Conference Program
 
COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS - BIOMOLECULAR NMR

January 18-23, 2004
Crowne Plaza
Ventura, CA

Chair:
Ann E. McDermott

Vice Chair:
Martin Blackledge

SUNDAY
2:00 pm - 9:00 pmArrival and check-in
5:00 pm Reception
6:00 pm Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmEmerging Structure Methods: Experimental and Computational Challenges 1
7:30 pm - 7:40 pmWelcome
7:40 pm - 7:50 pmDiscussion Leader: Carol Beth Post (Purdue University)
7:50 pm - 8:35 pmAngela Gronenborn (NIH Laboratory of Chemical Physics)
"Finding a Needle in a Haystack: Combining Modeling, Docking and NMR"
8:35 pm - 9:20 pmHartmut Oschkinat (FMP)
"Structural genomics, membrane proteins and automation"
9:20 pmDiscussion, followed by Reception
MONDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 am
9:00 am - 12:30 pmChemical Shifts as Structural Tools
9:00 am - 9:15 am Discussion Leader: David Wishart (University of Alberta)
9:15 am - 10:00 amEric Oldfield (UIUC)
"From NMR and Quantum Chemistry to Drug Design and Chemotherapy"
10:00 am Coffee Break / Photo Session
10:45 am - 11:30 amDavid Case (Scripps Research Institute)
"CSA and Relaxation"
11:30 am - 12:15 pmVladimir Sklenar (Masaryk University)
"DFT Calculations of NMR parameters in Nucleic Acids: How close can we get?"
12:15 pm Discussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I: Odd Numbered Posters
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmParamagnetics: Information from a Stronger Spin
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm Discussion Leader: Miriam Gochin (University of the Pacific and UCSF)
7:40 pm - 8:20 pmR. Andrew Byrd (NCI)
"Contemporary and Novel Application of Paramagnets in Structural Studies of Non-Metallo Proteins: Asymmetry, Alignment, RDCs, and Pseudocontact shifts"
8:20 pm - 9:00 pmClaudio Luchinat (University Firenze)
"Integrated packages to use paramagnetism-based constraints for structure determination of metalloproteins"
9:00 pm - 9:20 pmWilliam (Milo) Westler (Univ. Wisconsin)
"Hyperfine Chemical Shifts in Iron-Sulfur Proteins by the Computation of Spin Densities"
9:20 pm Discussion
TUESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmConformational Dynamics
9:00 am - 9:15 amDiscussion Leader: Arthur G. Palmer III (Columbia University)
9:15 am - 10:00 amRafael P. Brueschweiler (Clark University)
"New NMR Spectroscopic and Database Methods for the Analysis of Protein Structure and Dynamics"
10:00 amCoffee Break
10:45 am - 11:30 amRuhong Zhou (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)
"Protein folding and conformational motion with molecular dynamics: comparison to NMR"
11:30 am - 12:15 pmFrancesca Massi (Columbia University)
"Temperature dependence of protein dynamics: studies with NMR spectroscopy and computer simulation"
12:15 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session II: Even Numbered Posters
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmSimulations and Interpretation of Solid State NMR
Discussion Leader: Ann McDermott (Columbia University)
7:30 pm - 8:10 pmBenoit Roux (Cornell Medical School)
"Atomic fluctuations and structure determination of membrane protein by solid state NMR"
8:10 pm - 8:50 pmRobert Vold (College of William and Mary)
"Recent Progress in Solid State Dynamic Lineshape Simulations"
8:50 pm - 9:25 pm Niels Chr. Nielsen (University of Aarhus)
"Application of SIMPSON and SIMMOL for systematic experiment design and data analysis in solid-state NMR spectroscopy"
9:25 pm Discussion
WEDNESDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pmFrontiers in Spectral Processing and Interpretation
9:00 am - 9:15 am Discussion Leader: Martin Blackledge (CEA/CNRS)
9:15 am - 10:00 amMichael Nilges (Institut Pasteur)
"Inferential Structure Determination"
10:00 am Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:30 amTorsten Herrmann (Scripps Research Institute)
"Recent developments in the field of automated NMR data analysis"
11:30 am - 12:15 pmDavid Wishart (University of Alberta)
"Single Spectrum Spectroscopy - Automated Approaches to Rapid Assignment and Structure Determination of Proteins"
12:15 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 6:00 pmFree Time
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmHigh Throughput: The Computational and Experimental Challenges
7:30 pm - 7:45 pmDiscussion Leader: Edward Olejniczak (Abbott Laboratories)
7:45 pm - 8:30 pmJohn Markley (Univ. Wisconsin)
"Approaches to High-Throughput Solution Structure Determinations"
8:30 pm - 9:15 pmGaetano Montelione (Rutgers)
"Automated Protein Structure Analysis with AutoStructure and AutoQF Software"
9:15 pm Discussion
THURSDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm Emerging Structure Methods: Experimental and Computational Challenges 2
Discussion Leader: Jim Prestegard (Univ. Georgia)
9:00 am - 9:40 amJustin Wu (NIH)
"Solution structure of gS-crystallin from residual dipolar couplings"
9:40 am - 10:20 amVitali Tugarinov (University of Toronto)
"Methyl-TROSY and selective labelling: approaches for large proteins"
10:20 amCoffee Break
10:50 am - 11:30 amKevin Plaxco (UCSB)
"Spectroscopy, scattering and simulation; putting constraints on denatured state structure"
11:30 am - 12:10 pmAlexandre Bonvin (Utrech University)
"NMR-based docking for the study of biomolecular complexes"
12:10 pmDiscussion
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 4:00 pmFree Time
4:00 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Viewing and Software Demonstrations (TBA)
6:00 pmDinner
7:00 pmGRC Business Meeting
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmNMR: Remaining Frontiers
7:30 pm - 8:30 pmAd Bax (NIH)
"Limits in Weak Alignment NMR of Proteins and Nucleic Acids"
FRIDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am Departure

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