Basel Computational Biology Conference 2008

[Basel Computational Biology Conference 2008]

Protein

Program

Conference Schedule:

Thursday, March 13, 2008

		Registration (open from 8:00)
9:15		Conference Opening & Organizer's Welcome Torsten Schwede & Manuel Peitsch (Biozentrum University Basel & Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) Ron Appel (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)
9:30		Opening Keynote Lectures: Arthur Lesk (Penn State University, USA) "Vertical and Horizontal Relationships Among Protein Folding Patterns" Malcolm Weir (Heptares Therapeutics, UK) "Computational Structural Biology in Drug Discovery"
11:00		Coffee Break
11:30		Session I: Protein Function David Jones (University College London, UK) "Combining Structural and Sequence-Based Features for Improved Protein Function Prediction" Andrei Lupas (MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany) "From Bioinformatics to Structure: Insight into the Mechanism of Transmembrane Signal Transduction"
12:30		Lunch Break
14:00		Session II: Experimental approaches to structural biology Michael Nilges (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France) "Bayesian Structure Calculation" Markus Grütter (University of Zürich, Switzerland) “Frontiers in X-ray Crystallography” Andreas Engel (SystemsX.ch & Biozentrum University of Basel, Switzerland) “What Transmission Electron Microscopes Can Visualize Now and in the Future”
15:30		Coffee Break
16:00		Session III: Protein Modeling Andrej Sali (University of California San Francisco) “Integrating Diverse Data for Structure Determination of Macromolecular Assemblies” Francisco Melo (Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile ) "Scoring Functions for Protein Structure Prediction" Torsten Schwede & Manuel Peitsch (Biozentrum University Basel & Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics) “15 Years of Swiss-Model”
17:45		Conference Apero
21:00 - late		Basel@Night

Friday, March 14, 2008

		Registration (open from 8:00)
9:00		Session IV: Molecular Dynamics Markus Meuwly (University of Basel, Switzerland) “Atomistic Simulations in Structural Biology” Simon Bernèche (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics & University of Lausanne, Switzerland) “Modeling and Simulation of Ion Channels” Qiang Cui (University of Wisconsin, USA) “Functional Motions in Biomolecules: Insights from Computational Studies at Multiple Scales” István Kolossváry (D.E. Shaw Research) "Novel algorithms in Desmond enabling practical microsecond-scale molecular dynamics simulations in the Maestro environment"
11:00		Coffee Break
11:30		Session V: RNA structure prediction and dynamics François Major (University of Montréal, Canada) “RNA Tertiary Structure Prediction Using the MC-Fold – MC-Sym Pipeline” Fabrice Jossinet (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France) "PARADISE: A Bioinformatics Framework to Construct RNA 3D Models"
12:35		Lunch Break
14:00		Session VI: Protein Ligand Interactions Richard Friesner (Columbia University, New York, USA) “Small Molecule Docking” Angelo Vedani (Biographics Laboratory 3R & University of Basel, Switzerland) “VirtualToxLab — Predicting the Toxic Potential of Drugs and Environmental Chemicals in Silico” Michael Podvinec (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics & Biozentrum, University of Basel, Switzerland) “Docking for Neglected Diseases as Community Efforts”
15:30		Closing Keynote Lecture: Sir Tom Blundell (School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge, UK) "Structural Bioinformatics and Drug Discovery: Exploring Chemical and Biological Space"
16:30		Conference Closing Remarks
ca. 16:45		End of conference