| PLEASE NOTE THAT DUE TO THE ACTUAL PANDEMIC CONTEXT IN PORTUGAL THIS MEETING WILL BE HELD REMOTELY |
| February 15 2021 | |
| PLEASE NOTE THAT TIME IS SHOWN AS LOCAL LISBON TIME
WHICH IS GMT |
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| MC Meeting | |
| 9:00 to 10:30 | MC Meeting (Part I) |
| 10:30 to 11:00 | Virtual coffee break |
| 11:00 to 12:30 | MC Meeting (Part II) |
| 12:30 to 13:50 | Lunch break |
| Scientific Meeting | |
| 13:50 to 14:00 | Welcome address |
| Nucleic acids and genetic material | Chair: Davide Michieletto | |
| 14:00 to 14:40 | Raquel Oliveira Guiding topoisomerase 2 activity during mitosis |
| 14:40 to 15:20 | Alice Pyne Base-pair resolution analysis of the effect of supercoiling on DNA structure and flexibility |
| 15:20 to 16:00 | Aleksandre Japaridze Chromosome organisation and replication in bacteria: What can we learn by re-shaping cells? |
| 16:00 to 16:15 | Virtual coffee break |
| 16:15 to 16:40 | Andrea Bonato Competition with diffusing slip-links simplifies the topology of knotted ring polymers |
| 16:40 to 17:05 | Dusan Racko Towards loop extrusion with pseudo-topologically and non-topologically bound SMC’s |
| February 16 2021 | |
| Polymers | Chair: Achille Giacometti & Angelo Rosa | |
| 9:30 to 9:55 | lvan Coluzza Evolution of protein folding and aggregation in mixtures |
| 9:55 to 10:20 | Maya Kleiman Plant surface microstructure effect on interaction with microorganisms |
| 10:20 to 10:45 | Emanuele Locatelli Interplay between self-propulsion and topology in active polymers |
| 10:45 to 11:10 | Cristian Micheletti Directional translocation resistance of entangled viral RNAs |
| 11:10 to 11:25 | Virtual coffee break |
| 11:25 to 11:50 | Andrey Milchev Entropic unmixing in nematic blends of semiflexible polymers |
| 11:50 to 12:15 | Luca Tubiana Simulating supramolecular arrangement of rings: Equilibrium properties of sheets and annular catenanes |
| 12:15 to 13:00 | Pitch Talks Manuel Carrer Membrane disruption mechanism in the presence of antimicrobial peptides Aurica Chiriac Supramolecular self-assembly hydrogels based on hyaluronic acid with a squaric acid copolymer Cedrix J. Dongmo Foumthuim Can the roles of polar and non-polar moieties be reversed in non-polar solvents? Elham Ghobadpour A lattice model for simulating the dynamics of randomly branching double-folded ring polymers Charlie McTernan Topological chirality in a molecular knot with eight crossings |
| 13:00 to 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| Theory | Chair: Antti Niemi | |
| 14:00 to 14:25 | Agnese Barbensi F-distance of knotoids and protein structure |
| 14:25 to 14:50 | Dmitry Melnikov Effective field theory models and secondary structure of proteins |
| 14:50 to 15:15 | Franco Ferrari Connecting topology in polymer systems with industrial applications: An attempt based on the Wang-Landau algorithm and numerical topological invariants |
| 15:15 to 15:40 | Gia Maisuradze (Mis)Folding dynamics of a WW domain |
| 15:40 to 15:50 | Virtual coffee break |
| Proteins | Chair: Patrícia Faísca & Joanna Sulkowska | |
| 15:50 to 16:30 | Ya-Ming Hou A chaperone for the trefoil-knot fold of a tRNA methyl transferase |
| 16:30 to 16:55 | Bartosz A. Greń | Wanda Niemyska Machine learning to study entanglement in Nature |
| 16:55 to 17:20 | João Especial Heterogeneous native interactions modulate knotting performance in proteins |
| 17:20 to 17:45 | Rafal Augustyniak How knotted proteins are degraded? |
| 17:45 to 18:10 | Pawel-Dabrowski-Tumanski Deep learning in recognizing the proteins’ topology |
| February 17 2021 | |
| Complex fluids | Chair: Gareth Alexander | |
| 9:30 to 9:55 | Jordi Ignes-Mullol Active microfluidic transport in two dimensions: Flow control, synchronization, frustration, and active boundary layers |
| 9:55 to 10:20 | Marcell Tibor Máthé Defects induced by anchoring transitions of nematic fluids at solid and gas interfaces |
| 10:20 to 10:45 | Maria Helena Godinho Cellulose-based liquid crystalline systems for soft photonic applications |
| 10:45 to 11:10 | Peter Salamon Liquid crystal spherical caps in magnetic field |
| 11:10 to 11:35 | Guilhem Poy Control of the flow of light with soft topological solitons |
| 11:35 to 11:50 | Virtual coffee break |
| 11:50 to 12:20 | Pitch talks (All WGs) Claire Doré (WG5) Two-dimensional active nematic in the vicinity of a geometrical boundary Martina Clairand (WG5) Dynamics of topologically linked active nematic emulsions Michal Kohout (WG5) Photosensitive Liquid Crystals and their Application in Magnetic Nanocomposites Suman Majumder (WG2) Knot are generic stable phases in semiflexible polymers Mariarita Paciolla (WG2) Effective potentials and gelation in solutions of linear and/or ring polymers with reversible bonds Maria Rapa (WG2) Encapsulated essential oils into collagen nanofibers as potential wound dressings |
There may be changes to the program until the event.