Monday, June 10, 2024
12:00–13:45 Registration
13:45–13:50 Opening
13:50–14:00 Welcome (Anastassis Perrakis; NKI)
Chair: Jiri Novacek
14:00–14:30 Christiane Berger-Schaffitzel: Discovery of a druggable pocket and a drug in SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein
14:30–15:00 Mikael Akke: Resolving Protein–Ligand Binding Pathways by NMR relaxation: Conformational Selection vs Induced Fit
15:00–15:30 Richard Stefl: Mechanisms of transcription attenuation and condensation of RNA polymerase II by RECQ5 helicase
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
Chair: Manfred Weiss
16:00–16:30 Elspeth Garman: Radiation damage and metal identification in Structural Biology: why do we care?
16:30–17:00 Petra Wendler: Visualizing electrons in redox proteins by single particle cryo-EM
17:00–17:45 Poster flash talks
18:00–21:00 Poster session and BBQ dinner in the hotel

Tuesday, June 11, 2024
Chair: Jiri Novacek
8:30–9:00 Gergely Papp: EasyGrid: a versatile platform for automated Cryo-EM sample preparation and control
9:00–9:30 Carlos Oscar Sorzano: Advances in the stream processing of single particles by CryoEM
9:30–10:00 Enrico Luchinat: Detecting protein-drug interactions in human cells by real-time 19F NMR
10:00–10:30 Bernhard Brutscher: Light-NMR: what can we learn about photo-transformable fluorescent proteins?
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
Chair: Eva Pereiro (Partners' JRA)
11:00–11:30 Evgenia Zagoriy: Streamlining cryo-corellative multi-scale imaging of multicellular samples
11:30–12:00 Joaquin Oton: Advancing Correlative Microscopy: Automated Alignment of cryo-3D-SIM and Soft X-ray Tomography Data – Strategies and Implementation
12:00–12:30 Genevieve Evans: Building a Fragment Screening Data Pilot Repository: Challenges and Opportunities
12:30–13:00 Sponsor's contribution – Bruker: Magnet Innovations, Liquid State NMR Probes and Software News from Bruker BioSpin
13:00–13:10 Group photoshoot
13:10–14:00 Buffet lunch
Chair: Rebecca Thompson
14:00–14:30 Andras Perczel: Chemical evolution of the aggregation-prone regions by means of amyloid formation
14:30–15:00 Daniel Rozbesky: Molecular mechanisms of MICAL signaling in cytoskeletal dynamics
15:00–15:30 Gustavo Fuertes: A divide-and-conquer structural biology approach to elucidate the photocycle of light-regulated transcription factor EL222
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
Chair: Hans Wienk
16:00–16:30 Kevin Gardner: Using structural biology to transform nature’s switches into our biotech tools and therapeutics
16:30–17:00 Elda Bauda: Ultrastructural details of the bacterial spore revealed by in situ cryo-electron tomography
17:00–18:00 Round Table: Panel members on iNEXT-Discovery
18:30–20:30 Spilberk Castle visit / Free evening (tips on where to go and where to eat will be provided)

Wednesday, June 12, 2024
Chair: Christoph Müller
8:30–9:00 Slavica Jonic: Hybrid methods for analyzing conformational variability in cryo-EM and cryo-ET data
9:00–9:30 Katja Petzold: What do microRNAs and ribosomes have in common? Dynamics!
9:30–10:00 Francesca Rossi: Impact of osteosarcoma cells differentiation on biomineralization and mitochondrial morphology
10:00–10:30 Johannes Thoma: In-situ characterization of the bacterial outer membrane protein A
10:30–11:00 Coffee break
Chair: Jiri Novacek
11:00–11:30 Marina Mapelli: Structural and functional characterisation of mechanisms controlling epithelial tissue integrity
11:30–12:00 Lukas Trantirek: Characterizing biomolecular structure and interactions in living human cells synchronized in defined physiological states using NMR spectroscopy
12:00–12:30 Rolf Boelens: Lac Repressor allostery
12:30–13:00 Outlook and Concluding remarks iNEXT AUM (Anastassis Perrakis; NKI, Coordinator)
13:00–13:20 Sponsor's contribution – Thermo Fisher Scientific: Advances and Frontiers in Cryo Electron Microscopy
13:20–14:00 Buffet lunch
14:00–14:50 Carlos Oscar Sorzano: Deep learning for SPA
14:50–15:40 Lukas Palatinus: 3D electron diffraction: a tool for understanding pharmaceutically and biochemically relevant small molecules
15:40–16:00 Coffee break
16:00–16:50 C. Shan Xu: Volume Electron Microscopy: from Room Temperature to Cryo
16:50–17:40 Katerina Naydenova: Structure determination by cryoEM at 100 keV
18:30–22:00 Gala dinner in the Augustinian Abbey, Mendel Square

Thursday, June 13, 2024
8:30–9:20 Bruno Klaholz: High-resolution cryo-EM analysis of ribosome and virus complexes
9:20–10:10 Jurgen Plitzko: Serial-lift-out - The path to the molecular anatomy of whole organisms by cryo-electron tomography
10:10–10:40 Coffee break
10:40–11:30 Simone Mattei: Ribosomes hibernate on mitochondria during cellular stress
11:30–12:20 Holger Stark: How to improve resolution and quality in single particle cryoEM
12:20–12:50 Sponsor's contribution – TESCAN GROUP: Accelerating Cryo-TEM Sample Preparation with TESCAN plasma FIB-SEM
13:00–14:00 Buffet lunch

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