Program

• Nenad Ban, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland: Protein structure& function; X-ray diffraction
  • Ribosomes and their functional complexes
  • Beyond the prokaryotic ribosome
• Holger Stark, MPI-BPC, Göttingen, Germany: Protein structure& function; cryoEM
  • Introduction into single particle cryo-EM
  • High-resolution structure determination of macromolecular complexes by cryo-EM
• Anthony Watts, Department of Biochemistry, Oxford, UK: Protein structure& function; solid state NMR
  • Principles of solid state NMR for the study of biomolecules
  • Solid state NMR for structural studies of large integral membrane proteins
  • Receptor dynamics and structure in membranes resolved using solid state NMR

Special Guest Lecturers:

• David Goodlett, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland
• Felix Rico, FM4B-Lab, U1006 INSERM & Aix-Marseille Université, Marseille, France
  • Mechanics of single biomolecules probed by atomic force microscopy

Physics of cells by Croatia ERC grantees:

• Ana-Sunčana Smith, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
  • Membranes, from self assembly to rafts 1,2,3
• Iva Tolić, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia: Physics of cells
  • Forces in the mitotic spindle
  • Live-cell fluorescence microscopy and laser-cutting inside the cell

Theoretical simulations:

• Chris Oostenbrink, UNRLF, Vienna, Austria: Structure and dynamics of biomolecules; modeling
  • Ensembles and sampling, leading to molecular dynamics simulations
  • Structure refinement using molecular dynamics simulations (NMR observables)
  • Calculation of free energies from molecular simulation
• Antonio Šiber, Institute of physics, Zagreb, Croatia: Physics of viruses
  • Physics of viruses: electrostatics, elasticity and DNA condensation in viruses 1,2,3
• Primož Ziherl, JSI, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Bojan Žagrović, MFPL, Vienna, Austria: Computational Biophysics of Macromolecules
  • More dynamic than we think?  On conformational averaging in structural biology 1, 2
  • Protein-RNA interactions and the origin of the genetic code

Between Atom and Cell (COST Action CA15126 ARBRE MOBIEU)

• Nadica Ivošević DeNardis, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
• Tea Mišić Radić, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
• Tomasz Kobiela, Institute of Biotechnology, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
• Tomislav Vuletić, Institute of physics, Zagreb, Croatia

Native Mass Spectrometry (COST Action BM1403):

• Mario Cindrić, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
  • Mass Spectrometry for protein sequencing
• Amela Hozić, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
• Frank Sobott, Uni Antwerpen, Belgium
  • “native” mass spectrometry, ion mobility: structural proteomics techniques
• Nikolina Sekulić, Centre for Molecular Medicine, University of Oslo, Norway
• Petr Novák, BIOCEV, Biotechnology and Biomedicine Center of the Academy of Sciences and Charles University in Vestec, Czech Republic

Molecular Machines (COST Action CM1306):

• Helmut Grubmüller, Universität Göttingen, Germany
• Fraser MacMillan, University of East Anglia, UK
  • EPR spectroscopy
• Heinz-Jürgen Steinhoff, University of Osnabrück, Germany
• Nadica Maltar-Strmečki, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia