Thursday, 31st July
21st International Conference on Biological Inorganic Chemistry 2025
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Thursday, 31st July
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Speakers
Registration Opens
8:00AM - 7:00PM
Thursday, 31st July
Terrace Theatre Foyer
Plenary Session 7 - Ilme Schlichting
8:30AM - 9:15AM
Thursday, 31st July
Terrace Theatre
Mechanism and dynamics of fatty acid photodecarboxylase
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Ilme Schlichting
OEC 1.0
9:30AM - 11:00AM
Thursday, 31st July
Structural and Chemical Dynamics of Photosystem II During Light-Induced Water-Oxidation Reaction
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Junko Yano
Development of Molecular Catalysts for Photosynthetic Reactions
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Shigeyuki Masaoka
Development of functional models of photosystems and seeing the key intermediates in water oxidation process
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Young Hyun Hong
Bio-inspired Electro- and Photocatalysts for Water Oxidation
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Galia Maayan
Fe=0 Chemistry 1.0
9:30AM - 11:00AM
Thursday, 31st July
Nonheme iron activation of O
2
: Intermediates, substrate oxidation, and rebound selectivity
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David P Goldberg
Spin State and Reactivity of Enzymatic Ferryl Intermediates in Nonheme Iron Enzymes
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Yisong (Alex) Guo
Mechanistic Studies of the Ethylene-Forming Enzyme
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Carsten Krebs
Do you even own a proton? The awkward spectroscopic quirks of globin-(like) ferryls
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Radu Silaghi-Dumitrescu
Structural Control of Function 1.0
9:30AM - 11:00AM
Thursday, 31st July
Sustainable Catalysis Using Visible Light, Air and Water: Understanding Photocatalysis Through Mechanistic Studies
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Rajeev Gupta
Targeting Ligand Design to Facilitate Oxyanion Reduction with Iron
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Alison R Fout
Repurposing Reductase Chemistry using Synthetic Iron Complexes Containing Secondary Sphere Hydrogen Bonds
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Nathaniel Szymczak
Nitrogen (Re)Cycle: Harnessing the secondary coordination influence for nitrogen oxyanion reduction and the formation of N-N bonds.
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John D Gilbertson
Synthetic Models 1.0
9:30AM - 11:00AM
Thursday, 31st July
Exploring the Biological Activity of Systematically Designed Polyimine Metal Complexes
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Sylvia M Draper
Square-planar Nickel Bis(phosphinopyridyl) Complexes for Long-lived Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution
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Hua-Fen Hsu
Model Systems for Investigating Sulfur and Selenium Bioinorganic Chemistry
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Mike Pluth
Spin Interactions in Transition Metal Complexes: Implications for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution
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Junhyeok Seo
Functional Diversity and Mechanism of Periplasmic Nitrate Reductase.
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Partha Basu
Supramolecular Metalloproteins 1.0
9:30AM - 11:00AM
Thursday, 31st July
Title coming soon
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Carlos Salgueiro
Electron transfer and electronic conductance in multi-heme cytochromes
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Jochen Blumberger
Designing energetic pathways in metalloporphyrin binding peptide assemblies.
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H. Christopher Fry
Natural and Synthetic Conductive Proteins: from Rock-Breathing Bacteria to Electrocatalytic Materials
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Allon I. Hochbaum
Student Talks 1.0
9:30AM - 11:00AM
Thursday, 31st July
Morning Coffee Break
11:00AM - 11:30AM
Thursday, 31st July
Seaside Pre-function & Lobby area
Structure of Proteins 1.0
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Thursday, 31st July
Capturing One-Carbon Chemistry, One-Structural Snapshot at a Time
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Cathy Drennan
A Blueprint for Rieske Oxygenase Chemistry
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Jennifer Bridwell-Rabb
Metalloenzyme-Mediated Amino Acid Crosslink in Proteins
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Aimin Liu
Redox Partner and Substrate Mediated Allosteric Control in Cytochromes P450
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Thomas Poulos
Synthesis 1.0
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Thursday, 31st July
Functional models of native and non-native substrates of nitrogenase enzymes
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Jonas C Peters
Enhanced Reactivity in a Dynamic Biomimetic of [Fe]-Hydrogenase: A Synthetic Psychrophile featuring a Flexible ‘Third Coordination Sphere’
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Michael J Rose
The development of metalloflavin complexes
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Yunjung Baek
Small Molecule Models and Reactivity of the Nickel Pincer Nucleotide (NPN) Cofactor
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Louise Berben
Ferritin 1.0
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Thursday, 31st July
Ferritin-based delivery of metallodrugs
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Paola Turano
The nascent iron mineral core of an H-chain ferritin
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Nick E Le Brun
Ferritin: the ferroxidase reaction revisited
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Guy NL Jameson
Inhibiting the mobilization or iron from bacterioferritin kills
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
and
Acinetobacter baumannii
cells
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Mario Rivera
NOx Chemistry 1.0
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Thursday, 31st July
Harnessing redox power: The role of NrfA and NrfH in the dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) pathway
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Eric L Hegg
Unusual Properties of the Nitrous oxide reductase: Mitigation of N
2
O (green house gas)
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Isabel Moura
The Central Role of Nitrate /Nitrite in the N-Cycle
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Jose Moura
Supramolecular Metalloproteins 2.0
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Thursday, 31st July
Investigating Electron Conductivity Regimes within Cytochrome Polymers from First-Principles Modeling
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Sahar Sharifzadeh
Conformational Gating Mechanism in Electron Transfer from Cytochrome
c
to Cytochrome
c
oxidase
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Koichiro Ishimori
A nickel-based organic framework sustains centimeter-scale electron transport in cable bacteria.
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Filip JR Meysman
Metabolic diversity in the world of biological energy conservation
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Kristian Parey
Metals in Medicine 2.0
11:30AM - 1:00PM
Thursday, 31st July
Metallothioneins as biomarkers in Menkes disease patients
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Mercè Capdevila
Dimers of
N
-acylhydrazone-containing copper(II) complexes constitute potent antitumor agents: solution chemistry and mechanistic studies in TNBC cells
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Nicolás A. Rey
Nitroprusside-Loaded Silica Nanoparticles: A safer sodium nitroprusside formulation for acute treatment of hypertension
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Luiz Gonzaga de França Lopes
Antitumoral
vs.
antiparasitic activity of Cu(II) and Zn(II) mixed ligands complexes
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Lucia Otero
Luminescent metal ion complexes for labelling organelles
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Sally Plush
Maneb: The chemistry and neurotoxicity of a manganese-containing pesticide.
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Fabian Mohr
Lunch Break
1:00PM - 2:30PM
Thursday, 31st July
Afternoon Coffee Break
2:30PM - 3:30PM
Thursday, 31st July
Seaside Pre-function & Lobby area
Structure Function 1.0
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Thursday, 31st July
There is more than copper to reducing nitrous oxide
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Oliver Einsle
Delineating hydrocarbon and electron substrate access routes through mutagenesis of the hydroxylase protein of soluble methane monooxygenase
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Rahul Banerjee
Exploring structure-function relationships in alkane monooxygenase (AlkB), the dominant metalloenzyme in the global cycling of liquid alkanes.
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Rachel N Austin
A panoramic view of the protein space of multiheme cytochromes c and of their evolutionary mechanisms
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Ricardo O Louro
Bioorganometallic 1.0
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Thursday, 31st July
Bio-organometallic NO
x
Upcycling Mediated by Multifunctional Metal Catalysts
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Yunho Lee
Organometallic Intermediates in the Wood-Ljungdahl Pathway
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Ritimukta Sarangi
The Organometallic Chemistry of Nickel Enzyme Mimics
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Liviu M Mirica
Mechanistic Study on O
2
Activation by Divalent and Trivalent Organonickel Complexes
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Kiyoung Park
Protein Science 1.0
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Thursday, 31st July
Redox traits and redox-carrier roles in the oxo-acid:ferredoxin oxidoreductase superfamily
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Sean J Elliott
How does haem alter the behaviour of the core clock proteins?
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Andrew Hudson
Uncovering the role of protein structure and dynamics in the regulation of heme biosynthesis
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Breann L Brown
Resonance Raman spectral analysis of cytochrome
c
oxidase with its positive regulator CHCHD2
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Sachiko YANAGISAWA
Metallodrugs 1.0
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Thursday, 31st July
Ferrocene-Estrogen Conjugates as Potential Anti-cancer Drugs for Hormone-Dependent Breast Cancer
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Enrique Meléndez
Synthesis, Characterization, Anticancer and Antibacterial Studies of Ruthenium(II/III) Benzimidazole Complexes
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Daphne T Mapolelo
Highly antitumor-active azolato-bridged dinuclear Pt(II) complexes induce DNA compaction and liquid-liquid phase separation.
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Seiji Komeda
New Studies on Gold-Based Theranostics and Prodrug Activation Strategies
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Nils Metzler-Nolte
Exercise Mimetics in Cancer Therapy: Targeting MMP Expression and Activity
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Hyuck Jin Lee
Supramolecular Metalloproteins 3.0
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Thursday, 31st July
Oxygenase mimicking immobilized metal complex catalysts
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Shiro Hikichi
Electron bifurcation: sorting electrons into high and low energy pools without Maxwell’s Demon
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David N Beratan
Cryo-EM of cytochrome nanowires
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Fengbin Wang
Multiheme Cytochromes as Electron Carriers in Bacterial Redox Networks
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Ekaterina Pletneva
DNA/RNA 1.0
3:30PM - 5:00PM
Thursday, 31st July
Potent photocytotoxicity of ternary thiosemicarbazone complexes of oxovanadium(IV) and copper(II) towards cancer cells
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Musa S. Shongwe
Perturbing the Nucleolus with Platinum Anticancer Compounds
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Victoria DeRose
DNA cleavage and antitumoral activity of zinc(II) and iron(III) complexes with a new phenol-based ligand containing uncoordinated thioether moieties
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Rosely Peralta
Metal Nanoclusters Mediated Non-canonical Fluorescent DNA Structures
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Pratik Shah
Plenary Session 8 - Akif Tezcan
5:15PM - 6:00PM
Thursday, 31st July
Terrace Theatre
Inorganic Chemical Design of Functional Proteins
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F. Akif Tezcan
Conference Dinner
6:30PM - 11:00PM
Thursday, 31st July
Terrace Plaza
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