Subject: [Ltkhkunta] Minisymposium registration is open: In silico modeling and simulation of proteins and membranes, June 5-6, Oulu, Finland

Everyone is welcome to our next minisymposium! The programme page is soon updated at http://www.oulu.fi/sites/default/files/content/BCO_Minisymposium_Spring_2014....

TissueHome Minisymposium: In silico modeling and simulation of proteins and membranes

June 5-6, 2014, Oulu, Finland

Time

June 5-6, 2014

Place

University of Oulu, Linnanmaa campus. Morning sessions: Lecture hall L10; afternoon sessions in a computer classroom, Dept. of Biochemistry

Credits

1.5 ECTS for the whole programme (see below), 0.3 ECTS for lectures only

Requirements

To obtain the credits for the whole programme, participation in the lectures on both days, afternoon post-lecture sessions and suggested readings are required.

Organizer

Biocenter Oulu Doctoral Programme (BCO-DP)

Registration

Send e-mail before the symposium to Ritva Saastamoinen, indicating if you participate in the lectures only, or also in the afternoon programme with the speakers. Registration deadline: By May 30, 2014.

Enquiries

Dr. André Juffer, Biocomputing coordinator, and BCO-DP coordinator Ritva Saastamoinen, tel. 0294 48 6102. e-mail: firstname.lastname(at)oulu.fi

Event outline

- Pre-assignment: Doctoral students are expected to prepare for the minisymposium by reading the pre-distributed material suggested by the speakers. The material is distributed to registered participants about one week before the course. The students are also encouraged to bring their own laptops for simulations etc.

- Mornings: lectures, 2 sessions on both days (8 hours)

- Afternoons: Discussions for guest speakers, doctoral students and senior investigators; specialty talks; computer demonstrations, simulations and other exercises.

Ø Frank Eisenhaber specialty talk: Usage of the ANNOTATOR tool for reading biomolecular mechanisms in protein sequences

Ø Kimmo Mattila: demonstrations on the following potential themes (depending on the demand): Pouta cloud service, FGI grid enivionmnet, (Array) batch jobs in Taito cluster, IDA storage environment, Chipster data analysis environment for NGS, microchip and sequence data, Discovery Studio graphical protein modeling program; Ad-Hoc demos on request

Ø Hans Kestler: a hands-on Boolean modeling and simulation tutorial, 1.5-2h

PROGRAMME

Day 1 8:30-8:40

Opening words, André Juffer and Ritva Saastamoinen

Lecture session 1 (lecture Hall L10)

8:40-9:20

Utilizing the computing and data resources of CSC in your research. Including small live examples about using cloud and grid computing. Kimmo Mattila CSC - IT Centre for Science, Espoo, Finland

9:20-10:00

When will we understand the human genome? About the role sequence-analysis in gene function discoveries for ATGL, PIG-T, GAA1/GPAA1, etc. Frank Eisenhaber The Bioinformatics Institute (BII), Singapore

10:00-10:30

Coffee break

Lecture session 2 (lecture Hall L10)

10:30-11:10

Effect of hydrophobic molecules on the lateral organization of biological model membranes Luca Monticelli Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, National Center for Scientific Research (IBCP, CNRS), Lyon, France

11:10-11:50

Coarse-grained energetic and evolutionary approaches to predicting protein-protein interaction interfaces and interaction strength Jaap Heringa Centre for Integrative Bioinformatics VU, Vrije University, Amsterdam, Netherlands

11:50-13:00

Lunch break

13:00-16:30

Afternoon programme in a computer classroom, Dept of Biochemistry

Day 2 Lecture session 3 (lecture Hall L10)

8:30-9:10

In silico analysis of small RNAs in nematodes Garry Wong University of Eastern Finland, A.I. Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences, Kuopio, Finland

9:10-9:50

Boolean networks for modeling cellular signaling processes Hans A. Kestler Institute of Neural Information Processing, Ulm University, Germany

9:50-10:20

Coffee break

Lecture session 4 (lecture Hall L10)

10:20-11:00

Protein-protein interactions: providing context for a meaningful interpretation of OMICS data sets Dirk Walther Max Planck Institute for Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam-Golm, Germany

11:00-11:40

Biocomputing approaches: Application to protein sequence and structure analysis Padmanabhan Anbazhagan University of Oulu, Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine

11:40-12:40

Lunch break

12:40-16:00

Afternoon programme in a computer classroom, Dept of Biochemistry

Best regards and have a nice Vappu, First of May! Ritva

*************************************** Ritva Saastamoinen, PhD, Docent Biocenter Oulu Doctoral Programme Coordinator Adjunct associate professor

Biocenter Oulu PL 5000 (Aapistie 5a) FIN-90014 University of Oulu, Finland

Tel: (+358) 0294 48 6102 ritva.saastamoinen(at)oulu.fi http://www.oulu.fi/biocenter/doctoral-programme ***************************************