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Inauguration of AUSBI in 2023

AUSBI inauguration - "Biophysics from the cell to nanoscale"

Friday 10 February 2023 from 9:00-19:30

MBG Auditorium (1871-120), Dept. Molecular Biology and Genetics, Universitetsbyen 81, 8000 Aarhus

Tentative programme

08:30

Coffee and registration

09:00

Welcome by Poul Nissen (Dept. Molecular Biology and Genetics / DANDRITE)

09:10

Keynote lecture by Birthe B. Kragelund (Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen)

Title: "Understanding Disordered Proteins Complexes by Integration"

09:35

Inspirational talk by Lucy Holt (Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen)

Presentation of ISBUC (Integrative Structural Biology at University of Copenhagen)

SESSION I - HIGHER ORDER STRUCTURE AND THE CELL

Chair: Rune Hartmann

09:55

Thomas Vorup-Jensen (Dept. Biomedicine): “Protein Aggregates and Inflammation”

10:10

Thomas L-M Sørensen (Dept. Biological and Chemical Engineering): “Organoids and Imaging”

10:25

Robert Fenton (Dept. Biomedicine): “Systems biology of Slc12 transporters - from mouse to man”

10:40

Tobias Weidner (Dept. Chemistry): “Structural biology at interfaces”

11:00

Fulvio Reggiori (Dept. Biomedicine): “Autophagy in Health and Disease”

11:15 Group photo in the auditorium

11:20

Lunch and poster session (with prepared 2 min short-talks in front of posters)

SESSION II - EXPERIMENTAL STRUCTURE DETERMINATION

Chair: Esben Lorentzen

12:45

13:00

Henrik Birkedal (Dept. Chemistry): “Hierarchical biological structures by multiscale and multimodal X-ray imaging”

Bjørn Pedersen (Dept. Molecular Biology and Genetics): “Molecular mechanisms of proton-driven transmembrane transport”

13:15

Poul Nissen (Dept. Molecular Biology and Genetics/DANDRITE):  “Cryo-EM studies of mammalian membrane transporters”

13:30

Joseph Lyons (Dept. iNANO): “Structural and functional characterisation of lipid transport and metabolism systems”

13:45

Ditlev Brodersen (Dept. Molecular Biology and Genetics): “Understanding the molecular mechanisms of bacterial survival and immunity”

14:00

Daan van Aalten (Dept. Molecular Biology and Genetics): “Molecular mechanisms of O-GlcNAc signalling”

14:15

Mette Galsgaard Malle (postdoc in Jørgen Kjems group, iNANO)

(CANCELLED: Christian Brix Folsted Andersen (Dept. Biomedicine): “Structure and function of endocytic receptors”)

14:35

Coffee and cake break

SESSION III - INFRASTRUCTURE AND FACILITIES

Chair: Poul Nissen

15:00

Thomas Boesen (Dept. iNANO): “The EMBION National Cryo-EM Facility”

15:15

Michael Westberg (Dept. Chemistry): "Protein Design, Binders, and Photoactive Domains: Characterization and Application"

(CANCELLED: Søren Vrønning Hoffmann (Dept. Physics): “Synchrotron Radiation Circular Dichroism facilities at ASTRID2”)

SESSION IV - STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS

Chair: Ebbe Andersen

15:30

Victoria Birkedal (Dept. Chemistry): “Single molecule fluorescence imaging of nucleic acids and proteins”

15:45

Frans Mulder (Dept. Chemistry): “Measuring protein electrostatics by NMR spectroscopy”

16:00

Daniel Otzen (Dept. iNANO): “The Protein Biophysics group: from self-assembly to disassembly”

16:15

Jørgen Kjems (Dept. iNANO): “Engineering biological nanopores for sensing”

16:35

Break

SESSION V - COMPUTATIONAL METHODS AND MODELLING

Chair: Daniel Otzen

17:00

Birgit Schiøtt (Dept. Chemistry): “Complex membranes and how MD can provide insight in mechanism of membrane proteins”

17:15

Esben Lorentzen (Dept. Molecular Biology and Genetics): “Molecular mechanisms of cilium formation

17:30

Ebbe Andersen (Dept. iNANO): “Folding and flexibility of RNA nanostructures revealed by cryo-electron microscopy and tomography”

17:45

Jan Skov Pedersen (Dept. Chemistry): “Small-angle X-ray scattering for investigations of biomolecular complexes and for validation of EM maps”

18:00

Lili Zhang (Dept. Mechanical and Production Engineering): “Multi-Scale Methods to Extract Mechanical Properties from Molecular Dynamics Simulations”

18:15

Chao Sun (Dept. Molecular Biology and Genetics / DANDRITE): “Quantitative, Single-molecule Approaches to Neuronal Proteostasis”

18:30-19:30

Pizza and poster session

Inaugural symposium for the "Aarhus University Structural Biology and Biophysics Initiative" (AUSBI)

"Biophysics from the cell to nanoscale"

Linking molecular cell biology, biophysics and structural biology at Aarhus University

The inauguration of the AUSBI network took place on

Friday 10 February 2023 at 9:00-19:30
Aarhus University, University City, MBG Auditorium (1871-120)

Inauguration of AUSBI on 10 February 2023