National Doctoral Programme in
Informational and Structural Biology
ISB 2007 Winter School at Levi
The Winter School will take place on December 10 – 13 (week 50) at Levi in Hotelli Levitunturi.
In the evening of 11.12.2007, the participants of the Winter School had a chance to experience spectacular Northern lights over Levi. Here are the photos of Kean-Jin Lim.
Registration
Registration and abstract submission are now closed.
Committee
The scientific organization committee for 2007 Winter School is
- Kari Airenne, Prof., University of Kuopio
- Pirkko Heikinheimo, Ph.D., University of Helsinki
- Outi Heikkinen, University of Helsinki
- Pekka Hänninen, Prof., University of Turku
- Juha Määttä, University of Tampere
Program
Monday, Dec 10th
- 11.10 Departure from Helsinki-Vantaa Airport (flight AY 447)
- 12.40 Arrival at Kittilä airport
- 13.10 Bus (marked
ISB
) Kittilä airport - Levi (15 min) - 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
- 15.30 Session I, chair Pekka Hänninen
- 15.30 ISB Director Mark Johnson
- 15.35 Jerker Widengren, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (invited speaker): Concepts and some possible applications of fluorescence-based single molecule and fluctuation spectroscopy in biology and medicine
- 16.35 Coffee
- 17.00 Session II, chair Juha Määttä
- 17.00 Jarkko Koivunen: Discovery and synthesis of α2β1 integrin modulators
- 17.20 Sini Junttila: Optimization and comparison of different methods for RNA isolation from the lichen Cladonia rangiferina
- 17.40 Anders Björkbom: Properties and interactions of phosphonate oxygen-modified synthetic sphingomyelins in monolayers and bilayer membranes
- 18.00 Einari Niskanen: Effect of ATP binding and hydrolysis to the function of canine parvovirus NS1
- 20.00 - 22.00 Sauna
Tuesday, Dec 11th
- 07.00 - 09.30 Breakfast
- 09.00 - 11.00 Individual group or project meetings or free time
- 14.00 Lunch
- 15.00 Session III, chair Outi Heikkinen
- 15.00 Anssi Malinen: Na(+)-pyrophosphatase is a novel primary sodium pump
- 15.20 Pauli Kallio: Sequential action of two flavoenzymes PgaE and PgaM in angucycline biosynthesis
- 15.40 Tarmo Nuutinen: Solution structure of amino terminal domain of human DNA polymerase epsilon subunit B reveals its homology to C-domains of AAA+ proteins.
- 16.00 Poster session and coffee
- 17.30 Session IV, chair Kari Airenne
- 17.30 Milla-Riina Neffling: Detection of the covalently bound microcystin toxins from gastropod (Lymnaea stagnalis) tissues
- 17.50 Heikki Käsnänen: SIRC/TCM: a database of traditional chinese medicine - properties and chemical space evaluation
- 18.10 Benny Björkblom: JNK activity regulates MRP induced F-actin bundling and cell migration
- 20.00 - 22.00 Sauna
Wednesday, Dec 12th
- 07.00 - 09.30 Breakfast
- 09.00 - 11.00 Individual group or project meetings or free time
- 14.00 Lunch
- 15.00 Session V, chair Pirkko Heikinheimo
- 15.00 Arne Smalås, University of Tromsø, Norway (invited speaker): The molecular basis of cold adaptation of enzymes
- 16.00 Jack Leo: The collagen-binding fragment of the Yersinia adhesin YadA binds triple-helical collagen-like peptides
- 16.20 Elina Kuokkanen: Subcellular localisation and characterisation of human neutral α-mannosidase; a glycosyl hydrolase family 38 enzyme
- 16.40 Gun West: Characterization of the Arabidopsis thaliana glycosphingolipid transfer protein GLTP1
- 17.00 Coffee
- 17.30 Session VI, chair Vesa Hytönen
- 17.30 Pilvi Ylander: A new method for modeling binding reaction kinetics with increasing number of binding components – the node method
- 17.50 Santeri Puranen: Polarizable electrostatics models for improved modeling of protein – ligand interactions
- 18.10 ISB Director Mark Johnson
- 18.20 Organizers for the ISB 2008 Students' Spring Meeting
- 20.30 Dinner
Thursday, Dec 13th
- 07.00 - 09.30 Breakfast
- 09.30 - 11.00 Individual group or project meetings or free time
- 11.30 Bus to Kittilä airport (15 min)
- 13.15 Leave for Helsinki (AY448)
- 14.40 Arrival at Helsinki-Vantaa airport