Program
Preliminary
Satellite Event
Monday, June 23rd 2025 full day, and Tuesdat, June 24th 2025 in the morning
Satellite Event of the XVIII International Congress of the Spanish Biophysical Society
Tuesday, June 24th, 2025
14:00-15:00
Registration and collection of documentation at the lobby of the classrooms building (QC) of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences UCM.
15:00
Opening Ceremony, Main Hall Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba.
Greeting and welcome by Federico Morán Abad, Professor, SBE member, and Director of the Foundation for Knowledge Madri+d, Lucía de Juan Ferré, Vice Rector of Research and Transfer of the Complutense University, and Mayte Villalba Díaz, Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences of the UCM.
Introduction by José María Valpuesta, president of the SBE.
15:30
Plenary Lecture (I), Main Hall Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba.
Chair: Álvaro Martínez-del-Pozo, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, Complutense University, Madrid..
Lecturer: Jonathan Heddle, Centre for Programmable Biological Matter, Durham University, UK.
Title: Programmable Biological Matter.
16:30-18:30
Two parallel sessions (5-7 talks of 20 min)
Session 1
(Classroom QC13): Cell and tissue biophysics. Mechanobiology.
Chairs: Elías Herrero Galán, Molecular Mechanics of The Cardiovascular System Laboratory, Assistant Researcher at Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid.
Ion Andreu, Instituto de Biofísica de Leioa, Vizcaya.
Two talks of about 25-30 min:
Daniel García González, Multibiostructures Lab, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Title: Soft magneto-responsive biological substrates: new avenues for mechanobiology exploration.
Michael Krieg, Neurophotonics and Mechanical Systems Biology Group, Instituto de Ciencias Fotónicas (ICFO), Castelldefels, Barcelona.
Title: Dissecting the mechanical heterogeneity of intracellular organelles and their contribution to development and disease.
Four-five talks of about 10-15 min: Remaining speakers will be chosen among the registered attendees
Session 2
(Classroom QC23): Disordered proteins. Liquid-liquid phase separation and aggregation.
Chairs: Nunilo Cremades Casasín, Associate Professor at Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Sciences, NeuroBioSys – Molecular Neurobiology and Systems Biology Group, Universidad de Zaragoza.
Germán Rivas Caballero, Professor, leader of Biochemistry of bacterial division systems group, CIB-Margarita Salas, CSIC, Madrid.
Two talks of about 25-30 min:
Benedetta Bolognesi, Group leader, Protein phase transitions in health and disease, Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Barcelona.
Title: Deep mutagenesis to interpret variant effects and extract mechanistic insights into amyloid transition states.
Javier Oroz, Ramón y Cajal tenure Track Scientist, Protein NMR Group, Blas Cabrera Institute for Physical Chemistry-CSIC, Madrid.
Title: Metamorphic structures priming alternative aggregates in human diseases.
Four-five talks of about 10-15 min: Remaining speakers will be chosen among the registered attendees
18:30-20:30
Welcome cocktail at the garden of the Faculty of Chemistry.
Wednesday June 25th, 2025
9:00-10:00
Continuing Registration and collection of documentation at the lobby of the classrooms building (QC) of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences UCM.
9:00-11:00
Two parallel sessions (5-7 talks of 20 min).
Session 3
(Classroom QC13): Protein structure, integrative structural biology, dynamics and function.
Chairs: Douglas V. Laurents, Senior Scientist, Protein NMR Group, Institute of Physical Chemistry Blas Cabrera, CSIC, Madrid.
Jorge Cuéllar, Tenured Scientist, Department of Macromolecular Structures, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC, Madrid.
Two talks of about 25-30 min:
Sara García-Linares, Associate professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, Complutense University, Madrid.
Title: Design of nanoreactors for microplastic depolymerization based on pore-forming proteins.
Marina Serna, National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), Madrid, Spain.
Title: Microtubule assembly in mitotic spindle formation: Insights from cryo-EM.
Four-five talks of about 10-15 min: Remaining speakers will be chosen among the registered attendees
Session 4
(Classroom QC23): Biophysics of nucleic acids.
Chairs: Carolina Carrasco Pulido, Research Scientist in Department of Macromolecular Structures, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC, Madrid..
María Mañosas, Associate Professor in Condensed Matter Physics at the University of Barcelona (UB).
Two talks of about 25-30 min:
Julene Madariaga-Marcos, Postdoctoral Researcher, Leipzig University, Germany.
Title: Investigating target specificity by CRISPR-Cas9 with ultrafast twist measurements.
Federica Battistini, Associate Professor at Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Barcelona.
Title: hexABC, a DNA conformational study at the hexamer level.
Four-five talks of about 10-15 min: Remaining speakers will be chosen among the registered attendees
11:00-11:30
Coffee break (at the same halls of the first and second floors of the classrooms building where posters will be posted)
11:30-12:30
Plenary Lecture (II), Main Hall Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba.
Chair: Sara García-Linares, Associate professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Chemical Sciences, Complutense University, Madrid.
Lecturer: Beatrix Suess, Synthetic RNA biology, Department of Biology, TU Darmstadt, Denmark.
Title: Synthetic riboswitches.
12:30-13:00
Sponsor presentation, Assembly Hall (TBC)
13:00-14:30
Lunch at the self-service cafeteria of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences.
14:30-16:30
Poster session I (at the halls of the first and second floors of the classrooms building).
16:00-16:30
Coffee break (at the same halls of the first and second floors of the classrooms building where posters will be posted).
16:30-18:30
Two parallel sessions (5-7 talks of 20 min).
Session 5
(Classroom QC13): Applied biophysics for industry, biotechnology, health and green transition.
Chairs: Sara Hernández Mejías, Research Scientist, group leader of the Bio-engineered nanophotonics, IMDEA Nanociencia, Madrid.
Beatriz Ibarra-Molero, Professor, Department of Physico-Chemistry, Universidad de Granada.
Two talks of about 25-30 min:
Starla Glover, Assistant professor, Department of Chemistry – Ångström Laboratory, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
Tino Krell, Research Professor, Estación Experimental del Zaidín (CSIC), Granada.
Title: The combined use of thermal shift assays, structural biology and isothermal titration calorimetry to identify signals that stimulate bacterial receptors.
Four-five talks of about 10-15 min: Remaining speakers will be chosen among the registered attendees
Session 6
(Classroom QC23): Computational biophysics. Simulations, artificial intelligence, machine learning and design.
Chair: Chantal Valeriani, Associate Professor, Department of Structure of Matter, Thermal and Electronic Physics, Faculty of Physical Sciences, Complutense University of Madrid, Madrid.
Jordi García-Ojalvo, Dynamical Systems Biology lab, Systems Bioengineering, Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
Two talks of about 25-30 min:
Beatriz Seoane Bartolomé, Dynamics of disordered systems, Department of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, Complutense University of Madrid.
Mario Castro Ponce, Departamento de Telemática y Computación, Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería (ICAI), Universidad Pontifica de Comillas, Madrid.
Four-five talks of about 10-15 min: Remaining speakers will be chosen among the registered attendees
Thursday June 26th, 2025
9:00-11:00
Two parallel sessions (5-7 talks of 20 min)
Session 7
(Classroom QC13): Synthetic biophysics: self-organized and biomimetic systems.
Chairs: Aitziber López Cortajarena, Professor, Biomolecular Nanotechnology Laboratory, CICbiomaGUNE, Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Gipuzkoa, Donostia/San Sebastián.
Roger Castells-Graells, Junior Group Leader, CNIO, Madrid.
Two talks of about 25-30 min:
Beatriu Escuder, Institute of Advanced Materials, Organic Chemistry, Department of Inorganic and Organic Chemistry, Universitat Jaume I (INAM – UJI).
Title: Self-assembling short peptides as protein mimetics.
Silvia Hernández Aínsa, Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA).
Title: Synthetic Nanostructures via Nucleic-Acid Self-Assembly: From Therapeutics to Biomimetics.
Four-five talks of about 10-15 min: Remaining speakers will be chosen among the registered attendees
Session 8
(Classroom QC23): Membrane and membrane proteins.
Chairs: Teresa Giráldez, Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Institute of Biomedical Technologies, University of La Laguna, Canary Islands.
Carlo Manzo, Associate Professor, Department of Biosciences, FCTE, Universitat de Vic – Universitat Central de Catalunya.
Two talks of about 25-30 min:
Tania López Hernández, Ramón y Cajal Researcher, Department of Physiological Sciences, University of Barcelona
Title: Endocytosis under stress: The yin and yang of NHE7-mediated ion homeostasis in cellular balance.
Alex Peralvarez-Marin, Biophysics Unit, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, Institute of Neuroscience, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
Title: Mapping Bioactive Lipid Binding Sites in Ion Channels through Computational Lipid Fingerprinting.
Four-five talks of about 10-15 min: Remaining speakers will be chosen among the registered attendees
11:00-11:30
Coffee break (at the same halls of the first and second floors of the classrooms building where posters will be posted)
11:30-12:30
Plenary Lecture (III), Main Hall Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba.
Chair: Bárbara Olmeda, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, Complutense University, Madrid.
Lecturer: Aitziber López Cortajarena, Professor, Biomolecular Nanotechnology Laboratory, CICbiomaGUNE, Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Gipuzkoa, Donostia/San Sebastián.
Title: (TBC).
12:30-13:00
Three Short Sponsor presentation (10 min), Ana María Lajusticia Hall.
(TBC)
13:00-14:30
Lunch at the self-service cafeteria of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences.
14:30-16:30
Poster session II (at the halls of the first and second floors of the classrooms building).
16:00-16:30
Coffee break (at the same halls of the first and second floors of the classrooms building where posters will be posted).
16:30-18:30
SBE Awards
“Manuel Rico” – Bruker Prize, “E. Pérez Payá” – sub40 Prize, and Antalgenics – sub33 Prize.
New Honorary Members: Marta Bruix, José Carrascosa and Carlos Gómez-Moreno
Chair: José María Valpuesta.
18:30-20:00
SBE General Assembly.
20:30
Social Dinner at the Cafeteria of the Faculty of Chemical Sciences
Friday June 27th, 2025
9:30-10:30
Plenary Lecture (IV), Main Hall Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba.
Chair: José María Valpuesta, President of the SBE, Professor, Structure and function of molecular chaperones Group, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB), CSIC, Madrid.
Lecturer: Carlos Bustamante, Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology, Professor of Physics, Professor of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, USA.
Title: FACT promotes efficient Pol II transcription by modulating the topographic features of the nucleosomal barrier.
10:30-11:00
Coffee break (at the same halls of the first and second floors of the classrooms building where posters will be posted)
11:00-13:00
Two parallel sessions (5-7 talks of 20 min)
Session 9
(Classroom QC13): Advanced bioimaging.
Chair: Oriol Gallego, Professor, Department of Medicine and Life Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona.
Two talks of about 25-30 min:
Antonio Martínez-Sánchez, Tenure-track Associate Professor, Information and Communications Engineering, Computer Sciences, the University of Murcia.
Title: Cryo-electron tomography for comprehensive visual protemics.
Arrate Muñoz, Professor, Carlos III University (UC3M), Madrid.
Title: From pixels to insights: Deep learning tools for interpretable bioimage analysis.
Four-five talks of about 10-15 min: Remaining speakers will be chosen among the registered attendees
Session 10
(Classroom QC23): Systems biophysics.
Chairs: Javier Buceta, Research Group Leader, Institute for Integrative Systems Biology, I2SysBio CSIC-UV.
Félix Ritort, Professor, Condensed Matter Physics, The Small Biosystems Lab, University of Barcelona.
Two talks of about 25-30 min:
Saul Ares, Staff Scientist, Systems Biology, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología, CSIC, Madrid.
Pilar Guerrero, Departamento de Matemáticas and Grupo Interdisciplinar de Sistemas Complejos (GISC), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.
Four-five talks of about 10-15 min: Remaining speakers will be chosen among the registered attendees
13:00-14:00
Plenary Lecture (V), Main Hall Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba.
Chair: Jesús Pérez-Gil, Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, Complutense University, Madrid.
Lecturer: Alicia Alonso/Felix M. Goñi, Basque Country University. A tribute to their retirement
Title: Biofísica al alimón/Biophysics together.
14:00-14:30
Awards & Concluding remarks
