Opening Ceremony Elena Domínguez Cañas Enrique de la Rosa – CIB‑CSIC Director (elective) Wolfgang Fecke – Director General EU‑OPENSCREEN Sonsoles Martín‑Santamaría – Chair Philip Gribbon – Chair
Session I – ICBS Session, Chair: Haian Fu
11:00
PL1 – Stephen Mann – University of Bristol, UK Synthetic Protobiology
11:45
IL1 – Jin Zhang – UCSD, USA Illuminating the Biochemical Activity Architecture of the Cell
12:15
OC 1 & 2
12:45
Lunch & Poster Session
Session II, Chair: Francisco Peri
14:00
PL2 – Anne Imberty – CNRS, FR Lectins from Bacteria and Fungi: Therapeutical Targets and Research Tools
14:45
OC 3 & 4
15:15
FC 1–3
15:30
IL2 – Mariana Gomes de Pinho – ITQB, PT Effects of Antibiotics on Cell Cycle Progression of Staphylococcus aureus
16:00
Coffee break & Poster Session
Session III – EU‑OPENSCREEN ERIC Session, Chair: Jordi Quintana
16:30
IL3 – Margit Jeschke – Novartis, CH Applying Established Concepts of Pharmaceutical Development to Industrialization of Cellular Cancer Immunotherapy
17:00
OC 5 & 6
17:30
OC 7, 8 & 9
18:15
FC 4–6
20:15
Speakers & Committees Dinner
Thursday / Day 2: April 4
Session IV – RSEQ‑GEQB Session, Chair: Concepción González‑Bello
08:30
PL3 – Modesto Orozco – IRB Barcelona, ES
DNA Simulations from the Electron to the Chromosome... and Beyond
09:15
OC 10 & 11
09:45
IL4 – Carmen Domene – University of Bath, UK
What Do We Know about Ion Conduction in Ion Channels?
10:15
FC 7–9
10:30
Coffee break & Poster Session
Session V, Chair: Philip Gribbon
11:00
IL5 – Gerard JP van Westen – University of Leiden, NL
Combining Cheminformatics and Bioinformatics in Drug Discovery – Lessons Learned and New Opportunities
11:30
OC 12 & 13
12:00
OC 14 & 15
12:30
FC 10–12
12:45
Lunch & Poster Session
Session VI, Chair: María J. Vicent
14:00
PL4 – Giuseppe Battaglia – University College London, UK
Multiplexing and Multivalency in Nanomedicine Design
14:45
OC 16 & 17
15:15
FC 13–15
15:30
IL6 – Javier Montenegro – CIQUS‑USC, ES
New Peptides Designs for Gene Delivery, Genetic Edition and the Preparation of Cytoskeleton Mimics
16:00
Coffee Break & Poster Session
Session VII, Chair: Juan Carlos Morales
16:30
IL7 – Teresa Pellegrino – IIT, IT
Merging Magnetic Hyperthermia with other Anticancer Treatments for Tackling Cancer
17:00
OC 18 & 19
17:30
IL8 – Torkild Visnes – SINTEF Industry / Karolinska Institutet, NO
Perturbation of mitochondrial genome stability with OGG1 inhibitors as a novel strategy to treat cancer
18:00
FC 16–21
20:30
Conference Dinner
Friday / Day 3: April 5
Session VIII – RSEQ Session, Chair: Itziar Alkorta
08:30
PL5 – Cynthia J. Burrows – University of Utah, USA
Beyond Watson and Crick: Chemical Modifications in G‑Quadruplexes Regulate Gene Expression
09:15
OC 20
09:30
FC 22–24
09:45
IL9 – Thomas R. Ward – University of Basel, CH
Artificial Metalloenzymes: Challenges and Opportunities
10:15
OC 21
10:30
Coffee break & Poster Session
Session IX – EFMC Session
Chair: Yves P. Auberson (EFMC President)
11:00
IL10 – Rolf Müller – Helmholtz‑HZI, DE
Discovery and Development of Antibiotics from (Myxo)bacterial Secondary Metabolites
11:30
OC 22 & 23
12:00
IL11 – Oscar Millet – CIC bioGUNE / ATLAS, ES
Repurposing Ciclopirox as a Pharmacological Chaperone
12:30
OC 24
12:45
Lunch & Poster Session
Session X – EuChemS Session
Chair: Sonsoles Martín‑Santamaría
14:00
IL12 – Oscar Llorca – CNIO, ES
Mechanistic insights into the Function of HSP90 Co‑chaperones by cryo‑EM
14:30
OC 25
14:45
IL13 – Christian Ottman – Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
Stabilization of 14‑3‑3 Protein‑Protein Interactions
15:15
Closing Plenary Lecture (IYPT) – Federico Gago – University of Alcalá, ES
The Biological Chemistry of Selected Elements from the Periodic Table
16:00
Closing, final remarks, poster and flash communications awards.
PhD Thesis 2018 Award of the RSEQ Chemical Biology Division to Dr. Elsa Hernando.
Pilar Goya – EuChemS President
Sonsoles Martín‑Santamaría – Chair
Philip Gribbon – Chair