InstructInstruct-ERIC is hosting a symposium of structural biology researchers in Riga, Latvia, featuring talks and discussions between leading experts in the field from the Instruct consortium and from the Latvia structural biology community.
Following fantastic meetings in Slovenia and Lithuania, this meeting will see a blend of the latest techniques and research borne out of Instruct-ERIC access, with the cutting edge science from the teams in Latvia.
The meeting is an opportunity for researchers in Latvia, an Instruct member since 2018, to collaborate with leading members of the Instruct consortium.
Taking place 3 December, the meeting will feature speakers from several Instruct centres, specifically Instruct-FI and Instruct-DE.
The full agenda can be found below.
| Time | Name | Institution | Talk Title |
| 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 | Instruct-ERIC Centre Finland |
| 14:25 - 14:45 | Giedrius Sasnauskas | Vilnius University | Cryo-EM studies of Cas12 family nucleases |
| 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 |
