Workshop

“Advanced Spectroscopic Tools in Biomolecular Research”

December 17th - 18th, 2009, Vigo

Provisional Program for the Workshop:
Advanced Spectroscopic Tools in Biomolecular Research

                              Thursday 17th of December
TIMETABLE
TALKS
09:00 - 09:10
Sr. reitor Magnífico da Universidade de Vigo Alberto Gago Fernández
Opening Presentation
09:10 - 10:10
Nina Berova (Columbia University, New York, USA)
Application of Conventional and Fluorescence Detected Circular Dichroism in Stereochemical Analysis.
10:10 - 11:10
Armando Navarro (Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain)
Residual Dipolar Couplings in the stereochemical analysis of small molecules.
11:10 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Ana Petrovic (Columbia University, New York, USA)
Principles and Scope of Vibrational Circular Dichroism.
12:30 - 13:30
Eva Muñoz (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
Characterizing biomolecular interactions with surface plasmon resonance technology
13:30 - 15:30
Lunch Break
15:30 - 16:30
José Lorenzo Alonso (Universidade de Vigo, Vigo, Spain)
Principles and Scope of Optical Rotation and Optical Rotatory Dispersion.
16:30 - 17:30
Christian Griesinger (Max Planck Institut, Göttingen, Germany)
Configuration of Small Dynamic Molecules with RDC Enhanced NMR.
17:30
Olalla Nieto and Carlos Silva
Round Table


                              Friday 18th of December
TIMETABLE
TALKS
09:00 - 10:00
Nina Berova (Columbia University, New York, USA)
Porphyrin-Based Chiroptical Sensors: Application in Structural Studies of Natural Products and Biopolymers.
10:00 - 11:00
Pedro Nieto (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Sevilla, Spain)
STD (Saturation Transfer Diference) NMR Spectroscopy in the study of ligand - receptor interactions.
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Ricardo Riguera (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain)
The asignment of absolute configuration by NMR. From mono to polyfunctional compounds.
12:30 - 13:30
João Rocha (Centro de Investigação em Materiais Cerâmicos e Compósitos, Aveiro, Portugal)
Solid-state Nuclear Magnetic Resonance.
13:30 - 14:00
Olalla Nieto and Carlos Silva
Concluding Remarks
14:00 - 14:10
Sr. vicerreitor de Relacións Institucionais Iván Carlos Area Carracedo
Closing
14:10
Lunch