OUR Full Program 2023
| 7:45 | Bus Departure from Hotel Marriott |
| 8:15 – 8:45 | Registration |
| 8:45 – 9:00 | Opening Remarks |
| Session Chair: Ehud Gazit |
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| 9:00 – 9:30 |
Carleton Gajdusek Lecture Erling Norrby, Swedish Academy of Science |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Anna Mitraki, University of Crete, Greece |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Pernilla Wittung Stafshede, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Chris Tate, MRC, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Reiko Kuroda, Tokyo University of Science, Japan |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Bruno Correia, EPFL, Switzerland |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch and Self-assembly |
| Session Chair: Pernilla Wittung Stafshede | |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Ehud Gazit, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Martin Egli, Vanderbilt University, USA |
| 14:30 – 15: 00 | Iftach Yacoby, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break + POSTER SESSION |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Stefan Wölfl, University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Lihi Adler Abramovich, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| 16:45 | Bus departure to Hotel Marriott |
| 19:00 – 21:00 | Welcome Cocktail Hotel Marriott Geneva |
| 8:15 | Bus Departure from Hotel Marriott |
| Session Chair: Daniela Rhodes |
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| 9:00 – 9:30 | Alan Fersht, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Ed Boyden, MIT, USA |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Marika Rioult, 3-D Matrix Group |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Yoshito Tomimaru, Osaka University, Japan |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Ingemar Ernberg, Karolinska Institute, Sweden |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Raz Zarivach, Ben-Gurion University, Israel |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch and Self-assembly |
| Session Chair: Ed Boyden | |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Daniela Rhodes, MRC-LMB & Nanyang Tech University |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Phillip Messersmith, UC Berkeley, USA |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Hiroshi Fukumura, University of KU, Leuven, Belgium |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Paula da Fonseca, University of Glasgow, UK |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break + POSTER SESSION |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Howard Riezman, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Mikhail Kryuchov, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| 17:15 | Bus departure to Hotel Marriott |
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| 8:15 | Bus departure from Hotel Marriott |
| Session Chair: Philip Morgan |
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| 9:00 – 9:30 | Li-Huei Tsai, MIT, USA |
| 9:30 – 10:15 |
Kyoichi Tanaka Lecture, Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
| 10:15 – 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 10:45 – 11:15 | Tom Blundell, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Kohji Mitsubayashi, Tokyo Medical & Dental University, Japan |
| 11:45 – 12:15 | Sarah Morgan, University of Manchester, UK |
| 12:15 – 12:30 | Group Photo |
| 12:30 – 13:15 | Lunch and Self-assembly |
| Session Chair: Steve Newman | |
| 13:15 – 13:45 | Philip Morgan, University of Manchester, UK |
| 13:45 – 14:15 | Daniela Nosch, FHNW University, Switzerland |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | Steve Newman, Menicon Co., Ltd, Japan |
| 14:45 – 15:15 | Martina Kropp, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| 15:15 – 15:45 | Gregor Mack, University of Manchester, UK |
| 16:00 | Bus departure to Hotel Marriott |
| 17:30 | Bus departure from Hotel Marriott to Aully Castle |
| 18:30 – 24:00 | Gala Dinner Avully Castle, France |
| 8:45 | Bus departure from Hotel Marriott |
| Session Chair: Shuguang Zhang | |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Vladimir Katanaev, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| 10:00-10:30 | Andrew Marshall, Scion Life Sciences, USA |
| 10:30-11:00 | Eva Smorodina, University of Oslo (UiO), Norway |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Alexander Rich Lecture, Shuguang Zhang, MIT, USA |
| 11:30-11:45 | Final Remarks |
| 12:00 | Bus departure to Hotel Marriott |
The topics to be presented
Ada Yonath : From origin of life to next generation therapeutics
Tom Blundell: Structural Biology with CryoEM, Bioinformatics, and Understanding Functions of Proteins: Applications to Drug Discovery in Cancer, Cystic Fibrosis and Leprosy Using Structure-Guided and Fragment-Based Approaches
Li-Huei Tsai: Enhancing gamma oscillations in Alzheimer’s disease: mechanism and pilot study in humans
Alan Fersht: From engineering mutations to study folding and stability to drugging p53 oncogenic mutants
Reiko Kuroda: A single protein changes snail body handedness single-handedly
Ed Boyden: Optical Tools for Analyzing and Repairing Biological Systems
Erling Norrby: Atypical infectious agents and research personalities
Kohji Mitsubayashi: Noninvasive medical sensing in human cavities such as the lacrimal sac
Maria Masucci: Host cell remodeling by herpes virus encoded deconjugases
Uwe Sleytr: S-Layers: Principles and Applications
Ingemar Ernberg: Living things are made up of networks of complex systems –consequencies for the understanding of origin of life and cancer biology and for drug development
Chris Tate: Activation mechanism of the Class D fungal GPCR dimer Ste2.
Philip Messersmith: Sequence and Length Dependence of Catecholamine Peptide Adhesion
Daniela Rhodes: Looking backwards and looking forward: the role of G-quadruplexes in biology
Philip Morgan: Understanding contact lens discomfort
Daniela Nosch: Factors associated with Contact Lens Comfort- a Pilot Study
Hiroshi Fukumura: Materials development for NIR bioimaging: application of perovskites
Pernilla Wittung Stafshede: Amyloids of Parkinson’s disease protein α-synuclein: mechanisms and reactivity
Ehud Gazit:Peptide and Metabolite Self-Assembly: Physiology, Pathology and Nanotechnology
Anna Mitraki: Protein and peptide biomaterials based on natural viral fibrous folds
Sarah Morgan: Current contact lens practice
Lihi Adler- Abramovich: Biomaterials for Biomedical Applications
Martin Egli: Targeting the RNA pol-associated translocase Mfd to inhibit antibiotic resistance
Paula da Fonseca: Exploring the intricate regulation of the human 26S proteasome
Marika Rioult: Bringing therapeutic peptides from the university lab to the market
Yoshito Tomimaru: Self-assembling peptide hydrogel SPG-178 for preventing postoperative pancreatic fistula
Martina Kropp: Induced PEDF and GM-CSF overexpression to inhibit neovascularization and inflammation to treat Age-Related Macular Degeneration – a personalized, non-viral gene therapy approach –
Donald Harn: (RADA)4 based VacSIM® delivery can reduce doses and improve vaccine efficacy
Stefan Wölfl: Proline hydroxylation a metabolic switch linking protein structure with interactions and stability
Steve Newman: Human Vision, a look into the Myopia story
Howard Riezman: Chemical biology tools to study lipid metabolism and function
Bruno Correia: Expanding the Universe of Functional Proteins by Computational Design
Raz Zarivach: Structure-function studies of iron biomineralization systems toward proteins-iron oxide interaction
Vladimir Katanaev: Targeting Wnt signaling in cancer with selective small molecule inhibitors
Iftach Yacoby: Uncovering the glass ceiling of ambient H2 production from green algae
Andrew Marshall: Why aren’t there more novel peptide therapies on the market?
Mikhail Kryuchkov: Biomimetic nanostructures – the new look in contact lens care.
Eva Smorodina: Redundancy, sensitivity, and predictability of developability parameters in natural, patent-submitted, and clinical-stage antibodies.
Shuguang Zhang: The Simple QTY Code for Protein Design
