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
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15 | Self-assembly in life science
Chairs: Nuno C. Santos (Portugal)
André Matagne (Belgium)
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Invited talks
Jean-François Collet, Belgium
Assembling the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria
Sandra Macedo-Ribeiro (Portugal)
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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
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17 | Molecular modeling and simulation
Syma Khalid (UK)
Gianluca Lattanzi (Italy)
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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
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12 | Cellular biophysics in diseases (cancer, rare diseases, infectious diseases)
Laszlo Matyus (Hungary)
E. Ada Cavalcanti-Adam (Germany)
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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
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20 | X-ray and Neutron Techniques in Biophysics
Maria Grazia Ortore (Italy)
Martin Weik (France)
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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
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05 | Biophysics of biological barriers: membrane structure and organization
Gregor Anderluh (Slovenia)Lorenzo Stella (Italy)
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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
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28 | New and Notable
Anthony Watts (UK)
Elena Pohl (Austria)
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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
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18 | Advanced microscopy techniques (Brillouin, cryoEM, HS-AFM, …)
Giuliano Scarcelli (USA)
Silvia Caponi (Italy)
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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
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11 | Biophysical Mechanisms of Brain Plasticity: From Molecular Dynamics to Network Adaptation in Learning and Memory
Marja-Leena Linne (Finland)
Ausra Saudargiene (Lithuania)
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Invited talks
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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
Phase transitions of Tau and a-synuclein: implications for overlapping neuropathologies
8:30 – 10:30
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02 | Protein aggregation in disease: the next phase
Elizabeth Meiering (Canada)
Annalisa Pastore (UK)
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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
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21 | NMR: towards cell process characterization
Miquel Pons (Spain)
Maria Sunnerhagen (Sweden)
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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
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8:30 – 9:30
19 | Teaching Biophysics in 2025 and beyond
Mark Wallace (UK)
Coralie Bompard (France)
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Invited talks
Pietro Cicuta, UK
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Gianluca Lattanzi, Italy
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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)
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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
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14 | Biomaterials and 3D Bioprinting
Shery Huang (USA)
Loredana Casalis (Italy)
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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
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23 | Bionanophotonics and single molecule fluorescence
Erwin Peterman (Netherlands)
Giancarlo Ruocco (Italy)
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Invited talks
Francesca Cella Zanacchi, Italy
Single-molecule localization microscopy to study chromatin organization during cells differentiation on specific substrates
Francisco Balzarotti, Austria
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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
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04 | Biophysics and Function of Protein/Peptide-Membrane Interactions
Matthias Buck (USA)
Nathalie Reuter (Norway)
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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
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09 | Cell communication: Membrane transport & Ion channels
Teresa Giraldez (Spain)
Michael Pusch (Italy)
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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?
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25 | Synthetic Biology and Astrobiology
Roman Jerala (Slovenia)
Claudia Bonfio (UK)
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Invited talks
Tina Lebar, Slovenia
Homology-guided engineering of tyrosine recombinase nucleotide specificities
Petra Schwille, Germany
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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
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24 | Nanotechnology and Nanoscale Pores: Advances and Applications in Biophysics and Beyond
Giovanni Maglia (Netherlands)
Chan Cao (Switzerland)
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Invited talks
Mauro Chinappi, Italy
Electrohydrodynamic coupling in nanopore systems
Shuo Huang, China
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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
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26 | Powering life: photosynthesis and respiration
Roberta Croce (Netherlands)
Petra Hellwig (France)
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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
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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)
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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
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01 | The new age of protein structure, prediction and design
Bruno Correia (Switzerland)
Alena Khmelinskaia (Germany)
John Kuriyan (USA)
Ora Schueler-Furman (Israel)
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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
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27 | Breakthrough methods in molecular scale biophysics
Tomasz Kobiela (Poland)
Barbara Zambelli (Italy)
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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
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06 | Biogenic Nanoparticles and Biomimetic Systems: Nanotechnology from Nature
Antonella Bongiovanni (Italy)
Mauro Manno (Italy)
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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)
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08 | Cell mechanics: biophysics of cell growth, division, signaling, and motion
Valentina Mussi (Italy)
Massimo Vassalli (UK)
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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
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22 | Vibrational Spectroscopies in Biophysics
Christoph Krafft (Germany)
Małgorzata Barańska (Poland)
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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
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03 | Building Blocks of Life: Protein-Based Materials and Supramolecular Assemblies
Aitziber Lopez Cortajarena (Spain)
Daniel Otzen (Denmark)
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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
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16 | Machine learning and Agent-based models
Matej Praprotnik (Slovenia)
Helmut Grubmüller (Germany)
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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
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07 | Biophysics of genes, RNA and ribosomes
Norbert Polacek (Switzerland)
Gabriella Viero (Italy)
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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
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8:30 – 9:30
13 | Biophysics of Ionic Liquids: a versatile toolkit for molecular to cellular control and biomedical innovation
Antonio Benedetto (Ireland & Italy)
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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)
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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
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Closing Ceremony
Introducing the EBSA Congress in Berlin 2027