Programme

Mon, Aug 22 Tue, Aug 23 Wed, Aug 24 Thu, Aug 25 Fri, Aug 26

Monday, 22 August 2022

12:00 – 15:00	Registration
15:00 – 15:15	RBC 2022 - Welcome Address
15:15 – 17:15	Advances and applications in structural approaches
15:15 – 15:45	Petar Lambrev Two-Dimensional Electronic Spectroscopy Studies of Energy and Electron Transfer in Photosystems I and II
15:45 – 16:15	Tamás Jávorfi UV-VIS Polarization Spectroscopy at Diamond B23 synchrotron beamline
16:15 – 16:45	Sophia Kapetanaki Conformational flexibility in a photoactivated adenylate cyclase studied by small-angle X-ray scattering
16:45 – 17:15	Győző Garab Structural and functional units associated with non-bilayer lipid phases of plant thylakoid membranes
17:15 – 17:30	Introduction by László Mátyus, President, Hungarian Biophysical Society
17:30 – 18:00	Distinguished lecture Anthony Watts The importance of water in membrane receptor function
18:00 – 19:00	PTE ÁOK Campus → Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul
19:00 – 19:30	Visit of the Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, organ music
19:30 – 22:00	Opening dinner with vine tasting in Magtár

Tuesday, 23 August 2022

9:00 – 12:45	Computer modelling, bioinformatics, systems biology
9:00 – 9:45	Matej Praprotnik Multiscale simulations of biomolecular systems
9:45 – 10:15	Julija Zavadlav Molecular modeling powered by Machine Learning
10:15 – 10:45	Bono Lucic Estimation of model complexity and quality
10:45 – 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:30	Daniel Svenšek A dynamic preferred direction model for the self-organization dynamics of bacterial microfluidic pumping
11:30 – 11:45	Stozer Andraz From isles of Königsberg to islets of Langerhans: Calcium oscillations in networks of beta cells
11:45 – 12:00	Gaszton Vizsnyiczai Boundary scattering and spatial distribution of confined active matter
12:00 – 12:15	Visnja Stepanic Elucidation of DMSO effects on catalytiy activity of halohydrin dehalogenase HheC by molecular dynamics
12:15 – 12:30	Lewis Hancock Investigating the competitive regulation of Las17 through Agent-Based model
12:30 – 12:45	Igor Franović Emergence of UP-DOWN states in modular neural networks
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
9:00 – 16:00	Nanoscale biophysics, nanobiotechnology, material sciences
9:00 – 9:45	Gabriel Žoldák Single-molecule mechanics of proteins
9:45 – 10:15	Loredana Casalis Cancer-derived small extracellular vesicles as modulators of target cells biomechanics
10:15 – 10:30	Maria Pedrosa Biophysics approach in anticancer therapies: Studying anticancer drug interactions with extracted and model cell membranes by Langmuir films and computer simulations
10:30 – 10:45	Bálint Kiss Imaging the infection cycle of T7 at the single virion level
10:45 – 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:45	Tilen Koklič Nanomaterial quarantining by lung epithelial cells and in vitro prediction of chronic inflammation after nanomaterial inhalation
11:45 – 12:15	Matej Kanduč Stimuli-responsive polymeric nanocarriers
12:15 – 12:30	Gregor Bánó Viscosity measurements using flexible microstructures
12:30 – 12:45	Jan Vávra (Abberior Instruments GmbH) STED nanoscopy in tissues with adaptive optics and MATRIX array detection
12:45 – 13:00	Mónika Ágnes Tóth Structural and Conformational Dynamics of a Disordered Protein Motif
13:00 – 14:30	Lunch
14:30 – 15:00	Galajda Péter Quorum sensing response of single bacterial cells studied by a microfluidic mother machine
15:00 – 15:30	Veronika Subjakova Aptamer-functionalized surfaces and nanomotors as potential platforms for diagnostics
15:30 – 15:45	Zuzana Garaiová Ruthenium dendrimers - a potential drug carriers for cancer therapy
15:45 – 16:00	Christine Strasser (Zeiss) LSM 980 with Airyscan 2 (Shaping high-end imaging for your research)
16:00 – 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:30	Virus biophysics
16:30 – 17:00	Miklós Kellermayer Biophysics of viruses
17:00 – 17:30	Mojca Pavlin Immunometabolism of Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome In Children (MIS-C) related to SARS-COV-2
17:30 – 18:00	Anže Božič Viral RNA as a randomly branched polymer
18:00 – 18:15	Mehdi Sahihi Adsorption of SARS-CoV-2 spike protein onto the surface of materials
18:15 – 18:30	Zoltán Ujfalusi A possible role of transferrin in severe COVID-19-associated diseases
18:45 – 22:00	Poster session, exhibition

Wednesday, 24 August 2022

9:00 – 13:00	Protein biophysics, molecular spectroscopy
9:00 – 9:30	Marten Vos Ultrafast light-induced charge transfer in flavoproteins
9:30 – 10:00	Pavel Müller Mechanism and Dynamics of Fatty Acid Photodecarboxylase
10:00 – 10:30	Miroslav Kloz Time resolved spectroscopy of biomolecules from attoseconds to milliseconds
10:30 – 10:45	Eric Sedlak Singlet oxygen production by LOV domain
10:45 – 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:45	Sanja Tomic Involvement of Dipeptidyl Peptidase III in Oxidative Stress and Pain Regulation
11:45 – 12:15	Sanja Dolanski Babic Magnesium ions reversibly bind to DNA double stranded helix in thin films: an infrared spectroscopy study
12:15 – 12:30	Natalya Archipowa Animal type I cryptochromes from migrating and non-migrating species. Are they alike and can they function as photomagnetoreceptors?
12:30 – 12:45	Roger Jan Kutta Role of molecular oxygen in the photochemical mechanism of the B12-dependent photoreceptor protein CarH
12:45 – 13:00	Roman Renger (Lumicks) Dynamic Single Molecule Analysis to assess biomolecular interactions across scales
13:00 – 14:15	Lunch
14:15 – 18:15	Biomedical applications and neuroscience
14:15 – 15:00	Maja Dutour Sikiric Multiscale view on calcium phosphate formation – a route for rationalizing the design of novel bioimplant materials
15:00 – 15:30	Maja Djurišić An innate immune receptor sentinelling in synapses from development into aging
15:30 – 15:45	Kakoli Bose Inter-subunit Crosstalk Synergistically Regulates Allosteric Activation of Proapoptotic Serine Protease HtrA2
15:45 – 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:00	Pavle Andjus Humoral factors of immunity as biophysical markers in personalized medicine
17:00 – 17:30	Linda Waldherr Bioelectronic chemo drug delivery for brain tumor treatment
17:30 – 17:45	Attila-Gergely Végh Intercellular nanomechanics in brain metastasis formation
17:45 – 18:00	Balázs Kiss Ruler or Stabilizer? The role of nebulin in thin filament length regulation.
18:00 – 18:15	Pavel Kania, Piotr Wardega (Nanotemper)
18:30 – 22:00	Poster session, exhibition

Thursday, 25 August 2022

7:00 –	GBO Grenier run (RBC & HBS)
9:00 – 12:30	BioImaging
9:00 – 9:45	Jaroslaw Jacak Three dimensional microscopy and lithography with sub-diffractional resolution for mimicking blood vessels
9:45 – 10:15	Gábor Csúcs Quantitative Phase Imaging using a holo-tomographic system
10:15 – 10:30	Edina Szabó-Meleg Study of transport processes mediated by membrane nanotubes
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30	Veronika Huntošová Time-resolved detection of oxidative stress level in cancer cells
11:30 – 12:00	Péter Horváth Life beyond the pixels: single-cell analysis using deep learning and image analysis methods
12:00 – 12:15	Aleksandar Krmpot Ultrashort laser pulses interaction with hemoglobin: micro-patterning and label-free imaging
12:15 – 12:30	Daniel Patko Patterned Microfluidics for the Investigation of Plant Root Exudates
9:00 – 12:45	Membrane and ion channel biophysics, cell mechanics
9:00 – 9:45	Lorenzo Stella From liposomes to cells: filling the gap between biophysical and microbiological studies of the activity and selectivity of host‐defense peptides.
9:45 – 10:15	Péter Hajdú Membrane distribution of ion channels in T cells
10:15 – 10:30	Tibor Páli V-ATPases – Nature’s most versatile proton pumps
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30	Katalin Solymosi Ultrastructural and biophysical studies on plastid membranes under salt and drought stress
11:30 – 11:45	Florian Weber Efficiency of lipoprotein fusion depends on the lipid composition of the target membrane.
11:45 – 12:00	Predrag Janjic Bistability and switching in a model of membrane voltage dynamics in glia
12:00 – 12:15	Maria Klacsova Drug-membrane interaction of potential SARS-CoV-2 antivirals
12:15 – 12:30	Matej Krajnc Active instability and nonlinear dynamics of cell-cell junctions
12:30 – 12:45	András Horváth (Nanion Technologies, Munich, Germany) Reliable and straightforward cardiac safety liability and proarrhythmic assessment using automated patch clamp
12:45 – 14:00	Lunch
14:00 – 17:30	Summer school - advanced optical microscopy
14:00 – 14:30	Gábor Csúcs, ScopeM, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Which is the best microscope?
14:30 – 15:00	Jaroslaw Jacak, Department of Medical Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria, Linz, Austria Superresolution optical microscopy
15:00 – 15:30	György Vámosi, University of Debrecen, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Biophysics and Cell Biology, Debrecen, Hungary Fluorescence correlation spectroscopy and its applications in cell biology.
15:30 – 16:00	Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:30	RBC Executive Board meeting
16:00 – 16:30	Veronika Huntošová, Center for Interdisciplinary Biosciences, Technology and Innovation Park of P.J. Šafárik University, Košice, Slovakia Intravital imaging as a tool for photodiagnostics and prerequisites for photodynamic therapy.
16:30 – 17:00	Beáta Bugyi, University of Pécs, Medical School, Department of Biophysics, Pécs, Hungary Total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy; basics and its applications in biologial sciences.
17:00 – 17:30	Péter Horváth, Institute of Biochemistry, Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary / Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, HiLIFE, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland Title tba
18:30 – 22:00	Closing banquet. Dinner with vine tasting and concert (Vivat Bacchus) at UP MS New Campus - Umami

Friday, 26 August 2022

7:00 –	GBO Grenier run (RBC & HBS)
9:00 – 11:15	Special Session - Young investigators' session
9:00 – 9:20	Katalin Solymosi, Department of Plant Anatomy, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary / Hungarian Young Academy, co-chair / Young Academy of Europe, recruitment vice-chair Title tba
9:20 – 9:35	Hungarian Biophysical Society - Ernst Awardee Tamás Fekete, Institute of Biophysics, Biological Research Centre, ELKH, Szeged, Hungary Optically manipulated microtools to measure adhesion of the nanoparticle-targeting ligand glutathione to brain endothelial cells
9:35 – 9:50	EBSA Bursary Awardee Tony Schmidt, Medical University of Graz, Chair of Biophysics, Graz, Austria Light stimulation of organic electrolytic photocapacitive devices induces ion channel gating and action potentials in neurons
9:50 – 10:05	EBSA Bursary Awardee Anđela Rodić, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia Biophysical modeling and analysis of the predictors of the COVID-19 transmission and clinical severity
10:05 – 10:20	EBSA Bursary Awardee Arpita Roy, School of Chemical Sciences and National Centre for Sensor Research, Dublin City University, Dublin 9, Ireland Investigation of the interaction of full-length protein hemagglutinin (HA) of H3N2 Influenza A virus with host bilayer membrane; a platform for evaluation of potential entry-blockers against HA
10:20 – 10:35	EBSA Bursary Awardee tba
10:35 – 11:00	Young investigators' prize
11:00 - 11:30	RBC 2022 - Closing remarks

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