NCBR Seminars - update 10.10.2011 National Center for Biomolecular Research and Central Europen Institute of Technology, Masaryk University NCBR Seminar – CB060 FACULTY OF SCIENCE, MASARYK UNIVERSITY Fall semestr 2011/2012 Teacher prof. RNDr. Vladimír Sklenář, DrSc. Dates and time: Group meetings - individual for each group, managed by group leaders, every week Chemistry seminars - pavilion A11, room 132, 14.00 NCBR seminars room – A11, room 205, pavilion A11, 14.00 Mendel Lectures – Mendel’s Museum, Mendel Square, 17.00 The seminar is open to all colleagues and students of Masaryk University. 22. September Only group meetings 29. September Only group meetings 6. October Chemistry seminar Prof. Daniel E. Falvey University of Maryland, USA Mechanistic Design of High-Wavelength Photoreleasable Protecting Groups and Applications to Photorheology 17.00 Mendel Lecture Dr John Diffley Cancer Research UK, South Mimms, UK How Mendel's genes are copied 13. October Dr. Alexandra Zahradnikova (host Vladimír Sklenář) Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics, Institute of Molecular Physiology and Genetics Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia Structure-function relationship of Ryanodine receptor 17.00 Mendel Lecture Professor Timothy Mitchison Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA How does a large cell find its center? 20. October Ditlev E. Brodersen (host Štěpánka Vaňáčová) Centre for Structural Biology, Aarhus University, Denmark Rrp47 forms a heterodimeric complex with the nuclear exosome component Rrp6 and stimulates its exonucleolytic activity 27. October PhD. Students Gita Jančaříková Study of saccharide-recognising proteins and their role in pathogenesis Martin Kříž Nano-structured thiol monolayers as an innovative approach in construction of enzymatic biosensors Pavel Kadeřávek NMR relaxation - tool for investigation motions of biomolecules NCBR Seminars - update 10.10.2011 3. November PhD. Students Introductory presentations of Ph.D. projects by starting Ph.D. students (12 min. each) Marek Bartošovič Characterization of in vivo substrates of the RNA-binding proteins ABH8 and obesity related FTO Matúš Durec Application of MD simulations to interpret NMR data for biological and pharmaceutical systems Radek Matuška Carbohydrates´ CH/pi interactions - Computational studies Leona Šerá QM calculations of RNA backbone and base pairing Tomáš Trnka Study of catalytic mechanism of glycosyltransferases using quantum chemistry and reactive molecular dynamics 10. November PhD. Students Jan Vícha Experimental and theoretical NMR study of transition metal complexes with purine based ligands Jan Komárek Lectins from Aspergillus fumigatus Arnošt Mládek Understanding the Sequence Preference of Recurrent RNA Building Blocks using Quantum Chemistry: The Intrastrand RNA Dinucleotide Platform 17.00 Mendel Lecture Professor Jürgen Knoblich IMBA, Vienna, Austria Proliferation control and tumorigenesis in stem cell lineages of the nervous system: Lessons from Drosophila and mouse genetics 24. November PhD. Students Alexej Kulaš Molecular Dynamics study of complex protein behavior OlgaTřísková CKI1 in free and Mg2+-bound state Lenka Malinovská Burkholderia cenocepacia lectins - the same but different potential virulence factors 1. December Chemistry seminar Program to be announced 8. December PhD. Students Sushil Kumar Mishra Computational Study of Lectin-saccharide Interactions Stanislav Standara Understanding the NMR chemical shifts for biologically relevant model compounds: role of structure, solvent and relativistic effects Martin Jacko New approaches to study protein-protein and protein-RNA interactions 15. December Tomáš Helikar (host Jaroslav Koča) University of Nebraska, Omaha, USA The Cell Collective: Collaborative, interdisciplinary modeling of large-scale biological processes