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Workshop: "Advanced Spectroscopic Tools in Biomolecular Research" Vigo, 17th and 18th of December, 2009
Chairwoman: María Magdalena Cid Fernández Organization: University of Vigo |
The SpecBioTools workshop wants to be a meeting point where national and international experts exchange knowledge in the application of spectroscopic techniques in biomolecular research.
The meeting will focus on various techniques: optical spectroscopies, such as electronic and vibrational dichroism, and its use in determining absolute configurations; NMR in solid state and oriented media; and transferred-NOE and SPR (surface plasmon resonance) in the study of ligand-receptor interactions.
Guest speakers are prestigious international experts, as well as young researchers from galician universities. We are sure that this conference will provide an excellent opportunity for sharing knowledge among our students and these remarkable scientifics.
Organizing Committee: Professor María Magdalena Cid Co-organized by InBiomed |
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Guest Speakers:
Professor in Chemistry Department of the University of Columbia (New York). Professor Berova has devoted four decades to promote the organic stereochemistry and chiroptical spectroscopy and with many relevant theoretical and experimental contributions, as, for instance, the study of porfirin-based molecular tweezers.
In 2007 she was awarded with the Chirality Medal in recognition for her remarkable contribution to chiroptical spectroscopy. She is copublisher and coauthor of the classic book Circular Dichroism: Interpretation and Applications.
Personal Web:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/chemistry/groups/nakanishi/nina/
Professor Dr. Christian Griesinger is Department Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie in Göttingen. He obtained his doctoral degree in 1986 in the University of Frankfurt and he made his postdoctoral work in the Zurich ETH under the supervision of Professor R. Ernst. He was professor in Organic Chemistry Department of Frankfurt University, and moved in 1999 to Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie in Göttingen.
He has greatly contributed to develop the methodology of multidimensional NMR spectroscopy, and his current research abrange very hot topics as enzimatic mechanism, structural biology of neurodegenerative illnesses, trans-membrane signaling process, and stereochemistry of natural products.
He is the recipient of several awards like Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft or the Otto-Bayer Prize.
Personal Web:
http://www.nmr.mpibpc.mpg.de/?query=boss&lang=en
João Rocha, born in 1962, is member of Lisbon Science Academy (Chemistry) and Director of Centre for Research in Ceramics and Composite Materials-CICECO.
He obtained his doctoral degree in 1990 in Chemistry Department, University of Cambridge (United Kingdom), working in caolinit solid state NMR under supervision of Professor Jacek Klinowski. He continued his career with a postdoctoral work during a year in the same group, studying zeolitic materials NMR. Since 1991 he has been working in Chemistry Department, in the University of Aveiro (Portugal), where he was promoted Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in 1999.
He is the author of more than 300 research papers . He is member of Editorial board of European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry and Solid State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. He is also member of Inorganic Structurs and Minerals Committee of International Union. In 2004 he was award the Scientific Excellence of Portuguese Fundation for Science and Technology.
His research group is member of an European Madame Curie Training Site (Advanced Ceramic Materials: Synthesis and Structure) in the University of Aveiro. His first title, in Physics and Chemistry Oriented to Secundary Teaching, demonstrate his interest in visiting schools and giving conferences for motivating students in and showing the greatfullness of Chemistry and Materials Science.
Personal Web:
http://www.ciceco.ua.pt/rh.html?pessoa=9
Organic chemistry professor in the University of Santiago de Compostela since 1990, he obtained his doctoral degree in the same institution in 1973 and, after making his postdoctoral work with professor P. J. Garrat in the University College of London, he came back to University of Santiago de Compostela as a professor in 1978.
Hi is coauthor of more than 160 researchs published in international journals and director of 20 PhD in different investigation fields, like Bioactive Marine Natural Products, Medicinal Chemistry, Absolut Conformation Determination NMR or Polymerical Nanostructures with Biomedical Applications.
He collaborates with several industries on discovery and synthesis of new drugs with and special interest in the isolation and identification of marine natural compounds. He is also the author of several organic chemistry books for undergraduates.
Personal Web:
http://qoweb.usc.es/riguera/
Born in 1971, he obtained his doctoral degree in the University of Santiago de Compostela. He did postdoctoral research in the groups of Professor J. Sardina (University of Santiago de Compostela) and in the Institut fuer Organische Chemie in Justus Liebig Universität of Giessen, with Professor P. R. Schreiner.
He is coauthor of more than 20 publications in Computational Chemistry and NMR field. His current research are being focus in computational development and applied software for NMR, with special interest in structural determination and conformational analysis of small molecules in orientated enviroment.
He collaborates actively with galician software companies, as well in open source projects.
Personal Web:
http://magcid.uvigo.es/~armando/index.html
He is a senior scientist in the Instituto de Investigaciones Químicas in Sevilla (CSIC). He obtained his doctoral degree in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid under direction of Professors J. de Mendoza Sans and P. Prados Hernando. He worked as a postdoctor in the Molecular Structure Div. Nacional Institute for Medical Research (MRC), Mill Hill, in London, in the Professor Jim Feeney group.
He is author of more than 30 publications in NMR field, with special interest in carbohydrate chemistry and transfer NOE methodology. He is member of the Junta de Gobierno del Grupo Especializado de RMN de la Real Sociedad Española de Química.
Personal Web:
http://www.iiq.csic.es/grupocarb/carbohidratos.php?item=3&cv=1
Born in Valladolid in 1974, she made her PhD, on the subject carbohydrate-protein interactions, in the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) in 2003, under supervision of Doctors Cristina Vicent Laso and Jesús Jiménez-Barbero. She did postdoctoral studies Professor Robert Linhardt in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA) and Professor Thomas Peters in the University of Luebeck (Germany). In 2007 she came back to Spain where she holds a tenure track position.
Her investigation experience focuses in the study of biomolecular recognition, through NMR and SPR techniques. She has published more than 20 papers in the field and her research focuses nowadays in the works in carbohydrate-protein multivalent interaction evaluation.
José Lorenzo Alonso Gómez has expaunded his PhD, "Síntesis de hetero-oligómeros cíclicos y no cíclicos de cromóforos aromáticos y 1,3-dietinilaleno". He studied its electrochemical, photochemical and photophysical properties in July 2006. He did postoctoral studies under the supervision of Professor F. Diederich ( ETH-Zurich,) and Professor Nakanishi Columbia University (USA).
His research focues in the enatioselective synthesis of highly unsatured macrocycles and the study of their chiroptical properties as electronic and vibrational circular dichroism. He is the author of several papers high-rank journals as Angewandte Chemie.
Personal Web:
http://www.diederich.chem.ethz.ch/group/people/alonso.html
Ana G. Petrovic obtained her doctoral degree in Physical Chemistry (summa cum laude) under direction Professor Prasad Polavarapu of Vanderlbilt University, in summer 2007. Her thesis is focus in chiroptical spectroscopical methods: Vibration Circular Dichroism (VCD), Electronical Circular Dichroism (ECD) and Optical Rotatory Dispersion (ORD). She has gained experience using those quyroptical methods, specially VCD (with empirical and mechanoquantum considerations) f with punctual or helix quyrality. Her research results have published in several prestigious journals like Journal of Physical Chemistry, Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, Chem. Eur. J., and Chirality.
She currently works as an associated postdoctor in Columbia University in the group of Professors Koji Nakanishi and Nina Berova.
