Subject: 02.02.03 School: Protein Struct Predict, Bologna, IT: Programme

From: Ivan Rossi <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:23:40 +0100 (CET)

We are pleased to announce you the Bologna Winter School 2002 final programme

PREDICTING THE 3D STRUCTURE OF DIFFICULT PROTEINS
Methods for the prediction of membrane protein structure and new fold
recognition of globular proteins

** Sponsored by European Science Foundation (ESF) **

Bologna, ITALY
3-9 February 2002,

School chairs:
Rita Casadio  and  Lanfranco Masotti

Scientific Committee
R. Casadio, D. Jones, B. Rost, A. Tramontano

Details: 
Main topics will be: prediction of membrane proteins, low homology protein
modelling, ab initio structure prediction, new fold recognition. Round table
discussions will focus on "hot" topics of protein structure prediction.

TEACHERS:

Pierre Baldi        (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Rita Casadio        (University  of  Bologna, Bologna, IT)
David T. Jones      (University College, London, UK)
Anders Krogh        (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DK)
Arthur M. Lesk	    (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK)
Marc Marti'-Renom   (Rockefeller University, New York, USA)
Hartmut Michel      (Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main, DE)
Burkhard Rost       (Columbia University, New York, USA)
Manfred Sippl	    (University of Salzburg, Salzburg, AT)
Michael Sternberg   (Imperial College, London, UK)
Mike Taussig	    (The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK)
Anna Tramontano     (University "La Sapienza", Roma, IT)
Alfonso Valencia    (National Centre of  Biotechnology, Cantoblanco, ES)
Michele Vendruscolo (Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences, Oxford, UK)
Gunnar von Heijne   (University of Stockholm, Stockholm, SE)
Gert Vriend         (University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, NL)
Stephen White       (University of California, Irvine, USA)

For Application send a short C.V. to  [email-masked].
You will be notified by  e-mail of acceptance.

     Deadline for application is
     December 30, 2001

URL:
http://www.biocomp.unibo.it/school/html2002/
Contact information: [email-masked].

School Programme

Monday 4
 8:30 - 9:00	Registration
 9:00 - 9:30	Opening remarks
 9:30 - 11:00	Hartmut Michel	
			Crystallization and structures of membrane
			proteins: routes and achievements
11:30 - 13:00	Arthur Lesk
			Protein folding: easy for nature, difficult for us
15:00 - 16:30	Stephen White
      			How membranes shape protein structure
17:00 - 18:30	Gert Vriend
               		What bioinformatics can say about G protein 
			coupled receptors

Tuesday 5
 9:30 - 11:00	Marc Martí-Renom
			How many protein structures can we predict with
			building by homology?                    
11:30 - 13:00 	Anna Tramontano
               		Pitfalls and advances in molecular modelling
15:00 - 16:30	Burkhard Rost
                        Predicting the structure of globular proteins                  
17:00 - 18:30	Alfonso Valencia
        		From the assignment of protein fold to the
			prediction of functional specificity

Wednesday 6
 9:30 - 11:00	Michael Sternberg
			Exploiting the protein structure in the
			post-genome era
11:30 - 13:00	David Jones
			Predicting protein folds for globular and
			membrane proteins
15:00 - 16:30	Manfred Sippl
			Structure based bioinformatics
17:00 - 18:30	Arthur Lesk
			Ab initio protein structure prediction: 
			the state of the art

Thursday 7 
 9:30 - 11:00	Pierre Baldi
			Machine learning methods for structural
			proteomics
11:30 - 13:00	Michele Vendruscolo
			Protein fold prediction using contact information
15:00 - 18:00	ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION

Friday 8 
 9:30 - 11:00	Gunnar von Heijne
			Membrane proteins: combining experiments
			and prediction for topology mapping
11:30 - 13:00 	Anders Krogh
			Hidden Markov Models and the prediction of
			the topology of membrane proteins                                          
15:00 - 16:30	Stephen White
			Energetics, stability and prediction of
			transmembrane helices
17:00- 18:30	Rita Casadio
			Predicting the structure of beta-barrel membrane
			proteins
18:30 - 19:00	Conclusive remarks

-- 
Dr. Ivan Rossi -  CIRB Biocomputing Unit
e-mail: [email-masked]   Web: http://www.biocomp.unibo.it/ivan