Program

February 10

14:00

Registration at the venue

14:20

Welcome

  
 

Chair: Antonella Di Pizio

14:30

Graeme Milligan (University of Glasgow)

Receptors for short- and medium-chain length fatty acids. From functions to structures and back again

15:15

Bert de Groot (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry)

Molecular dynamics of potassium channel permeation and GPCR allostery

15:45

Giulia Rossetti (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Decoding Nav Channel Modulation through Molecular Simulations

  

16:15

Coffee break and Poster session

  
 

Chair: Davide Mandelli

16:45

Peter Tieleman (Calgary University, Canada)

The transport mechanism of SLC4 transporters

17:15

Mercedes Alfonso Prieto (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

A computational lens on calcium channel clearance: Structural modeling of the complex between the channel auxiliary beta subunit and actin

17:45

Fabio Lolicato (Universität Heidelberg)

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

  
  

19:30

Social dinner

February 11

 

Chair: Vittorio Limongelli

9.00

Luca Monticelli (IBCP CNRS, Lyon, France)

Challenges in coarse-grained simulations of membrane proteins

9.30

Christoph Fahlke (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Anion conduction by vesicular glutamate transporters

10:00

Ana Nicoleta Bondar (University of Bucharest)

Mechanism of GPCR signalling across cellular membranes

  

10:30

Coffee break and Poster session

  
 

Chair: Davide Mandelli

11:00

Peter Kolb (Philipps-Universität Marburg)

More allosteric pockets and ligands for GPCRs

11:30

Vishal Eswaran (RWTH Aachen University)

Outer Pore Collapse as a Potential Pathomechanism of Nav1.7 loss-of-function related painlessness

12:00

Holger Gohlke (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf and Forschungszentrum Jülich)

Modulators of the desensitized state of the nAChR & FAIR principles in biomolecular simulations

  

12:30

Lunch break

  
 

Chair: Antonella Di Pizio

14:00

Ariane Nunes Alves (TU Berlin)

Investigating pH-sensitivity and ligand binding in membrane proteins through simulations and mutagenesis

14:30

Florian Seufert (Universität Leipzig)

A multiscale investigation of adhesion GPCR GAIN domain autoproteolysis

15:00

Alejandro Giorgetti (University of Verona)

Mechanistic Complexity in P2Y₁₂ Activation and Pharmacological Modulation

  

15:30

Coffee break and Poster session

  
 

Chair: Paolo Carloni

16:00

Fengjie Wu (University of Basel, Switzerland)

Track the detailed activation dynamics of GPCR by high-resolution NMR

16:30

Jörg Standfuss (University of Zurich, Switzerland)

Time-resolved GPCR photopharmacology at next-generation X-ray sources

17:00

Oliver Koch (Universität Münster)

Unveiling Praziquantel's Selectivity for the Schistosoma-TRPM Channel: Towards Broad-Spectrum Anthelmintics

  

17:30

Concluding remarks

  

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