FY2022 Annual Report

 

ProteinFY2022
 
  • Toledo-Patiño S, "Design of protein wires for electron transmission as alternative for sustainable energy", The 10th Iwatani Foundation Research Presentation (online), 7 Mar 2023
  • Laurino P, “Expanding the Substrate Scope of Fluoroacetate Dehalogenase Enzymes via Directed Evolution”, The 10th Iwatani Foundation Research Presentation (online), 7 Mar 2023

Conference Poster Presentations

  1. Kozome D, "InDels in the loop region shapes new protein function in the evolution of GH19 chitinase" Advances in Protein Folding, Evolution, and Design, Bayreuth, Germany, 6 Apr 2022
  2. Toledo-Patiño S, "An evolutionary path to engineer cofactor specificity from NAD to SAM employing InDels", Advances in Protein Folding, Evolution, and Design, Germany, 6-8 Apr 2022
  3. Kozome D, "InDels in the loop region shapes new protein function in the evolution of GH19 chitinase" The 36th Protein Society Annual Symposium, San Francisco, USA, 8 Jul 2022 (Poster Award)
  4. Jain P, “Directed evolution approach to understand complex kinase signaling” the Hybrid EMBO Workshop Chemical biology, Heidelberg, Germany, 5-8 Sep 2022
  5. Bevilacqua A, "Shaping enzyme activity by tuning protocells' composition", FISV2022 congress, Naples, Italy, 15 Sep 2022
  6. Gooch A, “The Sequence Space of Fluoroacetate Dehalogenase Defines Good Starting Points for the Design of Enzymes with Novel Defluorination Activities” Advances in Protein Design: From Therapeutic Proteins to Synthetic Biology”workshop, Kfar Blum, Israel, 23-27 Oct 2022
  7. Magnus L, "Cofactor specificity in FAD-binding Rossmann fold proteins", Advances in Protein Design: From therapeutic Proteins to Synthetic Biology Workshop, Kfar Blum, Israel, 26-27 Oct 2022
  8. Kozome D, "InDels in the loop region shapes new protein function in the evolution of GH19 chitinase", the 11th Molecular Engine Area Meeting 第十一回発動分子科学領域会議, Okinawa, Nov 25, 2022
  9. Pascarelli S, "Meta-functionalization: an ancestry-unrelated swap of residues in the Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor (EGFR) evolution after Teleost genome duplication”, The 46th Annual Meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan, Chiba, Japan, 2 Dec 2022
  10. Fukuhara E, "Analysis of Bacillus subtilis Malate Dehydrogenase and Citrate Synthase Metabolon Formation in Phase Separated Protein Droplets", Workshop on Recent Trends in Microrheology and Microfluidics, OIST, January 10, 2023
  11. Ochiai Y, “Engineering of Enzymatic Activity of DNA/RNA Methyltransferase M.EcoGII by Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction”. The 48th Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function, Lorne, Australia, 5-9 Feb 2023 (Poster Presentation Awards)
  12. Toledo-Patiño S, "InDel puzzles. Insertions and deletions tailoring coenzyme binding", Lorne Proteins in Lorne Australia, 7 Feb 2023
  13. Toledo-Patiño S, "Design of protein wires for electron transmission as alternative for sustainable energy", Iwatani Grant meeting, Tokyo, 7 Mar 2023

5. Intellectual Property Rights and Other Specific Achievements

Nothing to report

6. Meetings and Events

6.1 Seminar

  • Date: June 29, 2022
  • Venue: Zoom
  • Speaker: Dr. Vijay Jayaraman (Weizmann Institute of Science)
  • Title: “Discovery of an anti-metabolon: a paradoxical way of regulating enzymes”

6.2 Seminar 

  • Date: August 17, 2022
  • Venue: OIST campus
  • Speaker: Prof. Stefan Matile (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
  • Title: “Translational Supramolecular Chemistry”

6.3 Seminar 

  • Date: August 22, 2022
  • Venue: OIST campus
  • Speakers: Prof. Liam Longo (Earth-Life Science Institute) 
  • Title: "On the continuity between ancient geochemistry and modern biochemistry"

7. Other

PL participated in the UN science summit promoting the inclusivity project ROZ.

https://ssunga77.sched.com/event/1AbND/roz-fosters-scientific-careers-through-inclusivity-interactivity-and-internationalism?iframe=no