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Workshop Program

Wednesday 02.05.2007

07:40Pick up at hotels in Jülich (see bus schedule)
08:00-09:00Registration
09:00-09:20Welcome by Prof. Dr. A. Bachem (CEO, FZ Jülich)
09:20-09:30Introductory Remarks (Prof. U.H.E. Hansmann, NIC-CBB)

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

09:30-10:15Harold Scheraga (Cornell University, Ithaca, USA):
Evolution of Protein Simulation
10:15-11:00Robert B. Russell (EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany):
Pushing details into the interactome
11:00-11:30Coffee break
11:30-12:15Koichi Takahashi (tMSI, Berkeley, USA):
The E-Cell Project and Challenges in Computational Systems Biology
12:30-14:00Lunch

Afternoon Session (Chair: Jan H. Meinke)

14:00-14:45Adrian Roitberg (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA):
Mixed Quantum Mechanics/Classical Mechanics methods for the study of enzymatic reactions
14:45-15:30Marek Cieplak (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland):
Stretching to understand proteins
15:30-16:00Coffee break
16:00-16:30Bernd Berg (FSU, Tallahassee, USA):
Residual Entropy of Ice I from Multicanonical Simulations
16:30-17:00Abhinav Verma (FZK, Karlsruhe, Germany):
All-atom protein folding and structure prediction in a transferable universal free-energy force-field.
17:00-17:30Walter Nadler (MTU, Houghton, USA):
Channel Transport & Molecular Motors without Brownian Ratchets
17:30-18:00Inta Liepina (Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis, Riga, Latvia):
Multiple beta-sheet molecular dynamics of two Abl-SH3 domain peptides
18:00Welcome Reception and Poster Session
20:00Open Discussion: Supercomputing and the Physics of Cells
20:00/21:30Bus to hotels in Jülich (see bus schedule)


Thursday 03.05.2007

08:10Pickup at hotels in Jülich (see bus schedule)

Morning Session (Chair: Olav Zimmermann)

09:00-09:45Jeffrey Skolnick (Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA):
Prediction of Protein Structure, Function and Druggability on a Proteomic Scale
09:45-10:30Christodoulos Floudas (Princeton University, Princeton, USA):
Advances In De Novo Protein Design
10:30-11:00Coffee break
11:00-11:30Mai Suan Li (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland):
Mechanism of fibril formation of short peptides
11:30-12:00Velia Minicozzi (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy):
The role of metals in misfolding and aggregation processes X-ray spectroscopy and numerical simulations
12:00-12:30Wolfhard Janke (University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany):
Microcanonical Analyses of Peptide Aggregation Processes
12:30-14:00Lunch

Afternoon Session (Chair: Tatjana Eitrich)

14:00-14:45Rebecca Wade (EML, Heidelberg, Germany):
Bridging from molecular simulation to biochemical networks
14:45-15:30Adam Liwo (University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland):
Mesoscopic dynamics with the UNRES force field – a tool for studying the kinetics and thermodynamics of protein folding
15:30-16:00Coffee break
16:00-16:30Peter Virnau (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz, Germany):
Knots in Proteins, DNA and Polymers: Statistics, Function and Evolution
16:30-17:00Siegfried Hoefinger (MTU, Houghton, USA):
Comparing Semi-Empirical versus Classic Charge Assignments in BioMolecules and their Effect on Electrostatic Potentials
17:00-17:30Klaas Hellingwerf (University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL):
Photosensory proteins as vehicles to bridge computational biophysics and systems biology to initiate the field of synthetic biology
17:30-18:00Léo Degrève (Universidade de São Paulo, Ribeirao Preto, Brazil):
A molecular dynamics study of the basic fibroblast growth factor – fibroblast growth factor receptor complex.
18:15Bus to Castle Obbendorf (Hambach) for dinner
18:30Dinner in Celebration of 20 Years of NIC (sponsored by IBM)
Commemorative speech by Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Lippert, Director of NIC and ZAM
22:00Bus to hotels in Jülich (see bus schedule)

Friday 04.05.2007

8:10Pickup at hotels in Jülich (see bus schedule)

Morning Session (Chair: Sandipan Mohanty)

09:00-09:45Dave Thirumalai (University of Maryland, College Park, USA):
Measuring Energy Landscape Parameters of Biomolecules and their complexes
09:45-10:30Bogdan Lesyng (Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland):
Causality and Correlation Analyses of Molecular Dynamics Simulation Data
10:30-11:00Coffee break
11:00-11:30Nikolay Korolev (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore):
DNA packaging and electrostatic interactions
11:30-12:00Georgios Papadopoulos (University of Thessaly, Larisa, Hellas):
The zinc-finger motif of T.thermophilus ribosomal protein S14 and the functionality of E.coli ribosome
12:00-12:30Giovanni La Penna (National research council, Florence, Italy):
Anisotropic internucleosome interactions and geometrical constraints favour the two-start helical structure of chromatin
12:30-13:30Lunch

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

13:30-14:15Jose Onuchic (UCSD, La Jolla, USA):
Mechanisms of Protein Assembly and Folding: Lessons from Minimalist Models
14:15-15:00Jörg Langowski (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, Heidelberg, Germany):
Chromatin dynamics in silicio
15:00-15:05Concluding Remarks (Prof. Ulrich H. E. Hansmann, NIC-CBB)
afterwardsBus to Cologne
Social Event: guided tour Cologne cathedral and treasure chamber,
visit of a traditional brewhouse
21:30Bus to Jülich (see bus schedule)

Forschungszentrum Jülich
D-52425 Jülich
John von Neumann Institute for Computing (NIC)
Life Science Imprint
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