Jaroslav Koca Memorial Colloquium on Computational and Structural Biology

WHEN: Tuesday, November 30, 2021

WHERE: Hotel Continental Brno

Organizers: Vladimír Sklenář, Michaela Wimmerová

Main contacts: Šárka Fajtlová, Veronika Papoušková

A one-day colloquium is organized in a memory of our esteemed colleague and one the NCBR and CEITEC fathers, Professor Jaroslav Koča, who unexpectedly passed away on July 2, 2021. Jaroslav was the President of Czech Science Foundation (GAČR), Emeritus Scientific Director of the CEITEC Consortium, and Director of the National Centre for Biomolecular Research at the Faculty of Science of Masaryk University. Lectures and contributions by invited speakers will bring back memories of Jaroslav’s tenure and will present the latest scientific findings in structural and computational biology.

Registration is open till November 15, 2021.

Programme

9:30–10:00	Registration, small refreshment
10:00–11:00	Ceremonial Section: Martin Bareš, Rector of Masaryk University Tomáš Kašparovský, Dean of Faculty of Science MU Jiří Nantl, Director of CEITEC MU Radim Vrba, Director of CEITEC BUT Michal Otyepka, SAB member of GA CR Jiří Vondrášek, Head of ELIXIR CZ Jan Slovák, Head of Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Faculty of Science MU Vladimír Sklenář, Co-founder of NCBR
11:00–11:10	Break
11:10–12:25	Serge Perez: Cicadas Will Continue to Sing for Jarek Soren Engelsen: to be updated Anne Imberty: The Brno-Grenoble Journey in Bacterial Lectin Structures and Dynamics Frederique Lisacek: The Contribution of Structural Bioinformatics to Glycoinformatics
12:25–13:30	Lunch
13:30–15:00	Stanislav Kozmoň: What We Have Learned on the Carbohydrate – Receptor Interactions Igor Tvaroška: Glycosyltransferases as targets for therapeutic Intervention in Cancer and Inflammation: Molecular Modeling Insights Jiří Šponer: The Fascinating World of Nucleic Acids Richard Štefl: Integrative Structural Biology of RNA Polymerase II Condensates Lukáš Trantírek: Nucleic Acids in-cell NMR: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities
15:00–15:20	Break
15:20–16:50	Sameer Valenkar: PDBe Knowledge Base - Making Structural Data Accessible Radka Svobodová: Visualization of Protein Structures in 3D, 2D and 1D Karel Berka: In Silico Drug Design, Metabolism and Delivery under the Influence of Prof. Koča Luděk Matyska: to be updated Michal Čajan: to be updated
16:50–17:10	Break
17:10–18:40	Petr Kulhánek: Mechanical Properties of Canonical and Mismatched DNAs and Their Impact on Mismatch Discrimination Robert Vácha: How to Transport Amphiphilic Molecules in Cells – Taking Advantage of Transmembrane Proteins Johan Åqvist: Computer Simulations of the Temperature Dependence of Enzyme Reactions Robert Woods: The Role of Spike Protein Glycosylation in Modulating SARS-CoV-2 Antigenicity and Adhesion Ruben Abagyan: Designing Molecules with a Target Profile
19:00	Gala Dinner

The registration was closed. For more information, please contact Veronika Papoušková (papouskova@ncbr.muni.cz).