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Day 1

Day 1 – October 3 rd
Time Presenter Institution Title of Lecture
8:30 - 9:00 Hall Registration of the participants
A-202 Opening Ceremony
9:00 - 9:05 Prof. Saulius Šatkauskas Chairman of Lithuanian Biophysical Society Welcome address
9:05 - 9:10 Prof. Dr. Ramunė Morkūnienė Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy Welcome address
9:10 - 9:15 Prof. Arvydas Skeberdis Head of the scientific committee Conference agenda
A-202 Session 1 Chairmen – Prof. Saulius Šatkauskas, Prof. Vytenis Arvydas Skeberdis
9:15 - 10:00 Keynote Prof. Maria Sunnerhagen Linköping University, Sweden The Marvelously Complex MYC - understanding an IDP in action
10:00 - 10:30 Invited Dr. Gražvydas Lukinavičius Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany Labeling biomolecules for live-cell nanoscopy
10:30 - 11:00 Invited Prof. Yaw-Kuen Li National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Innovative Diagnostics ---from one drop to one breath
11:00 - 11:30 Hall Coffee break
A-202 Session 2 Chairmen – Prof. Ričardas Rotomskis, Dr. Vilmantas Pupkis
11:30 - 12:00 Invited Prof. Reet Kurg Institute of Technology, University of Tartu, Estonia Extracellular vesicles as carriers of biological material
12:00 - 12:15 Dr. Giedrė Valiulienė Vilnius University, Life Sciences Center, Institute of Biochemistry, Vilnius, Lithuania. The influence of microRNA-146a-5p on the effect of transcranial magnetic stimulation therapy
12:15 -12:30 Dr. Martynas Gavutis Department of Nanoengineering, Center for Physical Sciences and Technology, Vilnius, Lithuania Sparsely tethered biomimetic membrane for analytical assays
12:30 - 12:45 Dr.Rima Budvytytė Institute of Biochemistry, Department of Bioelectrochemistry and Biospectroscopy, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius, Lithuania The Interaction of Heat Shock Proteins with Lipid Membranes: Novel Diagnostic Target
12:45 - 13:40 Lunch break
13:40 - 15:00 Hall Poster Session
A-202 Session 3 – Chairmen – Dr. Gytis Baranauskas, Dr. Regina Mačianskienė
15:00 - 15:30 Invited Dr. Samuel Solomon University College London, UK Layer-specific conjunction of visual and locomotor signals in mouse superior colliculus
15:30 - 16:00 Invited Prof. Dr. Ziad M. Hafed Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience (CIN), and Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research, Germany Vision-for-perception versus vision-for-action: dissociable contributions of primate primary visual cortex and superior colliculus visual responses to active orienting
16:00 - 16:30 Invited Dr. Gytis Baranauskas Lithuanian Health Sciences University, Lithuania How the primary visual cortex processes information - insights gained from optogenetic stimulation
16:30 - 17:00 Invited Dr. Adam Williamson St. Anne's University Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic Clinical Results of Non-invasive Deep Brain Stimulation in Epilepsy and Parkinson’s patients using Temporal Interference
17:00 - 17:30 Lithuanian Biophysical Society (LBFD) members meeting
Visiting of museum of the History of Lithuanian Medicine and Pharmacy (the number of visitors is limited)
19:00 - 22:00 Gala Dinner at Volfas Engelman Gallery, Kaunakiemio st. 2, Kaunas

Day 2

Day 2 - October 4-th
Time Presenter Institution Title of the Lecture
A-202 Session 4 Chairmen – Prof. Daumantas Matulis, Dr. Gražvydas Lukinavičius
9:00 - 9:30 Invited Dr. Ivana Nikic-Spiegel Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience, Tübingen, Germany Axonal injury: from advanced imaging to chemical biology-based tools for minimally invasive protein labeling
9:30 - 10:00 Invited (TALK CANCELED) Dr. Laura Ballerini SISSA, Trieste, Italy Graphene to manipulate synapses, neurons and neuronal networks at the nanoscale
10:00 - 10:15 Prof. Saulius Bagdonas Vilnius university, Faculty of Physics, Vilnius, Lithuania Spectroscopic properties of TPPS4 J-aggregates formed at different pH values
10:15 - 10:30 Dr. Robertas Guzulaitis The Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania Activation of L2/3 neurons in the primary somatosensory cortex during motor output
10:30 - 10:45 Dr. Kęstutis Maciūnas Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Cardiology, Kaunas, Lithuania Transmural Influence of Ion Currents on Cardiac Optical Maps During Ischemia: A Multidisciplinary Approach
10:45 - 11:15 Hall Coffee break
A-202 Session 5 Chairmen – Dr. Mindaugas Zaremba, Dr. Mindaugas Šnipas
11:15 - 11:45 Invited Dr. Mindaugas Zaremba Vilnius University, Lithuania The missing part: the Archaeoglobus fulgidus Argonaute forms a functional heterodimer with an N-L1-L2 domain protein
11:45 - 12:15 Invited Dr. Franz-Josef Meyer-Almes University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, Germany Unprecedented binding sites on HDAC enzymes
12:15 - 12:30 Anastasija Kudrevceva Institute of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Lithuania Protein-ligand binding affinity prediction using descriptors derived from Voronoi tessellation
12:30 - 13:10 Lunch Break
13:10 - 13:45 Poster Session
A-202 Session 6 Chairmen – Dr. Vilma Kisnierienė, Prof. Aidas Alaburda
13:45 - 14:15 Invited Dr. Christian Gusbeth Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Pulsed Power and Microwave Technology (IHM), Germany Biological Signalling Supports Biotechnology: Cell Death Triggers Protein Release from Chlorella vulgaris
14:15 - 14:45 Invited Dr. Petar Lambrev Biological Research Centre, Szeged, Hungary Ultrafast energy transfer in photosynthetic supercomplexes probed by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy
14:45 - 15:00 Dr. Vilma Kisnierienė Institute of Biosciences, Life Sciences Center, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania Do chloroplasts necessitate the action potential generation in plants?
15:00 - 15:15 Gabrielė Rankelytė Institute of Chemical Physics, Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University,Vilnius, Lithuania Electrostatic Interactions in Photosynthetic Complexes
15:15 - 15:30 Coffee break
A-202 Session 7 Chairmen – Prof. Vytenis Arvydas Skeberdis, Dr. Rimantas Treinys
15:30 - 16:00 Invited Dr. Hanna Wacklin-Knecht Scientific Support Division European Spallation Source ERIC P.O. Lund, Sweden A new view into the mechanism of apoptosis-regulating Bcl-2 proteins in mitochondrial membrane mimics using neutron reflection
16:00 - 16:15 Prof. Anna Niedźwiecka Laboratory of Biological Physics, Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland Intrinsically Disordered Coral Acid-Rich Protein AGARP Regulates Calcium Carbonate Growth via Liquid Phase Separation
16:15 - 16:30 Dr. Mindaugas Šnipas Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Cardiology, Laboratory of Intercellular Communication, Kaunas, Lithuania Model-based Evaluation of Biophysical Properties of Gap Junction Channels from Electrophysiological Data recorded at Macroscopic and Single-Channel Levels
16:30 - 16:45 Dr. Vytautas Raškevičius Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Institute of Cardiology, Kaunas, Lithuania Investigating Novel Connexin-43 Gap Junction Inhibitors via Computational Analysis
16:45 - 17:00 Dr. Eivina Radzevičiūtė-Valčiukė State Research Institute Centre for Innovative Medicine, Vilnius, Lithuania Changes in Immune Cell Subpopulations Following High-Frequency Nanosecond Bipolar and Unipolar Calcium Electrochemotherapy in vivo
17:00 - 17:15 A-202 Poster awards & closing ceremony