European Young Investigator Conference at Słubice
Radiation Chemistry – Photochemistry – Free Radicals
EYICS 2003 // SULFRAD // SCT May 7-11, 2003 Collegium Polonicum Słubice

Chairman and Scientific Organization: Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Asmus

Local Organization:
   Ms Ewa Bielewicz-Polakowska
   Ms Urszula Fleischer
   Robert Olędzki
   Tomasz Kondracki

SULFRAD Coordinator: prof. dr. habil Bronisław Marciniak

Program


 Wednesday, May 7

	14:00 – 18:00	Registration
	18:00 – 19:30	Dinner (grill, weather permitting)

	20:00 – 21:00 Session 1 (Feature Lecture)
	Chair: Krzysztof Bobrowski
		Speaker: Christian Schöneich		
			Conformational control of sulfur radical
			formation and reactivity in peptides and proteins: implications for
			protein stability, NO biochemistry, and Alzheimer's disease
 
 Thursday, May 8

	8:45 – 9:15 Formal Opening Session 
		Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Asmus (Chairman EYICS2003)
		Dr. Krzysztof Wojciechowski (Collegium Polonicum, Słubice)
		Prof. dr. habil Bronisław Marciniak (Vice-Rector UAM Poznań)
	
	9:15 – 10:05 Session 2 
	Chair: Reiner Mehnert

	9:15 – 9:40	Susanne Kratzsch		
			Inhibition of Prostaglandin Metabolism by
			Thiyl Radicals under in vitro Conditions

	9:40 – 10:05	Justus von Sonntag		
			Photohydroxylation of benzoquinone
 
	10:05 – 10:30	Coffee break

	10:30 – 11:45 Session 3 
	Chair: Peter Wardman

	10:30 – 10:55	Aleksandra Wójcik		
			Quenching of aromatic ketone triplet 
			states by enkaphelin in solution. 
			Competitive electron transfer reactions of 
			tyrosine and methionine residues

	10:55 – 11:20	Gabriel Kciuk
			Chemical and radiation modification of 
			dipeptides modelling enkephaline fragments

	11:20 – 11:45	Vojtech Kadlcik
			Gamma radiolysis study of one-electron 
			oxidation of b-amyloid peptide 

	11:45 – 11:55	Small break

	11:55 – 12:55 Session 4 
	Chair: Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu

			Poster Presentation I

			Poster Viewing

	13:00 – 14:00	Lunch 

	14:00 – 15:30	free time

	15:30 – 16:10	Poster viewing, with coffee, tea

	16:15 – 17:05 Session 5 
	Chair: Helmut Durchschlag

	16:15 – 16:40	Kalina Ranguelova
			FT-EPR measurements on the of sulphur 
			radical cation stabilization by three electron-bonded systems 

	16:40 – 17:05	Peter Tarabek
			FT-EPR study of characterization of 
			anthraquinone triplets by glycine esters

	17:05 – 17:15	Small break

	17:15 – 18:05 Session 6
	Chair: Christian Schöneich 

	17:15 – 17:40	Chandrima Pal
			Spectroscopic investigations of X-ray
			irradiated DNA: Effect of different 
			electron scavengers on the free radical balance

	17:40 – 18:05	Heike M. Luxenburger
			The influence of dose and electron 
			scavenging additives on free radical and
			product formation in freeze dried DNA

	18:30 – 19:30	Dinner

	20:00 – 21:00 Session 7 (Feature Lecture)
	Chair: Krzysztof Bobrowski
		Speaker: Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu
			Free radical chemistry in the 
			carbohydrate moiety of nucleosides

 Friday, May 9

	8:45 – 10:00 Session 8 
	Chair: Ortwin Brede
 
	8:45 – 9:10	Sławomir Kadłubowski
			Radiation synthesis of polymeric nanogels

	9:10 – 9:35	Geraldine Coullerez
			Mechanistic study of living free radical
			polymerization in aqueous media, an electrochemical approach

	9:35 – 10:00	Ivan Hryntsevich		
			Effects of flavonoids and the respective
			model compounds on radiation-induced free-radical processes 

	10:00 – 10:30	Coffee break

	10:30 – 11:45 Session 9 
	Chair: Chantal Houée-Levin

	10:30 – 10:55	Marie Begusova
			Lyoluminescence in radiation chemistry
			and radiobiology. Principle, possible applications and problems

	10:55 – 11:20	Jóhannes Reynisson
			Substituted benzene radical cations in
			aqueous solution. Water addition versus de-protonation from C(a)
			of an alkyl substituent. A DFT-study

	11:20 – 11:45	Darek Pogocki
			Alzheimer's b-amyloid peptide as a 
			source of free radicals: A computational study 

	12:00 – 13:00	Lunch

	13:15 – 18:15	Afternoon on the German side of the Oder river

	18:30 – 19:30	Dinner

	20:00 – 21:00 Session 10 (Feature Lecture)
	Chair: Krzysztof Bobrowski
		Speaker: Wolfgang Knolle
			Electronbeam and UV-induced polymerisation: 
			basic research and industrial application
 
 Saturday, May 10

	8:45 – 10:00 Session 11 
	Chair: Hans-Gerd Löhmannsröben

	8:45 – 9:10	Michael Kumke		
			Interlanthanide energy transfer in mixed 
			Tb3+/Nd3+-humat complexes

	9:10 – 9:35	Mona Tréguer-Delapierre	
			Intrinsic fluorescence from individual 
			oxidized silver nanoparticles 

	9:35 – 10:00	Ella Ekeroth
			Radiolytic oxidation of UO2 

	10:00 – 10:30	Coffee break

	10:30 – 11:45 Session 12 
	Chair: Bronisław Marciniak

	10:30 – 10:55	Yasser Mohammed
			First excited triplet state of aromatic 
			thiols characterized by pulse radiolysis and 
			laser flash photolysis

	10:55 – 11:20	Aneta Bednarek
			Quenching of 10-metylacridinium cation
			fluorescence by phenylsilanes in solution 

	11:20 – 11:45	Tomasz Pedzinski
			Detection of volatile organic compounds 
			by means of laser-based ion mobility spectrometry

	11:45 – 11:55	Small break

	11:55 – 12:55 Session 13 
	Chair: Chryssostomos Chatgilialoglu

			Poster Presentation II

			Poster Viewing

	13:00 – 14:00	Lunch 

	14:00 – 15:30	Free time

	14:00		SULFRAD Executive Meeting
			Chair: 	B. Marciniak , P. Wardman


	15:30 – 16:10	Poster viewing, with coffee, tea

	16:15 – 17:30 Session 14 
	Chair: Clemens von Sonntag

	16:15 – 16:40	Andre Maroz
			Free electron transfer involving aromatic amines 

	16:40 – 17:05	Roman Flyunt
			Organic hydroperoxides from nucleobases ozonation

	17:05 – 17:30	Christopher Asmus
			Do you know what you are going to drink tonight ? 
			A cocktail of free radicals, enzymes, vital ingredients and
			some history


	18:45		Cocktails 


	19:00		CONFERENCE DINNER

 Sunday, May 11

			End of Conference after breakfast 

Poster Presentations I (Thursday, May 8) (1) Anna Korzeniowska-Sobczuk, J. Mirkowski, G. L. Hug, K. Bobrowski Radical cations, radicals, and final products derived from aromatic carboxylic acids containing thioether groups. Pulse and steady-state (2) Sergej Naumov Molecular structure of radical anions of pyrimidine-type bases in aqueous solution (3) Daniel Theiss Filled temperature sensitive hydrogels obtained by high energy irradiation (4) Immaculada Andreu Ros, A.Samadi, C. Ferreri, S. Dellonte, C. Chatgilialoglu Cis-trans isomerization of oils: Creation of the trans-lipid library (5) Joanna Didik, Lidia Gebicka The role of radicals in peroxynitrite-induced modification of cytochrome c (6) Adam Sikora Scavenging properties of nicotinamide and its metabolites towards hydroxyl and superoxide radicals (7) Pavel Salavei Reactions of O-glycoside bond cleavage in radiolysis of carbohydrates in aqueous solutions Poster Presentations II (Saturday, May 10) (8) Clara Caminal i Comadira, M. L. Navacchia, P. C. Montevecchi, Q. G. Mulazzani, C. Chatgilialoglu Radical-based alkylation of purine bases in nucleosides (9) Joanna Celińska Reductive activation of viologens by selected flavoenzymes (10) Małgorzata Czerwińska Formation of anthralin radicals in redox reactions of anthralin and its anion (11) Jarogniew Bartoszewicz Photochemical studies of benzophenone derivatives possessing thioether moiety (12) Kinga Wieczorek Spectroscopic and photophysical properties of silylene derivatives of 1,4-divinylbenzene in solution (13) Miklos Kovacs Improving laser-based ion mobility spectrometry (14) Robert Brehm, Tomasz Pedzinski, Rainer Schultze, Theo Hengstermann The performance of an ion mobility spectrometer based on laser ionisation