IDPfun Annual Argentina Visit 2023
The MSCA RISE consortia IDPfun (GA 778247) and REFRACT (GA 8238860) jointly organise the event as respectively the 4th IDPfun Annual Argentina Visit and the 3rd REFRACT Annual Latin America Visit. The event will feature sessions in English and Spanish and is organized by the University of Quilmes.
These events are part of IDPfun’s Deliverable 5.2 – “Symposia Period 2”.
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Venue
Events will be held at the University of Quilmes in Quilmes (Argentina) from March 6 to March 10 2023.
Main sessions
The event features the following sessions:
Career development & transferable skills
6 March
Meetings about career development aim at providing ways to advance along the career path.
Training sessions
6-7 March
Training events held by IDPfun’s PIs and Experienced Researchers. Intended audience are post graduates and PhD students
Reception
7 March
A special outreach event to communicate IDPfun and REFRACT’s goals and achievements
IDPfun and REFRACT conference
8-9 March
A two-days conference on Non Globular Proteins, with a focus on Tandem Repeat Proteins and Intrinsically Disordered Proteins. It will also include an Early Stage Researchers’ symposium.
IDPfun and REFRACT Supervisory Board meeting
10 March
Closed-door meetings for IDPfun & REFRACT Supervisory Board members to discuss internal management and science of each project.
Confirmed Speakers
- Alexander Monzon, UNIPD, Italy
- Alan Talevi, UNLP, Argentina
- Andrey Kajava, CNRS, France
- Cristina Marino-Buslje, LELOIR, Argentina
- Damien Devos, CABD-CSIC, Spain
- Daniel Guerra Giraldez , UPCH, Perù
- Denis Shields, UCD, Irland
- Diego Ferreiro, UBA, Argentina
- Ember Martínez , CAUCA, Colombia
- Francisco Melo, PUC, Chile
- Gustavo Parisi, UNQ, Argentina
- Layla Hirsh, PUCP, Peru
- Lucia Chemes, UNSAM, Argentina
- Martin Gonzalez Buitron, UNQ, Argentina
- Miguel Andrade, JGU, Germany
- Nahuel Escobedo, UNQ, Argentina
- Paula Arrías, UNIPD, Italy
- Sara Chuguransky, EMBL-EBI
- Victoria Nugnes, UNIPD, Italy
- Silvio Tosatto, UNIPD, Italy
- Sebastian Fernandez Alberti, UNQ, Argentina
- Zsuzsanna Dosztányi, ELTE, Hungary
Program
IDPfun Conference on “Computational methods on non-globular proteins”
6 March, Monday 9:30-17:00
Room 60
9:00 – 10:00
Registration
9:30 – 10:30
Victoria Nugnes
Workshop – Biocuration in DisProt: the database of intrinsically disordered proteins
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee break
11:00 – 12:30
Victoria Nugnes
Workshop – Biocuration in DisProt: the database of intrinsically disordered proteins
12:30 – 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30
Paula Arrías
Workshop – RepeatsDB a Tandem Repeat Protein Database: General usage and Curation of entries
15:30 – 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 – 17:00
Paula Arrías
Workshop – RepeatsDB a Tandem Repeat Protein Database: General usage and Curation of entries
7 March, Tuesday 9:30-16:30
Room 60
9:00 – 9:30
Sara Chuguransky
Workshop InterPro Database
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00
Alexander Monzon
MobiDB: 10 years annotating Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
13:00 – 14:30
Lunch break
14:30 – 16:30
Nahuel Escobedo and Martin Gonzalez Buitron
CoDNaS*: An introduction to study conformational diversity in biological molecules
8 March, Wednesday 9:30-18:00
Salon Auditorio
9:30 – 10:00
Silvio Tosatto
Non-globular proteins in the era of AlphaFoldDB
10:00 – 10:30
Miguel AndradeComputational characterization of repeats and low complexity regions in protein sequences
10:30 – 11:00
Diego Ferreiro
From evolution to folding of repeat-proteins
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00
Layla Hirsh Martinez
Units identification in repeat proteins
12:00 – 12:30
Alan Talev
LIDeB tools: open-source web apps to assist virtual screening campaigns
12:30 – 13:00
Andrey Kajava
Census of exposed aggregation-prone regions in proteom
13:00 – 14:30
Lauch break
14:30 – 15:00
Sebastian Fernandez Alberti
Conformational diversity: key residues and exploration
15:00 – 15:30
Damien Devos
Sometimes, size matters. Huge and repeat proteins in the tree of life
15:30 – 16:00
Ember Martínez
Clustering of tandem repeats in malaria parasite proteins
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 – 16:45
Sofia Erdozain
Protein repeats in giant viruses
16:45 – 17:00
Nahuel Escobedo
“Ghost interactions”: Revealing missing interactions with ligands using AF predictions
17:00 – 17:15
Patricio Chinestrad
Targeting the GlioKinome: Rational Design of Promiscuous Drugs
9 March, Thursday 9:30-18:00
Salon Auditorio
9:30 – 10:00
Alexander Monzon
Career Development talk for students of Bioinformatic. Language spanish
10:00 – 10:30
Damien Devos
Career Development talk for students of Bioinformatic. Language spanish
10:30 – 11:00
Layla Hirsh Martinez
Career Development talk for students of Bioinformatic. Language spanish
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 – 12:00
Denis Shields
Protein digestion
12:00 – 12:30
Cristina Marino Buslje
Transferring annotations between proteins beyond globular domains
12:30 – 13:00
Daniel Guerra Giraldez
Synthetic biology and biosensors
13:00 – 14:30
Lauch break
14:30 – 15:00
Zsuzsanna Dosztányi
Protein disorder through language models
15:00 – 15:30
Lucia Chemes
Evolutionary constraints on intrinsically disordered regions performing tethering functions
15:30 – 16:00
Francisco Melo
Study of the DNA binding specificity landscape of bipartite Helix-Turn-Helix transcription factor through in vivo directed evolution experiments
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee break
16:30 – 16:45
Giorgia Francesca Camagni
A Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study of Hypoxia Inducible Factor a – Prolyl Hydroxylase Interaction
16:45 – 17:00
Nicolas Garrone
Study of the specificity determinants of the Linear Motif mediated interactions in the Pocket Protein family
17:00 – 17:15
Franco Pradelli
Simulating cancer development: applications to the von Hippel-Lindau syndrome
17:15 – 17:30
Gudrun Aldrian
Everything you always wanted to know about Cell Penetration Peptides
10 March, Friday 10:0-13:30
Room 102 – Hybrid
10:00 – 11:30
REFRACT Supervisory Board meeting
11:30 – 12:00
Coffee break
12:00 – 13:30
IDPfun Supervisory Board meeting
Organizing committee
- Prof. Gustavo Parisi
UNQ, UNLP Argentina - Prof. Silvina Fornasari
UNQ, Argentina - Prof. Sebastian Fernández Alberti
UNQ, Argentina - Prof. Silvio Tosatto
UNIPD, Italy - Dr. Alexander Miguel Monzon
UNIPD, Italy
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