We hosted Prof. Daniel Huster and Dr. Anja Penk from the University of Leipzig (Germany). We discussed ongoing and future common projects.
The 7th Polish-Korean Conference on Protein Folding. Seoul, South Korea. Poster presentation by Mateusz Marcicz. The poster presentation received an award as the best poster.
Chemistry Towards Biology (CTB10). Bratislava, Slovakia. Oral presentations “Computational and experimental analysis of the interactions between glycosaminoglycans and small molecules” by Martyna Maszota-Zieleniak and “Theoretical chemistry approaches to biologically relevant problems in the molecular systems containing glycosaminoglycans” by Sergey Samsonov.
Martyna Maszota-Zieleniak visited the group of prof. Ricard-Blum at the University of Lyon (France).
Margrethe Gaardløs visited the group of prof. Nikitovic at the University of Creete (Greece).
We hosted Dr. Georg Künze from the University of Leipzig (Germany). Within his visit, Dr. Künze gave a talk “Biomolecular Structure Determination by NMR Spectroscopy with Paramagnetic Metal Ions and Probes” at the Faculty of Chemistry. We also discussed ongoing and future common projects.
Sergey Samsonov visited the group of prof. Ricard-Blum at the University of Lyon (France).
European ROSETTACON on protein structure prediction and design. Warsaw, Poland. Oral presentations “Molecular Dynamics-based descriptors of 3-O-Sulfated Heparan Sulfate as Contributors of Protein Binding Specificity” by Annemarie Danielsson and “Cyclic peptide approach to model protein- glycosaminoglycan interactions” by Margrethe Gaardløs.
Innogly Annual Meeting 2022. Lugano, Switzerland. Invited talks “Repulsive Scaling Replica Exchange Molecular Dynamics in docking Glycosaminoglycans” by Mateusz Marcisz and “Modeling Biologically Relevant Interactions of Glycosaminoglycans” by Sergey Samsonov.
“Modeling protein-glycosaminoglycan interactions in biologically relevant systems” Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology of University of Gdańsk/Medical University of Gdańsk. Sergey Samsonov.
“Molecular docking and simulations of GAG-protein interactions” at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk. Margrethe Gaardløs.
“Modeling molecular interactions of glycosaminoglycans” at the Lab of Theory of Biopolymers, University of Warsaw. Sergey Samsonov.
“Molecular Dynamics-based descriptors of Heparan Sulfate hexasaccharides” at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk. Annemarie Danielsson.
“Computational approaches to study glycosaminoglycan interactions” at the University of Leipzig (Germany). Sergey Samsonov.
Annemarie Danielsson, Margrethe Gaardløs and Sergey Samsonov visited the group of prof. Huster at the University of Leipzig (Germany).
“Computational analysis of ions interactions with proteins and glycosaminoglycas” at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk. Małgorzata Kogut.
We hosted Brianda Lopez Santini from the group of prof. Zacharias at the Technical University of Munich within the DAAD/NAWA German-Polish Exchange Programme.
Online Workshop: “Computational Modeling in Chemistry, Biology and Materials – Making it Mainstream” (https://sites.google.com/cusat.ac.in/workshop/home). Talk “Modeling glycosaminoglycans: advances and challenges” by Sergey Samsonov.
Krzysztof Bojarski defended his PhD Thesis “Computational approaches to study protein- glycosaminoglycan systems” at the Faculty of Chemistry. Congratulations!
The 6th Polish-Korean Conference on Protein Folding. Jastrzębia Góra, Poland. Invited talk by Sergey Samsonov, short lectures by Martyna Maszota-Zieleniak, Mateusz Marcisz, Margrethe Gaardløs and Krzysztof Bojarski, posters by Małgorzata Kogut and Annemarie Danielsson.
Hybrid Symposium “GlycosAminoGlycans: What remains to be solved?”, Heraklion, Greece. Talk: “Challenges and advances in molecular docking of glycosaminoglycans” by Sergey Samsonov.
Online seminar at VCU Medical Chemistry Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA. Talk “Challenges and advances in molecular docking of glycosaminoglycans” by Sergey Samsonov.
Margrethe Gaardløs joined the group as a postdoc.
We participated in the online workshop on Computational Analysis Tools (CAT) provided by Dr. Martin Frank (glycosciences.deö Biognow AB Göteborg, Sweden)
“Modeling molecular interactions of glycosaminoglycans” at the Technical University of Munich (Germany). Sergey Samsonov and Krzysztof Bojarski
Krzysztof Bojarski and Sergey Samsonov visited the group of prof. Zacharias at the Technical University of Munich (Germany) on 12-15.07.2021 and 16.06-15.07.2021, respectively.
Online Joint Warren and Beilstein Symposium on Glycosciences. Talk “Computational insights into modeling protein-glycosaminoglycan interactions” by Sergey Samsonov.
“Even more glycosaminoglycans: ongoing projects” at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk. Sergey Samsonov.
“The Specificity of Interaction of Interleukin-8 with Glycosaminoglycans: Comparison with Acidic Peptides” at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk. Annemarie Danielsson.
“Computational approaches to study protein-glycosaminoglycan systems” at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk. Krzysztof Bojarski.
“Glycosaminoglycans in modeling: does the size matter?” at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk. Mateusz Marcisz.
“Modeling biologically relevant interactions with glycosaminoglycans” at the Faculty of Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk. Sergey Samsonov.
“Evaluation of Replica Exchange with Repulsive Scaling Approach for Docking Glycosaminoglycans” at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk. Martyna Maszota-Zieleniak.
“Computational approaches to study protein-glycosaminoglycan systems” at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk. Krzysztof Bojarski.
We obtained a joint grant from a common program of DAAD (The German Academic Exchange Service) and NAWA (the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange) with the title “Advanced and innovative computational approaches to study protein-glycosaminoglycan systems” together with the group of prof. Zacharias at the Technical University of Munich.
“Computational insights into the role of ions in protein-glycosaminoglycan systems” at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk. Małgorzata Kogut.
The first Pomeranian Student Chemial Symposium 2020. Poster presentation “The effect of GAG chain polarity on its interactions with proteins” (in Polish) by Krzysztof Bojarski.
Annemarie Danielsson joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome!
“Modeling AlgE4 and alginate interactions” at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk. Sergey Samsonov.
“April protein and GAGs” at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk. Mateusz Marcisz.
Małgorzata Kogut joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome!
34th Molecular Modelling Workshop 2020 (Erlangen, Germany). Talk “Challenges in modeling protein-glycosaminoglycan systems” by Krzysztof Bojarski.
We hosted dr. Aleksei Sysa from International Sakharov Environmental Institute (Minsk, Belarus). We also discussed ongoing and future common projects.
We hosted Prof. Sylvie Ricard-Blum from the University of Lyon (France). Within her visit, Prof. Ricard-Blum gave a talk “Extracellular glycosaminoglycan-binding proteins: from structure to interactions” at the Faculty of Chemistry. We also discussed ongoing and future common projects.
“The progress in Sonata Bis project.” at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk. Sergey Samsonov.
“Glycosaminoglycan binding: specific or not?” at the Technical University of Munich (Germany). Sergey Samsonov.
Martyna Maszota-Zieleniak joined the group as a Postdoctoral Researcher. Welcome!
Mateusz Marcisz joined the group as a PhD student. Welcome!
5-th Polish – Korean Conference on Protein Folding (Seoul, Korea). Talk “Modeling insights into glycosaminoglycan biologically relevant functions” by Sergey Samsonov. Talk “(Pro)cathepsins and glycosaminoglycans – the significance of their complexes in biological systems” by Krzysztof Bojarski.
XXth European Carbohydrate Symposium (Leiden, the Netherlands). Talk “Modeling insights into molecular mechanisms underlying the role of glycosaminoglycans in cell signaling processes” by Sergey Samsonov. Poster presentation “Does a microsecond timescale molecular dynamics simulation provide a deeper view on protein-glycosaminoglycan system?” by Krzysztof Bojarski.
Workshop Multiscale Modeling, Lorentz Symposium (Leiden, the Netherlands). Poster presentation “Glycosaminoglycan Coarse-Grained Models” by Sergey Samsonov.
Sakharov Reading 2019: Environmental Problems of XXI century (Minsk, Belarus). Talk “Cathepsins, glycosaminoglycans and biological role of their interactions” by Krzysztof Bojarski; talk “Modeling glycosaminoglycans – key molecules for tissue regeneration” by Sergey Samsonov. Co-organization of the event by Sergey Samsonov.
“Polonez project. Summary” at the Department of Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Gdańsk. Sergey Samsonov.
Modeling protein-glycosaminoglycan interactions” at International Sakharov Environmental Institute (Minsk, Belarus). Sergey Samsonov.
Jan Potthoff from the Free University of Berlin joined our group within the Erasmus Programme.