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XIV CHRISTMAS BIOPHYSICS WORKSHOP

Gradisca d'Isonzo, 9-10 December 2019

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Scope

The Christmas Biophysics Workshops (XBW) consist of a series of regional meetings for research groups from Austria, Croatia, Italy and Slovenia in the fields of biophysics, soft matter physics and related fields.

The first Christmas Biophysics Workshop was organized by Rudolf Podgornik (Ljubljana, Slovenia) and Silvia Tomić (Zagreb, Croatia) in 2006 in Zagreb. Since then, every year in early December research groups from Austria, Croatia, Italy and Slovenia gather together in a small town of the region to share their research. The character of the meeting is rather informal and it aims to create a relaxed atmosphere in which recent results and ideas are discussed, scientific collaborations are established and friendships grow beyond borders.

This year the workshop will be held in Gradisca d'Isonzo, a small town of the Province of Gorizia in Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, located at north-eastern Italy. Participants will present their work in short talks throughout Monday 9 and the morning of Tuesday 10 of December. At the midpoint we all will enjoy a social dinner with a festive mood in the expectation of holidays.

XIV-XBW

Venue

Hotel Franz

Viale Trieste, 45 - Gradisca d'Isonzo (GO)
+39 0481 99211
www.hotelfranz.it
info@hotelfranz.it

The organization will manage the accommodation for all participants once they complete the registration. The prices indicated below include, for 9-10 December 2019:

  • Stay in a single or double (two separate beds) room.
  • Coffee breaks.
  • Lunches on Monday 9 and Tuesday 10.
  • Social dinner on Monday 9.
  • Breakfast on Tuesday 10.

The Hotel Franz provides fully equipped conference hall, private parking for hotel guests and fitness room. Unfortunately the outdoor swimming pool will be close in December.


Single room Double room
171 € 139 €

Registration

To register fill the following registration form and send it to iadrohersissa.it:

Name:
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Please do not send us your registration form in any pdf/doc/docx/rtf file. Just insert the required information in the body of the email, in plain text. Simple LaTeX equations are allowed in the title and abstract of your presentation.

Do not hesitate to contact us if you need further information or you have any special request regarding accommodation.

Registration deadline:

17 November 2019

Program

Presentation length: 20 minutes talk + 5 minutes for discussion.

Download book of abstracts

Monday 09/12/19

  • 09:50 - 10:00

    Welcome by Cristian Micheletti

  • 10:00 - 11:15

    Session 1: Cellular Systems - Chair: Irene Adroher-Benítez

    • 10:00 - 10:25 Bernat Corominas-Murtra
      Criticality and phase transitions at the onset of morphogenesis.
    • 10:25 - 10:50 Jan Rozman
      3D Vertex Model of Ventral Furrow Formation in Fruit Fly.
    • 10:50 - 11:15 Saša Svetina
      The effect of a single Piezo1 trimer on shapes of phospholipid vesicles.
  • 11:15 - 11:45

    Coffee break

  • 11:45 - 13:25

    Session 2: Biophysics - Chair: Antonio Šiber

    • 11:45 - 12:10 Ema Slejko
      The influence of the poly(ethylene glycol) on the mean activity coefficients of NaCl aqueous solutions.
    • 12:10 - 12:35 Tomislav Vuletić
      FCS study of interaction of DNA and supramolecular systems with adamantyl guanidines.
    • 12:35 - 13:00 Fabio Staniscia
      Passive viscoelastic response of striated muscles.
    • 13:00 - 13:25 Lucija Dončević
      Protein self-association.
  • 13:30 - 14:30

    Lunch

  • 14:30 - 15:00

    Check in

  • 15:00 - 16:40

    Session 3: Soft Matter - Chair: Primoz Ziherl

    • 15:00 - 15:25 Horacio V. Guzmán
      Quantifying the disassembly of viral capsids from a multiscale molecular simulation approach.
    • 15:25 - 15:50 Clément Zankoc
      Nonlinear stochastic dynamics of adherens junctions.
    • 15:50 - 16:15 Petra Papež
      Hydration of lower alcohols using theoretical methods.
    • 16:15 - 16:40 Antonio Šiber
      Collapsing pollen grains.
  • 16:40 - 17:10

    Coffee break

  • 17:10 - 19:15

    Session 4: Biomolecules, structure and function - Chair: Matej Kanduč

    • 17:10 - 17:35 Angelo Rosa
      Untangled ring polymers in melts: The Physics of crumpling.
    • 17:35 - 18:00 Stefano Franzini
      hicRED: A spectral method for comparing HiC-maps.
    • 18:00 - 18:25 Anze Bozic
      Coupling electrostatics and elasticity of virus capsids.
    • 18:25 - 18:50 Mattia Bernetti
      Combining molecular dynamics simulations with SAXS experiments to characterize RNA conformational dynamics.
    • 18:50 - 19:15 Nicola Calonaci
      Machine-learning experimental data for RNA structure prediction.
  • 20:15 - 22:00

    Social dinner

  • 22:00 - 23:55

    Grappa discussion

Tuesday 10/12/19

  • 07:00 - 09:15

    Breakfast

  • 09:15 - 10:30

    Session 5: Biophysics - Chair: Tomislav Vuletić

    • 09:15 - 09:40 Ina Erceg
      The kinetics of bovine serum albumine adsorption on calcium ohosphate and TiO2 nanoparticles or nanotubes nanocomposites.
    • 09:40 - 10:05 Anja Sadžak
      Protection of lipid membranes during oxidative stress using flavonoid embedded silica nanoparticles.
    • 10:05 - 10:30 Adela Štimac
      Measurement of the biomolecular interaction between plant lectin and peptidoglycan functionalized self-assembled hybrid bilayers by a quartz crystal microbalance.
  • 10:30 - 11:20

    Coffee break and check out

  • 11:20 - 13:00

    Session 6: Soft Matter - Chair: Adela Štimac

    • 11:20 - 11:45 Matej Kanduč
      Biological liquids under tension.
    • 11:45 - 12:10 Andraž Gnidovec
      Orientational ordering of point dipoles on a sphere.
    • 12:10 - 12:35 Matej Krajnc
      Active elastic networks as models of biological tissues.
    • 12:35 - 13:00 Primoz Ziherl
      Morphologies of vesicle doublets: Competition among surface tension, bending elasticity, and adhesion.
  • 13:00 - 14:00

    Lunch

  • 14:00 -

    Departure


This program has been updated on 09/12/19 and may be subject to last-minute changes.

Participants

  • Corominas-Murtra, Bernat. Institute of Science and Technology Austria (Klosterneuburg).
    Criticality and phase transitions at the onset of morphogenesis.
  • Cindrić, Mario.Ruđer Bošković Institut (Zagreb).
  • Dončević, Lucija.University of Zagreb (Zagreb).
    Protein self-association.
  • Erceg, Ina. Ruđer Bošković Institute (Zagreb).
    The kinetics of bovine serum albumine adsorption on calcium ohosphate and TiO2 nanoparticles or nanotubes nanocomposites.
  • Sadžak, Anja. Ruđer Bošković Institute (Zagreb).
    Protection of lipid membranes during oxidative stress using flavonoid embedded silica nanoparticles.
  • Šiber, Antonio. Institute of Physics (Zagreb).
    Collapsing pollen grains.
  • Štimac, Adela. University of Zagreb (Zagreb).
    Measurement of the biomolecular interaction between plant lectin and peptidoglycan functionalized self-assembled hybrid bilayers by a quartz crystal microbalance.
  • Svetličić, Ema.University of Zagreb (Zagreb).
  • Vuletić, Tomislav. Institute of Physics (Zagreb).
    FCS study of interaction of DNA and supramolecular systems with adamantyl guanidines.
  • Adroher-Benítez, Irene. Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Trieste).
  • Bernetti, Mattia. Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Trieste).
    Combining molecular dynamics simulations with saxs experiments to characterize RNA conformational dynamics.
  • Calonaci, Nicola. Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Trieste).
    Machine-learning experimental data for RNA structure prediction.
  • Franzini, Stefano. Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Trieste).
    hicRED: A spectral method for comparing HiC-maps.
  • Micheletti, Cristian. Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Trieste).
  • Rosa, Angelo. Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (Trieste).
    Untangled ring polymers in melts: The Physics of crumpling.
  • Bozic, Anze. Jožef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana).
    Coupling electrostatics and elasticity of virus capsids.
  • Gnidovec, Andraž. University of Ljubljana (Ljubljana).
    Orientational ordering of point dipoles on a sphere.
  • Kanduč, Matej. Jožef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana).
    Biological liquids under tension.
  • Krajnc, Matej. Jožef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana).
    Active elastic networks as models of biological tissues.
  • Papež, Petra. National Institute of Chemistry (Ljubljana).
    Hydration of lower alcohols using theoretical methods.
  • Popadić, Aleksandar. National Institute of Chemistry (Ljubljana).
  • Rozman, Jan. Jožef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana).
    3D Vertex Model of Ventral Furrow Formation in Fruit Fly.
  • Slejko, Ema. National Institute of Chemistry (Ljubljana).
    The influence of the poly(ethylene glycol) on the mean activity coefficients of NaCl aqueous solutions.
  • Staniscia, Fabio. Jožef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana).
    Passive viscoelastic response of striated muscles.
  • Svetina, Saša. University of Ljubljana/Jožef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana).
    The effect of a single Piezo1 trimer on shapes of phospholipid vesicles.
  • V. Guzmán, Horacio A. Jožef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana).
    Quantifying the disassembly of viral capsids from a multiscale molecular simulation approach.
  • Zankoc, Clément. Jožef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana).
    Nonlinear stochastic dynamics of adherens junctions.
  • Ziherl, Primoz. University of Ljubljana/Jožef Stefan Institute (Ljubljana).
    Morphologies of vesicle doublets: Competition among surface tension, bending elasticity, and adhesion.

Organizers


Cristian Micheletti

Cristian
Micheletti

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Irene Adroher-Benítez

Irene
Adroher-Benítez

iadrohersissa.it

Contact

Molecular and Statistical Biophysics Group
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati (SISSA)
Via Bonomea 265
34136 Trieste (Italy)

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