under the auspices of:
Gruppo Interdivisionale Risonanze Magnetiche (SCI)
Porto Conte Ricerche - September 21-24, 2004
Tramariglio (Alghero) - Sardegna (Italy)
Schedule
(Updated: Sept 2, 2004)
| Tuesday, September 21 | |||
| 10.00-18.00 | Registration (Centro Ricerche Porto Conte) | ||
| 18.00-20.00 | Welcome Reception (Centro Ricerche Porto Conte) | ||
| Wednesday, September 22 | |||
| 9.00-9.20 | Opening Remarks (Conference Room "Auditorium") | ||
| Plenary Lectures Conference Room "Auditorium" Chair: R. Simonutti | |||
| 9.20-10.05 | L. Emsley. "Order, disorder, and dynamics from high-resolution solid-state NMR." | ||
| 10.05-10.50 | F. Conti. "NMR in the post-genomic era: a holistic approach to the study of biological systems." | ||
| NMR in Biomedicine Conference Room "Auditorium" Chair: M. Gussoni | Material Science I Conference Room "Nettuno" Chair: P. Sozzani | ||
| 11.20-11.50 | R. Toffanin. "T2 quantitation of articular cartilage at 1.5 Tesla: comparison of standard multiecho and grase sequences." | 11.20-11.50 | A. Comotti. "Weak interactions in novel supramolecular frameworks identified by advanced 2D solid state NMR" |
| 11.50-12.10 | C. Scarabino. "Investigation of archaeological bone and teeth by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction." | 11.50-12.10 | G. Szalontai. "Routine 2H NMR in partially oriented phases. Distinction of enantiomers, studies of conformational and anisotropic motions in ternary mixtures." |
| 12.10-12.30 | M. Sette. " Role of growth factors in the ontogenesis of pancreatic beta-cells" | 12.10-12.30 | A. Serbescu. "Chain order and dynamics in polymer melts revealed by proton double quantum NMR" |
| 12.30-12.50 | C. Castro. "NMR based metabonomic studies of transgenic maize." | 12.30-12.50 | F. Presciutti. "EPR, SEM-EDS, XRD, MQ-MAS NMR characterization of fired iron bearing clays." |
| 12.50-14.30 | Lunch (Centro Ricerche Porto Conte) | ||
| Plenary Lectures Conference Room "Auditorium" Chair: M. Fasano | |||
| 14.30-15.15 | C. Dalvit. "Reliable high-throughput functional screening with 3-FABS." | ||
| 15.15-16.00 | L. Mannina. "Characterization of olive oils by high resolution NMR." | ||
| 16.00-16.20 | S. Hafner. "Solid-state NMR at high magnetic fields: technical challenges, solutions and applications." | ||
| 16.20-16.50 | Coffee break | ||
| Methodology I Conference Room "Auditorium" Chair: S. Spera | Food Science Conference Room "Nettuno" Chair: M. A. Cremonini | ||
| 16.50-17.20 | E. Terreno. "PARACEST agents: a novel class of contrast media for MRI applications" | 16.50-17.20 | H. C. Bertram. "NMR as a tool for studying and understanding meat quality" |
| 17.20-17.50 | S. Sykora. "Field-noise effects in NMR." | 17.20-17.50 | R. Consonni. "Ageing indicators in balsamic vinegar: 1H NMR studies." |
| 17.50-18.10 | R. H. Fogh. "Analysis and format converter - NMR software from CCPN." | 17.50-18.10 | S. Tiziani. "Separation and identification of extracts of regular and tangerine varieties of tomato juice by 1H NMR." |
| 18.10-18.30 | M. Gombia. "Fracture 3D rendering and pore space properties quantification in reservoir rocks by MRI." | 18.10-18.30 | A. P. Sobolev. "1H High resolution NMR metabolite profiling of truffles (Tuber Aestivum Vittadini)." |
| 19.30-20.30 | Dinner | ||
| 20.30 | GIDRM and GIRM meetings - with after-dinner drinks (Conference Room "Nettuno") | ||
| Thursday, September 23 | |||
| Plenary Lectures Conference Room "Auditorium" Chair: S. Mammi | |||
| 9.00-9.45 | G. Barbato. "The HIV vaccine and the quest for neutralizing antibody-inducing immunogens: a structure-based rational design approach." | ||
| 9.45-10.30 | B. Maraviglia. "i - multiple quantum coherences: new NMR tool to study materials and living organisms." | ||
| 10.30-10.50 | R. Kümmerle. "Advances in probehead technology" | ||
| 10.50-11.20 | Coffee break | ||
| Proteins I Conference Room "Auditorium" Chair: M. Paci | MRI Conference Room "Nettuno" Chair: B. Maraviglia | ||
| 11.20-11.50 | S. Ciurli. "Nickel and zinc trafficking at the crossroad: the case of urease." | 11.20-11.50 | M. Gussoni. " Nitric oxide: a direct or indirect marker of physiological and pathological processes in biological systems." |
| 11.50-12.10 | D. O. Cicero. "Backbone dynamics of MLC1P reveals common features of the calmodulin superfamily." | 11.50-12.10 | G. Maddinelli. "Study of flow behaviour and dynamics of large molecules by NMR imaging and relaxation." |
| 12.10-12.30 | M. Bellanda. "NMR reveals remarkable properties of 310 helices." | 12.10-12.30 | S. Belfiore. "MRI-Gd based contrast agents for targeting tumor cells." |
| 12.30-12.50 | D. Picone. "Conformational preferences of Aβ-(1-42) and its core fragment (25-35) in polar and apolar media." | 12.30-12.50 | R. Esposito. "Gd-loaded apoferitin as a new vector for delivery MRI contrast agents to specific targets." |
| 12.50-14.20 | Lunch (Centro Ricerche Porto Conte) | ||
| Proteins II Conference room "Auditorium" Chair: N. Niccolai | Materials Science II Conference Room "Nettuno" Chair: A. Lai | ||
| 14.20-14.50 | C. Isernia. "NMR structural study of zinc finger domain containing proteins." | 14.20-14.50 | C. A. Veracini. "129Xe nuclear shielding and diffusion in the A and C* phases of chiral smectogen." |
| 14.50-15.20 | T. Beringhelli. "Ligand-Calycin interactions from the ligand point of view." | 14.50-15.20 | G. De Luca. "Structural and conformational-orientational studies of mesogens and molecules dissolved in liquid crystalline phases by NMR spectroscopy." |
| 15.20-15.40 | F. Innocenti. "PRL-3, a phosphatase implied in cancer metastasis: structure and function." | 15.20-15.40 | M. Geppi. "Solid-state NMR of drugs: a study of non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and their dispersion with polymeric carriers." |
| 15.40-16.00 | R. Ugolini. "Liver basic fatty acid binding protein: stability properties as determined by NMR studies." | 15.40-16.00 | D. Donghi. "Hydrogen bonding between bis(pentafluorophenyl)borinic acid and water: a low temperature NMR study." |
| 16.00-18.00 | Poster session with coffee break (Room "Anghelu Ruju") | ||
| Plenary Lecture Conference Room "Auditorium" Chair: L. Zetta | |||
| 18.00-19.00 | GIDRM and GIRM gold medal: L. Banci "The NMR role in structural genomics: high throughput determination of solution structures of metalloproteins." | ||
| Friday, September 24 | |||
| Plenary Lecture Conference Room "Auditorium" Chair: M. Piccioli | |||
| 9.00-9.45 | M. Delepierre. "NMR a tool for biology." | ||
| Winners of the poster competition Chair: A. Spisni | |||
| 9.45-10.05 | First prize | ||
| 10.05-10.25 | Second prize | ||
| 10.25-10.45 | Third prize | ||
| 10.45-11.15 | Coffee break | ||
| Organic chemistry I Conference Room "Auditorium" Chair: S. Chimichi | Metals in biology Conference Room "Nettuno" Chair: T. Beringhelli | ||
| 11.15-11.45 | W. von Philipsborn. "For 45 years in NMR research: some recollections and reflections." | 11.15-11.45 | G. Natile. "Reactivity of cytotoxic trans-oriented platinum complexes towards nucleotides and single and double-stranded oligonucleotides investigated by [1H, 15N] HMQC NMR." |
| 11.45-12.15 | L. Gomez-Paloma. "Molecular basis for the DNA-alkylating properties of duocarmycins by NMR spectroscopy and DFT calculations." | 11.45-12.15 | B. Jimenez. "13C Direct detection as a tool for structural determination in metalloproteins." |
| 12.15-12.35 | L. Venturi. "Analysis of liquid mixtures by generalized correlation of chromatographic and NMR data." | 12.15-12.35 | M. A. Zoroddu. "Cap43 protein: an attractive motif for Ni(II) in the C-terminal domain." |
| 12.35-12.55 | M. Boccalini. "Unambiguous structure elucidation of the reaction products of 3-quinolinonylenaminone with 1,2-dinucleophiles via NMR spectroscopy." | 12.35-12.55 | C. Cesare Marincola. "Multinuclear 31P, 2H, 23Na NMR and polarized light microscopy investigations of divalent metal ion binding to liquid crystalline NaDNA." |
| 12.55-14.20 | Lunch (Centro Ricerche Porto Conte) | ||
| Plenary Lectures Conference Room "Auditorium" Chair: C. A. Veracini | |||
| 14.20-15.05 | B. Halle. "Biomolecular applications of magnetic relaxation dispersion." | ||
| 15.05-15.50 | B. H. Meier. "Solid-state MAS NMR: the faster the better?" | ||
| 15.50-16.20 | Coffee break | ||
| Methodology II Conference Room "Auditorium" Chair: R. Toffanin | Organic chemistry II Conference Room "Nettuno" Chair: M. Tatò | ||
| 16.20-16.50 | G. M. Contessa. "Measurement of different types of residual dipolar coupling on a 15N-13C labeled protein and their contribution to the determination of a solution structure: application to the ApaG protein of unknown structure and function." | 16.20-16.50 | D. Potenza. "NMR in the free and bound state: a tool for the design of glycomimetics." |
| 16.50-17.10 | N. D'Amelio. "SIMQUADNMR. A tool for getting insight into NMR of quadrupolar nuclei." | 16.50-17.10 | C. Coluccini. "Conformational studies by dynamic NMR. 94. Cogwheel pathway for the stereomutations of durene derivatives containing the mesityl ring." |
| 17.10-17.30 | R. Lamanna. "Visualization of relaxation properties through the inversion of exponential decays." | 17.10-17.30 | G. Uccheddu. "Solution (CDCl3) structure of bis(acyloxy)iodoarenes." |
| 17.30-17.45 | Concluding remarks (Conference Room "Auditorium") | ||
| 20.30 | Social Dinner | ||