Workshop Program

Monday 19.05.2008

07:40Pick up at hotels in Jülich
08:00-09:00Registration
09:00-09:05Welcome by Prof. Dr. A. Bachem (CEO, FZ Jülich)
09:05-09:15Introductory Remarks (Ulrich H.E. Hansmann, NIC-CBB)

Morning Session (Chair: Ulrich H.E. Hansmann)

09:15-09:45Christoph Pospiech (IBM, Dresden, Germany):
Scalable Systems for Computational Biology
09:45-10:30Volkhard Helms (Saarland University, Saarbruecken, Germany):
Computer Simulations of Protein-Protein Association in Water and at Membranes
10:30-11:00Coffee break
11:00-11:45Ruben Abagyan (The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA):
Induced Fit in Molecular Docking
11:45-12:30John Rice (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA):
High performance computing in multiscale modeling cardiac contraction: Bridging proteins to cells to whole heart
12:30-14:00Lunch

Afternoon Session (Chair: Jan Meinke)

14:00-14:45Henri Orland (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, Gif-sur-Yvette, France):
Dominant Pathways in Protein Folding
14:45-15:05Alexander Schug (University of California San Diego, San Diego, USA):
Mutations as Trapdoors: The Rop-dimer with two Competing Native Conformations
15:05-15:25Nikolay Dokholyan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA):
Simplified approaches to complex biological systems
15:25-15:45Mai Suan Li (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland):
New Force Replica Exchange Method and Mechanical Unfolding of Proteins
15:45-16:15Coffee break
16:15-17:00Wei Yang (Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA):
Advancing Drug and Protein Binding Affinity Predications via Generalized Ensemble Based Methods
17:00-17:20Iris Antes (Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik, Saarbruecken, Germany):
Protein-ligand docking including protein flexibility – an hierarchical approach
17:20-17:40Slawomir Orlowski (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland):
Computer Modeling of Small Ligands Diffusion in Drosophila Melanogaster Hemoglobin
17:40-18:00Bogdan Lesyng (University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics, Warsaw, Poland):
Protein-ligand Docking with a Two-scale Receptor Dynamics and a QM/MM Interaction Potential
18:00Welcome Reception and Poster Session
20:30Bus to hotels in Jülich

Tuesday 20.05.2008

08:10Pickup at hotels in Jülich

Morning Session (Chair: Olav Zimmermann)

09:00-09:45Andrzej Kolinski (University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland):
Multiscale modeling of protein and protein assemblies
09:45-10:05Shura Hayryan (Academis Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan (ROC)):
Some Aspects of RNA Folding Studied by Lattice Simulations
10:05-10:25Kay Hamacher (TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany):
Coarse-Grained Molecular Models for High-Throughput and Multi-Scale Functional Investigations
10:25-11:00Coffee break
11:00-11:45Ron Elber (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA):
Atomically detailed simulations of kinetics in molecular biophysics by milestoning
11:45-12:05Anton Feenstra (Free University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands):
Predicting Protein Interactions from Functional Specificity using Multi-Relief and multi-Harmony
12:05-12:25Sebastian Kmiecik (Selvita, Krakow, Poland):
Designing an automatic pipeline for protein structure prediction
12:25-12:40Group-Photo
12:40-14:00Lunch

Afternoon Session (Chair: Walter Nadler)

14:00-14:45Wilfred F. van Gunsteren (ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland):
Computer simulation of biomolecular systems: where do we stand?
14:45-15:05Karine Voltz (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany):
A coarse-grained model for the nucleosome
15:05-15:25Maciej Dlugosz (University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland):
Interactions of aminoglycosidic antibiotics with the 30S subunit - Brownian dynamics study
15:25-15:45Junalyn Navarra-Madsen (TWU, Denton, USA):
Coloring the Mu transpososome
15:45-16:15Coffee break
16:15-17:00Roland Netz (Technical University Munich, Muenchen, Germany):
Peptide adhesion and friction: Theoretical approaches
17:00-17:20Rainer Boeckmann (Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany):
Kinetics, Statistics, and Energetics of Lipid Membrane Electroporation Studied by Molecular Dynamics Simulations
17:20-17:40Borries Demeler (The University of Texas, Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, USA):
Modeling Conformational and Molecular Weight Heterogeneity with Analytical Ultracentrifugation Experiments (AUC)
17:40-18:00Wolfgang Fischer (National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan):
Short membrane proteins from viruses: channel-pore dualism?
18:15Bus to Castle Obbendorf (Hambach) for dinner
18:30Dinner (sponsored by IBM Germany)
Greetings by Dr. Sebastian Schmidt, Divisional Director of Research Centre Jülich
22:00Bus to hotels in Jülich

Wednesday 21.05.2008

8:10Pickup at hotels in Jülich

Morning Session (Chair: Sandipan Mohanty)

09:00-09:45Michael Feig (Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA):
Simulating biomolecules in cellular environments
09:45-10:05Giovanni La Penna (National research council, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy):
Modelling the free energy of polypeptides in different environments
10:05-10:25Joachim Dzubiella (Technical University Munich, Garching, Germany):
Insights from atomistic computer simulations of halophilic proteins
10:25-11:00Coffee break
11:00-11:45Philippe Derreumaux (CNRS and University of Paris 7, Paris, France):
Simulating the early steps of amyloid fibril formation and disassembly
11:45-12:05Alfonso De Simone (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom):
Probing the Prion Hydration by Molecular Dynamics Simulations: from native via misfolded to amyloid conformations
12:05-12:25Volker Knecht (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam, Germany):
Folding and aggregation of model amyloid peptides in explicit solvent and at an interface
12:25-14:00Lunch

Afternoon Session (Chair: Ulrich H. E. Hansmann)

14:00-14:20Horacio Sanchez (Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany):
High throughput in-silico screening against flexible protein
14:20-14:40Michal Wojciechowski (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland):
Effects of confinement on protein folding
14:40-15:25Dietmar Schomburg (Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany):
Bioinformatics, metabolomics, and systems biology
15:25-15:30Concluding Remarks (Ulrich H. E. Hansmann, NIC-CBB)
afterwardsBus to Cologne
Social Event: Visit of a Traditional Brewhouse (drinks and food on one’s own expense)
21:00Bus to Jülich


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