Conference Program
Program may change. Last modification: 07.07.2026
| 8.07.2026 | WEDNESDAY (DAY 1) | |
| 8:00 | Registration opens | |
| 8:45 | Welcome | |
| 9:00 - 9:50 | Plenary Lecture 1 chaired by Meital Reches Embracing the Void without Collapsing with Heterochiral Peptides Silvia Marchesan |
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| 9:50 - 10:20 | Coffee break | |
| 10:20 - 12:00 |
Oral Session 1 chaired by Silvia Marchesan and Karolina Pulka-Ziach
• 10:20-10:40
Role of Lipopolysaccharides in Antimicrobial Peptide Binding, Anchoring, and Penetration to the Outer Membrane of Gram-Negative Bacteria Izabella Brand
• 10:40-11:00
Designing supramolecular peptide materials through the cross-β motif: de novo design and Protein Data Bank-related approaches Carlo Diaferia
• 11:00-11:20
Programming self-assembly beyond biology: translating amino acid information into stereo-defined abiotic polymers Róża Szweda
• 11:20-11:40
Influence of Transferrin-Containing Multiligand Functionalization on Liposome Interactions with Biological Interfaces Olga Święch
• 11:40-12:00
Peptide-oligourea hybrids – folding propensity and physicochemical characterisation Arkadiusz Grempka |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 | Invited Lecture 1 chaired by Silvia Marchesan and Karolina Pulka-Ziach Supramolecular Dynamic Chemistry for membrane transport and Biomimetic Systems Javier Montenegro |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Invited Lecture 2 chaired by Colin Bonduelle and Izabella Brand Interplay of Aggregation Pathways and Membrane Interactions of Amyloid β Peptides in Alzheimer’s Disease Piotr Pieta |
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| 14:30 - 16:10 |
Oral Session 2 chaired by Colin Bonduelle and Izabella Brand
• 14:30-14:50
Lasing Spectroscopy of Amyloidogenic Peptides for Early Neurodegeneration Diagnostics Piotr Hanczyc
• 14:50-15:10
Molecular simulations as a design tool for amyloid peptide nanomaterials Torsten John
• 15:10-15:30
PROTAC constructs capable of eliminating excess of amyloidogenic human serum amyloid A protein (hSAA) Marcel Pilarski
• 15:30-15:50
Boosting Molecular Recognition of C-Reactive Protein Through Stapled Peptide Engineering Katarzyna Szot-Karpińska
• 15:50-16:10
Membrane Mimics Modulate Interactions of Metal Ions with Peptides Wojciech Bal |
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| 16:10 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 16:30 - 18:00 | Poster Session | |
| 9.07.2026 | THURSDAY (DAY 2) | |
| 9:00 - 9:50 | Plenary Lecture 2 chaired by Darrin Pochan Short Peptides and Amino Acids as Building Blocks for Sustainable Materials and Coatings Meital Reches |
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| 9:50 - 10:20 | Coffee break | |
| 10:20 - 12:00 |
Oral Session 3 chaired by Roza Szweda and Rafaela Bucci
• 10:20-10:40
Hidden in the Fold: Mining Bacteriophage Endolysins for Stapled Antimicrobial Peptides Monika Wojciechowska
• 10:40-11:00
Hierarchical Protein Materials by Design Ulyana Shimanovich
• 11:00-11:20
Role of Ionic Strength and Model Lipid Systems’ Composition on Mode of Action of Antimicrobial Peptides Mateusz Nowak
• 11:20-11:40
L-Proline Assisted Ring-opening Polymerization to design Antimicrobial Polypeptoids Carolina Castaneda Fernandez
• 11:40-12:00
Workflow Innovations in Peptide Synthesis and Purification Sponsor Talk: Giorgio Marini, CEM Corporation, USA (Cemis) |
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| 12:00 - 12:30 | Invited Lecture 3 chaired by Roza Szweda and Rafaela Bucci Self-Synthesizing Peptide-based Materials Gonen Ashkenasy |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Invited Lecture 4 chaired by Sylwia Rodziewicz-Motowidlo and Gali Fichman Rational design of self-assembling peptides with antimicrobial activity Emilia Sikorska |
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| 14:30 - 16:10 |
Oral Session 4 chaired by Sylwia Rodziewicz-Motowidlo and Gali Fichman
• 14:30-14:50
Peptide Hydrogels and Nanogels as innovative tools for diagnostic and therapeutic applications Antonella Accardo
• 14:50-15:10
Differently N-capped hybrid peptide-based hydrogels for tissue engineering applications Mariangela Rosa
• 15:10-15:30
Thermal Stabilization of Gelatin Hydrogels via Self-Assembled Amphiphilic and Charged β-Sheet Peptides Saray Chen
• 15:30-15:50
Development of High-Purity Atelocollagen-Based Biomaterials from Porcine Tendons for Biomedical Applications Kinga Rusinek
• 15:50-16:10
Playing with Non-Coded Amino Acids to develop Bioinspired Molecular Architectures Raffaella Bucci |
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| 16:10 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 19:30 | Gala Dinner | |
| 10.07.2026 | FRIDAY (DAY 3) | |
| 9:00 - 9:50 | Plenary Lecture 3 chaired by Carlos Aleman Biomolecules for Non-biological Things: Peptide ‘Bundlemer’ Design for Model Nanoparticle Creation and Hierarchical Solution Assembly Darrin Pochan |
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| 9:50 - 10:20 | Coffee break | |
| 10:20 - 12:00 |
Oral Session 5 chaired by Antonella Accardo and Katarzyna Slowinska
• 10:20-10:40
ROPISA-driven design of polypeptide-based nanoparticles for advanced therapeutics Maura Jennifer Martinez Morales
• 10:40-11:00
A hemin-protein nanomaterial bridging catalysis and hydrogel formation Rocío López Domene
• 11:00-11:20
pH-Responsive Bioinspired Peptide Nanomaterials Nevin Jaison
• 11:20-11:40
RADA-based peptide scaffolds as modular biomaterials for tissue regeneration and antimicrobial protection Sylwia Rodziewicz-Motowidło
• 11:40-12:00
Different Drug Release Strategies from Co-assemblies of Aromatic Peptides: Without and With a Hydrogel Carrier Merve Gül |
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| 14:00 - 14:30 | Invited Lecture 5 chaired by Antonella Accardo and Katarzyna Slowinska Polypeptides as Biomimetic Polymers: From Protein Inspiration to Functional Materials Colin Bonduelle |
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| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Invited Lecture 6 chaired by Nurit Ashkenasy and Gonen Ashkenasy From Nanoparticles to 2D Sheets: Collagen peptides/Nucleic Acids Biomaterials Driven by Multivalent Electrostatic Assembly Katarzyna Slowinska |
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| 14:30 - 16:10 |
Oral Session 6 chaired by Nurit Ashkenasy and Gonen Ashkenasy
• 14:30-14:50
Photo-Controlled Disassembly of Amyloid-Based Biomaterials Dorota Niedziałek
• 14:50-15:10
Tuning Spin Dependent Electron Transport with Stapled Helical Peptides Aleksandr Kazimir
• 15:10-15:30
Charge Transport in Cyclic Peptide Nanotube Materials: A Multiscale Computational Study Jorge Vega Martín
• 15:30-15:50
Supramolecularly Reinforced Wet-Adhesive Films for Soft Biological Interfaces Gali Fichman
• 15:50-16:10
Functional Peptide Assembly at Cellular Interfaces Tao Jiang |
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| 16:10 - 16:30 | Coffee break | |
| 18.00-20.00 | Polish Vodka Museum Tour & Tasting | |