Program
The duration of the meeting is 3 days, from 29th to 31st October.
The target audience is researchers, graduate students and postdocs interested in the fundamentals and applications of spectroscopic techniques (VUV and x-Ray) to the study of biomolecules.
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| Wednesday, 29/10 | Thursday, 30/10 | Friday, 31/10 | |||
| 9h | Registration | 9h | Carlos Perez, Synchrotron-based X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy applied to biology and life science | 9h | Arnaldo Naves de Brito, Observed changes in protonation of bio-molecules at surface of aqueous solutions indicate no change in pH |
| 10h | Welcome speech | 9h50 | Paulo Limão-Vieira, Selective excision of biomolecules in electron transfer experiments: current developments | 9h50 | Laurent Nahon, VUV photodynamics and chiroptical properties of gas phase biomolecules |
| 10h10 | Eckart Rühl, Uptake of Nanoparticles and Drugs into Cells and Skin Probed by Synchrotron Radiation | ||||
| 11h | Coffee-break | 10h40 | Coffee-break | 10h40 | Coffee-break |
| 11h20 | Harry Westfahl Junior, Sirius – a very low emittance synchrotron light source | 11h10 | Niklas Ottosson, Probing Aqueous Biomolecular Systems with Photoelectron Spectroscopy | 11h10 | Ana Lucia Barros, Physicochemical effects in cometary surfaces induced by 40 MeV 58Ni11+ ion beam in the early solar system |
| 12h10 | Stevens Rehen, Reprogramming human cells to study mental disorders | 12h | Paul Scheier, Low-energy electron and ion interactions with isolated and solvated biomolecules | 11h30 | Frederico Alves Lima, Ultrafast Time-resolved X-ray Spectroscopies at Synchrotrons |
| 13h | Lunch break | 12h50 | Bus to hotel | 11h50 | Jorge A. Morales, New Developments in the Electron Nuclear Dynamics (END) Method and Its Applications to Cancer Proton Therapy Reactions and Other High-Energy Reactions |
| 14h10 | Sadia Bari, Dissociation of Peptides by Ions and Photons | 12h40 | Lunch break | ||
| 15h | Poster session | 14h | Giovanni Strazzulla, Ion bombardment of materials relevant to Astrobiology | ||
| 17h | Coffee-break | Free afternoon | 14h50 | Vincenzo Aquilanti, Molecules at the mirror: chirality in chemistry and biophysics | |
| 17h20 | Christophe Nicolas, Soft X-ray synchrotron radiation studies of isolated biomolecules: from small molecular systems to proteins | 15h40 | Enio F. da Silveira, Laboratory simulation of Astrochemistry induced by cosmic rays | ||
| 18h10 | Antonio Carlos Fontes dos Santos, On the clinical efficiency of oxygen beams | 16h30 | Coffee-break | ||
| 17h | Round table | ||||
| 18h30 | Ricardo Marinho, Photostability studies of prebiotic molecules at the VUV region | 18h | Closing remarks | ||
| 19h | Bus to hotel | ||||
