NCBR Seminars - update 10/1/14 National Center for Biomolecular Research and Central Europen Institute of Technology, Masaryk University NCBR Seminar – CB060 FACULTY OF SCIENCE, MASARYK UNIVERSITY Fall semestr 2014/2015 Teacher prof. RNDr. Vladimír Sklenář, DrSc. Dates and time: Group meetings - individual for each group, managed by group leaders, every week NCBR seminars room – A11, room 205, pavilion A11, 14.00 Special  CEITEC  Structural  Biology  seminar  series  –  A11,  room  132,  14:00 Chemistry seminars - pavilion A11, room 132, 14.00 Mendel Lectures – Mendel’s Museum, Mendel Square, 17.00 The seminar is open to all colleagues and students of Masaryk University. 18. September Bernd  Reif  (Special  SB  seminar  series)   Technische  Universität  München,  Germany   Amyloid  aggregates  and  large  soluble  protein  complexes   Host  Kostas  Tripsianes     25. September Group meetings only   2. October PhD Students Sophia    Bazzi       Designing  a  New  Class  of  Bases  for  Nucleic  Acid  Quadruplexes   Lukáš  Bednařík   Genome  wide  identification  of  uridylated  RNAs  in  humans   Martin  Novák   Bifurcated  Halogen  Bond  With  Non-­‐equivalent  Electron  Donors   9. October Ctirad Hofr     CEITEC,  Brno       Habilitation  lecture   Nucleic acid interactions, cell rejuvenescence, and cancer treatment Mendel Lecture Robert H. Singer Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA 16. October Alexander  Bonvin  (Special  SB  seminar  series) Utrecht  University,  The  Netherlands   Modelling  structure,  affinity  and  specificity  of  biomolecular  complexes     Host  Vladimír  Sklenář   23. October CEITEC  Annual  Conference 30. October PhD students Vladimír  Horský   Biomacromolecular  ligands  validation  and  annotation   Pavel  Janoš   Computational  studies  of  glycosyltransferases   Stanislav  Geidl   Mendel Lecture Lorraine S. Symington, Ph.D. NCBR Seminars - update 10/1/14 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA 6. November PhD students Jan  Oppelt   Possible  factors  influencing  microRNA  expression   Ivana  Poštulková   Function  of  non-­‐canonical  RNA  polymerases  and  of  associated  proteins                               13. November PhD students Petr  Stadlbauer   Intermediates  in  folding  of  G-­‐quadruplexes   Eliška  Šmiřáková   Recognition  of  pTyr1-­‐CTD  by  the  elongation  factor  Spt6   Milan  Zachrdla   Structure  of  sigma  subunit  of  RNA  polymerase   20. November Dieter  Blaas    Max  F.  Perutz  Laboratories,  Vienna   Early  interactions  of  viruses  with  host  cells  (preliminary)   Host  Pavel  Plevka   27. November Introduction of new PhD students Tomáš Bouchal Searching of Biologically Active Substances by Computational Chemistry Methods Eva  Fujdiarová Lukáš  Hason         Interaction  of  tyrosine  hydroxylase  with  zeta  14-­‐3-­‐3  protein Zuzana Jaseňáková Structural  study  of  domains  of  receptor  histidine  kinases  from  Arabidopsis  thaliana   Ivo Kabelka Interactions of Amphiphilic Peptides Liya Mukhamedova 4. December Introduction of new PhD students David Sehnal Oliver Taltynov Hoa  Khanh  Tran  Kiem         Zdeněk  Farka Marta Šiborová Zorica Ubiparib Aiste Kasilauskaite   11. December Emanuele  Buratti    (Special  SB  seminar  series)   International  Centre  for  Genetic  Engineering  and  Biotechnology,  Trieste   To  be  announced   Host  Peter  Lukavsky     Eliška  Šmiřáková   Ivana  Poštulková   Lucia  Slepánková   Sophia    Bazzi           NCBR Seminars - update 10/1/14