DETAILED PROGRAMME
List of posters
SUNDAY 29. 8. 2021
| 10:00 – 18:00 | REGISTRATION / Foyer Building C Antigen and PCR test / mobile sampling point in front of the Building C / Institute of Applied Biotechnologies a.s |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Opening Ceremony / Hall A |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Plenary lecture / Hall A Martin Jínek: CRISPR-Cas genome editors: structures, mechanisms and applications |
| 19:00 – 22:00 | Social Evening / South-Bohemian Museum Historiographical lecture – Radim Černý: German-speaking Physiological Chemists and Biochemists at Charles University in Prague |
MONDAY 30. 8. 2021
| 7:30 – 17:00 | REGISTRATION / Foyer Building C |
| 7:30 – 12:00 | Antigen and PCR test / mobile sampling point in front of the Building C / Institute of Applied Biotechnologies a.s |
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Plenary lecture - J. V. Koštíř Prize Lecture / Hall A Libor Vítek: Bilirubin in health and disease |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Coffee break |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Pathobiochemistry & Clinical Biochemistry, Cancer – PART I/ Hall A |
| Chairs: Radim Černý Ján Lehotský |
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| 10:00 – 10:30 | Stanislav Kmoch: On the human genome anatomy and pathology |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Lenka Nosková: Use of whole-exome sequencing in identification of molecular basis of rare pediatric diseases |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Martina Živná: Proteinopathies and activation of endoplasmic reticulum stress as central pathogenetic mechanism in hereditary tubulointerstitial kidney disease |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Zdeněk Kleibl: Germline CHEK2 gene variants in breast cancer predisposition |
| Cell Signaling, Regulations / Hall C | |
| Chairs: Tomáš Doležal Peter Celec Michael Wrzaczek |
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| 10:00 – 10:15 | Peter Celec: Aging, neutrophil extracellular traps and severe Covid |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Michael Wrzaczek: Regulation of NOX activity in plant immunity |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Tomáš Doležal: On the origin of adenosine by means of privileged immune cells |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Marek Mráz: GAB1 regulates homing capacity and tonic AKT activity in chronic lymphocytic leukemia: novel therapeutic target |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Ondřej Vaněk: Crystal structure of the human natural killer cell receptor NKR-P1 bound to its lymphocyte ligand LLT1 reveals receptor clustering in the immune synapse |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Alexey Bondar: Complexes of G proteins with G protein-coupled receptors at the single-molecule level |
| Enzymes, Coenzymes, Inhibitors – PART I / Hall B | |
| Chairs: Kvído Stříšovský Eva Kutejová |
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| 10:00 – 10:30 | Cyril Bařinka: Discovery of a new molecular rotor for real-time fluorescence imaging of prostate-specific membrane antigen |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Dmitri Nikitin: Computer-assisted affinity engineering of staphylokinase plasminogen activator protein |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Mohamed Amine Jmel: Biochemical characterization and immunosuppressive activity of Ricistatin, a new salivary cystatin from Ixodes ricinus |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Jakub Vávra: The role of hydrogen sulfide in heme sensor proteins signal transduction following oxidative stress processes |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Lunch / University canteen |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Pathobiochemistry & Clinical Biochemistry, Cancer – PART II/ Hall A |
| Chairs: Radim Černý Ján Lehotský |
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| 12:30 – 12:55 | Ján Lehotský: Genetics of multiple sclerosis in central Slovak population as preventive individualized approach |
| 12:55 – 13:20 | Milan Jirsa: Molecular mechanism of bile secretion and its disorders |
| 13:20 – 13:45 | Tomáš Mráček: Disorders of mitochondrial ATP synthase – what can we learn from animal models? |
| 13:45 – 14:00 | Alžběta Spálenková: In vitro and in vivo efficacy of novel Stony Brook taxanes in resistant model of ovarian carcinoma |
| Glycobiochemistry, Postranslational Modifications / Hall C | |
| Chairs: Michaela Wimmerová Peter Biely |
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| 12:30 – 12:40 | Michaela Wimmerová: Welcome, Foreword |
| 12:40 – 13:00 | Katarína Šuchová: Xylanases of glycoside hydrolase family 30: structure-function relationship |
| 13:00 – 13:20 | Eva Fujdiarová: PLL lectin family from entomopathogenic bacterium Photorhabdus laumondii |
| 13:20 – 13:40 | Karin Savková: Functional characterization an ABC transporter Wzm-Wzt involved in the translocation of galactan precursors across the plasma membrane in mycobacteria |
| 13:40 – 14:00 | Kateryna Kotsarenko: C-type lectin of tick Ixodes ricinus |
| Enzymes, Coenzymes, Inhibitors – PART II / Hall B | |
| Chairs: Kvído Stříšovský Eva Kutejová |
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| 12:30 – 13:00 | Tomas Fessl: Mapping allosteric communication in the bacterial translocon |
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Henrieta Havalová: The phosphorylation of human lon protease – a key component of protein quality control in mitochondria |
| 13:15 – 13:30 | Katerina Brodsky: Novel bacterial aryl sulfotransferase and its use in the study on flavonoid metabolism |
| 13:30 – 13:45 | Erik Sedlák: Flavin cofactor in AsLOV2 domain as efficient singlet oxygen producer |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Poster session and refreshment / Foyer Building C |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Plenary lecture / Hall A Jiří Friml: Rapid auxin signaling for plant growth and development |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | ČSBMB committee session |
TUESDAY 31. 8. 2021
| 8:00 – 16.00 | REGISTRATION / FOYER Building C |
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Plenary lecture / Hall A Erik De Clercq: In search of an ideal treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infections |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Coffee break |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Viruses, Bacteria & Parasites – PART I / Hall A |
| Chairs: Libor Grubhoffer Anton Horváth |
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| 10:00 – 10:15 | Roman Tůma: Imaging viral factories of avian reovirus |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Zdeněk Franta: Production and characterization of TBEV replicative enzymes |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Martin Selinger: Novel features of tick-borne encephalitis virus capsid protein |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Paulina Duhita Anindita: Structural snapshots of ATPase cycle of tick-borne encephalitis virus helicase |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Michala Forinová: Rapid detection of SARS-CoV-2 in real-world samples using A-QCM biosensor |
| 11:15 – 12:00 | Daniel Sojka: Proteasome as a target to combat ticks and tick-borne diseases |
| Membranes, Bioenergetics / Hall C | |
| Chairs: Jan Kopecký Josef Ukropec |
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| 10:00 – 10:15 | Kristýna Čunátová: Deficiency in single oxidative phosphorylation system (OXPHOS) complex triggers downregulation of OXPHOS through attenuation of mitochondrial proteosynthesis |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Ondřej Gahura: Dimerisation-dependent cristae shaping and mechanism of rotary catalysis of the Trypanosoma brucei mitochondrial ATP synthase |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Eliška Koňaříková: New factors regulating biogenesis of subunit c from mammalian FoF1 ATP synthase |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Marko Mitrovic: A single bout of exercise increases circulating levels of PAHSA lipokines in lean mice |
| 11:00 – 11:15 | Alena Pecinová: Metabolic phenotype and innate immune response in rat conplastic strains |
| 11:15 – 11:30 | Sara Stanić: A pyrexic effect of FGF21 independent of energy expenditure and UCP1 |
| Biotechnology / Hall B | |
| Chairs: Jiří Damborský Erik Sedlák |
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| 10:00 – 10:20 | Pavel Dvořák: Upgrading Pseudomonas putida by synthetic biology for biotechnological processing of lignocellulosic substrates |
| 10:20 – 10:35 | Viktoria Heine: Immunoprotective glycomimetic-neo-glycoproteins as inhibitors of galectin-3 |
| 10:35 – 10:50 | Josef Houser: Development of 48 condition buffer screen for protein stability assessment |
| 10:50 – 11:10 | Kateřina Sipošová: Detergents and phospholipids in relation to amyloidogenesis: could be interchangeable? |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Zora Nováková: Protein engineering of antibody 5D3 intended for prostate cancer imaging and therapy |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Lunch / University canteen |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Viruses, Bacteria & Parasites – PART II / Hall A |
| Chairs: Libor Grubhoffer Anton Horváth |
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| 12:30 – 12:45 | Alena Zíková: Revising the neglected mitochondrial energy metabolism of the human pathogen, Trypanosoma brucei |
| 12:45 – 13:00 | Anton Horváth: NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase in trypanosomatids |
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Julie Kovářová: Gluconeogenesis in the bloodstream form of trypanosoma brucei |
| 13:15 – 13:30 | Karel Kopejtka: Simultaneous presence of bacteriochlorophyll and xanthorhodopsin genes in a freshwater bacterium |
| 13:30 – 13:45 | Martin Kryl: ArsH enzyme encoded by the ars operons of paracoccus denitrificans: expression, purification, crystallization, and structure determination via molecular replacement |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Jiří Pospíšil: Mystery of bacterial nanotubes revealed |
| Marie Stiborová Memorial Symposium on Xenobiochemistry / Hall B | |
| Chairs: Pavel Anzenbacher Albert Breier |
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| 12:30 - 12:40 | Pavel Anzenbacher: Xenobiochemistry and Marie Stiborová |
| 12:40 – 13:00 | Pavel Souček: From biochemistry to molecular oncology and back |
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Alena Dědíková: Aristolochic acid II influences the metabolism of carcinogenic aristolochic acid I, thereby enhancing its genotoxicity |
| 13:15 – 13:30 | Martin Cagala: Development of resistance to endoplasmic reticulum stress- inducing agents in mouse leukemic L1210 Cells |
| 13:30 – 13:45 | Petra Olejníková: Antifungal agents – xenobiotics to fungi |
| 13:45 – 14:00 | Lenka Jourová: Microbial metabolites, gut microbiome and hepatic cytochromes P450 |
| Emil Paleček Memorial Symposium on Bioelectrochemistry / Hall C | |
| Chairs: Miroslav Fojta Ján Tkáč |
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| 12:30 – 12:40 | Miroslav Fojta: Recent progress in nucleic acid electrochemistry: behavior of homonucleotide blocks and roles of catalytic hydrogen evolution |
| 12:40 – 12:55 | Veronika Ostatná: Catalytic hydrogen evolution reaction in analysis of biomolecules and their complexes |
| 12:55 – 13:15 | Michal Cifra: Modifying structure and function of tubulin and microtubules by intense nanosecond electric field |
| 13:15 – 13:35 | Petr Skládal: Biosensors – where are the limits |
| 13:35 – 13:50 | Jan Vácek: Redox properties of electrophilic nitro-fatty acids and their siomolecular interactions |
| 13:50 – 14:00 | Ján Tkáč: Nanotechnology-based biosensing: Application in cancer diagnostics |
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Poster session and refreshment |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Plenary lecture / Hall A Rolf Hilgenfeld: A structural view of the SARS-CoV-2 replication cycle and the opportunities it offers for antiviral drug discovery |
| 18:30 – 23:00 | Social programme - South Bohemian Theatre - Performance of the Dejvické Theatre Prague „The Elegance of the Molecule “ |
WEDNESDAY 1. 9. 2021
| 8:00 – 14:00 | REGISTRATION |
| 8:30 – 9:30 | Plenary lecture / Hall A Vladimír Beneš: Single-cell transcriptomics – getting there but not entirely there yet |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Coffee break |
| 10:00 – 11:30 | DNA, RNA, Gene Expression, Epigenetics / Hall A |
| Chairs: Petr Svoboda Imrich Barák |
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| 10:00-10:20 | Imrich Barák: Nucleoid organization as a cue of asymmetric septum positioning in bacillus subtilis |
| 10:20-10:30 | Gabriel Demo: Cryo-EM ensemble captures EF-G mediated ribosomal translocation in action |
| 10:30-10:50 | Hana Macickova-Cahova: Dinucleoside polyphosphates act as 5’ RNA caps in bacteria |
| 10:50-11:00 | Jarmila Hnilicová: Novel RNA molecules interacting with the bacterial transcription machinery |
| 11:00-11:20 | Petr Fajkus: Extensive characterisation of telomerase RNAs across the phylogenetic megagroup diaphoretickes shows their common origin more than a billion years ago |
| 11:20-11:30 | Jan Paleček: The architecture of the human SMC5/6 complex |
| Computational Biochemistry, Molecular Modeling / Hall C | |
| Chairs: David Řeha Vojtěch Spiwok |
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| 10:00 – 10:15 | Zdeněk Futera: Biomolecular Interfaces with metal electrodes - structure, electronic properties and their response to external electric field |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Stanislav Kozmon: Xyloglucan endotransglycosylase (XET) substrate interactions study |
| 10:30 – 10:45 | Michal H. Kolář: Peptide deformylase as a probe of long-range allostery between ribosome surface and interior |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Robert Vácha: Genome release from non-enveloped RNA viruses: capsid rupture or pore formation |
| Bioinformatics / Hall C | |
| Chairs: Radka Svobodová Vařeková Jiří Vondrášek |
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| 11:00 – 11:20 | Jan Velecký: SoluProtMutDB: Mutation Database for Protein Solubility Engineering |
| Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Plants / Hall B | |
| Chairs: František Vácha Olga Valentová |
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| 10:00 – 10:13 | Michal Koblížek: 2.4 Å structure of the double concentric ringed light harvesting complex from phototrophic bacterium Gemmatimonas phototrophica |
| 10:13 – 10:26 | Tomáš Bilý: 3D reconstruction of Chlorosome lamellar subdomain |
| 10:26 – 10:39 | Alastair Thomas Gardiner: The cryo-EM structure of the LH2 complex from Marichromatium purpuratum at 2.4 Å |
| 10:39 – 10:52 | Zoltán Polozsányi: Biological effects of glucosinolate degradation products from Cardaria draba |
| 10:52 – 11:05 | Hendrik Küpper: Mechanisms of sublethal cadmium toxicity in plants |
| 11:05 – 11:18 | Marek Petřivalský: Unravelling the role of reactive oxygen species and nitric oxide in structure-activity relationships of elicitins |
| 11:18 – 11:30 | Martin Janda: Disrupted actin: a novel player in pathogen attack sensing? |
| 11:30 – 12:30 | Lunch / University canteen |
| 12:30 – 14:00 | Proteomics / Hall A |
| Chairs: Petr Novák L'udovít Škultéty |
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| 12:30 – 12:45 | Fernando Zúñiga-Navarrete: Discovery proteomics proposes a tolerance mechanism maintaining the survival of coxiella burnetii under doxycycline exposure |
| 12:45 – 13:00 | Lucia Janáčová: Tumor suppressor role of catechol O-methyl transferase in estrogen receptor positive breast cancer through inhibition of cell invasion via MET signaling |
| 13:00 – 13:15 | Zdeněk Spáčil: Quantitative proteomics of neural tissue cell-specific markers |
| 13:15 – 13:30 | Roman Tuzhilkin: Azurin: a model metalloprotein to study an electron transfer process |
| 13:30 – 13:45 | Dmitry Loginov: Hydroxyl radical footprinting analysis of a human haptoglobin- hemoglobin complex using timsTOF Pro |
| 13:45 – 14:00 | Jan Fiala: Mass spectrometric approach for the study of in-solution dynamics of proteins and protein-DNA complexes |
| Teaching in Biochemistry and Biological Chemistry study programs / Hall C | |
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Chairs:
Ján Štěrba Adriana Rathner |
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| 12:30 - 12:35 | Ján Štěrba: opening |
| 12:35 - 12:45 | Michal Kamenický: Cross border life science education: Biological chemistry |
| 12:45 - 12:56 | Martin Strnad: Biological chemistry graduate’s viewpoint |
| 12:56 - 13:05 | Ondřej Cihlář: Biological chemistry current student’s viewpoint |
| 13:05 - 13:20 | Lenka Malinovská: New “blood” in lectin research |
| Lectures by Biological Chemistry program graduates | |
| 13:20 - 13:35 | Adela Tiffner: Orai1 boosts SK3 currents in prostate cancer cells |
| 13:35 - 13:50 | Petr Rathner: NMR investigation of stromal interaction molecule 1 |
| 13:50 - 14:00 | Vitus Stemmer: Expression and purification of the lumenal domain of CP43, a protein in Photosystem II |

