Celebrating the career of

Professor Giuseppe Zanotti

Padua, Italy · 27 May 2022

Celebrating the career of

Professor Giuseppe Zanotti

Padua, Italy · 27 May 2022

Celebrating the career of

Professor
Giuseppe Zanotti

Padua, Italy · 27 May 2022

Programme

Biology and Biomedicine Campus "Fiore di Botta", room 0H - University of Padua

9:15-9:45

Welcome coffee

9:45-10:00

Welcome and Introduction (Roberto Steiner)

Session 1

Chair: Roberto Steiner

10:00-10:25

Cesare Montecucco (Università di Padova, Italy)
A long scientific collaboration: several major failures... and so many protein structures!

10:25-10:50

Alessandro Angelini (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Italy)
Structural analysis of peptide-protein interactions

10:50-11:15

Giovanna Scapin (CSO NanoImaging Services, USA)
From Chicken (Liver) to Falcon(4)

11:15-11:45

Coffee break

Session 2

Chair: Roberto Battistutta

11:45-12:10

Luca Pellegrini (University of Cambridge, UK)
From Padova to Cambridge and from X-ray Crystallography to AlphaFold – a personal perspective

12:10-12:35

Marco Mazzorana (Diamond Light Source, UK)
Time resolution – the new revolution is lurking

12:35-13:00

Sebastiano Pasqualato (Human Technopole, Italy)
Setting up the biophysics platform at the Structural Biology Research Centre of Human Technopole

13:00-14:30

Lunch break

Session 3

Chair: Laura Cendron

14:30-14:55

Massimo Degano (Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Italy)
A structural journey from green fragrances to the immune system

14:55-15:20

Alessandro Grinzato (ESRF, France)
PVX and beyond, a cryo-EM journey

15:20-15:45

Riccardo Percudani (Università di Parma, Italy)
Establishing missing links in metabolic pathways using evolutionary sequence and structure analyses

15:45-16:15

Coffee break

Session 4

Chair: Tito Calì

16:15-16:40

Roberto Steiner (Università di Padova, Italy and King’s College London, UK)
From Padova to London (and back): an unstructured structural journey

16:40-17:05

Michele Cianci (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
The tale of TTR

17:05-17:30

Francesca Vallese (Columbia University, USA)
From Padova to New York: the story of the human ankyrin-1 complex

17:30-17:40

A few words from the former Rector of the University
Rosario Rizzuto

17:40-18:05

Giuseppe Zanotti - closing remarks