The 1st LightDyNAmics Week will be held on 17 – 21 June 2019 at the Department of Industrial Chemistry “Toso Montanari” in Bologna, Italy. The programme includes the Wider Horizon Day: “Future Lighting: Changes an Challenges of OLEDs” and lectures to improve Methodological & Technical skills as well as Transferable & Business skills. The meeting will further include the Mid-term check meeting with the EC project officer.
Programme
Day 1
- Presentation of IBB
- ESR presentations
- Nucleic Acids, a histroical perspective: from the first understanding of the principle of genetics to the discovery of the duplex structure (L. Vitiglano, IBB-CNR)
- Basic principles of genetics: DNA/RNA/protein synthesis (M.Müller, LMUM)
Day 2
- RNA structural conformational behaviour (J. Sponer, MUNI)
- Basics of the photophysics of the isolated bases: Experiments (T. Gustavsson, CNRS)
- Basics of the photophysics of Polynucleotides: Experiments (D. Markovitsi, CNRS)
- Guided Tour of the historic centre of Naples
Day 3
- Management Board meeting
- Basics on the photophysics of the isolated bases: Calculations (M. Garavelli, UNIBO)
- Basics of DNA structure and conformational behaviour: Single strand, Duplex, Quadruplex (J. Plavec, KI)
- Exercises on genetics, spectrscopy, formation of hydrogen bonds, QM calculations
Day 4
- Experimental approaches for the characterization of DNA structure and energetics (S. Quinn, UCD)
- DNA based nanomaterials (S. Quinn, UCD)
- Basics of the photochemistry of Polynucleotides: Experiments (D. Markovitsi, CNRS)
- Basics of the photophysics of Polynucleotides: Calculations (F. Santoro, ICCOM-CNR)
- Team Exercises: Short MD simulations and QM calculations on the photophysics of oligonucleotides
Day 5
- Intervening with DNA in drug discovery (K. Herlihy, AZ)
- Basics of the photochemistry of Polynucleotides: Calculations (R. Improta, IBB-CNR)
- Team Exercises: Short MD simulations and QM calculations on the photochemistry of oligonucleotides