12-th Biochemical Biophysical Balkan Days
May 10, 2024 - May 13, 2001
12-th BIOCHEMICAL BIOPHYSICAL
BALKAN DAYS
“Molecular Biosciences in the PostGenomic Era”
May, 10th-13th, 2001, Bucharest, Romania
Organised by:
RSBMB RSCB RSPAB RSI
RSBMB: The Romanian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
RSCB: The Romanian Society of Cell Biology
RSPAB: The Romanian Society of Pure and Applied Biophysics
RSI: The Romanian Society of Immunology
INVITATION
The organizers warmly invite you to attend the 12-th Biochemical Biophysical Balkan Days, which will be held in Bucharest, Romania, in May, 10th-13th, 2001.
This is a meeting held once in two years in one of the Balkan countries (Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey, Yugoslavia) and represents a forum for the exchange of new results, concepts and ideas in the field of biochemistry and molecular biology between scientists all over the world.
INFOS
TOPICS
Topics include:
Plenary Lectures
Oral presentations
Poster presentation
~ 40 min. (including discussions)
~ 15 min. (+ 5 min. – discussions)
Max. dimensions: 120cm x 70cm (height x width)
ABSTRACTS
1.
All abstracts will be written in English. The font of the text should be Times New Roman, 11 points, single-spaced and justified.
2.
Title should be typed in BOLD CAPITAL LETTERS, 14 points, centered.
3.
Authors should be typed in REGULAR CAPITAL LETTERS 12 points, centered, all in one paragraph. Author’s complete address should be typed in Italics, 11 points, centered. Authors and affiliation will appear as follows: Initials, Surname, Institution, City, Country. Presenting author’s name will be underlined.
4.
The text of the abstracts should include: Introduction, Experimental Procedure, Results and Discussions, References. However, the title of these sections should not be clearly marked on the abstract. The text may include tables or pictures in black ink.
5.
References will be numbered with Arabic numerals, in parenthesis ( ) and listed at the end of the abstract in the following format: first name’s initial, family name, journal name in standard international abbreviation typed in italics, volume number, start to final page, (year). Example: E. Brown, J.Biol.Chem., 32, 12-23 (2000)
6.
Abstracts should not exceed 400 words.
SUBMISSION
All abstracts will be submitted electronically to:
Balkan.Days12@biochim.ro
The deadline for submitting the abstract is April, 1st, 2001 and for submitting the Registration Form is April 10th, 2001. All accepted abstracts will appear in the 12-th Biochemical Biophysical Balkan Days Book of Abstracts.
LANGUAGE
The official language of the conference is English and no translation services will be provided.
EVENTS
Friday, May, 11th, 20.00: Romanian Dinner at the Club of Scientists.
Reception offered to all participants
Saturday, May, 12th: Visit to Dracula Castle. Trip to the Carpathian Mountains
REGISTRATION
Please fill in the Final Registration Form and send it to Dr. Gabriela Negroiu:
by FAX: (+401).223.90.68 or POST
Final registration:
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Splaiul Independentei nr. 105
Wednesday, May, 9th, between 17h – 20h
Thursday, May, 10th, between 8h -12h
Registration fee: 50 USD*
(covers Proceedings Book, Dinner & coffee breaks).
* Students & scientists under 30 years are exempted from registration fee.
DEADLINES
Final Registration: April 10th , 2001
Submission of abstracts: April, 1st
Notification of acceptance of contributions: April, 15th , 2001
LOCATION
Bucharest, the capital of Romania since the XV-th century, lies half-way between the river Danube and the South Carpathian mountains, on the banks of the Dâmbovita river. It has a unique flavour resulted from the melting together of Eastern and Western European cultures. It is Romania’s most important cultural and economic center, as well as its largest city.
The most important centers for higher education are the University of Bucharest (founded 1694) and the Technical Institute of Bucharest (founded 1819). In addition, there are several academies in both arts and sciences, as well as numerous research institutes. Bucharest has three central libraries (the Library of the Academy of Romania, the Central State Library, and a central university library) and a large number of public library units.
Bucharest can be reached directly by plane, by train or by car from most European countries. There are also overseas flights to Bucharest.
VISAS:
For most of the European countries citizens there is a need of an entrance visa in order to enter Romanian territory. Please do contact the Romanian consulate in your country in order to obtain more information
AIRPORT:
There is a shuttle bus operating every 30 minutes from the airport to the city center.
FINAL PROGRAMME
Wednesday, May, 9
Final Registration
17.00h-19.00h
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Splaiul Independentei 105, Bucharest
Welcome Party
19.00h-21.00h
Thursday, May, 10th
Official Opening
8.30h-9.00h
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine – “Alexandru Locusteanu” Hall
Plenary lectures:
Chairman: Belma Turan(Ankara, Turkey)
9.00h
Nikos Karamanos(Patras, Greece)
Development of Immunoassays for Screening Intravenous Immunoglobulins and their Clinical Efficasy
9.40h
Ivan Gornik(Osijek, Croatia)
Structural Modifications of IgG in Rheumatoid Arthritis
10.20h
Belma Turan(Ankara, Turkey)
Alterations in electrical and mechanical behaviour of rat heart by oxidant stress: an overview of ‘in vivo’ and ‘in vitro’ studies
Coffee Break
11.00h-11.30h
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Plenary lectures:
11.30h-12.50h
Chairman: Fatbardha Babani(Tirana, Albania)
11.30h
Fatbardha Babani(Tirana, Albania)
Stress detection of plants via biophysical parameters of fluorescence
12.10h
Feride Severcan(Ankara, Turkey)
Structural and Functional Characterization of Biological Systems by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy
Poster Session
12.50h
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
(posters will be displayed till 18.00)
Protein Structure and Function– Posters 1-14
Molecular Biology and Gene Expression– Posters 56-68
Enzymology– Posters 87-99
Plant biochemistry– Posters 100-113
Advanced techniques in biochemistry and biophysics– Posters 114-124
Immunology– Posters 125-132
Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology “N. Simionescu”
Biophysics. Membranes– Posters 69-86
Lunch
13.30h-14.30h
Plenary lectures:
14.30h-16-30h
Chairman: Zdravko Lalchev(Sofia, Bulgaria)
14.00h
Vladimir Bumbasirevic(Belgrade, Yugoslavia)
Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Apoptotic Morphology – Role of Microtubules
14.40h
Zdravko Lalchev(Sofia, Bulgaria)
Molecular Surface Diffusion in Model Membranes Measured by Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP)
15.20h
Peter van der Sluijs(Utrecht, Netherlands)
Role of the Small GTP-ase Rab4 in Membrane Traffic
Coffee Break
16.30h-17.00h
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Parallel Speaker Sessions
17.00h-18.40h
Protein Structure and Function (at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine – “Alexandru Locusteanu” Hall)
Chairman: Christos Stournaras(Heraklion, Greece)
17.00h
P. Katsougraki, F. Lamari, M. Militsopoulou, H. Piperidou, I. Hliopoulos, N. N. Karamanos(Patras, Greece)
Analysis of immunoglobulin subclasses by capillary electrophoresis
17.20h
H. Vais, S. Goodson, N. Eldursi, M. Williamson, A. L. Devonshire, C. J. Cohen, P. N. R. Usherwood (Nottingham, U. K.)
Co-operativity between pyrethroid-resistance mutations (KDR and SUPER-KDR) upon insertion into Drosophila para sodium channel
17.40h
A. Popescu, C. Craescu(Bucharest, Romania)
Description of protein backbone flexibility by the protection factors of amide protons
18.00h
O. Gozia, E. M. Badea, V. Ivan(Bucharest, Romania)
The involvement of HSP-70 in plant-pathogen interaction
18.20h
A. J. Petrescu, S. Dellerue, M. C.Bellissent-Funel, J. C. Smith(Bucharest, Romania)
Depth dependent diffusive dynamics in a globular protein revealed by quasielastic neutron scattering and MD simulation
Molecular Biology and Gene Expression (at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine – Council Hall)
Chairman: Constantin Drainas(Ioannina, Greece)
17.00h
P. K. Politis, C. Martinez, N. Kent, C. R. Goding, J. Mellor(Oxford, U.K., Athens, Greece)
The role of chromatin in the regulation of PHO5 and PHO3 genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
17.20h
A. Christogianni, A. I. Koukkou, C. Drainas(Ioannina, Greece)
Heterologous expression of a transposed ice nucleation gene in moderately halophilic bacteria
17.40h
E. Ionica, L. Thorstensen, S. N. Andersen, A. Legreid, R. Lothe, C. Sandu, M. Costache, B. Johansen(Bucharest, Romania)
Loss of type-II phospolipase A2 expression in human colorectal polyps with 1P instability
18.00h
G. Koutsodontis, I. Tentes, P. Papakosta, A. Moustakas, D. Kardassis(Heraklion, Greece)
New insights into the transcriptional regulation of the human CDK inhibitor p21WAF1/CIP1 gene by the tumor suppressor p53 protein
18.20h
H. Coste, P. Moonen, L. Jacobs(Bucharest, Romania)
RT-PCR diagnosis of foot-and-mouth disease in cattle
Biophysics. Membranes(Inst. of Cellular Biology and Pathology “N. Simionescu” – “N. Simionescu” Hall)
Chairman: G. Reid(Bucharest, Romania)
17.00h
A. Babes, B. Amuzescu, U. Krause, A. Scholz, M. L. Flonta, G. Reid(Bucharest, Romania)
Cooling inhibits capsaicin- and proton-induced currents in cultured rat dorsal root ganglion neurones
17.20h
E. Kovacs, R. Pologea-Moraru, T. Savopol(Bucharest, Romania)
Endogenous cellular electric field in evaluation of photoreceptor cell viability
17.40h
G. Reid(Bucharest, Romania)
Cold transduction by inhibition of a background potassium current in primary sensory neurones
18.00h
C. Tarba, M. Stejar(Cluj, Romania)
Osmotic fluxes through biomembranes are strongly affected by the preparation procedure of the suspending media
Meeting Dinner
19.30h
Representatives of Balkan Biochemical and Biophysical Societies, at Club of Scientists in Bucharest
Friday, May, 11th
Plenary Lectures
8.30h-10.30h
Chairman: Jerka Dumic-Belamaric(Zagreb, Croatia)
8.30h
Dimitris Kardassis(Heraklion, Greece)
Mechanisms of transcriptional regulation of the human apolipoprotein genes by hormone nuclear receptors and cytokines: in vitro and in vivo studies
9.10h
Maya Simionescu(Bucharest, Romania)
Endothelial Cell Dysfunction
9.50h
Jerka Dumic-Belamaric(Zagreb, Croatia)
Glycoproteins and lectins as indicators of pathological alterations
Coffee Break
10.30h-10.50h
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Plenary Lectures
10.50h-13.30h
Chairman: Ivan Ivanov(Sofia, Bulgaria)
10.50h
Jeremy Smith(Heidelberg, Germany)
Computer modelling of protein structure, folding and function
11.30h
Stefana Petrescu(Bucharest, Romania)
Folding and maturation of glycoproteins
12.10h
Anna Nikolic(Zemun, Yugoslavia)
Insulin-like growth factor binding proteins
12.50h
Ivan Ivanov(Sofia, Bulgaria)
Alternative (non-SD) initiation of translation in bacteria
Lunch
13.30h-14.30h
Poster Session
14.30h-15.30h
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Clinical Biochemistry, Pharmacology– Posters 15-55
Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology “N. Simionescu”
Cell Biology– Posters 133-149
Parallel Speaker Sessions
15.30-16.50
Clinical Biochemistry, Pharmacology(at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine – “A. Locusteanu” Hall)
Chairman: Ivan Gornik(Osijek, Croatia)
15.30
V. Crivineanu, M. Crivineanu, Gh.V. Goran, I. R. Dobre(Bucharest, Romania)
Pharmacotherapy of some rodenticides poisoning
15.50
L. Niculescu, C. Stancu, D. Toporan, A. Sima, M. Simionescu(Bucharest, Romania)
Antioxidant effect of statins, calcium channel blockers and vitamins
16.10
A. Pop, R. Negru, C. Papuc, M. Militaru, M. Crivineanu, N. Dojana, M. Serban(Bucharest, Romania)
The insulinomimetic activity of a fucose-specific lectin isolated from Apium graveolus
16.30
M. Trif, C. Guillen, D. M. Vaughan, J. M. Telfer, J. M. Brewer, A. Roseanu, J. H. Brock(Bucharest, Romania)
Clinical prospects for liposomes: efficient drug delivery carriers in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis
Cell Biology(at the Institute of Cellular Biology and Pathology “N. Simionescu” – “N. Simionescu” Hall)
Chairman: Vladimir Bumbasirevic(Belgrad, Yugoslavia)
15.30
Y. Koutmani, D. Thomaidou, E. Patsavoudi, R. Matsas(Athens, Greece)
BM88 is a marker of proliferating cells that will differentiate into the neuronal lineage
15.50
A. Livescu, G. Manda, C. Constantin, M. Neagu(Bucharest, Romania)
The cellular response triggered by chemotactic factors in human peripheral granulocytes in relation with physiological microions changes
16.10
A. Metheniti, S. Tsakas, M. Lambropoulou, V. J. Marmaras(Patras, Greece)
E. coli phagocytosis by insect hemocytes is mediated via FAK/Src complex
Coffee Break
16.50-17.20
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Closing Meeting
17.30
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,“Alexandru Locusteanu” Hall
Dinner
20.00h
Reception offered to all participants at the Club of Scientists in Bucharest
Saturday, May, 12th
8.30h
Trip to the Carpathian Mountains
Contact Person:
Dr. Gabriela Negroiu – Meeting Secretary
E-mail:
gnegroiu@biochim.ro
Address:
Splaiul Independentei 296, 77700 Bucharest 17 Romania
Phone:
Fax:
(401)223.90.69
(401)223.90.68
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