Name: Illuminating Biomolecular Complexity: X-ray Free Electron Lasers and Vibrational Spectroscopies for Protein, Aggregates, and Cellular Architectures
Start: 2025-06-29T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-06-30T22:15:00+02:00
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Illuminating Biomolecular Complexity: X-ray Free Electron Lasers and Vibrational Spectroscopies for Protein, Aggregates, and Cellular Architectures

from Sunday, June 29, 2025 (8:00 AM) to Monday, June 30, 2025 (10:15 PM)

Monday, June 23, 2025
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Thursday, June 26, 2025
Friday, June 27, 2025
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Sunday, June 29, 2025

9:00 AM

9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 12:55 PM
Contributions

9:40 AM Welcome

9:45 AM Orienting gas-phase proteins with electric fields for X-ray imaging - Erik Marklund (Uppsala University)

10:20 AM MS SPIDOC: Coherent diffractive imaging of proteins and viral capsids - Thomas Kierspel

10:40 AM Investigating the Origins of Non-Aromatic Fluorescence with Vibrational and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopies - Zeinab Ebrahimpour (Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste, Area Science Park Basovizza, 34149, Trieste, Italy & INFN)

11:25 AM Vibrational Spectroscopy to Tackle Cancer - Maria Paula Marques (University of Coimbra)

12:00 PM Label-free nanoscale investigation of bio (-compatible) materials - Volker Deckert (Friedrich-Schiller University)

12:35 PM Nanospectroscopy Study of Amyloid Aggregates Interacting with RNA - Antonia Intze (Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome)
11:00 AM coffee break
coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM

12:55 PM

12:55 PM - 2:10 PM
2:10 PM
2:10 PM - 6:25 PM
Contributions

2:10 PM FEL Coulomb Explosion Imaging: Simulation of Coulomb explosion of highly charged 2-Iodopyridine and comparison to experimental data - Lais Friederike Krüger (Uppsala Unversitet)

2:15 PM Raman microscopy as a tool to investigate the effects of polystyrene nanoparticle in Zebrafish and human Caco-2 Cells - Federico Perrella (Università degli Studi dell'Aquila)

2:20 PM Real-time observation of conical intersections in biomolecules. - Giulio Cerullo (Politecnico di Milano, Dip. Fisica)

2:55 PM Shedding Light on SARS-CoV-2 viral protein: Infrared Spectroscopy of the Receptor Binding Domain to Spike Protein - Annalisa D'Arco (Sapienza University of Rome, Dept. of Physics)

3:30 PM Low background high-repetition rate 3D X-ray imaging of single bio-particles using a helium-electrospray. - TEJ VARMA YENUPURI (UPPSALA UNIVERSITY)

3:50 PM Picosecond X-ray pulses at Elettra 2.0 with crab cavities - Simone Di Mitri (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

4:35 PM Single particle imaging of biomolecules using Coulomb Explosions. - Carl Caleman (Uppsala University)

5:10 PM Snapshots of ultrafast atomic dynamics in biomolecules - Tullio Scopigno (University Rome La Sapienza)

5:45 PM Enhanching Radiotherapy with High-Z doped Nitroimidazoles - Pamela Svensson

6:05 PM X-ray Emission Spectroscopy for Real-Time Diagnostics in SFX experiments: A Machine Learning Approach - Alfredo Bellisario (Uppsala University)
4:10 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:10 PM - 4:35 PM

7:30 PM

7:30 PM - 10:00 PM

Monday, June 30, 2025
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 12:45 PM
Contributions

9:30 AM Time-resolved studies in structural biology at the European XFEL - Richard Bean

10:05 AM Sample delivery for time-resolved studies at the European XFEL - Katerina Dörner

10:40 AM Molecular dynamics simulations of large gas-phase proteins with the fast multipole method - Louise J. Persson (Uppsala University)

11:25 AM TRISS: A Versatile Tool for Unraveling Molecular Mechanisms - Ouassim Hocine Hafiani (Uppsala University)

11:30 AM Brute Force Orientation of Proteins - Thomas Mandl (Uppsala universitet)

11:35 AM Integrated structural dynamics of a B12dependent photoreceptor - Martin Weik (Institut de Biologie Structurale)

12:10 PM Serial macromolecular crystallography: developments for high throughput measurements over large parameter spaces - Dominik Oberthür (Center for Free-electron Laser Science)
11:00 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
11:00 AM - 11:25 AM

12:45 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:05 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Tracking cellular metabolism by multiplexed vibrational imaging - Malgorzata Baranska (Jagiellonian University)

2:35 PM FTIR (micro-)spectroscopy in situ: Diagnostic Potential and Insights into Amyloid Deposits - Antonino Natalello (Dept. of Biotechnology and Biosciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano (Italy))

2:55 PM Round Table and concluding remarks