The program

14.15-14.30 Welcome

14.30-15.00 Rasmus Hartmann-Petersen (U. Copenhagen), Analyzing proteostasis by deep mutational scanning

15.15-15.45 Roberto Battistutta (U. Padova), Structural evidence of negative cooperativity for a homodimeric enzyme

coffee break

16.15-16.45 Giovanni Bussi (SISSA), Using solution experiments to improve force fields and RNA conformational ensembles

17.00-18.15 short talks:

Costanza Paternoster (U. Trento), Computational strategies to investigate pore forming toxins

Francesco Di Palma (IIT) A novel in silico approach to target unfolded proteins: the curious case of HIV-1 Protease monomer denatured state.

Ivan Gilardoni (SISSA), Development of integrative methods for Molecular Dynamics simulations

Cristina Visintin (UniMi), Beta-2 microglobulin and inflammation in macrophages

Lorenzo Di Rienzo (IIT), A computational strategy to describe biomolecular interfaces and assess their compatibility: implications for protein design

Tuesday 6th

9.00-9.30 Gianluca Lattanzi (U. Trento), Challenges and opportunities in MD simulations of biosystems: from proteins to cells?

9.45-10.15 Benedetta Bolognesi (IBEC Barcelona), Deep mutagenesis to uncover multiple solutions to amyloid formation

10.30-11.00 Cristian Micheletti (SISSA), Topological ageing of active ring melts

coffee break

11.30-12.00 Maria Grazia Ortore (Poli Marche), The good, the bad and the ugly of protein aggregation

12.15-12.45 Alessandro Barducci (U. Montpellier), Investigating the assembly and regulation of cellular condensates with molecular simulations.

lunch break

14.00-14.30 Roberto Covino (U. Bayreuth) Towards single-molecule cryo electron microscopy with simulation-based inference

14.45-15.15 Francesco Piazza (U. Firenze), The physics of cell signaling networks: fundamental issues and a case study.

15.30-16.00 Paolo De Los Rios (EPF Lausanne), The physics of Hsp70 from single molecule experiments to integrative modeling.

coffee break

16.30-17.00 Mauro Manno (CNR, Palermo), Extracellular vesicle bioengineering: directions from the physico-chemical landscape.

17.15-18.30 short talks:

Francesco Pesce (U. Copenhagen), Design of intrinsically disordered protein variants with diverse structural properties

Valeria Pennacchietti (U. Roma1), Unveiling the folding and binding properties of a PTB domain.

Giuseppe Sacco (SISSA), The physics of chemical probing experiments in RNA secondary structure prediction: a computational study

Giovanni Novi Inverardi & Francesco Carnovale (U. Trento) The MIMOSA project: computational challenges of Atom Probe Tomography for protein structure determination

Jonathan Fiorentino & Michele Monti (IIT), Predictions of protein phase separation

Wednesday 7th

9.00-9.30 Fabrizio Chiti (U. Firenze), Experimental aggregation propensity profile of a protein from its PDB amyloid structures. Comparison with predictive algorithms

9.45-10.15 Simona Cocco (ENS Paris), Sparse semi supervised graphical models to predict mutational effects.

10.30-11.00 Stefano Ricagno (U. Milano), Ex-vivo structural biology: toxic protein species in systemic amyloidosis

coffee break

11.30-12.30 short talks:

Alessio Bartocci (U. Trento) Cannabinoid binding at the glycine receptor alpha1: insights from a multiscale resolution computational approach

Matteo Cagiada (U. Copenhagen), Identify the functional role of residues in the human proteome.

Alessandro Zambon (U. Milano), Structure of the space of folding protein sequences defined by large language models.

Francesco Caredda (PoliTo), Attention-based coupling analysis for protein-structure prediction.

lunch break

14.00-14.30 Stefano Gianni (U. Roma1), Single vs. multidomain folding – what do we know so far?

14.45-15.15 Alessandro Laio (SISSA), Identifying informative distance measures in high-dimensional feature spaces

15.30-16.00 Marco Baiesi, Ensemble analysis of interpretable machine learning and its application to protein sequences

coffee break

16.30-17.15 Raffaello Potestio (U. Trento), The sequence-structure-coarsening-function paradigm.

17.30-18.45 short talks: 

Riccardo Capelli (U. Milano) Calcium-driven In Silico Inactivation of a Human Olfactory Receptor.

Francesca Cuturello (AreaSciencePark Trieste), Predicting Thermodynamic Stability Changes Induced by Point Mutations with Protein Language Models

Marta Rigoli (IIT) A computational approach to elucidate the toxicity of mutant prion proteins

Leonardo Salicari (U. Padova), Features and folding kinetics of non-covalent lasso motifs in protein structures.

Manuel Micheloni (U. Trento),Kinetics of radiation-induced DNA double-strand breaks through coarse-grained simulations.

Thursday 8th

9.00-9.30 Gian Gaetano Tartaglia (U. Roma1 and IIT), Towards the discovery of RNA interactions involved in phase separation

9.45-10.15 Pietro Faccioli (U. Milano Bicocca), Enhancing sampling of soft matter systems using a quantum annealing machine. 

10.30-11.00 Andrea Pagnani (PoliTo), Protein fitness landscapes from screening experiments 

coffee break

11.30-12.30 short talks:

Valerio Piomponi (Area Science Park, Trieste), Combining molecular simulations and solution experiments to investigate the impact of Adenosine-to-Inosine hyper-editing in dsRNA

Luca Broggini (UniMi), Nanobodies as novel tools to target cardiac light chain amyloidosis

Awa Diop (UniRoma1), Addressing the binding mechanism of the MATH domain to SPOP substrates, and its inhibition by designed peptides

Edoardo Marchi (U. Milano), Unveiling the dance of chromatin with polymeric models.