Israel-Unistra Symposium in Chemistry

Programme:

9:00 – 9:45 am
Prof. Peter Faller (Université de Strasbourg)
“Metal-binding to amyloid-beta peptides: coordination, reactivity,
aggregation and biological implications”

9:55 – 10:40 am
Prof. Yifat Miller (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
“Current challenges in investigating the effect of metals in amyloid
aggregation”

10:50 – 11:35 am
Prof. Galia Mayaan (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology)
“Bio-inspired cooperative catalysis”

11:45 – 12:30 pm
Dr. Vladimir Torbeev (Université de Strasbourg)
“Conformational dynamics of an intrinsically disordered protein
controlled by α-methylation of amino acid residues”

14:00 – 14:45 pm
Prof. Burkhard Bechinger (Université de Strasbourg)
“Histidine-rich designer peptides with antimicrobial, transfection and transduction activities”

14:55 – 15:40 pm
Prof. David Margulies (Weizmann Institute of Science)
“Molecules that generate ‘fingerprints’: a new class of fluorescent
probes for medical diagnosis and chemical biology”

15:50 – 16:35 pm
Prof. Thomas Grutter (CNRS / Université de Strasbourg)
“Manipulating ion channel function with chemistry and light”