19th P4EU Meeting Final Programme
Monday, 22nd May: Workshop on biophysical methods for protein characterization (AREA Conference Center)
9:20 Welcome and Workshop opening
9:30 Perla Vega Dominguez - Understanding biomolecular behaviour with mass photometry (Refeyn, sponsor presentation)
10:10 Sonia Covaceuszach - A closer insight into intermolecular interactions characterization: Hands-on Creoptix Wave (IC-CNR)
10:34 - 11:00 Coffe Break
Methods applied at Elettra for protein structure and binding analysis (FTIR, AFM, Raman, XRD)
• 11:00 Lisa Vaccari - Infrared spectroscopy and nanoscopy: new frontiers in protein studies (SISSI beamline @ Elettra)
• 11:20 Barbara Rossi - UV Resonance Raman for characterization of proteins (IUVIS beamline @ Elettra)
• 11:40 Loredana Casalis - AFM nanotechnology (NanoLab @ Elettra)
• 12:00 Annie Heroux - One step further on the protein characterization process: XRD2 dedicated MX beamline at Elettra (XRD2 beamline @ Elettra)
• 12:20 Roberto Santoliquido - Triple detector Size Exclusion Chromatography for biomolecules characterization (Alfatest, sponsor presentation)
• 12:50 All - Q&A and Closing discussion
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Buffet (served outside the congress room)
P4EU Annual Meeting (AREA Congress center)
14:00 - P4EU openings - Welcome from Organizers (ICGEB and Elettra)
o Caterina Petrillo - President Area Science Park
o Natasa Skoko - ICGEB
o Paola Storici - Elettra
Protein for integrated structural biology (focus on cryo-EM)
• 14:30 Robbert Kim - GridFit: improving protein cryoEM before it hits the grid (Leiden University Medical Centre)
• 15:00 Fabio Lapenta - Understanding the structure and function of the human Vault particle (University of Nova Gorica)
• 15:30 Frank Bernhard - Cryo-EM structure of a cell-free synthesized GPCR/G-protein complex in nanodiscs (Goethe University Frankfurt)
16:00 - 16:20 Coffee break
Methods developments, examples of new ligands, nanobodies, and membrane proteins
• 16:20 Johannes van den Heuvel - The value of Transient Gene Expression in High Five insect cells for fast screening and production of eukaryotic membrane proteins (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research)
• 16:50 Ario de Marco - Smaller and smaller: new scaffolds for next generation ligands (University of Nova Gorica)
• 17:20 Svend Kjaer - llama-based nanobody set-up and experiences and a few recent examples of measuring affinities of Nbs to MP in the Fida1 (The Francis Crick Institute)
New facilities
• 17:50 Alessandro Scardua - HT Facility
• 18:00 Luigi Angelo Scietti - IEO Facility
18:30 Bus to Barcola (Social Dinner restaurant)
19:30 Social Dinner (Ristorante al Tramonto - Società Velica di Barcola e Grignano)
22:00 Bus from Social Dinner to Trieste (Piazza Libertà/Train Station)
Tuesday, 23rd of May (AREA Congress center)
Morning Session
• 9:20 Lara Dipace - Presentation of Enterprise Europe Network and case studies
Non-conventional expression systems
• 09:40 Kim Remans - STAR protocols (EMBL Heidelberg)
• 10:10 Sara Raccovelli - Plant molecular farming for the production of biopharmaceuticals: Transactiva's experience, opportunities and challenges (Transactiva)
• 10:40 Johannes Buyel* - Yes, you can - protein expression screening in plants and plant cells (BOKU University)
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break
• 11:15 Kerstin Böhm - parallel protein purification at midscale and how to use it for industrial drug discovery (AstraZeneca)
• 11:45 Elena Garcia-Fruitós - Lactococcus lactis: a bacterial expression system alternative to E. coli (IRTA)
• 12:15 Bjorn Voldborg - The National Biologics Facility, research and development in the interspace between academia and industry (Technical University of Denmark)
• 12:40 Ronen Tchelet* - C1 protein production platform (Dyadic International, Inc.)
13:00 14:00 Lunch Buffet (served outside the congress room)
Closing Section
14.00 Nick Berrow - General discussion P4EU projects: benchmarking activities, COST action
15:00 Closing remarks and greetings
15:30: Bus to Basovizza-Elettra Sincrotrone Laboratories
15:30-18:00: Visit to partner laboratories
18:00: Bus from Basovizza-Elettra Sincrotrone to Trieste (Piazza Libertà/Train Station)
*talks in virtual mode
