DATE: 16-27 March, 1998, Miramare, Trieste, Italy
ORGANIZERS:
Sándor Pongor (ICGEB, Trieste)
Doriano Lamba (CNR,ICGEB, Trieste)
Paolo Carloni (SISSA, Trieste)
Julian Chela-Flores (ICTP, Trieste)
PROGRAMME:
FIRST WEEK
Monday, 16 March 1998
08:30 - 09:30 REGISTRATION
09:30 - 10:00 Opening Session
Chairperson: Sandor Pongor
10:00 - 11:00 E. Morton Bradbury
Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
Opening Lecture
"The Human Genome and Unusual DNA
Structures"
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Adolfo Savoia
Synchrotron, Trieste s.p.a.
"Synchrotron Radiation in Structural Biology"
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Paolo Carloni
14:30 - 15:30 Stanley Opella
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
"Solid State NMR of Membrane Proteins"
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:00 Lucia Banci
Universitá di Firenze
"NMR, Metalloproteins"
18:00 - Small Reception
Tuesday, 17 March 1998
Chairperson: Doriano Lamba
09:00 - 10:00 Vincent Torre
SISSA, Trieste
"Structure and Function of Ionic Channels"
10:00 - 11:00 E. Morton Bradbury
Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico
"Packaging of the Genome; Nucleosome and Chromatin Structures"
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Gilberto Vlaic
Universitá di Trieste
"EXAFS"
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
Chairperson: E. Morton Bradbury
14:30 - 15:30 Gilberto Vlaic
Universitá di Trieste
"EXAFS"
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:00 Lucia Banci
Universitá di Firenze
"NMR, Metalloproteins"
17:00 - 18:00 Adolfo Savoia
Synchrotron, Trieste s.p.a.
"Synchrotron Radiation in Structural Biology"
Wednesday, 18 March 1998
Chairperson: Adolfo Savoia
09:00 - 10:00 Peter Guentert
ETH - Hoenggerberg, Zurich
"Structure Determination of Biomacromolecules by NMR"
10:00 - 11:00 Lucia Banci
Universitá di Firenze
"NMR, Metalloproteins"
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Peter Guentert
ETH - Hoenggerberg, Zurich
"Structure Determination of Biomacromolecules by NMR"
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Peter Guentert
14:30 - 15:30 Stanley Opella
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
"Solid StateNMR of Membrane Proteins"
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:00 Kalpathy R.K. Easwaran
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
"Lipid Microstructures and Structures of Cationic Lipid-DNA Complexes"
Thursday, 19 March 1998
Chairperson: Kalpathy R.K. Easwaran
09:00 - 10:00 Kalpathy R.K. Easwaran
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
"Lipid Microstructures and Structures of Cationic Lipid-DNA Complexes"
10:00 - 11:00 Anna Tramontano
Istituto di Ricerche di Biologia Molecolare, Pomezia
"Protein Modelling"
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Anna Tramontano
Istituto di Ricerche di Biologia Molecolare, Pomezia
"Protein Modelling"
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Gilberto Vlaic
14:30 - 15:30 Stanley Opella
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
"Solid State NMR of Membrane Proteins"
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:00 Gilberto Vlaic
Universitá di Trieste
"EXAFS"
Friday, 20 March 1998
Chairperson: Anna Tramontano
09:30 -10:30 Kalpathy R.K. Easwaran
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
"Lipid Microstructures and Structures of Cationic Lipid-DNA Complexes"
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Istvan Simon
Institute of Enzymology, Budapest
"Protein Folding"
12:00 - 14:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Sandor Pongor
14:30 - 15:30 Istvan Simon
Institute of Enzymology, Budapest
"Protein Folding"
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:00 Anna Tramontano
Istituto di Ricerche di Biologia Molecolare, Pomezia
"Protein Modelling"
SECOND WEEK
Monday, 23 March 1998
Chairperson: G. Folkers
09:00 - 10:00 Robert L. Baldwin
Stanford University, California
"Folding Intermediates and Folding
Pathway
of Apomyoglobiin"
10:00 - 11:00 Paolo Carloni
SISSA, Trieste
"ab Initio Molecular Dynamics of
Biological Systems"
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Gerd Folkers
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich
"Structure Based Design of Antivirals and Gene Therapy Tools"
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Istvan Simon
14:30 - 15:30 Doriano Lamba
CNR-ICGEB, Trieste
"Principles of Biological Macromolecules Crystallisation"
15:30 - 17:00 Round Table Discussion
(Meeting Room - Behind Main Lecture
Hall)
Coffee, Tea and Pastries will be served
Tuesday, 24 March 1998
Chairperson: Stefano Mangani
09:00 - 10:00 Gerd Folkers
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich
"Structure Based Design of Antivirals and Gene Therapy Tools"
10:00 - 11:00 Robert L. Baldwin
Stanford University, California
"Folding Intermediates and Folding Pathway of Apomyoglobiin"
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Gerd Folkers
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule, Zurich
"Structure Based Design of Antivirals and Gene Therapy Tools"
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Robert L. Baldwin
14:30 - 15:30 Stefano Mangani
Universitá di Siena "Enzyme Mechanisms Through
Crystallographic Research"
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:00 Klaus J. Schulten
University of Illinois, Beckman Institute, Urbana
"Structure and Function of a Protein Aggregate - the
Light Harvesting Complexes of Purple Bacteria and
their Organization in the Photosynthetic Apparatus"
Wednesday, 25 March 1998
Chairperson: Klaus J. Schulten
09:00 - 10:00 Klaus J. Schulten
University of Illinois, Beckman Institute, Urbana
"Structure and Function of a Protein Aggregate - the
Light Harvesting Complexes of Purple Bacteria and
their Organization in the Photosynthetic Apparatus"
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30 Sandor Pongor
ICGEB, Trieste
"DNA Bending"
11:30 - 12:30 Paolo Carloni
SISSA, Trieste
"ab Initio Molecular Dynamics of Biological Systems"
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Doriano Lamba
14:30 - 15:30 Robert L. Baldwin
Stanford University, California
"Folding Intermediates and Folding Pathway
of Apomyoglobiin"
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:00 Stefano Mangani
Universitá di Siena "Enzyme Mechanisms Through
Crystallographic Research"
Thursday, 26 March 1998
Chairperson: Paolo Carloni
Announcement of Winning Poster
09:00 - 10:00 Carme Rovira
Max-Planck-Institute, Stuttgart
"Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics within
The Car-Parrinello Approach"
10:00 - 11:00 Carme Rovira
Max-Planck-Institute, Stuttgart
"Modelling of the Myoglobin Active
Site " (1)
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Doriano Lamba
CNR-ICGEB, Trieste
"Principles of Biological Macromolecules
Crystallisation"
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
No Lectures Scheduled
14:30 - 18:00 To Participants concerned
Visit to:
ICGEB
and
Synchrotron Electtra
Friday, 27 March 1998
Chairperson: Sandor Pongor
09:00 - 10:00 Sandor Pongor
ICGEB, Trieste
"DNA Bending"
10:00 - 11:00 Jose-Maria Carazo
University of Madrid
"Image Analysis of Macromolecules"
11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30 Jose-Maria Carazo
University of Madrid
"Image Analysis of Macromolecules"
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
Chairperson: Jose-Maria Carazo
14:30 - 15:30 Carme Rovira
Max-Planck-Institute, Stuttgart
"Modelling of the Myoglobin Active
Site " (2)
15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:00 3 Short "Oral" Poster Contributions
(From Participants, selected by
Organizers)
17:00 Closing Address