Sunday 21st  May                   Registration/Opening lectures

13h00             Registration

15h00             Robert CRICHTON - Opening lecture - Metals in Biology

17h00             Benoit Desguin - Ni enzymes

19h00             Get together party

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Monday 22nd May                  Introductory Lectures

08h30             Margarida ARCHER- X-ray crystallography of metalloproteins

10h30             Serena deBEER- Ligand Field Theory

12h30             Lunch

14h00             Rob ROBSON -Molecular biological approaches to Metalloproteins

16h00             Vincent  FOURMOND- Electrochemical methods for the functional analysis of metalloproteins

18h00             Angelina  LOMBARDI- What can we learn from biomimetics?

19h00             Dinner

20h00             Poster presentations

 

Tuesday 23rd May                  Spectroscopic techniques

09h00             Eckhard BILL- Mössbauer spectroscopy

11h00             Fred HAGEN- EPR spectroscopy

13h00             Lunch

14h30             Ricardo Louro- Metals and biomolecular NMR

16h30             Wesley BROWNE- Raman Spectroscopy

19h00             Dinner

20h00             Poster presentations

 

Wednesday to Friday                        Tutorial/Practical Sessions

24th to 26th May          Bioelectrochemistry (3h)                   Vincent Fourmond

     EPR spectroscopy (3h)                       Fred Hagen

     Raman spectroscopy (3h)                 Wesley Browne

     Molecular Biology (3h)                      Rob Robson

     Mössbauer spectroscopy (3h)          Eckhard Bill

     NMR spectroscopy (3h)                     Ricardo Louro

 

09h00             Tutorial 1 to 6 for groups of 8 students in rotation

12h30             Lunch

14h00             Tutorial 1 to 6 for groups of 8 students in rotation

19h00             Dinner

 

Wednesday: 20h30 Roland SIGEL- Metal-nucleic acid interactions

Thursday: 20h30     Angela Casini - Medical Inorganic Chemistry

Friday: 18h00         Round table discussions of the Tutorial sessions

 

Saturday 27th May                 Applications

08h30             Ricardo LOURO- Electron transfer in multicentre redox proteins

10h30             Olga IRANZO – bioinspired metallopeptides

12h00             Lunch

13h30             Oliver EINSLE- Copper proteins

15h00             William RUTHERFORD- Manganese proteins and photosynthesis

16h30             Robert CRICHTON- Metal homeostasis

                                  

20h00             Banquet, poster and group prizes ceremony

 

Sunday 28th May                    Departure