PROGRAM
Thursday, 28 August at the Science Museum of Trento (MUSE)
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12.00 – 14.00 |
Registration and light brunch at the Science Museum of Trento (MUSE) |
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14.00 – 14.30 |
Welcome address |
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Session 1 |
Chairs: Peter Maček, Cesare Montecucco |
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14.30 – 15.00 |
L01 Franco Gambale: Opening lecture In memory of a missing friend, Gianfranco Menestrina a brilliant biophysicist |
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15.00 – 15.30 |
L02 Gilles Prévost: The long way of some staphylococcal leukotoxins to form pores |
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15.30 – 16.00 |
L03 Gregor Anderluh: Extended superfamily of actinoporins, pore-forming proteins from sea anemones |
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16.00 – 16.45 |
Coffee Break |
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16.45 – 17.15 |
L04 Teresa Frisan: Carcinogenic properties of the bacterial genotoxins |
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17.15 – 17.30 |
S01 Matej Butala: The Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans cytolethal dystending toxin with a truncated CdtB subunit |
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17.30 – 17.45 |
S02 Michel Popoff: Pore-forming activity of clostridial binary toxins |
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17.45 – 18.00 |
S03 Kristina Sepčič: Ostreolysin A-mCherry protein as a tool for tracking cholesterol/ sphingomyelin-rich membrane domains |
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18.30 – 20.00 |
Guided visit at the Science Museum of Trento (MUSE) |
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20.00 – 23.30 |
Aperitif offered on the MUSE terrace and Congress Dinner at MUSE |
Friday, 29 August at the Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK)
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Session 2 |
Chairs: Hagan Bayley, Gilles Prévost |
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08.45 – 09.00 |
S05 Peter Greimel: Structural insight into mushroom derived homologues of actinoporins |
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09.00 – 09.30 |
L05 Yechiel Shai: Antimicrobial peptides: pore former or else (EBSA talk) |
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09.30 – 10.00 |
L06 Alex Tossi: Oligomerization and pore formation by the human cathelicidin LL-37 |
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10.00 – 10.15 |
S06 Tea Lenarcic: Biophysical characterization and crystal structure of HaNLP3, a nontoxic NLP protein from Hyaloperonospora arabidopsidis |
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10.15 – 10.30 |
S07 Katia Cosentino: Single molecule approach to study pore formation in membranes by Bcl-2 proteins |
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10.30 – 11.30 |
Coffee Break & Posters |
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11.30 – 12.00 |
L07 John Kasianowicz: Oral presentation in memory of Oleg Krasilnikov: Nanopore-based single molecule detection and characterization |
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12.00 – 12.30 |
L08 Roland Benz: AB type of toxins of Bacillus anthracis and Clostridium botulinum: differences and similarities |
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12.30 – 13.00 |
L09 Rodney Welch: Escherichia coli hemolysin LPS–dependent and –independent cytotoxic activities |
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13.00 – 14.20 |
Lunch at Orso Grigio |
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Session 3 |
Chairs: Gregor Anderluh, Roland Benz |
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14.30 – 15.00 |
L10 Hagan Bayley: Polymers through protein pores: single-molecule experiments with nucleic acids, polypeptides and polysaccharides |
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15.00 – 15.30 |
L11 Stefan Howorka: Membrane-spanning DNA nanopores |
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15.30 – 16.00 |
L12 Mark Wallace: Parallel optical sequencing of DNA using protein nanopores |
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16.00 – 17.30 |
Coffee Break & Posters |
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17.30 – 18.00 |
L13 Toshihide Kobayashi: Pore-forming toxins as tools to image lipids |
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18.00 – 18.15 |
S08 Jan Behrends: Exploring the biological variability of pore-forming beta-barrel membrane protein assembly with parallel nanopore micorarray recordings |
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18.15 – 18.30 |
S09 Tereza Dolejsova: Characterization of membrane pores formed by colicin U from Shigella boydii |
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18.30 – 18.45 |
S10 Nadja Hellmann: Pore formation by a-toxin from S. aureus: addressing cell-specific and general aspects |
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18.45 – 19.00 |
S11 Armando Carpaneto: The plant vacuole as a biological model system to study the functional properties of exogenous channels and transporters |
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Free Evening |
Saturday, 30 August at the Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK)
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Session 4 |
Chairs: Franco Gambale, Rodney Welch |
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08.45 – 09.00 |
S12 Daniel Ladant: Translocation of Bordetella pertussis adenylate cyclase (CyaA) toxin across a tethered lipid bilayer |
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09.00 – 09.30 |
L14 Robert Gilbert: MACPF/CDC proteolipid pores |
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09.30 – 10.00 |
L15 Michelle Dunstone: A new model for pore formation by cholesterol-dependent cytolysins |
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10.00 – 10.15 |
S13 Peter Maček: Pore complex of ostreolysin A and a MACPF/CDC-like protein, pleurotolysin B, on cholesterol/ sphingomyelin membranes |
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10.15 – 10.30 |
S14 Neval Yilmaz: Assembling of lysenin on sphingomyelin-containing membranes |
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10.30 – 10.45 |
S15 Gintaras Valincius: Reconstitution of cholesterol dependent cytolysins into tethered bilayer membranes |
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10.45 – 11.45 |
Coffee Break & Posters |
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11.45 – 12.00 |
S16 Oneda Leka: Diphteria toxin conformational switching at acidic pH |
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12.00 – 12.15 |
S17 Marco Pirazzini: Thioredoxin - Thioredoxin Reductase system is present on synaptic vesicles and its inhibition prevents the neuroparalysis induced by Botulinum Neurotoxins |
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12.15 – 12.45 |
L16 Cesare Montecucco: How clostridial neurotoxins translocate into the cytosol of nerve terminals? |
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12.45 – 14.00 |
Closing remarks and light brunch together |
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Lectures: 25’ talk + 5’ discussion
Short Oral: 12’ talk + 3’ discussion
Posters will be displayed at FBK for all the conference duration