List of confirmed speakers:
Martin Billeter (University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden)
Saulius Gražulis (Institute of Biotechnology, Vilnius, Lithuania)
Andris Jankevics (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK)
Ēriks Kupče (Agilent Technologies, Oxford, UK)
Guido Pintacuda (Centre de RMN à Très Hauts Champs, Villeurbanne, France)
Anna Rising (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden)
Kaspars Tārs (Latvian Biomedical Research and Study Centre, Riga, Latvia)
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Arrival
19:00 - 21:00 Dinner
Thursday, June 16, 2011
7:00 - 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome
9:10 - 10:45 Session I. New NMR methods
9:10 - 09:50 Ē. Kupče. Compressive sensing in NMR spectroscopy
9:50 - 10:30 G. Pintacuda. Recent advances in solid-state NMR for catalysis and material science
10:30 - 10:45 M. Misiak. Three-dimensional NMR spectroscopy of organic molecules
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 - 13:00 Session II. Protein NMR
11:15 - 12:00 M. Billeter. Dynamics of macromolecular systems studied by NMR
12:00 - 12:45 G. Pintacuda. Proton-detected protein spectra in solids: ultra-fast MAS, high fields, deuteration levels and structural restraints
12:45 - 13:00 E. Barbet-Massin. Through-bond transfers in microcrystalline proteins at high magnetic fields and ultra-fast MAS
13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Session III. Biological systems
14:00 - 14:45 A. Jankevics. Metabolomic systems biology
14:45 - 15:30 A. Rising. Spider silk assembly. Focus on N-terminal domain
15:30 - 19:00 Riga sightseeing / Visit to Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis
19:00 - 21:00 Dinner
Friday, June 17, 2011
7:00 - 9:00 Breakfast
9:00 - 10:30 Session IV. Macromolecular X-ray crystallography
9:00 - 9:45 K. Tārs. Structural investigations of virus-like particles of small RNA phages
9:45 - 10:30 S. Gražulis. Obtaining and sharing crystallographic knowledge: macromolecular crystallography, drug design and open access databases
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:30 Session V. Presentations from the Laboratory of Physical-Organic Chemistry
11:00 - 11:15 J. Stradiņš. History of Laboratory of Physical-Organic Chemistry
11:15 - 11:30 E. Liepiņš. Perspectives of Laboratory of Physical-Organic Chemistry
11:30 - 11:45 S. Beļakovs. Chemical crystallography: case studies
11:45 - 12:00 K. Jaudzems. NMR studies of nucleotide binding to the R3H domain
12:00 - 12:15 M. Otikovs. Fragment-based drug discovery of plasmepsin II inhibitors
12:15 - 12:30 A. Lends. NMR and molecular modeling of inhibitor binding to carbonic anhydrases
12:30 - 13:00 Coffee break
13:00 - 14:30 Session VI. Presentations from the Laboratory of Physical-Organic Chemistry
13:00 - 13:15 I. Goba. Structural models for 1,4-dihydropyridine binding to receptors
13:15 - 13:30 B. Turovska. Electrochemical investigations of pyridine and indandione derivatives
13:30 - 13:45 M. Petrova. Novel cationic lipids by NMR
13:45 - 14:00 S. Grīnberga. Identification of some cannabimimetic indoles and cathinone derivatives as designer drugs
14:00 - 14:15 L. Baumane. Free radicals in biological objects
14:30 - 18:00 Banquet
Saturday, June 18, 2011
9:00 - 15:00 Excursion to Sigulda
Departure