Download this program as iCal / Outlook file.

Day 1 - July, 25th 2007

• 08:55 to 09:00 - Welcome
• 09:00 to 09:45 - Mehmet Sarikaya
  
  Protein/Solid Interfaces: Designed Marriage of Biology and Materials for Technology and Medecine
• 09:45 to 10:15 - Piero Ugliengo
  
  Interaction of glycine with isolated hydroxyl groups at the silica surface: first principles B3LYP periodic simulation
• 10:15 to 10:45 - Luca Ghiringhelli
  
  Conformations vs. Interaction energy: adsorption of flexible (bio)molecules on inorganic substrates
• 10:45 to 11:15 - Coffee Break
• 11:15 to 11:30 - Marta Corno
  
  Ab-initio QM study of hydroxyapatite (001) and (010) surfaces in interaction with water
• 11:30 to 12:00 - Stefano Corni
  
  A computational approach to the interaction between proteins and gold surfaces
• 12:00 to 12:30 - Discussion
• 12:30 to 14:00 - Lunch Break
• 14:00 to 14:30 - Nico van der Vegt
  
  Modelling Biomolecules close to Metal Surfaces
• 14:30 to 15:00 - Tiff Walsh
  
  Modelling affinity of peptides at inorganic surfaces: the role of solvent
• 15:00 to 15:30 - Coffee Break
• 15:30 to 16:00 - John Harding
  
  The absorption of polysaccharide molecules onto calcite surfaces
• 16:00 to 16:30 - Siddharth Patwardhan
  
  Towards a Molecular Level Understanding of Peptide-Mineral Interactions: a Computational and Experimental Study
• 16:30 to 17:00 - Discussion

Day 2 - July, 26th 2007

• 09:00 to 09:45 - John Evans
  
  Guiding theory: Materials genomics and lessons learned from polypeptide “interactions” with natural and artificial inorganic solids.
• 10:15 to 10:45 - Mark Biggs
  
  Prediction of switching in alpha-helical polypeptides at solid surfaces
• 10:45 to 11:15 - Coffee Break
• 11:15 to 11:45 - Karsten Goede
  
  Experiments on specific adhesion and clustering of peptides on semiconductor surfaces
• 11:45 to 12:15 - Paul Mulheran
  
  Mechanisms and dynamics of protein clustering on a solid surface
• 12:15 to 12:45 - Maria Sushko
  
  Meso/MM/QM modelling of biomolecules on self-assembled monolayers
• 12:45 to 13:15 - Discussion
• 13:15 to 15:00 - Lunch Break
• 15:30 to 16:30 - Poster Session
• 19:30 to 22:00 - Dinner

Day 3 - July, 27th 2007

• 09:00 to 09:45 - Candan Tamerler
  
  Post-selection Genetic Engineering of Inorganic-Binding Peptides
• 09:45 to 10:15 - Wolfhard Janke
  
  Microcanonical Analyses of Peptide Aggregation Processes
• 10:15 to 10:45 - Coffee Break
• 10:45 to 11:15 - Dmytro Antypov
  
  Thermodynamics of adsorption in polymer-nanoparticle mixtures
• 11:15 to 11:45 - Michael Bachmann
  
  Specific polymer and peptide adsorption to attractive solid substrates
• 11:45 to 12:15 - Discussion
• 12:15 to 12:30 - Closing word