(Subject to change: The conference may finish slightly earlier or later than the advertised time)
Presentation language: English
Venue: The Jarvis Doctorow Hall, St Edmund Hall, Queen’s Lane, Oxford, UK
Time Zone: All times mentioned refer to British Standard Time (BST) – London/GMT.
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NB: Due to the hybrid nature of the agenda and the wide geographical locations of our speakers, it may not have always been possible to group together related presentations.
0930 – 1730: Oral presentations – including lunch and refreshments
1900: Networking dinner (further information will be sent by email)
0930-1500: Oral presentations – including lunch and refreshments
1510: Discussion and close
Professor Dr Günter Mayer
Professor of Chemistry, University of Bonn, Life & Medical Sciences Institute (LIMES), Chemical Biology, Bonn, Germany
Professor Philip Johnson
Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Professor Maureen McKeague
Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry & Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
A modular DNA-encoded platform for exploring chemical diversity in aptamer scaffolds
Professor Dr Beatrix Suess
Professor, Synthetic Genetic Circuits, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Professor Julian Tanner
Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
Professor José Martins
Professor, Faculty of Sciences, NMR and Structure Analysis Research Group, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
Dr Tatsuo Adachi
Board Director, RIBOMIC Inc., Tokyo, Japan
Development of nucleic acid drug delivery systems using aptamers
Dr Christian Code
Chief Scientific Officer, ScienTek ApS, Fruebjergvej 3, Copenhagen, Denmark
From computer to sensor: an aptamer platform combining in-silico design, optical validation, and electrochemical detection of β-Parvalbumin
Dr Cameron Mackereth
Principal Investigator, University Bordeaux, Inserm U1212, ARNA Laboratory, Bordeaux, France
Structural characterization of DNA aptamer-small molecule complexes
Dr Margaret Lange
Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, School of Medicine, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Determinants of aptamer specificity for HIV-1 capsid assembly forms revealed by crosslinking mass spectrometry
Dr Ana Díaz-Fernández
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical and Analytical Chemistry. Universidad de Oviedo. Av. Julián Clavería, 8, 33006 Oviedo, Spain
Targeting soluble BCMA with DNA aptamers: from SELEX to computational assisted optimization
Dr Elena Eremeeva
Postdoctoral Scientist, Centre for Agriculture and the Bioeconomy, School of Biology and Environmental Science, Queensland University of Technology, Gardens Point Campus, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
Aptamers unleashed: from underdogs to universal molecular sensors
Dr Janis Hoetzel
Postdoctoral Scientist, Department of Biology, Technical University of Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
What makes RNA switch? – Case study on a new, regulatory doxycycline aptamer
Dr Eric Rovira Barreira
Postdoctoral Scientist, RNA biology and therapy Department, Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA), University of Navarra (UNAV), Pamplona, Spain
Structural characterization of a U1 snRNP riboswitch allows rational design of novel riboswitches for polyadenylation regulation in mammalian cells
Professor Valeria Milam
Assistant Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
A comparative study of aptamer selection platforms: SELEX vs CompELS
Dr Ravi Mehta
Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Infectious Disease, Imperial College London; London, UK
Aptamer-based assays for detection of the viral biomarker 3’-deoxy-3’,4’-didehydro-cytidine
Dr Justin Baker
Hedrick Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Leveraging Boltzmann secondary-structure ensembles of aptamers for explainable artificial intelligence and efficient in silico dynamics
Dr Shanshan Yao
Postdoctoral Scientist, School of Chinese Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
AI-powered therapeutic aptamer drug discovery: targeting the CT-domain of CTGF for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy
Miss Jaya Lakshmi Narayanan
Graduate Research Student, Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory, Centre for Rural Development and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India
Rapid SELEX-Driven Aptamer for detection of Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Dr Usman Akhtar
Postdoctoral Scientist, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR3523, Department of Structural Biology and Chemistry, Laboratory for Bioorganic Chemistry of Nucleic Acids, Paris, France
Selection of modified aptamers exhibiting low-nanomolar Kd
More speakers will be announced soon!