May 15^th

Poster Presentations

1^st session - 10:45 - 11:15 (during coffee break)

• Maria Rosa Loffredo (Sapienza University of Rome, Dept of Biochemical Sciences) Biophysical and antimicrobial investigations of D-PMAP23 affinity to bacterial membranes
• Martina Nicoletti (Campus Biomedico University of Rome) Hodgkin-Huxley models of C. elegans neurons: from ion currents to complex neuronal dynamics
• Francesca Sciolla (CNR-ISC and Sapienza University of Rome, Dept of Physics) Interaction of Isoniazid with unilamellar liposomes
• Letizia Chiodo (Campus Biomedico University of Rome, Dept of Engineering) Human α7 nicotinic receptor in active and inactive conformations: a molecular dynamics
• Fabio Mangini (Fondazione Santa Lucia) Effects of Spinal Cord vascular geometry on the BOLD-fMRI contrast

2^nd session - 13:00-14:15 (during lunch)

• Alice Battistella (CNR-IOM) AFM Investigation of the Mechanical Properties of Mouse Oocytes
• Giorgio Gosti (IIT, Center for Life Nanoscience) Phase Transitions in the Self-Organization of Neural Rosettes
• Marco Lazzarino (CNR-IOM) Microfabricated cantilevers for parallelized cell-cell adhesion measurement
• Federico Giove (Fondazione Santa Lucia IRCCS) Development of a Pipeline for the Analysis of Human Spinal Cord fMRI Data Series
• Laura Andolfi (CNR-IOM) An evaluation of the application of the aperture scanning near-field optical microscopy for ultra-structures analysis of anomalous human spermatozoa
• Alessandro Bentivoglio (University of Edimburgh) Stochastic Model of Supercoiling-Dependent Transcription
• Luca Burratti (University of Rome Tor Vergata) Fluorescent silver nanoclusters as potential tool for bio-applications
• Francesca Ceccacci (CNR-ISB) Design of novel cationic liposomes for brain delivery
• Ines Delfino (Università della Tuscia Dipartimento di scienze ecologiche e biologiche) Characterization of X-ray irradiated cell culture media by means of Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy
• Maya Dimova Lambreva (CNR-IC) Probing the interaction of nanotubes and photosynthetic complexes
• Francesco Brasili (University of Rome Tor Vergata) In vitro analysis of the mechanical and biological effects induced by the ultrasound-cell interaction

3^rd Session - 16:00-16:45 (during coffee break)

• Michael Di Gioacchino (Università degli Studi Roma Tre) Protection of Trehalose Against Dehydration for Model Peptide
• Emiliano De Santis (University of Rome Tor Vergata Dept of Physics & INFN) Styrene-Dopamine receptor affinity: a Molecular Dynamics study
• Aishwarya Dhar (University of Rome Tor Vergata) Aβ peptides and β-sheet breakers. A coarse grained molecular dynamics approach using GO-Martini
• Giuseppina Rea (CNR-IC) Functional dynamics of photosynthetic cells useful for biosensor development
• Giovanna Boumis (Sapienza University of Rome, Dept of Biochemical Sciences “A. Rossi Fanelli”) Targeting de novo thymidylate synthesis nuclear complex
• Blasco Morozzo della Rocca (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Dept of Experimental Medicine) Synthesis and properties of a new benzamide-containing nitrobenzoxadiazole endowed with high stability to metabolic hydrolysis
• Marina Carbonaro (CREA Council for agricultural Research and Economics, research Centre for Food and Nutrition) Cytochrome c-based films and fibril superstructures as protein biomaterials: a SEM and IR spectroscopy investigation
• Francesca Cardamone (University of Cagliari, Dept of Physics) Characterization and identification of Ampicillin and Amoxicillin binding sites within the multidrug transporter MexB of P. Aeruginosa
• Alessandra Camarca (CNR-ISA) Effect of substrate binding on the E. coli MNM deamidase structure
• Alice Romeo (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Dept of Biology) Molecular modeling, molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation techniques applied to the design of a novel APC/C inhibitor
• Silvia Franco (SBAI & CNR-ISC) Rheology and phase behavior of multi-responsive soft microgels
• Isabel Nogues (CNR-IRET) One-carbon metabolism enzyme Serine Hydroxy Methyl Transferase and salt tolerance in the cyanobacteria Aphanothece halophytica