Program

Saturday, June 7th, 2025 (Location: Botanical Garden Fran Kušan, Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, Schrottova 37)

The registration desk will be open on Saturday, June 7th, in the lobby, starting at 08:00

08:45 – 09:00 Opening addresses

1st session (moderator: Tomislav Piteša)

09:00 – 09:30 Antonija Mravak (FCT, Split), Stefan Vajda, Richard A. J. O’Hair and Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký, invited lecture
        Translating insights from gas phase catalysts into solid state materials for sustainable future

09:30 – 10:00 Robert Vianello (RBI, Zagreb), invited lecture
        With a little help from computer-aided drug design: new antitumor agents as tubulin polymerization inhibitors

10:00 – 10:15 Antonio Ljulj (FPB, Zagreb), Lea Malezan, Maria Kolympadi Marković, Dean Marković, Davor Šakić and Valerije Vrček, contributed lecture
       Computational methods for predicting the pKa of terminal alkynes

10:15 – 10:30 Marina Juribašić Kulcsár and Mario Pajić (RBI, Zagreb), contributed lecture
       Experimental work guided by computational results: reactions of boronic acids and amines give structurally-diverse B←N adducts

10:30 – 10:45 Tea Frey and Ivan Kodrin (DC-FS, Zagreb), contributed lecture
       Computational investigation of mechanical properties of organic molecular crystals

Coffee break 10:45 – 11:30

2nd session (moderator: Tana Tandarić)

11:30 – 12:00 Igor Rončević (DC-UM, Manchester), invited lecture
       Conjugated π-systems and how to describe them

12:00 – 12:30 Hanfeng Cai, Zoran Štefanić, Tomica Hrenar, Ayelet Fishman and Aleksandra Maršavelski (DC-FS, Zagreb), invited lecture
       Allosteric regulation and structural dynamics of thermostable L-lactate dehydrogenase: insights from molecular dynamics simulations and experimental analysis

12:30 – 12:45 Vlasta Mohaček Grošev (RBI, Zagreb) and Jože Grdadolnik, contributed lecture
       Hyaluronic acid dipeptide gels studied by Raman spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy and DFT calculations

12:45 – 13:00 Haseena Sheik, Ivor Lončarić and Antonio Prlj (RBI, Zagreb), contributed lecture
       Study of photorelaxation pathways in 7H and 9H tautomers of 2,6-diaminopurine

13:00 – 13:15 Nenad Mijić and Emir Imamagić (Srce), contributed lecture
       Benchmark of linear algebra libraries accelerated on graphical processors

Lunch break 13:15 – 14:45

3rd session (moderator: Antonio Prlj)

14:45 – 15:15 Jaka Sočan (NCI, Ljubljana), invited lecture
       The quest for real density-splay coupling constant

15:15 – 15:45 Mihael Eraković (RBI, Zagreb), invited lecture
       Spin-free SC-NEVPT2 method for the quantum embedding of the open-shell systems

15:45 – 16:15 Martina Manenica (Hikma Ltd.) and Branimir Bertoša, invited lecture
       Activation mechanism of transcription factor MntR from the bacterium Halalkalibacterium halodurans for DNA binding

16:15 – 16:30 Gan Wang, Piotr Nowakowski (RBI, Zagreb), Nima Farahmand Bafi, Benjamin Midtvedt, Falko Schmidt, Agnese Callegari, Ruggero Verre, Mikael Käll, Siegfried Dietrich, Svyatoslav Kondrat and Giovanni Volpe, contributed lecture
       Monte Carlo study of alignment of microscopic disks by critical Casimir forces

16:30 – 16:45 Martina Perić Bakulić (FCT, Split), contributed lecture
       Noble metal nanoclusters: tiny structures, big impact

16:45 – 16:50 Concluding remarks

Poster session with more coffee 17:00 – 21:00