Elias, Netherlands
Thriving in the shade of the shade: How different species of acaryochloris adapt to differing levels of light limitation

Pilar C. Portela, Portugal
Young Biophysicist Prize – Portuguese Biophysical Society
Widespread extracellular electron transfer pathways for charging microbial cytochrome OmcS nanowires via periplasmic cytochromes PpcABCDE

HALL 2

10 | Single-Cell Biophysics: Techniques and findings in single-cell analysis and its implications for understanding cellular heterogeneity

Suckjoon Jun (USA)
Pierre-Emmanuel Milhiet (France)

Invited talks

Pietro Cicuta, UK
Improvements in single cell imaging at high throughput shed new light on AMR in bacteria

Bianca Sclavi, France
Mechanisms of cell cycle dependent gene expression in Escherichia coli

Short talks

Hamed Karimi, Estonia
FITSA: A Robust Bayesian Method for Analysis of Detected Photons in Single-Molecule Measurements

Simone Civita, Italy
Single-Molecule and Multiscale Fluorescence Imaging to Investigate PD-L1 Dynamics and its Association with Lipid Rafts in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cells

Cenk Gurdap, Sweden
High-throughput biophysical measurements of cells in health and disease

Lorenzo Di Rienzo, Italy
Computational approaches to assess biomolecular interfaces compatibility: exploring its implications in molecular design

HALL 3

01 | The new age of protein structure, prediction and design

Bruno Correia (Switzerland)
Alena Khmelinskaia (Germany)
John Kuriyan (USA)
Ora Schueler-Furman (Israel)

 

Invited talks

Tanja Kortemme, USA
De novo protein design: from new structures to programmable molecular and cellular functions

Possu Huang, USA
SHAPES of protein generative models

Short talks

Elise Komarczuk, Switzerland
DEER Spectroscopy as a Tool to Investigate Protein Conformations in Biomolecular Condensates – Challenges and Insights

Juan Martín Hernández Castillo, Mexico
Searching for Structural Transitions in a Parallel Protein Network

Marco Lolicato, Italy
Resurrecting and Characterizing Ancestral K2P channel Sequences to Decipher Response to Physical and Chemical Cues

Zeynep Aslihan Durer, Turkey
Understanding the Conformational Dynamics of the Metavinculin Tail: An Integrative SAXS and Modeling Approach

10:30 – 11:15

Coffee Break

 

11:30 – 12:30

Aula Magna

Plenary Lecture Hagan Bayley (Oxford, Uk)

Engineered nanopores: from gene sequencing to organ repair

12:15 – 14:45

 Lunch Break & Poster Session 3 – IUPAB Meeting (Delegates only)
ERC Meeting: Dagmar Floeck (Condensed Matter Physics ERC officer)

14:45 – 16:45

Aula Magna

27 | Breakthrough methods in molecular scale biophysics

Tomasz Kobiela (Poland)
Barbara Zambelli (Italy)

Invited talks

Elisabetta Mileo, France
Exploring Protein Folding and Interactions in Native Cellular Contexts Using Site-Directed Spin Labeling coupled to EPR spectroscopy

Ben Schuler, Switzerland
Probing the interaction dynamics of disordered proteins with single-molecule spectroscopy

Short talks

Philipp Willmer, Denmark
In-Solution Binding Kinetics – The Full Picture of Biomolecular Interactions

Marco Buscaglia, Italy
Weak-cooperative binding of long single-stranded DNA to surface-immobilized oligomers for optimal detection by microarray biosensor

Seham Helmi, UK
Programmable DNA-origami-based platform for label-free protein profiling

Kristina Elersic Filipic, Slovenia
The Three-Molecule Binding Problem in SPR

HALL 1

06 | Biogenic Nanoparticles and Biomimetic Systems: Nanotechnology from Nature

Antonella Bongiovanni (Italy)
Mauro Manno (Italy)

Invited talks

Paolo Arosio, Switzerland
The physico-chemical landscape of extracellular vesicles

Marca Wauben, Netherlands
Nanosized Extracellular Vesicles (EVs) as gatekeepers of homeostasis: Deciphering cargo-function relationships

Short talks

Guillaume Gilliard, Italy
Breast cancer extracellular vesicles : structural profiling and membrane interaction studies

Ester Canepa, Ireland
Single-particle analysis reveals a breakthrough approach for uniform fluorescent labeling of biomolecular corona nanoparticles

Lucrezia Caselli, Italy
Hybrid Biogenic Lipid Nanoparticles: leveraging hybridization with Extracellular Vesicles for enhancing biocompatibility and targeting efficiency

Silvia Caponi, Italy
Correlative Brillouin and Raman spectroscopy (BRMS)

HALL 2

08 | Cell mechanics: biophysics of cell growth, division, signaling, and motion

Valentina Mussi (Italy)
Massimo Vassalli (UK)

Invited talks

Marina Kuimova, UK
Measuring membrane viscosity using FLIM and molecular rotors

Carlos Perez Gonzalez, France
Mechanobiology of the intestinal epithelium in homeostasis and cancer

Short talks

Navoneel Sen, UK
Guardians of the Sarcomere: The Role of Molecular Chaperones in Maintaining Cardiac Function

Andrea Mescola, Italy
A benzodiazepine-derived molecule (1g) as a Biophysical Modulator of Glioblastoma: Impact on Cell Stiffness and Invasion.

Eike Wienbeuker, Germany
Resolving the nanoscale axial organization of transmembrane signaling complexes in live cells by metal-induced energy transfer

Giulio Bianchi, Italy
Exploring force propagation in cells by combined optical manipulation and FRET-based molecular force microscopy

HALL 3

22 | Vibrational Spectroscopies in Biophysics

Christoph Krafft (Germany)
Małgorzata Barańska (Poland)

Invited talks

Katsumasa Fujita, Japan
Raman spectroscopy and microscopy of cryofixed biological samples

Oxana Klementieva, Sweden
Advancing Vibrational Spectroscopy: In Situ, Time-Resolved Imaging for Structurally Complex Systems

Csilla Gergely, France
Broadband coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (BCARS), a powerful spectroscopy combining high signal intensity with spectral sensitivity for vibrational imaging of biological systems

Short talks

Carolin Feid, Germany
Mapping Vibrational Energy Transfer in the Green Fluorescent Protein

Antonia Intze, Italy
Effect of RNA on the supramolecular architecture of 𝛼-synuclein fibrils

Federica Piccirilli, Italy
Application of cutting-edge IR and THz techniques to dipeptides superassemblies: how chirality shapes the fine architecture and flexibility of Phe-Phe nanotubes

16:45 – 17:30

Coffee Break

 

17:30 – 18:30

Aula Magna

Plenary Speaker Patricia Clark (USA)

Plenary Lecture Patricia Clark (Notre Dame, Usa)

New tools for understanding the impact of the cellular environment on protein folding

20:00

Conference Dinner

8:30 – 10:30

Aula Magna

03 | Building Blocks of Life: Protein-Based Materials and Supramolecular Assemblies

Aitziber Lopez Cortajarena (Spain)
Daniel Otzen (Denmark)

Invited talks

Silvia Marchesan, Italy
The role of water: a playground for peptide self-assembly

Raz Jelinek, Israel
Functional amyloids as catalysts: towards new paradigms in chemistry and biology?

Short talks

Therese Herling, UK
Peptide self-assembly enables design of long-acting therapeutics

Gabriela Guedes, Spain
Engineering Protein-Stabilized Metal Nanomaterials as Theranostic Agents

Shah Ekramul Alom, Sweden
Functionalizing Protein nanofibrils into luminescent materials via mechanochemistry and self-assembly

Anna Tarakanova, USA
Modeling elastin’s structure, assembly and function across length scales

Zahraa Khalil, France
Protein self assembly and influence of the surfaces: insights from a protein inspired by a natural amyloid adhesive

HALL 1

16 | Machine learning and Agent-based models

Matej Praprotnik (Slovenia)
Helmut Grubmüller (Germany)

Invited talks

Lars Bock, Germany
Combining Simulations and Machine Learning with Experiments to Explore Ribosomal Translation

Erik Lindahl, Sweden
Generative models to resolve ligand binding in cryo-EM structures

Short talks

An Mei Daniels, UK
Study of adaptive morphogenesis using microfluidics and deep learning object detection

Barbara Bravi, UK
Benchmarking Machine Learning-based Causal Discovery Methods for Partially Observed Biochemical Kinetics

Greta Grassmann, Italy
Compact assessment of protein surface complementarities enhances neural network-aided identification of core interacting residue pairs

Nicole Luchetti, Italy
Unfolded Protein Response: Phylogenetic and Pathophysiological Insights from Protein-Protein Interaction Networks

HALL 2

07 | Biophysics of genes, RNA and ribosomes

Norbert Polacek (Switzerland)
Gabriella Viero (Italy)

Invited talks

Joseph Puglisi, USA
The dynamics of translation

Mattia Pelizzola, Italy
Dynamics of transcriptional regulation: the hidden life of RNAs

Short talks

Ayesha Kabir, India
Molecular Recognition of G-Quadruplex by Spermine and its Analogue 1 Naphthyl Acetyl Spermine: A Thermodynamic and Biophysical Investigative Approach

Jack Tait, Netherlands
Calmodulin is an essential chaperone for co-translational folding of the Kv7.2 ion channel

Koichiro Maki, Japan
Single-stranded DNA-based molecular complex contributes to structural maintenance of nucleolus

Emma Lalande, UK
In vivo single-molecule FISH for RNA detection in live Escherichia coli cells

HALL 3

8:30 – 9:30

13 | Biophysics of Ionic Liquids: a versatile toolkit for molecular to cellular control and biomedical innovation

Antonio Benedetto (Ireland & Italy)

Invited talk

Sajal Ghosh, India
Cholesterol restricted assembly of ionic liquids in a phospholipid membrane

Short talks

Holly Linford, Ireland
Modulating cancer cell migration and elasticity with ionic liquids

Venus Singh Mithu, India
Ionic Liquids and Biomembranes: A Toxic Affair

Ksenia Egorova, Russian Federation
What do we Study when we Study Cytotoxicity? Lessons from Ionic Liquids

9:30 – 10:30

30 | At the Heart of Biophysics: the Enduring Lesson of Mario Ageno

Ranieri Bizzarri (Italy)

Invited talks

Ranieri Bizzarri, Italy
The origin of chirality and stereospecific recognition in life

Antonino Cattaneo, Italy
The scientific heredity of Mario Ageno

10:30 – 11:15

Coffee Break

 

11:30 – 12:30

Aula Magna

Plenary Lecture Sheref Mansy (Trento, Italy & Alberta, Canada)

Towards chemical systems capable of Darwinian evolution

12:15 – 13:50

 Lunch Break & EBSA EC Meeting#2  (Delegates only)

 

13:50 – 15:30

Aula Magna

Award lectures and Poster Awards

  • 13:50-14:10 EBSA Young Investigator: Dr. Miguel Mompeán (Spain)
  • 14:10-14:40 NanoTemper: Daniel J. Müller (Switzerland)
  • 14:40-15:10 Avanti: Rumiana Dimova (Germany)
  • 15:10-15:30 Poster Awards

 

15:30 – 16:00

Aula Magna

Closing Ceremony

Introducing the EBSA Congress in Berlin 2027