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Day 1 - September, 7th 2009

Mostly Methods

• 09:20 to 09:40 - Welcome
• 09:40 to 10:20 - Mark Sansom
  
  Membrane Voltage Sensors and their Toxins: Coarse-Grained Simulation Studies
• 10:20 to 10:50 - Coffee Break
• 10:50 to 11:30 - Sean Sun
  
  Mechanics-based coarse-grained modeling of protein structures
• 11:30 to 12:10 - Florence Tama
  
  Coarse-grained Modeling to characterize structure of biological molecules
• 12:10 to 14:00 - Lunch Break
• 14:00 to 14:40 - John H. Maddocks
  
  Coarse graining DNA
• 14:40 to 15:20 - Jianpeng Ma
  
  Enhanced sampling in generalized ensemble with large gap of sampling parameter: case study in temperature space random walk
• 15:20 to 15:50 - Coffee Break
• 15:50 to 16:30 - Christine Peter
  
  Development of hierarchical simulation models to study structure formation in synthetic and biological materials
• 16:30 to 17:10 - Richard Lavery
  
  Protein mechanics: elastic networks and beyond

Day 2 - September, 8th 2009

Mostly Macromolecules

• 09:00 to 09:40 - Ralf Everaers
  
  DNA on different time and length scales: From DNA nanomechanics to chromosome dynamics
• 09:40 to 10:20 - Matteo Dal Peraro
  
  Coarse-grained electrostatics in multiscale simulations of proteins
• 10:20 to 10:50 - Coffee Break
• 10:50 to 11:30 - Giuseppe Foffi
  
  Stability of Eye-lens Protein Mixtures: a colloidal physicist approach
• 11:30 to 12:10 - Martin Zacharias
  
  Flexible protein-protein docking with a coarse-grained protein model
• 12:10 to 14:00 - Lunch Break
• 14:00 to 14:40 - Rebecca Wade
  
  Towards simulation of protein interactions in the presence of macromolecular crowding
• 14:40 to 15:20 - Ivet Bahar
  
  Network Models for Protein Dynamics and Allostery: Application to GroEL-GroES
• 15:20 to 15:50 - Coffee Break
• 15:50 to 16:30 - Poster Session
• 16:30 to 17:10 - Valentina Tozzini
  
  One-Bead Models for Biopolymers: State of the art, open problems, perspectives

Day 3 - September, 9th 2009

Assembles and multi-scale

• 09:00 to 09:40 - Chantal Prevost
  
  Insights on complex macromolecular assemblies using reduced protein and DNA models and systematic docking methods
• 09:40 to 10:20 - Joanna Trylska
  
  Modeling the activity of bacterial ribosome
• 10:20 to 10:50 - Coffee Break
• 10:50 to 11:30 - Paolo De Los Rios
  
  Coarse grained modeling of IgG antibodies: from internal dynamical effects to ensemble simulations
• 11:30 to 12:10 - Jim Pfaendtner
  
  Simulation Reveals Fundamental Behavior of the Actin Filament and Arp2/3 Branch Junction
• 12:10 to 14:00 - Lunch Break
• 14:00 to 14:40 - Bernard Brooks
  
  To be announced
• 14:40 to 15:20 - Dina Schneidman
  
  Integrative Structure Determination of Protein-Protein Complexes Using Small Angle X-ray Scattering, Electron Microscopy, and Fast Mapping by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
• 15:20 to 15:50 - Coffee Break
• 15:50 to 16:30 - Discussion
• 16:30 to 17:10 - Lars Schäfer
  
  Self-assembly of membrane proteins in model raft lipid membranes

Day 4 - September, 10th 2009

Assemblies and multi-scale continued

• 09:00 to 09:40 - Gregory Voth
  
  Multiscale Simulation of Biomolecular Assemblies
• 09:40 to 10:20 - Jeffery Skolnick
  
  Simulation of Protein Diffusion and Folding in a Protocell
• 10:20 to 10:50 - Coffee Break
• 10:50 to 11:30 - Peter Kasson
  
  Insight into viral entry using coarse-grained and atomistic membrane simulations
• 11:30 to 12:10 - Jhih-Wei Chu
  
  Coarse-Grained modeling of Biomolecular Communications
• 12:10 to 12:20 - Closing word