Day 1 – June 8, 2025
| Moscow Time |
Speaker | Topic |
| 12:30 | Registration starts | |
| 13:00 | Welcome coffee | |
| 13:50 | Mikhail P. Kirpichnikov | Welcome speech |
| member of RAS, dean of Faculty of biology | ||
| Section I. Structure of membrane proteins | ||
| 14:00 | Shixin Ye-Lehmann | Optoproteomics and applications in neuroscience: Expanding the Genetic Code to Link Molecular Kinetics and Behavior Changes via Cellular Migration |
| University of Paris-Saclay | ||
| 14:30 | Tao Ni | Molecular Architecture of Coronavirus Double-membrane Vesicle Pore Complex |
| The University of Hong Kong | ||
| 15:00 | Alexander Sobolevsky | Gating and regulation of ionotropic glutamate receptors |
| Columbia University | ||
| 15:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00 | Ekaterina Lyukmanova | Structural insights into dimerization of insect sodium channel in lipid membrane |
| Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry | ||
| 16:30 | TBA | |
| 17:00 | Zakhar Shenkarev | Membrane interaction is required for the action of antagonistic spider toxin on the human TRPA1 ion channel |
| Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry | ||
| 18:00 | Excursion to Botanic garden MSU | |
| 19:00 | Welcome party | |
Day 2 – June 9, 2025
| Moscow Time |
Speaker | Topic |
| Section II. Advances in EM technology, tomography and image processing | ||
| 10:00 | Richard Henderson – keynote | Extending the reach of single-particle cryoEM |
| Nobel laureate in chemistry 2017, MRC | ||
| 11:00 | SheeMei Lok | Tomography study of the dengue fusion process |
| National University of Singapore | ||
| 11:30 | Evgenia Pechnikova | CryoSilico: Silicon-Based Sample Carrier for Cryo-Electron Microscopy |
| DENSsolutions | ||
| 12:00 | Marin Gerard van Heel | Cryo-EM has revolutionized Structural Biology and is now rewriting the Foundations of Physics |
| LNNano,Campinas Brazil, Leiden University | ||
| 12:30 | Polina Evtushkova | Rapid protein assessment prior to experimentation |
| Technoinfo | ||
| 12:45 | Lunch | |
| Section III. Structure and functions of large cell machinery | ||
| 14:15 | Alexey Belogurov | Single molecule visualization of proteasomes nanomachines |
| IBCh RAS | ||
| 14:45 | Alena Paleskava | Light at the end of the tunnel: molecular mechanism of action of rumicidins |
| Konstantinov Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute | ||
| 15:15 | Anna Burtseva | Structure of a bundle-shaped phycobilisome |
| Research Center of Biotechnology RAS | ||
| 15:45 | Yurii Krupyansky | Condensed DNA Structure in Bacteria Subjected to Various Types of Stress |
| Semenov Federal Research Center for Chemical Physics RAS | ||
| 16:15 | Coffee break | |
| 16:45 | Anton Bondarenko | Automated system fo rapid analysis of thin sections based on scanning transmission electron microscope |
| Technoinfo | ||
| 17:00 | Matthieu G. Gagnon | Structures of stalled ribosome complexes with antibiotics |
| Medical Branch, The University of Texas | ||
| 17:30 | Konstantin Usachev | Structural aspects of Staphylococcus aureus ribosome biogenesis |
| NRC "Kurchatov Institute" | ||
| 18:00 | Elizabeth Villa | Discovering new biology with cryo-electron tomography |
| HHMI, University of California San Diego | ||
Day 3 – June 10, 2025
| Moscow Time |
Speaker | Topic |
| Section II. Advances in EM technology, tomography and image processing (continuation) | ||
| 10:00 | Goran Stjepanovic | Molecular mechanisms of membrane dynamics in autophagy |
| The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China |
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| 10:30 | Eugene Pichkur | Structural basis for sequence-specific ribosome stalling by streptogramin antibiotic etamycin A |
| NRC "Kurchatov Institute" | ||
| 10:45 | Sergei Navolnev | Comparative characteristics of bacterial cells of different species in a digital image obtained from a transmission electron microscope |
| N.F. Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology | ||
| 11:00 | Artem Bonchuk | High-resolution CryoEM structure of sub-100kDa protein: a case study of Tramtrack group BTB domains |
| King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia | ||
| 11:30 | Grigoriy Armeev | A Cryo-EM View of Chromatin’s Building Blocks: Nucleosome Structures, Dynamics, and DNA Sequences |
| Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology | ||
| 12:00 | Sergey Khakhanov | Overview of the current product line of electron microscopes from Melytec Company |
| Melytec | ||
| 12:15 | Victoria Andreeva | From order to delivery to the laboratory – 1 week. How does it work on Skyklad? |
| SkyKlad | ||
| 12:30 | Lunch | |
| Section IV. Structure of viruses and phages | ||
| 14:00 | Larisa Kordyukova | Morphological and structural investigation of enveloped viruses using transmission electron and cryoelectron microscopy: Influenza virus and SARS-CoV-2 |
| A.N.Belozersky Institute of Physico-Chemical Biology | ||
| 14:30 | Andrey Letarov | Portret of Dangerous Phage: Stx-converting Bacteriophage Phi24b Whole Virion Structure |
| Research Center of Biotechnology RAS | ||
| 15:00 | Valeria Samygina | Cryo-EM studies of inactivated flaviviruses |
| NRC "Kurchatov Institute" | ||
| 15:30 | Andrey Fokine | Near-atomic resolution structure of the bacteriophage T4 virion |
| Purdue University | ||
| 16:00 | Olga Sokolova | Structural studies of the earlier stages of bacteriophage PhiKZ infection |
| Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Biology | ||
| 16:30 | Elena Orlova | Advances in structural studies of bacteriophages using CryoEM |
| Birkbeck College, UK | ||
| 17:00 | Coffee break | |
| 17:30 | Poster session | |
Day 4 – June 11, 2025
| Moscow Time |
Speaker | Topic |
| Section V. Medical applications of cryo-EM and tomography | ||
| 10:00 | Semyon Nesterov | In situ study of mitochondrial enzyme systems supramolecular structure using cryoelectron tomography |
| NRC "Kurchatov Institute" | ||
| 10:30 | Elias Nieto-Zaragoza | Oligomeric regulation of cystathionine betasynthase mediated hydrogen sulfide production modulates UPR induction |
| National Autonomous University of Mexico | ||
| 11:00 | Ning Gao | Structural insight into the membrane skeleton organization in red blood cells |
| School of Life Sciences, Peking Universit | ||
| 11:30 | Anna Kanevskaya | SPARHA: a new filament-based system for bacterial immunity |
| Institute of Gene Biology Russian Academy of Sciences | ||
| 12:00 | Coffee break | |
| 12:30 | Anastasia Efimenko | Extracellular vesicles of mesenzyme stromal cells as a tool for regulation of tissue repair and regeneration processes |
| MSU, Russia | ||
| 13:00 | Georgii Maksimov | Nanoscale structures on the erythrocyte surface on oncology |
| MSU, Russia | ||
| 13:15 | Closing remarks and awards | |
