AMYLOID DISEASES AND AMYLOID MECHANISMS

Day program, Aug. 28th

August 27^th    18:00        ADAM8 Registration open

Day program, Aug. 28^th

08:00	30 min		Registration, posters are mounted
08:30	5 min		Welcome From Scandic Star Lund
08:35	10 min		Ludmilla Morozova-Roche, University of Umeå “From ADAM1 to ADAM8”
08:45	20 min		Oskar Hansson, Lund University, Lund, Sweden “Abeta pathology in AD: diagnostics and treatments”
			X-rays and neutrons in amyloid research Chairpersons: Jens Lagerstedt, Oxana Klementieva
09:05	5 min		Jens Lagerstedt, Lund University “LINXS Introduction”
09:10	40 min		Annette Eva Langkilde, University of Copenhagen “Structural studies of prefibrillar intermediates and amyloid fibrils”
09:50	15 min		Hanna Wacklin-Knecht, European Spallation Source, Lund “Structural biology at the European Spallation Source”
10:05	55 min		Poster session and coffee
11:00	40 min		Trevor Forsyth, Institut Laue Langevin, Keele University “A molecular mechanism for transthyretin amyloidogenesis”
11:40	15 min		Marija Dubackic, Lund University “SANS Study of Alpha Synuclein Fibrils Formed in the Presence and the Absence of Lipid Vesicles”
11:55	15 min		Veronica Lattanzi, Lund University\ “Structural Determinants of Amyloid-Βeta Fibrils by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering”
12:10	15 min		Kirstine Louise Bendtsen, University of Copenhagen “Structural investigations of lymphocyte-activation gene 3  – an α-synuclein interaction partner”
12:30	1 hour		Lunch
13:30	40 min		Yifat Miller, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev “Insights into molecular mechanisms of self-assembly of amyloids in presence of metals”
14:10	15 min		Ersoy Cholak, University of Copenhagen “Avidity drives α-synuclein membrane interaction via N-terminal anchoring and α-synuclein:lipid co-structure formation”
14:25	15 min		Nicola Vettore, Heinrich-Heine-Universität “Towards a Phi-value analysis of amyloid fibril elongation”
14:40	15 min		Nicklas Österlund, Stockholm University “The Amyloid-β (1-42) Peptide Forms β-barrel Shaped Oligomers in Membrane-Mimicking Environments”
15:00	40 min		Poster session and coffee
			Amyloid structures Chairperson: Emma Sparr
15:40	40 min		Simone Ruggeri, Cambridge University “Nanoscale chemical imaging of protein aggregates in native and physiological liquid environment”
16:20	15 min		Liisa Lutter, University of Kent “3D reconstruction of single amyloid nano-filaments using atomic force microscopy topographs”
16:35	15 min		Andreas Barth, Stockholm University “The internal structure of amyloid-beta oligomers studied by isotope-edited FTIR spectroscopy”
16:50	40 min		Sara Linse, Lund University “Can high-resolution fibril structures facilitate mechanistic understanding and inhibitor design?”
17:30	15 min		Anders Malmendal, Lund University “Revealing well-defined soluble states during amyloid fibril formation by multilinear analysis of NMR diffusion data”
17:45	15 min		Simona Strazdaite, Research Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius “Vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy: a tool for amyloid structure determination at liquid interfaces’
18:00		Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede, Chalmers University of Technology: Female faculty: Why so few and why care?
18:30-		CONFERENCE DINNER		End of the 1st day