ITACA.SB Workshop
2 - 4 April 2025 | Bari, Italy
Integrating BioSAXS and High-Performance Computing:
Advancements in Structural Biology and Nanoscience
This event brings together leading experts in Bio-SAXS and high-performance computing, offering a collaborative platform to explore their integration for innovative applications in structural biology and nanoscience.
The workshop also celebrates the commissioning of state-of-the-art Bio-SAXS instrumentation and a High-Performance Computing at the CNR Institute of Crystallography (CNR-IC), implemented within the ITACA.SB project, aiming to strengthen Italy’s structural biology capabilities within the Instruct-ERIC infrastructure.
Event free of charge, however the registration is mandatory.
➡️➡️➡️ REGISTER HERE – deadline 29 February 2024 (23:59 CET) (closed)
Venue:
Via Giuseppe Capruzzi, 326
70124 Bari, Italy
Speakers
Diamond Light Source Ltd
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Cy Jeffries
EMBL Hamburg
Research Complex at Harwell UK
SISSA-IOM Trieste
Seoul National University
Gemma Newby
Xenocs France
Helio Cesar Nogueira Tolentino
Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory
Ulf Olsson
Lund Univeristy
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
University of Innsbruck
Excelsus Structural Solutions (Swiss) AG
Programme (in PDF)
13:00 – 13:15 – Participants arrival
13:15 – 13:50 – Institutional greetings – Michele Saviano, Scientific Coordinator of ITACA.SB
13:50 – 14:00 – Workshop Introduction – Cinzia Giannini & Dritan Siliqi
14:00 – 14:45 – Exploring the Power of SAXS for the Advanced Characterization of Biopharmaceuticals – Thibaud Stoll
14:45 – 15:30 – SIRIUS Synchrotron Beamlines: New Tools to Investigate Heterogeneous and Biological Materials – Helio Cesar Nogueira Tolentino
15:30 – 16:00 – Coffee break
16:00 – 17:15 – Exploring the Conformational Dynamics of the SBDS and EFL1 Proteins: Understanding the Molecular Mechanisms in Shwachman-Diamond Syndrome – Nuria Sanchez Puig
17:15 – 18:00 – Shedding light on ESX-1 substrates: An integrated structural approach to the mycobacterial secretion system – Abril Gijsbers Alejandre
19:00 – Welcome cocktail
Session 1: BioSAXS a valid and powerful technique for Structural Biology and Nanoscience – chair Cinzia Giannini
09:00 – 09:40 – Chaperone protein self-assembly and suppression of amyloid formation – Ulf Olsson
09:40 – 10:20 – SAXS in the context of a structural biology project – Nathan Cowieson
10:20 – 11:00 – Advances in SAXS methods for probing the structure and dynamics with fourth generation synchrotron sources – Narayanan Theyencheri
11:00 – 11:30 – Coffee break
11:30 – 12:10 – The Small Angle Scattering Biological Data Bank – SASBDB – Cy Jeffries
12:10 – 12:30 – SAXS WAXS – Xenocs, Your Access To The Nanoscale In The Lab – Gemma Newby
12:30 – 14:00 – Lunch
Session 2: Hight Performance Computing (HPC) applied on Structural Biology and Drug Design – chair Dritan Siliqi
14:00 – 14:40 – CCP4: From Legacy to the Cloud – A High-Throughput Evolution – Eugene Krissinel
14:40 – 15:20 – Estimating molecular motions from cryo-EM images with DynaMight – Johannes Schwab
15:20 – 16:00 – Protein Analysis in the AlphaFold Era – Milot Mirdita
16:00 – 16:30 – Coffee break
16:30 – 17:10 – Exploring Biomolecular Mechanisms through All-Atom Simulations: from RNA Metabolism to Metal Ion Transport – Alessandra Magistrato
17:10 – 17:50 – Chemography approach to (ultra)big chemical space analysis – Alexander Varnek
20:00 – SOCIAL DINNER
09:00 – 11:00 – Visit to IC laboratories – Guided tour
11:00 – Participant departures
Scientific Committee
CNR-IC Bari
CNR-IC Bari
CNR-IC Bari
CNR-IC Bari
CNR-IC URT Caserta
CNR-IC Bari
CNR-IC Bari
CNR-IC URT Caserta
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