Wednesday
(1 talk)
chairperson: Marek Cieplak
18:15 - 19:00
Arthur M. Lesk, Penn State University, USA
Representations of protein structures
19:00
Dinner at bonfire
Thursday
( 10 talks)
chairperson: Marek Cieplak
9:00 - 9:45
10:00 - 10:35
10:40 - 11:15
George D. Rose, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Defining the random coil state of proteins
Laszlo Forro,
TBA
Paul D. Barker, Chemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
Protein engineering control over heme binding
11:15 - 11:40
11:40 - 12:15
12:20 - 12:55
Coffee break
Flemming Poulsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Transient structures, ensembles of structures and transition states in the
protein folding process of a four helix bundle-ACBP
Agnieszka Bzowska, Warsaw University, Poland
Why some homooligomeric enzymes give evidence of half the sites
reactivity?
13:00 - 15:00
Lunch
chairperson: Harmut Oschkinat
15:00 - 15:35
Klaas Hellingwerf, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Transient functional unfolding of Photoactive Yellow Protein
15:40 - 16:15
Joerg Pieper, Technical University, Berlin, Germany
Light-induced protein dynamics in photosynthetic pigment-protein complexes
16:20 - 16:55
Joerg Langowski, DBM, DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany
DNA and chromatin simulations with polymer chain models
16:55 - 17:10
Coffee break
17:10 - 17:45
Anastasia Politou, University of Ioannina, Greece
Protein domains involved in chromatin remodeling: a structural
characterization
17:50 - 18:25
Sylvia Jeney, IPCM, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Development of photonic force microscopy for single molecule studies
18:30 - 19:05
Anna Niedzwiecka, Insititute of Physics, Warsaw, Poland
Conformational flexibility of RNA 5' cap recognizing
proteins and their affinity to the cap structure
19:05 - 20:00
Dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Poster Session
Friday (10 talks)
chairperson: George Rose
9:00 - 9:45
Jayanth R. Banavar, Penn State University, USA
Geometry and physics of proteins
9:55 - 10:30
Feng Gai, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Fast events in protein folding
10:35 - 11:10
Chris Johnson, University of Cambridge, UK
Barrier limited folding: the 'old' view?
11:10 - 11:35
Coffee break
11:35 - 12:10
Tomasz Religa, University of Cambridge, UK
Structural studies of a denatured state/folding intermediate
12:15 - 12:50
Andrzej Kolinski, Warsaw University, Poland
Protein folding mechanisms and dynamics in a reduced conformational
space
12:50 - 16:30
Lunch and excursion
chairperson: Klaas Helingwerf
16:30 - 17:05
Adam Liwo, Gdansk University, Poland
Optimization of a mesoscopic force field for simulation of
protein folding pathways
17:10 - 17:45
Slawomir Filipek, IIMCB, Warsaw, Poland
Modelling of oligomeric rhodopsin in membranes and its complexes with
other proteins
17:45 - 18:00
18:00 - 18:35
Coffee break
Alexander Angerhofer, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
EPR Investigation of Oxalate Decarboxylase and Model Systems
-In search of the Reaction Mechanism
19:15 - 20:15
Dinner
20:15 - 22:00
Poster Session
Saturday (12 talks)
chairperson: Chris Johnson
9:00 - 9:45
Harmut Oschkinat, FMP Berlin, Germany
Protein structure determination by solid state NMR
9:55 - 10:30
Salim Abdali, Quantum Protein Center, TUD, Lyngby, Denmark
Vibrational optical activity: a tool for studying structure and functionality of
biomolecules
10:35 - 11:10
Annalisa Pastore, MRC London, UK
From protein aggregation to neurodegenerative diseases
11:10 - 11:40
Coffee break
11:40 - 12:15
Michal Dadlez, IBB, PAS, Warsaw, Poland
Alzheimer's disease Abeta peptide oligomers - structural aspects
12:20 - 12:55
Harald Janovjak, BTC, University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
Folding and unfolding of single membrane proteins
13:00 - 14:30
Lunch
chairperson: Per-Anker Lindgard
14:30 - 15:05
Adam Godzik, Burnham Institute, USA
Mutations, networks and and disease - understanding human diseases with
modeling
15:10 - 15:45
Cristian Micheletti, SISSA, Trieste, Italy
Common functional dynamics in proteases
15:50 - 16:25
Andrzej Stasiak, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Structure and function of proteins that mediate DNA homologous
recombination
16:30 - 17:05
Krzysztof Ginalski, Warsaw University, Poland
Template-based protein structure prediction
17:05 - 17:25
Coffee break
TWO PARALLEL SESSIONS:
chairperson: Andrzej Sienkiewicz
(Main lecture place)
17:25 - 18:00
Andrzej Kulik, IPCM, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Molecular recognition using friction AFM
18:05 - 18:40
Malgorzata Lekka, INP, PAS, Krakow, Poland
Force spectroscopy as a tool to study changes in protein structure
18:45 - 19:20
Peter G. Fajer, Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA
Mysteries of force generation in muscles
chairperson: Ryszard Stolarski
(Poster room place)
17:25 - 18:00
Andrej Vilfan, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Mechano-chemical models for motor proteins
18:05 - 18:40
Joanna Trylska, Warsaw University, Poland
Computational studies of the assembly of the small ribosomal subunit
18:45 - 19:20
Piotr Zielenkiewicz, IBB, PAS, Warsaw, Poland
Evolutionarily conserved modules in protein-protein interaction networks
19:45
Conference banquet