Network Activities
2016 January 31 – February 5
First network meeting, Bressanone, Italy
(in concomitance with the European Winterschool on Phyisical Organic Chemistry)
MULTI-APP PROGRAM
Monday, February 1
13.00 – 13.20 Prof. Leonard Prins, University
of Padova, network
coordinator
Introduction ITN-network MULTI-APP
13.20 – 13.45 Petr Motloch, University of Cambridge (PI: Hunter)
Supramolecular System Inside
Porphyrin Nanoring Based on
H-bonding
Interactions
13.45 – 14.10 Kumari Shalini, Free University of Berlin (PI: Haag)
Synthesis of Multivalent Polymer Architecture Targeting Inflammation
14.10 - 14.35 Isabell Grübner, University of Oxford (PI: Anderson)
Cooperativity effects of pyridine templates binding to oligo-porphyrins
14.35 - 14.50 Coffee break
14.50 – 15.15 Maria Cardona, University of Padova (PI: Prins)
Transient self-assembly of chemical nanoreactors
15.15 – 15.40 Daniele Di Orio, University of Twente (PI: Huskens)
Multivalency in Biological
Systems: understanding the multivalent
interaction of
Influenza
15.40 – 16.05 Kiran Pallavi, Free University of Berlin (PI: Haag)
Multivalent Macromolecules as Inhibitors of Influenza Virus
16.05 – 17.00 Supervisory Board Meeting (all PIs)
Tuesday, February 2
13.00 – 13.25 Chu Chih-Wei, University of Münster (PI: Ravoo)
An Injectable Polysaccharide
Hydrogel with Cyclodextrin Vesicles as
Non-Covalent Cross-Linker
13.25 – 13.50 Eva Estirado, University of Eindhoven (PI: Brunsveld)
Self-assembled multivalent nanoparticles for biosensing
13:50 - 14.15 Carlos Leόn Prieto, University of Padova (PI: Prins)
Carbohydrate recognition by monolayer protected gold nanoparticles
14.15 – 14.20 Concluding remarks
Expert lectures
Chris Hunter (University of Cambridge, UK) ‘ The Molecular Recognition Toolbox’
Bart Jan Ravoo (University of Münster, DE) ‘ Functional Surfaces made by soft litography’
Alessandro Casnati (University of Parma, IT) ‘Multivalent calixarenes for targeting biomacromolecules’
Rainer Haag (Freie Universität Berlin, DE) ‘Multivalency at interfaces in biological systemsì
Maria Ramos (University of Porto, PT) ‘Challenges in Computational Enzymology’
Zoltan Takats (Imperial College London, UK) ‘ Ambient mass spectrometry’
Francesco Zerbetto (University of Bologna, IT) ‘ All that binds:
a primer to single, multiple and cooperative binding events’
Maria Minnuni (University of Firenze, IT) ‘Surface Plasmon Resonance: principle, advances and applications’
Soft skill training
Stuart Cantrill (chief editor Nature Chemistry) ‘ The nature of chemistry publishing’
Annemieke Madder (ERC StG Panel chair) ‘Funding opportunities ERC StG 2015’
Fabrizio Bertolini (Site manager, Vinavil Spa Ravenna) ‘Young,
chemist, intelligent looking for a European company financially secure,
funny, attractive’
