Molecules Webinar | Recent Advances in Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes
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Dr. Stefan Janecek
Laboratory of Protein Evolution, Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia - http://imb.savba.sk/~janecek/;
Stefan Janecek is a research scientist at the Institute of Molecular Biology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, and a teacher at the Department of Biology of the Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of SS. Cyril and Methodius, Trnava, Slovakia. He is a group leader at the Laboratory of Protein Evolution. Stefan is most interested in enzymes and proteins from the main alpha-amylase family and other related families, especially their evolution, as well as their structure–function and structure–stability relationships. In addition, he is also very interested in bioinformatics studies of starch-binding domains classified as CAZy CBM families. Stefan Janecek works as a protein bioinfomatician, being particularly engaged in silico studies. In a close collaboration with experimentalists, his work is also focused on the protein design of enzymes based on bioinformatics analyses. Stefan is the founder and main organiser of the symposia on the alpha-amylase enzyme family—ALAMYs (http://imb.savba.sk/~janecek/Alamys/). He also serves as Editor-in-Chief for the journal “Amylase”, Associate Editor of the journal “3Biotech” and Managing Editor of the journal “Biologia”, section Cellular and Molecular Biology.
On Wednesday 23 June 2021, MDPI and the Journal Molecules organized the 12th webinar entitled "Recent Advances in Carbohidrate-Active Enzymes".
The introduction was held by the Chair of the webinar, Dr. Stefan Janecek, from the Institute of Molecular Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia. He made an overview of the webinar's topic by presenting the first talk on "Alpha-Amylase Families in CAZy: Sequences, Structures, Specificities and Evolution - a Bioinformatician’s View". He was also in charge of presenting the panel of speakers of the webinar, and managing the Q&A time at the end of the session.
The final presentation was given by Dr. Elizabeth Ficko-Blean, from CNRS and Sorbonne Université in France. She presented a resourceful platform for the Carbohydrate-Enzymes in her presentation entitled "CAZypedia - a Cherished CAZy Community Resource".
The presentations were followed by a Q&A and a discussion, moderated by the Chair. The webinar was offered via Zoom and required registration to attend. The full recording can be found here on Sciforum website.
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Recent Advances in Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes
Guest Editor: Dr. Stefan Janecek
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 July 2021