CDSAGENDA V.5 Conference on Structure and Dynamics in Soft Matter and Biomolecules: From Single Molecules to Ensembles

Conference on Structure and Dynamics in Soft Matter and Biomolecules: From Single Molecules to Ensembles

Start Time:

4 June 2007 at 09:15

Ends On:

8 June 2007

Location:

Trieste - Italy

Venue:

MB (Main Lecture Hall)

Organizer(s):

Directors: Hue-Sun Chan, C. Micheletti, M. Thorpe

Description:

From 08.00 - 09.15 on Monday, 4 June 2007
REGISTRATION / ADMINISTRATIVE FORMALITIES
reception area of the Main Building

(subsequently in office no. 231, second floor,
Main Building)

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TOPICS

* Energy landscapes in proteins and soft-condensed matter
* Packing in soft matter systems
* Network glasses
* Intrinsically disordered proteins
* Protein aggregation

List of Invited Speakers:
(updated 30 April 2007)

G. Barkema (Utrecht, Holland)
P. Boolchand (Cincinnati, USA)
G. Chirico (Milan, Italy)
P. Derreumaux (Paris, France)
R. Esposito (Udine, Italy)
C. Fernandez (Rosario, Argentina)
G. Garcia Naumis (UNAM, Mexico)
Y. Goto (Osaka, Japan)
M. Gruebele (U. Illinois, USA)
M. Kilfoil (Montreal, Canada)
M. Kurnikova (Pittsburgh, USA)
A. Maritan (Padova, Italy)
D. Mihailovic (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
N. Mousseau (Montreal, Canada)
R. Nussinov (Tel Aviv, Israel)
R. Pomès (Toronto, Canada)
P. Salmon (Bath, UK)
J. Sanchez-Ruiz (Granada, Spain)
J.-E. Shea (Santa Barbara, USA)
F. Stellacci (MIT, Cambridge, USA)
P. Tompa (Budapest, Hungary)
S. Vishveshwara (Bangalore, India)
J. Wang (Stony Brook, USA)
D. Weaire (Dublin, Ireland)

Material:

MONDAY, 4 JUNE 2007

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

4 June 2007

09:15
09:30

OPENING - Welcome addresss

15'

09:30
10:30

Insights into fundamental states of matter through packing problems in hard spheres, sticky spheres and M&Ms

01h00'

M. KILFOIL
McGill University, Montreal, Canada

10:30
11:15

Rigidity as a tool to understand the role of low frequency modes in glass transition and flexible systems

45'

G. GARCIA NAUMIS
UNAM, Mexico

11:15
11:40

Coffee Break

25'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

11:40
12:25

Ordering in network glasses

45'

abstract

S.P. SALMON
University of Bath, U.K.

12:25
14:00

Lunch Break

01h35'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

14:00
15:00

Native states of proteins and computational modeling of their structure and structure - function relationships

01h00'

M. KURNIKOVA
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

15:00
15:45

Dynamics of protein structure networks

45'

S. VISHVESHWARA
IISC., Bangalore, India

15:45
16:10

Coffee Break

25'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

16:10
16:55

Cooperativity, non-cooperativity and barriers in proteins folding

45'

H.S. CHAN
University of Toronto, Canada

18:00
20:00

INFORMAL RECEPTION

02h00'

Room: Main Building Terrace

TUESDAY, 5 JUNE 2007

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

5 June 2007

09:00
10:00

Computer simulation of structural glasses

01h00'

G. BARKEMA
University of Leiden, The Netherlands

10:00
10:45

From glasses to protein: simulating slow processes

45'

N. MOUSSEAU
University of Montreal, Canada

10:45
11:10

Coffee Break

25'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

11:10
11:55

Protein folding and flexible binding

45'

abstract

J. WANG
SUNY, Stony Brook, U.S.A.

11:55
12:40

The role of structural disorder in protein-protein interactions

45'

P. TOMPA
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary

12:40
14:00

Lunch Break

01h20'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

14:00
15:00

Protein stability

01h00'

J.M. SANCHEZ-RUIZ
Universidad de Granada, Spain

15:00
15:45

Downhill folding: evolution meets physics

45'

M. GRUEBELE
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.

15:45
16:10

Coffee Break

25'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

16:10
16:55

Cell membrane permeation to nanoparticles

45'

abstract

F. STELLACCI
MIT, Cambridge, U.S.A.

16:55
17:40

Round Table on Disordered Proteins and Native-state Proteins

45'

WEDNESDAY, 6 JUNE 2007

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

6 June 2007

09:00
10:00

Structural biology and metallochemistry of neurodegenerative diseases: The case of a-Synuclein

01h00'

abstract

C.O. FERNANDEZ
IBR, Rosario, Argentina

10:00
10:45

Simulations of peptide inhibitors of Amyloid-B aggregation

45'

J.E. SHEA
UCSB, U.S.A.

10:45
11:00

Coffee Break

15'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

11:00
11:45

Simulations of the early steps of protein aggregation

45'

P. DERREUMAUX
IBPC / CNRS, Paris, France

11:45
12:30

Proline and glycine control protein self-organization into elastomeric or amyloid fibrils

45'

R. POMES
University of Toronto, Canada

12:30
14:15

Lunch Break

01h45'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

14:15
15:00

Direct observation of amyloid fibril growth and propagation

45'

Y. GOTO
Osaka University, Japan

15:00
15:45

Mo6S9-xIx recognitive connectors forming molecular electronics networks

45'

abstract

D. MIHAILOVIC
Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

15:45
16:10

Coffee Break

25'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

THURSDAY, 7 JUNE 2007

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

7 June 2007

09:00
09:45

Protein folding and design: from single proteins and their building blocks to nanostructures

45'

abstract

R, NUSSINOV
Tel Aviv University, Israel

09:45
10:30

Conformational flexibility of B2-microglobulin: A compromise between efficiency and aggregation risk

45'

abstract

R. ESPOSITO
Universita' di Udine, Italy

10:30
10:45

Coffee Break

15'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

10:45
11:30

Common large scale movements in enzymatic superfamilies

45'

lecture_notes

C. MICHELETTI
SISSA, Trieste, Italy

11:30
12:15

Round Table on Protein Aggregation

45'

12:15
14:30

Lunch Break

02h15'

Room: Main Building Cafeteria

14:30
17:30

POSTER SESSION

03h00'

Poster Gallery (plus refreshments in reception area)

FRIDAY, 8 JUNE 2007

Room: Main Building Main Lecture Hall

8 June 2007

09:00
09:45

Structure and dynamics in the physics of foams

45'

D.L. WEAIRE
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

09:45
10:30

Network glasses, dangling ends and intermediate phases

45'

P. BOOLCHAND
The University of Cincinnati, U.S.A.

10:30
10:50

Coffee Break

20'

Room: Main Building, Lobby

10:50
11:35

The flexibility window

45'

M. THORPE
Arizona State University, Tempe, U.S.A.

11:35
12:30

POSTER HIGHLIGHTS (4-6 brief oral presentations)

55'

12:30
13:00

Informal discussion - "How scientists around the world can best interact" + CLOSING SESSION

30'