9.00 - 14.00, Friday, May 15th, 2026
Workshop
Current Topics in Molecular Biosciences
09:30 - 09:35 Welcome from Andrei Petrescu & Ana-Nicoleta Bondar
09:35 - 09:50 Gebhard Schertler, Structural Biology of Membrane Proteins, PSI, CH Probing Rhodopsin dynamics with time resolved crystallography on synchrotrons and Free Electron Lasers
09:50 - 10:05 Ching-Ju Tsai, Laboratory of Biomolecular Research, PSI, CH Light-sensitive GPCR-G protein signaling — What we have learned from the structures
10:05 - 10:20 Gabriela Popescu, Buffalo University, USA, Dynamic Calcium Permeability of NMDA receptors
10:20 - 10:35 Kalina Hristova, Johns Hopkins University, USA Signaling events at the cell surface
10:35 - 10:50 Valerica Raicu, University of Wisconsin, USA Title: TBA
10:50 - 11:05 Laurentiu Spiridon, Institute of Biochemistry of the Romanian Academy Improving Parallel Tempering with Robosample
11:05 - 11:20 Liviu Movileanu, Syracuse University, USA Bioinspired Nanopore Sensors Using Antibody Mimetic Technologie
11:20 - 11:40 Coffee break
11:40 - 11:55 Kota Katayama, Nagoya Institute of Technology Structure-guided molecular basis of wavelength selectivity in primate cone visual pigments
11:55 - 12:10 Kento Watanabe, Nagoya Institute of Technology Infrared spectroscopic study of the molecular basis of negative allostery in muscarinic receptors
12:10 - 12:25 Ioana Dumitru, University of Bucharest Conformational dynamics of the Basigin-MCT1 complex
12:25 - 12:40 William C. Wimley, Tulane University Synthetic Evolution of Host-compatible Peptide Antibiotics
12:40 - 12:55 Mariana Pinteală, Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi BioMat4CAST: Advancing the Future of Chemistry
12.55 - 14:00 Pizza, networking, and visit of the lab
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