08.00 - 09.30 Registration
09.30 - 09.45 Opening
EXPLOITING ORGANIC MOLECULES AND BIOMACROMOLECULES IN PRECISION MEDICINE AND SYSTEMS BIOLOGY
MORNING SESSION
Chairperson Gennaro Piccialli
09.45 - 10.20 Elise Dumont - Université Cote d'Azur: "Dynamics of DNA-ligand interactions catched in silico: a cross-talk with experiments".
10.20 - 10.45 Salvo Sortino - University of Catania: "Shedding Light on Nanomedicine: Photoactivatable Polymeric Nanoconstructs for Unconventional Therapies".
10.45 - 11.05 Monica Scognamiglio - University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli: "NMR-based metabolomics: an invaluable tool to study bioactive natural products".
11.05 - 11.30 Coffee Break
Chairperson Antonio Fiorentino
11.30 - 11.55 Thomas Gale - University of Greenwich: "Design and synthesis of protease inhibitors for potential antiviral therapy".
11.55 - 12.20 Roberta Puglisi - University of Catania: "Functional Materials for sequestration and degradation of drugs".
12.20 - 12.40 Bruno Catalanotti - University of Naples Federico II: "Computational strategies to disclose molecular basis of interaction with canonical and non-canonical nucleic acid structures".
12.40 - 14.30 Lunch
AFTERNOON SESSION
LITERARY EVENT
Chairpersons Giorgia Oliviero, Renato Noto
14.45 - 15.15 "Clementina" by Marinella Sorrentino, introduced by Libera D'Angelo and Concetta Giancola
15.15 - 15.45 "Marussia Bakunin" by Pasqualina Mongillo, introduced by Rosa Lanzetta and Francesco de Riccardis
15.45 - 16.15 "Lettera agli Scenziati del futuro" by Antonio Ereditato, introduced by Valeria Costantino and Renato Noto
16.15 - 16.25 Conclusions by Giorgia Oliviero
16.30 Tea Break
20.00 Social Dinner
PROGRAM 31 OCTOBER 2024
MEDITERRANEAN SYNERGIES: THE INTERACTION BETWEEN TERRITORIAL NATURAL SUBSTANCES AND ORGANIC BIOMACROMOLECULES
MORNING SESSION
Chairperson Serena Riela
09.00 - 09.35 Vera Muccilli - University of Catania: "Evaluation of protein-bioactive compounds interactions: dried fruit shell extracts as novel hypoglycemic ingredients".
09.35 - 09.55 Antonella Accardo - University of Naples Federico II: "Peptide based supramolecular architectures as multivalent tools for
biomedical applications".
09.55 - 10.15 Alessio Bartocci - University of Trento: "Binding of small molecules to YTHDF proteins: characterisation through molecular dynamics simulations".
10.15 - 10.35 Valentina Sepe - University of Naples Federico II: "Nature: a promising arsenal to inspire the drug discovery from chronic inflammation to cancer".
10.35 - 11.00 Coffee Break
Chairperson Francesco De Riccardis
11.00 - 11.25 Giuseppe Gattuso - University of Messina: "A new water-dispersible microemulsion drug delivery system based on a supramolecular copolymer for the solubilization and delivery of flavonoids".
11.25 - 11.45 Giovanna Valentino - University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli: "Structural elucidation of bioactive small molecules from Mediterranean plants as G-quadruplex DNA ligands" & Maria Marzano - University of Naples Federico II: "Targeting cancer cells with phytochemical compounds extracted from Mediterranean plants"
11.45 - 12.05 Deborah Quaglio - La Sapienza University of Rome: "Ferritin chemical modification for the multifunctional nucleic acid delivery".
12.05 - 12.25 Vincenzo Abbate - University of Naples Federico II: "The problem of close margins in oral cancer resections: molecular biology to support the surgeon".
12.25 - 12.45 Francesco Presini - University of Ferrara: "Biocatalysis in the synthesis of biologically relevant compounds".
12.45 - 13.05 Andrea Fin - University of Turin: "Intrinsically emissive short peptides nucleic acids".
13.05 - 13.30 Stefano D'Errico - University of Naples Federico II: "Recent Advances in the Chemistry of Nuclesides and Nucleotides".
13:30 - 13.45 Concluding Remarks
13.45 - 15.00 Light Lunch and Poster Session
15.00 - 18.00 Sight-seeing Naples organized by Gennaro Piccialli
19.30 Pizza Aperitif