Programme and Venue | Structural Biology Platform FINStruct and Instruct-ERIC Centre Finland 2025 Annual Meeting

Venue

The annual meeting will be held at the University of Helsinki in the Main building. The meeting room is which is located in the new side of the Main building (4th floor, Fabianinkatu 33).

Entrance and lockers: Fabianinkatu 33. Behind the entrance hall elevators and in the so-called Meeting center, there are plenty of lockers with RFID functionality (e.g., bank cards with contactless payment capability) where you can leave your valuables and outerwear (lockers come in different sizes). In the Small Hall, there is a limited number of coat racks, so primarily use the lockers.
Registration and morning coffee: Lobby next to the Small Hall, 4th floor (Fabianinkatu wing)
Exhibition, Posters & Breaks: Agora, 1st floor (Aleksanterinkatu wing)
Sessions: Small Hall, 4th floor (Fabianinkatu wing)

8:30-9:30 Registration, Coffee and Setting up the posters

Registration, Coffee: Lobby next to the Small Hall, 4th floor
Setting up the posters: Agora, 1st floor

9:30-11:35 Session 1.

Chair Minna Poranen, University of Helsinki (Small hall, 4th floor)

09:30-09:35
Welcome and Opening Words
Sarah Butcher, University of Helsinki, Instruct-ERIC Finland and FINStruct Director

09:35-09:55
In situ structure of the human gap junction
Juha Huiskonen, University of Helsinki, Finland

09:55-10:15
Potyviruses: high structural conservation with a twist
Marjetka Podobnik, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia

10:15-10:35
Computational analysis of structurally important regions on Enterovirus cerhino capsid for improved virus-like particle stability
Minne Jartti, Tampere University, Finland

10:35-10:55
Structural insights into Cas9-mediated prespacer selection in CRISPR-Cas adaptation
Giedrius Sasnauskas, Vilnus University, Lithuania

10:55-11:15
Instruct-ERIC internship project: investigations of lyssavirus receptor interactions
Liina Hannula, University of Helsinki, Finland

11:15-11:35
Structural characterization of native Mce1 complex from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Rajaram Venkatesan, University of Oulu, Finland

11:35-13:00 Lunch break, Poster session, Commercial Exhibition

Agora, 1st floor

13:00-14:00 Session 2.

Chair Esa-Pekka Kumpula, University of Helsinki (Small hall, 4th floor)

13:00-13:20
Time-resolved NMR to study ligand-induced conformational changes in proteins, DNA, and RNA.
Harald Schwalbe, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany; Instruct-ERIC Director

13:20-13:40
Structural and functional characterization of human mono-ADP-ribosyltransferase PARP15
Anna Tuovinen, University of Oulu, Finland

13:40-14:00
The unique contribution of in-cell NMR to drug discovery
Lucia Banci, University of Florence, Italy

14:00-15:10 Coffee, Poster session, Commercial Exhibition

Agora, 1st floor

15:10-16:40 Session 3.

Chair Salla Keskitalo, University of Helsinki (Small hall, 4th floor)

15:10-15:30
Cryo-volumeEM: a new kid among structural biology cryo-EM methods?
Jiri Novacek, CEITEC Masaryk University, Czech Republic

15:30-15:50
Structural mass spectrometry in structural studies of proteins
Johan Pääkkönen, University of Oulu, Finland

15:50-16:10
Instruct-ERIC: The leading research infrastructure in structural biology
John Dolan, Instruct-ERIC

16:10-16:30
The future of imaging and structural biology: integrating AI, scales, data, and discovery
John Eriksson, Euro-BioImaging-ERIC

16:30-16:40
Closing words
Sarah Butcher, University of Helsinki, Instruct-ERIC Finland and FINStruct Director