Conference program

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
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