European Centre for Living Technology

Combinatorial Synthetic Proteins Construction
(DICE project workshop)
Organized by: Irene Poli

PROGRAM

9:00 – 9:30         Irene Poli
Advances in the way of the synthetic proteins construction

9:30 – 9:45         Davide De Lucrezia
Contingency vs. determinism: is protein evolution a frozen accident?

9:45 - 10:15        Debora Slanzi
Did the evolution affect the natural protein structure? a neural network classification.

10:15 –10:50       Stefano Zanconato and Davide De Lucrezia
The DICE platform: an experimental platform to evolve and engineer novel functional proteins

10:50 – 11:15             Coffee Break

11:15 – 11:35      Davide De March and Giovanni Minervini
The first generation of synthetic proteins: insights from a statistical and structural prospective

11:35 – 12:00      Matteo Borrotti
Torward the second generation: the ACO approach

12:00 – 12:30             KEEN Visit

12:30 – 13:00      Roberto Serra
Autocatalytic sets of molecules: theoretical aspects

13:00 – 13:30      Alessandro Filisetti
Autocatalytic sets of molecules: simulations results

13:30 – 14:30            Lunch break

14:30 - 19:00  Discussion on the results achieved and  next phases of research