Oct 21th - Saturday
08h30 - 10h30
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Auditorium 3 - Bioinformatics
Chair: Ernesto Caffarena
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Outstanding Challenges for Conformational Heterogeneity Analysis in Single-Particle Cryo-EM
Sonya Hanson Flatiron Institute
Unleashing Molecular Insights with Combined Constant pH Molecular Dynamics and Free Energy Calculation
Ernesto Caffarena Instituto Osvaldo Cruz
Systems Biology in the Era of Machine Learning: Opportunities and Challenges
Ney Ribeiro Lemke Universidade Estadual Paulista "Julio de Mesquita Filho"
NP3: an integrated platform for natural product-based drug discovery
Daniela Trivella CNPEM​
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Auditorium 1 - Imaging in Biophysics
Chair: Adriana Fontes
Super Resolution Microscopies Applied to Biological Studies
André A. de Thomaz Unicamp
Profiling a mass murderer. Structural biology of lytic bacteriophages
Germán Gustavo Sgro FCFRP-USP
High Spatiotemporal Precision in Live Sample Imaging: Advancements with Lattice Light-Sheet Microscopy
Gustavo Scanavacchi Harvard Medical School
Experimental parameters to study cell stiffness and cell adhesion using atomic force microscopy
Cleyton A. Biffe InCor/USP
Nonlinear Imaging to Characterize Mice Tissue from Experimental Schistosomiasis
Gladystone Rocha da Fonseca Department of Physics, Federal University of Minas Gerais
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11h - 12h Auditorium 3 - Plenary 3 - Why is modelling in chemistry much more difficult and challenging than in the technical sciences such as aeronautics or civil engineering? Wilfred F. van Gunsteren Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich
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13h30 - 15h30
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Auditorium 3 - New tools at Sirius: When Physics meets Biophysics
Chair: Leandro Barbosa
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Infrared radiation looks at biological samples at the imbuia beamline on Sirus
Ohanna da Costa LNLS/CNPEM
Dynamics of soft matter and protein probed by X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy
Aline Passos LNLS/CNPEM
SAPUCAIA: The SAXS beamline at Sirius
Leandro Barbosa LNLS/CNPEM
Nano-Bio Interactions: A Synchrotron Approach
Mateus Cardoso LNLS/CNPEM
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Auditorium 1 - Computational biophysics in Brazil: from north to south
Chair: Thereza Soares
Allosteric Modulation of Membrane Proteins by Low-Affinity Ligands
Leonardo Cirqueira Universidade de Brasíllia
Protein Adsorption Into Charged Confining Pores
Sidney Jurado de Carvalho UNESP
Exploring the Mechanical Properties of Soft Materials: Beyond Lipid Membrane Composition
Denis Santos Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Macromolecule solvation in complex solutions
Leandro Martinez Unicamp
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16h - 18h
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Auditorium 3 - Smart Nanomaterials
Chair: Daniele Araujo
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Photopolymerized biocompatible liposomes of binary and ternary mixtures to incorporate liquid metals. Biophysical nanocapsules characterization.
Silvia Alonso Un Quilmes, Argentina
Fighting Vector-borne Diseases with Nanotechnology
Fabio Formiga Fiocruz,PE
Triggered drug delivery of cubosome functionalized with biopolymers
Omar Mertins Universidade Federal de São Paulo
Tailoring the nanostructure of micellar Pluronic hydrogels for nitric oxide delivery
Marcelo Ganzarolli Unicamp
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Auditorium 1 - Protein Structure and Dynamics
Chair: Anderson de Sá Pinheiro
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On the mechanism of (un)saturated fatty acid decarboxylation for alkene production
Leticia Maria Zanphorlin LNLS/CNPEM
Kinetic and Molecular properties of the copper-containing nitrite reductase from sinorhizobium meliloti 2011
Maria Gabriela Rivas Departamento de Fisica FBCB-UNL
Conformational Dynamics of Proteins from Microseconds to Milliseconds by NMR: Implications for Molecular Recognition
Adolfo Henrique de Moraes Silva UFMG
The influence of pH on the structure and stability of the GRB2 dimer reveals changes in the inter-domain and molecular interaction: Could it be a modulation mechanism?
Fernando Alves Melo IBILCE/UNESP
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18h - 20h Poster Area - Poster Session
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