| Department of Chemistry | UZH

Inauguration Program Morning

10:00 - 10:40	Y 39 NMR-Hall	Greetings	Prof. Elisabeth Stark, UZH Prof. Christian Wolfrum, ETHZ Prof. Primo Schär, Universität Basel Laetitia Philippe, Vice Director, State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation Rainer Kuemmerle, Vice President, Bruker Biospin
10:40 - 11:30	Y 19 H Floor	Apéro

Scientific Program Afternoon

Lecture Hall Y 03 G 85

12:45 - 13:15	Prof. em. Rolf Boelens, Utrecht University, The Netherlands A tale of Lac and NMR
13:15 - 13:45	Prof. Haribabu Arthanari, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, USA The Promised Land of High-Field NMR: Potential, Challenges, and Opportunities
13:45 - 14:45	Pitch Session with Prof. Ricarda Törner, Department of Chemistry, Universität Zürich, Switzerland Intrinsically disordered regulatory domains and the phospho-code -the case of cell cycle regulator Wee1 Anne Leder, Biozentrum, Universität Basel, Switzerland How a chaperone condensate orchestrates protein folding Dr. Piotr Klukwoski, Institute for Molecular Physical Science, ETHZ, Switzerland Deep learning and high-field NMR: recent advances and future perspective
14:45 - 15:15	Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:45	Prof. Markus Weingarth, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Cracking Nature’s Recipes to design Lipid-targeting Antibiotics
15:45 - 16:15	Prof. Enrica Bordignon, Université de Genève, Switzerland Exploring the dynamic interplay between Bcl-2 proteins in the mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis
16:15 - 16:45	Prof. Werner Kühlbrandt, Max-Planck-Institut, Frankfurt, Germany Diffraction methods (cryoEM and crystallography) to study membrane protein structure and function
16:45 - 17:15	Prof. Harald Schwalbe, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, Germany Focussing on NMR of RNA and DNA: Understanding their dynamics by (time-resolved) NMR and devloping new RNA targeting drugs
17:15 - 17:30	Break
17:30 - 18:00	Prof. Roberta Pierattelli, University of Florence, Italy Decoding order and disorder in proteins by NMR spectroscopy
18:00 - 18:30	Dr. Martin Blackledge, Institut de Biologie Structurale, Grenoble, France The unique ability of high field NMR to characterise the structure, dynamics and function of the intrinsically disordered proteome
18:30 - 19:00	Prof. Christian Griesinger, Max-Planck-Institut, Goettingen, Germany Fast kinetics by NMR and applications to neurodegeneration and protection

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