On the second presentation of the day, Joana Pereira intrigues us with: "What is hidden in the darkness? Seeking new families in natural unknown proteins". #EJIBCE21

After the coffee break we will now listen to Ona Šivickytė talk about her work "Probing new energy descriptors for halogen bonds". #EJIBCE21

Just before lunch, Nuno Oliveira closes out the morning with "A novel US-CpHMD protocol to study the protonation-dependent mechanism of the ATP/ADP carrier". #EJIBCE21

After lunch, Bruno Victor talked to us about "Identification of membrane Pan-Assay INterference CompoundS (PAINS) using an atomistic Molecular Dynamics protocol". #EJIBCE21

In the second talk of the afternoon, Beatriz Büschbell presented to us "DRD2 homo-dimers - a world of possibilities". #EJIBCE21

Just before the afternoon coffee break, Pedro Suzano presented us his work "An US-CpHMD protocol to calculate pH-dependent membrane permeability coefficients of antitumor drugs". #EJIBCE21

Kicking off the last block of talks, Luís Borges-Araújo brings a work close to us all "SARS-CoV-2 variants impact RBD conformational dynamics and ACE2 accessibility" #EJIBCE21

From BioSIM Research Group, Tatiana Vieira presents "Development of Inverted Virtual Screening Approaches for the Identification of Protein Targets Associated to the Biological Activity of Specific Molecules". #EJIBCE21

At the end of the day, Mariana Valério presents "Parainfluenza fusion peptide promotes membrane fusion by assembling into oligomeric pore-like structures". #EJIBCE21

BSIM has been awarded two IP vouchers from the “Ideas Powered 🇪🇺 for business #SMEFund”, a grant scheme designed by the European Union Intellectual Property Office to help EU #SMEs protect their IP rights. We acknowledge this financial support and will use it to uphold our strong commitment to #IPprotection.

Did you know that we have published #Review about Major #Achievements in the #Design of Quadruplex-Interactive #SmallMolecules (written by Eduarda Mendes et al.)? If not, here's a quick way to get to it and read it: 👉mdpi.com/1424-8247/15/3… iMed.ULisboa FFUL BioISI

Welcome all to our annual meeting. This year this scientific party is happening at ITQB NOVA Oeiras Valley . Hope you can join. Meanwhile, we will keep you updated about all presentations.

The first presentation of the day was done by Carlos Shiraishi. He talked about the preliminary results obtained in his PhD project focused on the identification of natural compounds targeting COX-2 protein

The second presentation of the day was done by Gabriel Martins. He presented his work, focused on the study of polyphenols as protein aggregation inhibitors.

The third presentation of the day was done by Israa Aljnadi. She talked about the identification and synthesis of indoloisoquinoline derivatives to stabilize G-quadruplexes.

The four presentation of the day came from Marta Batista. She presented her master thesis work focused on targeting PfAQP to develop new antimalarial therapeutic agents.

The fifth presentation of the day was done by Rita Teixeira. She focused on the impact of SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant on the interaction with human ACE2.

In the second session of the 3D-Bioinfo-PT meeting we had Carla Sousa, Tomas Silva, Pedro Rosado, Rodrigo Barriga and Tatiana Vieira presenting their amazing works.

Starting the afternoon sessions we had Armindo Salvador, presenting the advantages of being a member of the Portuguese Biophysics Society.