PROGRAM
SCIENTIFIC & SOCIAL PROGRAM
Wednesday, June 4th
Aula “Cannizzaro”, Piazza Pugliatti
8:30- 9:00: participant registration
9:00- 9:20: Welcome to the Symposium from Academic Authorities
FIRST SESSION
Chair Person: Giuseppe Pellicane
9:30 – 10:10: keynote speaker Fernando Albericio: “Peptides, Key Building Blocks for Drug Sciences”
10:10 – 10:50: keynote speaker Beatriz de la Torre: “Rational design of short bioactive peptides”
10:50 – 11:20 COFFEE BREAK
11:20 – 12:00 keynote speaker Neil Koorbanally: “Synthesis, characterisation and pharmacological activity of quinoline and quinoxaline hybrids”
12:00 – 12:20 invited speaker Ernesto Amato: “The contribution of Montecarlo simulation to internal dosimetry of radiopharmaceuticals”
12:20 – 12:40 Alessia Berbiglia: “Rational design of a recombinant SCVFV for intracellular detection of phosphorothioate-modified ASOs”
12:40 – 13:00 Carla Di Chio: “Novel dipeptide nitriles as inhibitors of rhodesain of trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense”
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
SECOND SESSION
Chair Person: Archimede Rotondo
14:00 – 14:40: keynote speaker Enrique Garcia Lomba: “Self-limiting association strategies for the build up of biomolecular aggregates”
14:40 – 15:20 keynote speaker Kristian Müller-Nedebock: “Cytoskeletal networks and confinement“
15:20 – 16:00 keynote speaker Rajshekhar Karpoormath: “Building small bioactive agents: bridging synthetic chemistry and biomedical impact”
16:00 – 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
16:30 – 17:10 keynote speaker Ross S. Robinson: “The synthesis of ultra-stabilized borolanes, with potential for olefin isomerisation and BNCT”
17:10 – 17:30 Francesca Mancuso: “Nanobiochar-based sensing platform for heavy metals detection”
17:30 – 17:50 Federica Litrenta: “Chemometric approach for the identification of markers in alternative sicilian cheeses”
17:50 – 18:10 Vincenzo Nava: “Bioactive compounds in wellness drinks”
20:30 – SOCIAL DINNER (S. C. Thalatta, Via Vittorio Emanuele II, 137-127, Messina, Italy 98122)
Thursday, June 5th
Centro Congressi A.O.U. “G. Martino”
FIRST SESSION
Chair Person: Fernando Albericio
09:00 – 09:40: keynote speaker Mahmoud Soliman: “Decoding disease with peptides: a computational journey from Soliman’s Lab”
09:40 – 10:20 keynote speaker Mesfin Tsige: “Molecular modeling and machine learning for predicting surface properties of polymeric interfaces in biomedical applications”
10:20 – 10:40 invited speaker Luigi Donato: “Multiscale analysis of Cacng8 variants reveals allosteric perturbation of ampa receptor complexes through docking and molecular dynamics”
10:40 – 11:20 COFFEE BREAK & POSTER SESSION
Federica Bucolo: ”Schiff base/mos2 modified screen-printed electrodes for the electrochemical detection of heavy metals”
Federico Nastasi: “Restored intensities from customized crops of nmr experiments (ricc-nmr) for insights into the chemometrics of sicilian and sardinian EVOOs”
11:20 – 11:40 Federica Grasso: “Rational modeling of antisense oligonucleotides targeting Caspase-8 to enhance innate immune activation during bacterial infections”
11:40 – 12:00 Josè Starvaggi: “Design, synthesis and biological evaluation of novel antiviral agents for the treatment of dengue and zika virus infections”
12:00 – 12:20 invited speaker Teresa Gervasi: “Microbial cell factories for the production of bioactive molecules in the bioeconomy age”
12:20 – 12:40 Giovanna Lo Vecchio: “Biotechnological valorization of cynara cardunculus wastes for the sustainable production of astaxanthin via phaffia rhodozyma fermentation and the development of bioactive artichoke-based composites”
12:40 – 12:50 concluding remarks