3 December 2024
University of Latvia, House of Nature
Europe/Riga timezone

Scientific Programme

Conference program

12:00 - 12:45 Arrive and Lunch
12:45 - 12:55 Kaspars Tars BMC Latvia Conference Opening
12:55 - 13:25 John Dolan Instruct-ERIC Instruct-ERIC – The Leading Research Infrastructure in Structural Biology
13:25 - 13:55 Harald Schwalbe Goethe University Frankfurt; Instruct-ERIC Director Integrated Structural Biology to unravel the impact of synonymous mutations on protein structure
13:55 - 14:25 Hanna Oksanen University of Helsinki TBC
14:25 - 14:45 Giedrius Sasnauskas Vilnius University Cryo-EM studies of bacterial antiviral defence systems
14:45 - 14:55 Official Announcement of Latvia as an Instruct-ERIC Member
14:55 - 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 - 15:25 Kaspars Tars Introduction of Latvia Structural Biologists
15:25 - 15:45 Jānis Rūmnieks BMC Latvia Cryo-EM structure of DNA bacteriophage Nocturne116
15:45 - 16:05 Rebeka Ludviga BMC Latvia Cryo-EM structure of Potato Virus M-Like particles
16:05 - 16:25 Alons Lends LIOS Biomolecules seen by NMR spectoscopy at Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis
16:25 - 16:35 Water and bathroom Break
16:35 - 16:55 Kalvis Brangulis BMC Latvia Structures of Borrelia burgdorferi outer surface proteins
16:55 - 17:15 Teodors Panteļejevs LIOS Cysteine stapled peptides: a structural perspective
17:15 - 17:35 Gints Kalniņš BMC Latvia Structural characterization of SARS-CoV-2 Nsp16-Nsp10 interactions with substrate based inhibitors
17:35 - 17:55 Shapla Bhattacharaya LIOS Tailoring Enzymes for Tomorrow
17:55 Kaspars Tars Wrap up and networking session