FRONTIERS ON WONDERFUL WORLD OF NUCLEIC ACIDS
International symposium
Zgornji Brnik, Slovenia, Friday, December 16, 2016
Program
Friday
7:50
Departure from Ljubljana, NIC
8:30–8:55
Welcome and Coffee with refreshments
8:55–9:00
Opening remarks: Janez Plavec Head of NMR Centre
Chair: Marko Trajkovski
9:00–9:30
Zhen Xi: Tobacco mosaic virus based nucleic acid function assay
9:30–9:50
Maja Marušič: Wonderland of secondary structures formed by G-rich sequences in human papillomaviruses genomes
9:50–10:10
Peter Podbevšek: Structural determinants of Uchl1 SINEUP RNA
10:10–10:30
Jasna Brčić: Oligonucleotide containing ALS and FTD linked GGGGCC-repeats folds into two distinct G-quadruplex structures
10:30–11:00
Coffee break with refreshments
Chair: Martina Lenarčič Živković
11:00–11:30
Daniela Montesarchio: G4-OAS: an easy affinity chromatography-based assay for the screening of G-quadruplex ligands
11:30–11:50
Anita Kotar: G-quadruplex – DAOTA-M2 interactions: NMR structural study
11:50–12:10
Baifan Wang: Computational insight into the interaction between an optical probe and G-quadruplex
12:10–12:40
Claudia Sissi: Conformational profiling of G-quadruplex units in c-KIT promoter for targeted anticancer drug design
12:40–14:40
Lunch
Chair: Peter Podbevšek
14:40–15:10
Filomena Sica: A crystallographic approach for understanding the recognition mechanism of thrombin and G-quadruplex aptamers
15:10–15:30
Martina Lenarčič Živković: G-quadruplex formation in the promoter region of RANKL gene
15:30–15:50
Marko Trajkovski: Structural characterization of single-stranded DNA in equimolar mixtures of complementary strands
15:50–16:20
Boris Rogelj: Hexanucleotide repeat expansion mutation from C9ORF72 in ALS and FTLD
16:20–16:50
Coffee break with refreshments
Chair: Baifan Wang
16:50–17:20
Naoki Sugimoto: Roles of nucleic acids with non-canonical structures
17:20–17:50
Viktor Viglasky: Electronic spectral distinguishing of G-quadruplexes from other DNA folds
18.30-
Exploration of the Slovenian culinary specialties
