4th ISFMS—Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Druggability of Proteins
4th ISFMS—Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Druggability of Proteins
Part of the International Symposium on Frontiers in Molecular Science series
Protein Chemistry, Proteins as Drug Target, Protein Structure and Function
Thank you for your participation in ISFMS2022!
We would like to thank our chairs, committee members, speakers, and all the attendees for making such a great meeting!
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Welcome from the Chairs
We look forward to seeing you in Florence.
Claudiu T. Supuran, Paola Gratteri, Silvia Selleri & Clemente Capasso
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Conference Chairs
University of Florence Neurofarba Department, Firenze, Italy
University of Florence Neurofarba Department, Firenze, Italy
University of Florence Neurofarba Department, Firenze, Italy
National Research Council, Napoli, Italy
Conference Committee
Department of Biological Sciences, College of Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
www.researchgate.net/profile/Barbara_Jachimska
NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon, Portugal
Dipartimento di Chimica e Tecnologie Chimiche, Presidente SCI Sezione Calabria, Italy
Division of Cardiology, Pauley Heart Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Local Organizers
Local Organizing Committee
Dr. Alessandro Bonardi
Dr. Alessio Nocentini
Dr. Andrea Angeli
Andrea Ammara
Simone Giovannuzzi
Francesco Mori
Irene Fallai
Coordinators of the Local Organizing Committee
Prof. Paola Gratteri and Prof. Claudiu T. Supuran
Keynote Speakers
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Hypoxia and Ferroptosis: Co-targeting Approaches in Cancer
Dr Shoukat Dedhar is a Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Known for his seminal discovery of Integrin-Linked Kinase (ILK), an essential protein involved in the regulation of cytoskeletal organization and signal transduction, he has also made significant contributions in the field of tumour microenvironment/hypoxia, and co-developed a new inhibitor of CAIX, currently in clinical trials.
Department of Chemistry, and Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutic, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA
Dr. Binghe Wang is Regents’ Professor of Chemistry, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Drug Discovery, and Director of Center for Diagnostics and Therapeutics at Georgia State University. Dr. Wang obtained his B.S. degree in medicinal chemistry from Beijing Medical College in 1982, and his Ph.D. degree in medicinal chemistry from the University of Kansas in 1991. He served at the University of Oklahoma and at North Carolina State University before he was recruited to a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar position at Georgia State University, where he also served as Chair of the Department of Chemistry, Associate Dean for Natural and Computational Sciences, Associate Dean for Research, Graduate Studies, and Innovation, and Interim Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Wang’s research covers drug design, drug delivery, chemosensing, chemical biology, and organic chemistry. He has published over 320 scientific papers and given over 220 invited lectures worldwide. He served for 20 years as the Editor-in-Chief of a high-impact journal, Medicinal Research Reviews between 2000-2019, and founding serial editor of “Wiley Series in Drug Discovery and Development,” which has published over 20 volumes. He has edited books in areas including drug design, drug delivery, pharmaceutical profiling, chemosensing, carbohydrate recognition, and therapeutic applications of carbon monoxide. Internationally, Dr. Wang has served on many panels and editorial boards including his 7-year membership on the Synthetic and Biological Chemistry-A Study Section (SBC-A) at the NIH. He has also led or participated in the organization, and/or presided over more than 40 international symposia and conferences.
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, USA
Molecular pillars of calcium signaling in a bacterial pathogen, Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Dr. Patrauchan is a Professor of Microbiology in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at Oklahoma State University. She holds a PhD in Microbiology (National Academy of Sciences, Ukraine) and received postdoctoral training in molecular microbiology (Michigan State University, Montana State University, and University of British Columbia). Dr. Patrauchan’s research focuses on understanding calcium signaling in a human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales (UNSW) Australia, Sydney, Australia
Multiplexed screening of thousands of natural products for protein-ligand binding in native mass spectrometry
William A. Donald is an Associate Professor, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, and Scientia Fellow in the School of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He received his B.Sc. degree in Chemistry from Seattle University in 2005 and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 2010. After a research fellowship at the University of Melbourne, he joined the School of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales in 2013. He is currently an associate editor for the Journal of Enzyme Inhibition and Medicinal Chemistry. His research interests include mass spectrometry and ion chemistry, with an emphasis on developing and applying instrumentation and methods to problems of interest in biochemistry.
IBMM - Pôle Chimie Balard Recherche, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Innovative approaches targeting carbonic anhydrases: an update.
Jean-Yves Winum received his PhD in chemistry from the University of Montpellier (France) in 1998. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Chemistry department of Georgetown University (Washington, DC) and of the University of Geneva (Switzerland). In 1999, he joined the University of Montpellier, where he is now Full Professor. His research interests are focused on organic/medicinal chemistry of metalloenzyme inhibitors. He published more than 190 articles (h-index 44) in this field.
Faculty of Chemistry, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania
Dual- or Multi- Trageting Azaheterocycles: Next Generation of Drugs in Medicinal Chemistry.
Dr. Mangalagiu is a professor of organic and medicinal chemistry and Vice-Rector with research at “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania. He has nearly 30 years of experience in the research, focused in the area of Heterocycles Compounds. He has over 200 papers, 15 patents, 3 international chapter books, etc. He was Visiting Professor and/or invited speaker to prestigious foreign universities (Ludwig Maximilianus University Munchen, Technische Universität Braunschweig, University of Florence, Universite D’Angers), awarded with numerous prizes and honours: DAAD and NATO award, “Costin D. Nenitescu Medal” (Romanian Society of Chemistry), “Al.I.Cuza University Award in Research”, Special Award of Croatian Association of Inventors, etc. More information’s to: http://teclu.chem.uaic.ro/mangalagiu; ORCID number 0000-0002-4632-5076
Department of Molecular Medicine, Morsani College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
Giuseppina De Simone graduated in chemistry at the University of Naples Federico II (1993). She worked from August 1994 to January 1995 at the Drug Design Group-Sandoz Pharma AG in Basel, and from September 1995 to February 1996 at the University of Pavia. From November 1996 to January 1997, she was visiting scientist at the Max Plank Institute-Hamburg Germany. In 1998 she received her PhD at the University of Naples. Since 2010, she is Research Director at the Institute of Biostructures and Bioimaging of the Italian National Research Council. Her research activities are focused on the biochemical and structural characterization of enzymes involved in human diseases. She published more than 160 articles (Google scholar h-index 49) in this field.
Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, USA
Bacterial carbonic anhydrase inhibitors for the treatment of drug resistant bacteria: A classical drug scaffold gets a new purpose
Dr. Flaherty received his Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences at the University of Nebraska Medical Center. He then moved to the University of Kansas and joined an NIH sponsored medicinal chemistry lab under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Aubé as a post-doctoral researcher and later as a research track faculty. He is now an assistant professor of medicinal chemistry in the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Purdue University focused on drug design for new antibiotics.
Molecular Diagnostics and Drug Discovery (MD3) Group, Smart-Health Initiative (SHI), Red Sea Research Center (RSRC), Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Elevated protein dynamics and druggability
Research in Professor Łukasz Jaremko's Molecular Diagnostics and Drug Discovery (MD3) group focuses on atomic-level insight into essential and topical questions from biochemistry and medicine, such as, e.g., the primary molecular bases of cancer, including leukaemia and lung cancer (Nature, 2021). The team is actively working in the field of targeted drug design and discovery, using structure-dynamics analysis to search for small molecules (ligands) that interact specifically with the disease-associated proteins. Identified lead compounds are then engineered to increase their binding and, thus therapeutic potency against cancer (Nature Chem Biol, 2021). Biomolecular nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is the crucial experimental technique used and refined (J Chem Phys B, 2015; Angewandte Chem, 2016; J Biomol NMR, 2018, 2020) to tackle challenging macromolecular assemblies (Nature Chem Biol, 2013, 2021; Science, 2014; Nature Communications, 2016, 2017; Nucleic Acids Res, 2019; Am J Hum Genetics, 2019; Chemical Science, 2020; eLife, 2021; Nature 2021; Mol. Cell 2021). These NMR-based structural studies are then combined with molecular and enzymatic assays as well as other state-of-the-art biophysical techniques such as X-ray crystallography, electron microscopy, circular dichroism and molecular dynamics simulations to get further insights into the complex biological systems essential for human health. Professor Łukasz Jaremko has published over 90 peer-reviewed papers in international journals covering original research of both methods development and application to address and monitor the pivotal biological, biomedical and environmental phenomena.
Registration
The registration fee includes attendance to all conference sessions, welcome cocktail, and morning/afternoon coffee breaks.
Participation to the conference is considered final only once the registration fees have been paid. The number of participants is limited: once the number of paid registrations reaches the maximum number of participants, unpaid registrations will be cancelled.
Please note that, in order to finalize the scientific program in due time, at least one registration by anyone of the authors, denoted as Covering Author, is required to cover the presentation and publication of any accepted abstract. Covering Author registration deadline is 20 July 2022. Your abstract will be withdrawn if your registration is not complete by this date.
Authors with multiple contributions: Please note that one author registration will cover only ONE accepted contribution. Authors presenting more than 1 contribution during the event will be charged 25 euro per additional abstract (e.g., 1 author with 2 abstracts: registration fee + 25 euro; 2 authors with 3 abstracts: 2 registration fees + 25 euro; etc.)
Authors and reviewers of IJMS: Please note that the authors and reviewers of IJMS from the last 5 years will receive a 15% discount on the registration fees. This discount is not immediate, so you need to add the code AUT/REV-ISFMS2022 during your registration process. For any question or doubt, please send us an email to isfms@mdpi.com.
Certificate of Attendance: After the event, the participants of ISFMS2022 will be able to download an electronic Certificate of Attendance by log-in at their Sciforum personal account. Once you're logged-in, go to your profile and click on 'My certificates'. A list of all Sciforum events you've attended is available and you simply have to click on "Download" next to the correct event.
Conference Dinner: A Social Dinner will be served on Thursday, 8 September at 20.30h (further information below). Please note that the conference fee does not include this social event. Therefore, if you plan to attend the dinner, please make sure you select this extra when registering to the conference (Price per person: 50 euro). Anyone wishing to attend the conference social dinner should register and pay at this website before 31 August.
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Regular Until 10th August 2022 |
Late From 11th August 2022 |
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| Post-Docs, PIs & Senior Scientists | 450.00 EUR | 550.00 EUR | 650.00 EUR | |
| Commercial | 700.00 EUR | 800.00 EUR | 900.00 EUR |
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Free Registration Options
| Waived Fees: Invited Speakers and MDPI Guests |
Cancellation policy
Cancellation of paid registration is possible under the terms listed below:
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> 2 months before the conference |
Full refund but 60 EUR are retained for administration |
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> 1 month before the conference |
Refund 50% of the applying fees |
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> 2 weeks before the conference |
Refund 25% of the applying fees |
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< 2 weeks before the conference |
No refund |
Disclaimer
In the unlikely event that MDPI shall deem it necessary to cancel the conference, all pre-paid registration fees will be reimbursed. MDPI shall not be liable for reimbursing the cost of travel or accommodation arrangements made by individual delegates.
Photographs and/or video will be taken during the conference
By taking part in this event you grant the event organizers full rights to use the images resulting from the photography/video filming, and any reproductions or adaptations of the images for fundraising, publicity or other purposes to help achieve the conference’s aims. This might include (but is not limited to), the right to use them in their printed and online publicity, social media, press releases and funding applications.
Payment methods
Wire transfer, Credit card
Instructions for Authors
The "4th ISFMS — Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Druggability of Proteins" will accept abstracts only.
The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference. Moreover, participants will have the opportunity to contribute with a full manuscript to the special issue "Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Druggability of Proteins" in the journal IJMS.
To present your research at the event
- Create an account on Sciforum if you do not have one, then click on ‘New Submission’ on the upper-right corner of the window, or by clicking on ‘Submit Abstract’ at the top of this webpage.
- Indicate what thematic area is best suited for your research.
- Submit an abstract in English - the word limits are: minimum 150 words and maximum 300 words.
- The deadline to submit your abstract is 24 June 2022. You will be notified by 15 July 2022 about the acceptance for poster presentation.
- Upon submission, you can select if you wish to also be considered for oral presentation. Following assessment by the Chairs, you will be notified by 15 July 2022 in a separate email whether your contribution has been accepted for oral presentation.
- Please note that, in order to finalize the scientific program in due time, at least one registration by any of the authors, denoted as Covering Author, is required to cover the presentation and publication of any accepted abstract. Covering Author registration deadline is 2 August 2022. Your abstract will be withdrawn if your registration is not complete by this date.
Oral Presentations
Short talks will be 15 min long including questions (12+3 Q&A). The typical presentation should be up to 10–12-minute talk.
All presentations must be uploaded in advance. Please bring your presentation to the registration desk at least 30 min before the start of your session, or at the end of the previous day for the early morning sessions. A technician will be available to assist you.
Poster Information
Maximum poster size limited to 90 × 140cm, vertical orientation preferred. Please print your poster prior to the conference.
A plan of the poster session will be circulated later on.
Publication Opportunities
- All accepted abstracts will be available online in Open Access form on Sciforum.net.
- Participants of this conference are cordially invited to contribute with a full manuscript to our Special Issue "Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Druggability of Proteins" in the journal IJMS.
- The submission deadline for this special issue is 28 February 2023. Conference participants will be granted a 15% discount on the publication fees. Please note that no other institutional discounts will be applicable, except from reviewers’ discount vouchers.
- IJMS is indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), MEDLINE (PubMed), and other databases, and has an Impact Factor of 5.923 (2020).
Venues for ISFMS2022
Google maps address: Rectorate of University of Florence, Piazza San Marco 4 50121 Florence
2. All the other days the conference will take place at Centro Didattico Morgagni (CDM) - Morgagni Didactic Center at Via Gian Battista Morgagni 40, 50134 Florence
Google maps address: Centro Didattico Morgagni (CDM) - Morgagni Didactic Center at Via Gian Battista Morgagni 40, 50134 Florence
How to get to the CDM:
The tramway line is by far the best option. Centro Didattico Morgagni is served by the T1 tram line. From Santa Maria Novella train station you can take the T1 line towards “Careggi-Ospedale” and stop at “Morgagni Università” (frequency every 5 to 10 mins). The ride from the train station to the conference building takes about 20 minutes. It is possible to buy tickets at every stop, using cash or contactless credit cards. Tickets must then be validated on board. For information on this line and other routes you can directly consult the website www.gestramvia.it.
Social Dinner
The Conference Social Dinner will take place on 8 September at 20:30h at Ristorante Il Bargello.
Please note that the conference fee does not include this social event. The price per person to attend the Social Dinner is 50 euro. Anyone wishing to attend the conference social dinner should register and pay at this website before 31 August.
Address: Piazza della Signoria 4/red 50122 Firenze FL
Conference Program
Tuesday 06 September 2022Rectorate of University of Florence, Piazza San Marco 4 50121 Florence |
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14:30 - 15:30 |
Registration check |
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15:30 - 15:45 |
Greetings from Prof. Debora Berti, Prorector for research, University of Florence |
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15:45 - 16:00 |
Welcome and chairing from Prof. Claudiu T. Supuran, chair of the conference |
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16:00 - 17:00 |
Keynote talk: Shoukat Dedhar, University of British Columbia, Canada |
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17:15 - 19:00 |
Welcome cocktail |
Wednesday 07 September 2022Centro Didattico Morgagni (CDM) - Morgagni Didactic Center |
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Session chaired by Dr. Clemente Capasso |
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09.00-10.00 |
Keynote talk: W. Alexander Donald, University of New South Wales, Australia |
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10.00-10.30 |
Daniel Lietha - Structure and force activation of adhesion signalling |
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break |
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Session chaired by Dr. Clemente Capasso |
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11.00-11.30 |
Catherine Michaux - Revealing intrinsic disorder and aggregation properties of the DPF3 zinc finger proteins |
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11.30-12.00 |
Felix Nagel - Biophysical and Structural Insights into a Pancreatitis Associated Kazal Inhibitor |
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12.00-12.30 |
Mietha Van der Walt - Application of reverse pharmacophore mapping to search for protein targets of istradefylline – a drug repurposing perspective |
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12.30-13.00 |
Spyridon Gourdoupis - FEN1 as a target for confining oncogenesis |
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13.00-13.30 |
Filippo Favretto - Functional and Structural Characterization of two Cyclophilins from the parasite Toxoplasma gondii |
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch time |
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Session chaired by Prof. Dr. Paola Gratteri and Prof. Dr. Claudiu T. Supuran |
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15.00-16.00 |
Keynote talk: Giuseppina De Simone, CNR Naples, Italy |
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16.00-16.30 |
Anne Susemihl - BCL11B CCHC Zinc Finger Domain and Its Potential for Cancer Therapy |
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16.30-17.00 |
Aida Serra - Industry by-product EVs (BP-EVs) as a novel compound delivery platform for protein target within the Central Nervous System |
17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break |
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17.30-18.00 |
Elena Krachmarova - Effect of SARS-CoV-2 ORF6 protein on DNA replication in eukaryotic cells |
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18.00-18.45 |
POSTER Session 1 |
Thursday 08 September 2022Centro Didattico Morgagni (CDM) - Morgagni Didactic Center |
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Session chaired by Prof. Dr. Silvia Selleri and Dr. Clemente Capasso |
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09.00-10.00 |
Keynote talk: Binghe Wang, Georgia State University, USA |
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10.00-10.30 |
Jiri Cerven - Targetting Topoisomerase IIa: back to the drawing board via Z-DNA |
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break |
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11.00-12.00 |
Keynote talk: Marianna Patrauchan, Oklahoma State Univ., USA |
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12.00-12.30 |
Patrycja Gralewska - ATRi and CHK1i significantly increased chromosomal abnormalities caused by olaparib in HGSOC BRCAMUT and BRCAWT ovarian cancer cell lines |
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12.30-13.00 |
Katarzyna Walczewska-Szewc - How can interaction with prolyl oligopeptidase possibly trigger α-synuclein aggregation? |
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13.00-13.30 |
Marco Pedretti - Functional characterization of cystathionine gamma lyase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch time |
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Session chaired by Prof. Dr. Giuseppina De Simone |
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15.00-16.00 |
Keynote talk: Jean-Yves Winum, University of Montpellier, France |
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16.00-16.30 |
Gyula Batta - DMSO Induced Unfolding of the Antifungal Disulfide Protein PAF: a combined NMR and DSC study |
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16.30-17.00 |
Leandar Litov - Human interferon gamma is a potential inhibitor of SARS-Cov-2 Orf6 activity |
17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break |
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Session chaired by Prof. Dr. Giuseppina De Simone |
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17.30-18.00 |
Massimiliano Gasparrini - Human extracellular NAMPT and NAPRT mediate inflammatory response through TLR4-binding: molecular insights into the mechanism of interaction |
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18.00-18.45 |
POSTER Session 2 |
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20:30 |
Social Dinner |
Friday 09 September 2022Centro Didattico Morgagni (CDM) - Morgagni Didactic Center |
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Session chaired by Prof. Dr. Jean-Yves WINUM |
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09.00-10.00 |
Keynote talk: Daniel P. Flaherty, Purdue University, USA |
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10.00-10.15 |
Arianna Giacomini- Inhibition of Carbonic Anhydrase IX induces mitochondrial oxidative stress and apoptosis in multiple myeloma |
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10.15-10.45 |
Carsten Zeilinger - Strategies to display susceptibility of targets for compounds |
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break |
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Session chaired by Prof. Dr. Jean-Yves WINUM |
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11.15-12.15 |
Keynote talk: Lukasz Jaremko, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia |
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12.15-12.45 |
Barbara Jachimska - Fibrinogen corona on the dendrimer nanoparticles |
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12.45-13.15 |
Olga Alekseeva - Variation in viral tropism belongs to IDPR positions in structural proteins of enterovirus |
13:15 – 14:45 Lunch time |
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Session chaired by Prof. Dr. Claudiu T. Supuran, Prof. Dr. Paola Gratteri, Prof. Dr. Silvia Selleri and Dr. Clemente Capasso |
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14.45-15.45 |
Keynote talk: Vladimir Uversky, Univresity of South Florida, USA |
15.45-16.15 Ceremony awards and closing of the conference |
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Poster sessions
Posters have been divided in two groups and each poster will be presented in one of the two poster sessions:
- Poster Session 1 – Wednesday 07 September 2022; 18.00-18.45h
- Poster Session 2 – Thursday 08 September 2022; 18.00-18.45h
The session in which each poster will be presented can be found HERE, together with the posters' numbers, titles, and presenters' names. Please contact us if the poster presenter's name is incorrect in the list.
Please print your poster prior to the conference. Note that maximum poster size is limited to 90x140cm, vertical orientation preferred.
Venue, Travel and Accommodation
Florence
Florence is a city in central Italy and the capital of the Tuscany region. During the Middle Ages, Florence was a centre of European trade and finance, and one of the wealthiest cities of that era.
The city attracts millions of tourists each year, and UNESCO declared the Historic Center of Florence a World Heritage Site in 1982. The city is noted for its culture, Renaissance art and architecture and monuments. The city also boasts numerous museums and art galleries, such as the Uffizi Gallery and the Palazzo Pitti, and still influences the fields of art, culture and politics to this day. Due to Florence's artistic and architectural heritage, Forbes has ranked it as one of the most beautiful cities in the world.
For more information visit http://www.firenzeturismo.it/en/.
Venue
The conference will take place in the biomedical campus of University of Florence, Viale G. Morgagni.
Best way to travel here
Accommodation
There are huge numbers of tourists visiting Florence and Tuscany each year, in every season. For this reason, the accommodation should be booked in advance. There is a large number of hotels, B&Bs, Airbnbs or apartments which can be booked online by using booking.com or similar services. The best location to choose would be around the Santa Maria Novella train station or city centre, where the journey to the conference site will take roughly 15 minutes.
Beware of Unauthorized Registration and Hotel Solicitations
Note that Sciforum is the only official registration platform to register to ISFMS2022, and that we are not associated with any hotel agency. While other hotel resellers and travel agencies may contact you with offers for your trip, they are not endorsed by or affiliated with ISFMS2022 or Sciforum. Beware that entering into financial agreements with non-endorsed companies can have costly consequences.
Event Awards
The Sponsor, IJMS, offers two Best Posters Awards and one Best Oral Presentation award to our conference participants, which will be announced during the Award Ceremony on the last day of the conference.
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 2
The two Best Posters will be selected by all conference attendees through secret vote.Number of Awards Available: 1
The Best Oral Presentation will be selected by the Scientific Committee after evaluation of all selected talks presented during the conferenceEvent Gallery
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Sponsoring opportunities
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Coronavirus, advice from the University of Florence
ENTERING ITALY
Italy applies health-related restriction measures to incoming travellers, which may vary depending on their country of origin. You can find actualized information on the following website: https://www.italia.it/en/useful-info/covid-19-updates
USE OF MASKS IN UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE
Masks should be worn in the venue facilities during the talks and when moving across common areas. You may take them off during the coffee or lunch breaks, and when going outside the building. Thank you for your collaboration!
