NCBR Seminars - update 29/02/2012
National Center for Biomolecular Research
and
Central Europen Institute of Technology, Masaryk University
NCBR Seminar – CB060
FACULTY OF SCIENCE, MASARYK UNIVERSITY
Spring semestr 2011/2012
Teacher prof. RNDr. Vladimír Sklenář, DrSc.
Dates and time:
Group meetings - individual for each group, managed by group leaders, every week
Chemistry seminars - pavilion A11, room 132, 14.00
NCBR seminars room – A11, room 205, pavilion A11, 14.00
Mendel Lectures – Mendel’s Museum, Mendel Square, 17.00
The seminar is open to all colleagues and students of Masaryk University.
23. February Only group meetings
1. March Ph.D. Students
Sreenivas Reddy Bathula
Molecular interventions of peptides and small molecules. A structural study.
Jakub Štěpán
Reaction Mechanism of MutH Enzyme – Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics
Study
8. March Ph.D. Students
Arnošt Mládek
Understanding of the Sequence Preference of Recurrent RNA Building Blocks using
Quantum Chemistry: The Intrastrand Dinucleotide Platform
Jan Novotný
Structure of oligonucleotides, their modified forms and complexes with ligands.
17:00 Mendel lecture
Professor Angelika Amon
MIT, Cambridge, USA
Causes and consequences of aneuploidy
15. March PhD. Students
Rakesh Aithal
Role of Spo11 in Meiotic recombination
Marek Šebesta
Decoding the PCNA code
22. March Only group meetings
10th
Discussions in Structural Molecular Biology, Nové Hrady,
March 22 – 24, 2012
17:00 Mendel lecture
Professor Tony Hyman
MPI-CBG, Dresden, Germany
Cytoplasmic organization through phase transitions
29. March PhD. Students
Peter Holub
TRAMPing around CTD
Dominika Horššová
Characterization of mammalian oligo(U)-binding proteins
5. April Chemistry seminar
Professorship lecture
Jana Klánová
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12. April PhD. Students
Jan Alán
Free energy calculations on lectin-carbohydrate complexes
Martin Babinský
Probing the Relationship between NMR Observables and Supramolecular
Structure
Robert Vácha
Interaction of peptides and nanoparticles with phospholipid membranes
19. April PhD. Students
Veronika Bačiková
NMR study of Nrd1 RRM and its binding to RNA
Fruzsina Hóbor
Recognition of termination signal of non-coding RNAs by Nab3
17:00 Mendel lecture
Dr. Roland Kanaar
Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
How DNA recombination maintains genome integrity
26. April PhD. Students
Crina-Maria Ionescu
Fast methods for atomic charge calculation: theory and applications
Peter Kolesár
Srs2 and the SUMO-interacting motif biology
3. May Chemistry seminar
Professorships lectures
Luděk Bláha
Organic contaminants and toxins in waters and their effects on living organisms
Michaela Wimmerová
10. May PhD. Students
Josef Pasulka
Structure determination of ZCCHC9 zinc knuckle motifs
Dmytro Ustajenko
Functional and biochemical characterization of DIS3L2, the third mammalian
homolog of yeast exosome nuclease Dis3p/Rrp44p
16. May 17:00 Mendel lecture
Dr. Oscar Fernandez-Capetillo
EMBO Young Investigator Lecture
Spanish National Cancer Research Centre, Madrid, Spain
Exploring the role of replicative stress in cancer and ageing
17. May PhD. Students
Jiří Nováček
Ultra-high resolution NMR in studies of disordered proteins
Veronika Papoušková
NMR study of RNA polymerase delta subunit unique for gram-positive bacteria
24. May 17:00 Mendel lecture
Professor Doug Koshland
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Preventing chromosomes from going rogue