Biomolecular Structures and Interactions (BioMolStruct)

Events

2nd Scientific Retreat of BioMolStruct

2nd Scientific Retreat of BioMolStruct

June 27-28, 2023
Seggau Castle

1st Scientific Retreat of BioMolStruct

1st Scientific Retreat of BioMolStruct

June 8-9, 2022
Seggau Castle

Lange Nacht der Forschung 2022

Lange Nacht der Forschung 2022

May 20, 2022
Medical University of Graz and more than 250 other locations in Austria

The Madl lab presented our PhD program BioMolStruct to the general public.

TEDxMedUniGraz 2022

TEDxMedUniGraz 2022

March 11, 2022
Aula, Med Uni Graz

Our program speaker Tobias Madl gave in introduction to the exciting world of disordered proteins, their role in health and disease and novel concepts for targeting disordered proteins.

News

  • Assistant Professorship and Associated Faculty
    Iva Pritisanac was appointed to a §99(5) assistant professorship at the Med Uni Graz and joined BioMolStruct as associated faculty member.
  • §99(4) Professorship
    BioMolStruct speaker Tobias Madl was appointed to a §99(4) professorship at the Med Uni Graz.

BioMolStruct Guest Lecture Series

Upcoming Guest Lectures

Guest Lectures Archive 2023

  • 26.06.2023, 15:00
    How enumerating entire functional protein sequence landscapes could enable accurate forecasts of pathogen evolution
    by Christopher Bahl, PhD
    Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, AI Proteins; Lecturer, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School; Institute for Protein Innovation, Boston, USA

  • 01.06.2023, 15:00
    Unlocking the power of enzyme engineering through in silico methods: Designing biocatalysts for non-conventional media
    by Dr. Mehdi D. Davari, Head of the Research Group Computational Chemistry, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry, Halle (Saale), Germany

  • 25.05.2023, 17:00
    Regulatory mechanisms in RNA Polymerase II transcription initiation
    by Dr. Srinivasan Rengachari, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (MPINAT), Göttingen, Germany

  • 20.04.2023, 17:00
    Mapping of living molecular systems at proteomewide scale: how, and why?
    by Prof. Gilles Trave, Research Institute for Genetics, Molecular and Cell Biology (IGBMC), Strasbourg, France

  • 30.03.2023, 15:00
    Interpretation of solution scattering experiments (SAXS/SANS) with all-atom molecular dynamics simulations
    by Prof. Dr. Jochen Hub, Computational Biophysics Group, Theoretical Physics, Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

  • 02.03.2023, 15:00
    C-TYPE LECTINS AS CELL-TYPE SPECIFIC RECEPTORS FOR TARGETED DELIVERY
    by Prof. Dr. Christoph Rademacher, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna, Austria

Guest Lectures Archive 2022

  • *01.12.2022, 15:00
    AN INTERPLAY BETWEEN ORDER AND DISORDER IN PROTEINS REGULATES TRANSCRIPTION ELONGATION
    by Dr. Vaclav Veverka, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 03.11.2022, 16:00
    BINDING MECHANISMS OF PATHOGENS VIEWED ON THE SINGLE-MOLECULE LEVEL
    by Yoojin Oh, PhD, Institute of Biophysics, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

  • *13.10.2022, 15:00
    VISUALIZATION OF THE MYELIN PROTEOLIPID MEMBRANE USING PHOTONS, NEUTRONS, AND ELECTRONS
    by Prof. Dr. Petri Kursula, Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway; Biocenter Oulu & Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

  • 22.09.2022, 11:00
    GNB1 ENCEPHALOPATHY, GIRK K+ CHANNELS, AND GIRK BLOCKERS AND OPENERS AS POTENTIAL THERAPIES
    by Prof. Nathan Dascal, PhD, Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel

  • *30.06.2022, 17:00
    CRYO-ELECTRON MICROSCOPY REVEALS A NEW TWIST ON BACTERIAL TYPE IV PILI
    Prof. Dr. Vicki Gold, Living Systems Institute, University of Exeter, UK

  • 23.06.2022, 17:00
    FACTS AND MYTHS OF BACTERIAL MEMBRANE VESICLES
    Prof. Dr. Leo Eberl, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, University of Zurich, Switzerland

  • 13.06.2022, 09:00
    RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT OF RESERACH – WHAT DOES IT ACTUALLY MEAN TO BE A ‘GOOD’ SCIENTIST?
    Verena Seiboth, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria

  • 02.06.2022, 17:00
    RIBOSOME BIOGENESIS IN YEAST: DECIPHERING THE INSTRUCTION GUIDE OF A 3D PUZZLE
    Prof. Jesus De La Cruz, Institute of Biomedicine, University Sevilla, Spain

  • *24.05.2022, 13:10
    BIOMOLECULAR NMR SPECTROSCOPY
    Prof. Dr. Michael Sattler, Department of Chemistry, Technical University of Munich, Germany

  • *05.05.2022, 17:00
    STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY AT ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION
    Prof. Dr. Claudio Luchinat, Magnetic Resonance Center (CERM) and Department of Chemistry, University of Florence, Italy

  • 21.04.2022, 10:00
    MACROZONES, NOVEL ANTI-INFECTIVE AZITHROMYCIN DERIVATIVES: DESIGN, STRUCTURE AND INTERACTIONS
    Prof. Dr. Predrag Novak, Department of Chemistry, University of Zagreb, Croatia

  • 13.04.2022, 14:00
    LIPIDS AND DIVALENT CATIONS AS REGULATORS OF BILAYER INSERTION OF pHLIP NAD Bcl-2 PROTEINS
    Prof. Alexey Ladokhin, PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Kansas Medical Center, USA

  • 07.04.2022, 17:00
    BRAIN LIPID SIGNALING: AN INSPIRATION FOR DRUG DISCOVERY
    Prof. Dr. Mario van Stelt, Molecular Physiology, University Leiden, Netherlands

  • 15.03.2022, 16:00
    STAR WARS IN CRYSTALLOGRAPHY TOWARDS MOLECULAR MOVIES OF BIOMOLECULES IN ACTION WITH X-RAY FREE ELECTRON LASERS
    Prof. Dr. Petra Fromme, Biodesign Center for Applied Structural Discovery, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

  • 26.01.2022, 17:00
    ENTREPRENEURSHIP - A PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE
    Prof. Dr. Oskar Mencer, CEO, Maxeler Technologies, London, UK

  • 13.12.2022, 15:00
    (RE)DESIGNOF ENZYMES USING QUANTUM CHEMISTRY
    by Pedro A. Sánchez Murcia, Division of Medical Chemistry, Medical University of Graz, Austria

Guest Lectures Archive 2021

  • *02.12.2021, 15:00
    RATIONAL AND COMPUTATIONAL DE NOVO DESIGN OF DYNAMIC PEPTIDE AND PROTEIN ASSEMBLIES
    Prof. Dek Woolfson, BA PhD, Schools of Chemistry and Biochemistry & Bristol, BioDesign Institute, University of Bristol, UK

* Guest lectures organized by BioMolStruct