DPP III Minisymposium / Graz 23. January 2015

Program

9:30 Welcome and coffee at Petersgasse 12, Seminar room ground
floor
10:00-10:10 When and where it all began: Historical background of our
collaboration - Abramić/Macheroux
Morning session: Structures of dipeptidylpeptidases
10:15-10:45 Igor Sabljic: X-ray structure of DPPIII from B. thetaiotaomicron
10:45-11:15 Prashant Kumar: X-ray structure of human DPPIII and FRET
studies in solution (thesis committee meeting)
11:15-11:45 Sanja Tomic: Zn coordination in the active site of DPP III, substrate
binding and long-range conformational motion – a new exhaustive
study
11:45-12:30 General discussion of structural issues and future directions
12:30-13:00 Sandwich lunch and coffee (will be provided)
Afternoon session: Inhibitor synthesis
13:00-13:30 Jakov Ivkovic: Strategy of inhibitor synthesis and preliminary
results (thesis committee meeting)
13:30-14:00 Ivo Piantanida/Filip Supljika: Inhibitor synthesis in Zagreb
14:00-14:30 Shalinee Jha: Characterisation of DppIII-knock-out mice (1st thesis
committee meeting)
14:30-15:30 General discussion of the project, coordinatin of research efforts, etc.
(coffee will be available)
15:30 Closing of the meeting
17:30 – 20:00 Dinner

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS (alphabetically)

Zagreb

Marija Abramić
Zrinka Karačić
Mihaela Matovina
Ivo Piantanida
Igor Sabljić
Branka Salopek Sondi
Sandra Sobočanec
Filip Šupljika
Sanja Tomić

Graz

Rolf Breinbauer (PI)
Karl Gruber (PI)
Altijana Hromic (PhD student)
Jakov Ivkovic (PhD student)
Shalinee Jha (PhD student)
Prashant Kumar (PhD student)
Peter Macheroux (PI)
Manuel Reisinger (master student)
Viktoria Reithofer (master student)
Ursula Taschler (senior research scientist)
Robert Zimmermann (PI)