APS Satellite Symposium & Workshop "Applied Problems of Theoretical and Computational Biophysics"

from Tuesday, 17 March 2026 (10:00) to Thursday, 19 March 2026 (18:30)
BITP (322)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
17 Mar 2026
18 Mar 2026
19 Mar 2026
AM
10:00 Simulation study of affinity-based cell sorting on switchable microstructured surfaces - Prof. Taras Patsahan (Yukhnovskii Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)   (322)
10:30 Modeling aggregation of proteins on computers - Prof. Andrij Baumketner (Yukhnovskii Institute for Condensed Matter Physicsof the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)   (322)
11:00 Molecular dynamics insights into the stabilization of nucleic acid quadruplexes - Prof. Francesca Mocci (University of Cagliari)   (322)
11:30 --- Coffee break ---
10:00 Physicochemical properties and neurotoxicity of hazardous carbon smoke nanoparticles with heavy metals - Prof. Galyna Dovbeshko (Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)   (322)
10:30 Mechanical properties of circulating tumor cells as markers of metastatic activity - Dr Olena Gnatyuk (Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)   (322)
11:00 Quantum mechanical calculations in prediction of properties of π-conjugateded molecules - Dr Olena Pavlenko (Taras Shevchenko National Uviversity of Kyiv)   (322)
11:30 --- Coffee break ---
PM
13:30 Counterions in DNA-Nanomaterials - Sergiy Perepelytsya (Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics of the NAS of Ukraine)   (322)
13:30 --- Opening APS Satellite Symposium ---
13:42 Molecular Dynamics Insights into the Stabilization of Nucleic Acid Quadruplexes - Prof. Francesca Mocci (University of Cagliari)   (322)
13:54 Drug repurposing: molecular modelling - Prof. Anna Shestopalova (O. Ya. Usikov Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)   (322)
14:06 Computer simulation of cell sorting on dynamic microstructured surfaces - Prof. Taras Patsahan (Yukhnovskii Institute for Condensed Matter Physics)   (322)
14:18 Modeling aggregation of proteins on computers - Prof. Andrij Baumketner (Yukhnovskii Institute for Condensed Matter Physicsof the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)   (322)
14:30 DNA Electromotors - Prof. Aleksei Aksimentiev (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)   (322)
14:42 Soliton mediated long-range electron transport in Donor–Biopolymer–Acceptor systems - Prof. Larissa Brizhik (Boglyubov Institute fr Theoretical Physics)   (322)
14:54 Spectroscopic markers of biological molecules and cells - Prof. Galyna Dovbeshko (Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)   (322)
15:06 Photoluminescent MoS2 quantum dots surrounded by nucleotides - Dr V.A. Karachevtsev (B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the NAS of Ukraine)   (322)
15:18 Quantum programming for the study of complex systems, and possible applications in biophysics - Prof. Khrystyna Gnatenko (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv)   (322)
15:30 On measuring localization and delocalization patterns in molecules - Prof. Eugene Kryachko (Boglyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)   (322)
15:42 --- Conference dinner ---
12:00 How could a molybdenum metal atom get into biomolecules’ structure: mass spectrometry based version - Prof. M.V. Kosevich (B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)   (322)
12:30 Nonlinear mechanism of magnetic field impact on charge transport in macromolecules - Prof. Larissa Brizhik (Boglyubov Institute fr Theoretical Physics)   (322)
13:00 Quantum programming for the study of complex systems, and possible applications in biophysics - Prof. Khrystyna Gnatenko (Ivan Franko National University of Lviv)   (322)
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Bionanomaterials for drug delivery: computational and experimental study of MoS2-based nanocomposites with anticancer drugs - Dr V.A. Pashynska (B. Verkin Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering of the NAS of Ukraine)   (322)
15:00 Adsorption of the low density lipoptoteins on photo-sensitive polymer brushes: computer simulations - Prof. Jaroslav Ilnytskyi (Yukhnovskii Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Lviv, Ukraine; Lviv Polytechnic National University, Lviv, Ukraine)   (322)
15:30 The effect of branching in modeling adsorption of impurities by polymeric adsorbents - Prof. Viktoria Blavatska (Yukhnovskii Institute for Condensed Matter Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)   (322)
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
16:30 DNA Electromotors - Prof. Aleksei Aksimentiev (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)   (322)
17:00 Towards machine learning-based segmentation of zigzag patterns in BSA film micrographs - Dr D.M. Glibitskiy (O. Ya. Usikov Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)   (322)
17:30 Multifunctional nanodispersed X-ray phosphors in a drug delivery system in X-ray photodynamic therapy - Dr Oleksandr Shchehlov (Department of Nanomaterials, Chuiko Institute of Surface Chemistry of NAS of Ukraine)   (322)
18:00 --- Closing the Session ---
12:00 Counterions in DNA-nanomaterials - Prof. Sergiy Perepelytsya (Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics of the NAS of Ukraine)   (322)
12:30 Quantum-chemical modeling of mono- and biligand complexes of silver ions with some DNA nucleotide bases - Dr Yevhen Osokin (Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics)   (322)
13:00 Drug repurposing: molecular modelling - Prof. Anna Shestopalova (O. Ya. Usikov Institute for Radiophysics and Electronics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)   (322)
13:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Targeting TMPRSS2 with carbon nanostructures: an in silico study - Dr Vasyl Hurmach (Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)   (322)
15:00 Protein-ligand docking with machine learning - Taras Voitsitskyi (Institute of Physics of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)   (322)
15:20 Change in orientation of the Ca2+ sensor protein hippocalcin in its membrane-bound state as a mechanism for the development of primary dystonia - Mykyta Bobylyow (Department of Molecular Biophysics, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology; Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Poznan)   (322)
15:35 Collective behavior of the lipid bilayer and the role of PIP₂ in binding the neuronal Ca²⁺ sensor protein hypocalcin - Mykyta Bobylyow (Department of Molecular Biophysics, Bogomoletz Institute of Physiology; Instytut Chemii Bioorganicznej Polskiej Akademii Nauk, Poznan)   (322)
15:50 --- Coffee break ---
16:10 Role of Internal conformation in the coupled deformation of DNA - Polina Kanevska (Bogolyubov Institute for Theoretical Physics of the National Academy of Scieces of Ukraine)   (322)
16:40 Conformational mobility of Trp125 in the EMAP II protein: molecular dynamics study - Oleksandr Shovkoplias (Faculty of Physics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)   (322)
17:00 Protein Interactions with bioactive molecules and oxide nanoparticles: spectroscopic and computational studies - Dr Andrii Lesiuk (Taras Shevchenko National Uviversity of Kyiv)   (322)
17:30 --- Closing ---