12-th Biochemical Biophysical Balkan Days

mai 10, 2024 - mai 13, 2001

  • 12-th Biochemical Biophysical Balkan Days

    • mai 10, 2024 - mai 13, 2001
    • Bucharest

    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

    1. Protein Structure and Function 
    2. Clinical Biochemistry. Pharmacology 
    3. Molecular Biology and Gene Expression 
    4. Biophysics. Membranes 
    5. Enzymology 
    6. Plant Biochemistry 
    7. Advanced Techniques in Biochemistry and Biophysics 
    8. Immunology 
    9. Cell Biology

    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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