InstructInstruct-ERIC is hosting a symposium of structural biology researchers in Bratislava, Slovakia, 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 Latvia and Slovenia in 2024, 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 Slovakia.
The meeting is an opportunity for researchers in Slovakia to collaborate with leading members of the Instruct consortium.
Taking place 11 November, the meeting will feature speakers from several Instruct centres, specifically Instruct-DE, Instruct-CZ, and the Instruct Hub Team.
The full agenda can be found below:
| Time (CET) | Title | Speaker and Institution |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 - 13:05 | Opening | Miloš Hricovíni (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia) |
| 13:05 - 13:25 | Instruct-ERIC: The leading research infrastructure in structural biology | John Dolan (Instruct-ERIC, Oxford, UK) |
| 13:25 - 13:45 | NMR based drug discovery for proteins and RNA | Harald Schwalbe (Instruct-ERIC and Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) |
| 13:45 - 14:05 | Antagonistic mimetics lock insulin receptor in alternative apo state | Jiří Nováček (CEITEC, Brno, Czechia) |
| 14:05 - 14:25 | NMR spectroscopy of proteins in more than 3 dimensions | Radovan Fiala (CEITEC, Brno, Czechia) |
| 14:25 - 14:45 | From Structure to Biomarker: Applications of Glycoprotein Profiling by Mass Spectrometry | Zuzana Pakanová (Inst. of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia) |
| 14:45 - 15:10 | Tea/Coffee | |
| 15:10 - 15:30 | Identifying the Luminal Ca²⁺ Binding Sites of the Ryanodine Receptor | Jacob Bauer (Inst. Mol. Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia) |
| 15:30 - 15:50 | Structure and flexibility of recombinant human lactoferrin | Rostislav Škrabana (Inst. of Virology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia) |
| 15:50 - 16:10 | Water-mediated contacts in PPIs - quantitative insight through residue interaction network models | Vladimír Sládek (Inst. of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia) |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Structure determination of the N-terminal domain of human ryanodine receptor 2 and its association with cardiac arrhythmias |
Vladena Bauerová (Inst. Mol. Biology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia) |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Closing |
Miloš Hricovíni (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, |
