National Doctoral Programme in
Informational and Structural Biology
ISB 2011 Winter School at Ruka
The Winter School will take place on December 12 – 15 (week 50) at Rukatunturi, in Hotel Rantasipi Rukahovi. More information about Ruka in English and in Finnish.
Committee
The scientific organization committee for the 2011 Winter School is
- Sarah Butcher, professor, University of Helsinki
- Juho Kellosalo, University of Helsinki
- Sampo Mäntylahti, University of Helsinki
- Pia Vuorela, professor, Åbo Akademi University
Feedback groups
Feedback sessions have been scheduled for oral and poster presentations by graduate students. The participants have been divided into groups and each group assigned to specific presentations. See the list of feedback groups.Program
Monday, December 12th
- 11:40 Departure from Helsinki-Vantaa airport (AY 399)
- 12:55 Arrival to Kuusamo airport
- 13.15 Bus (ISB) Kuusamo airport - Ruka (40min)
- 15.00 - 16.00 Lunch
- 16.15 Session I, chair Pia Vuorela
- 16.15 Mark Johnson, Director of ISB
- 16.30 Steen Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark and Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico USA: Bottom up assembly of minimal life
- 17.30 Coffee
- 18.00 Session II, chair Adyary Fallarero-Linares
- 18.00 Harikanth Venkannagari: High throughput assay for human mono ADP-ribosyl transferase PARP10
- 18.25 Ilona Rissanen: Novel capsid organization revealed in the newest member of the double β-barrel lineage
- 18.50 Mikko Ylilauri: Structural mechanism of GluN1 partial agonism
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 20.00 - 22.00 Sauna
Tuesday, December 13th
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
- 15.00 Session III, chair Sarah Butcher
- 15.00 Roman Tuma, University of Leeds, UK: RNA condensation during virus assembly: A single molecule approach
- 16.00 Arafath Kaja Najumudeen: FRET-biosensors for the identification of lipid modification- and nanoclustering-targeted cancer drugs
- 16.25 Heidi Luoto: Na(+)-translocating membrane pyrophosphatases are widespread in the microbial world and evolutionarily precede H(+)-translocating pyrophosphatases
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 16.50 Coffee and poster session
- 18.20 Session IV, chair Patrik Jones
- 18.20 Matti Kjellberg: Glycolipid transfer protein expression levels correlate with de novo synthesized glucosylceramide and galactosylceramide levels
- 18.45 Barbara Niederhauser: DNA family shuffling within the chicken avidin protein family
- 19.10 Kati Korhonen: Optimization of protein production systems for studies of oxidative protein folding
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 20.30 - 22.30 Dinner
Wednesday, December 14th
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
- 15.00 Session V, chair Juho Kellosalo
- 15.00 Juuso Lehtivarjo: A combined dynamics model for prediction of protein chemical shifts
- 15.25 Eva Bligt: The structure of the collagen receptor integrin α1I domain in the active conformation
- 15.50 Michal Stepniewski: Cystein residue exposition as tools to assess molecular models of membrane proteins
- 16.15 ISB 2012 Students' Spring Meeting Information
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 16.30 Coffee
- 17.00 Poster final (selected 5 posters with 5 min presentations)
- 17.40 Session VI, chair Sampo Mäntylahti
- 17.40 Soili Hiltunen: Rational mutagenesis to improve the properties of the steroid binding proteins
- 18.05 Juho Kellosalo: Structural studies of membrane-bound pyrophosphatases
- 18.30 Tuomas Näreoja: Multimodal nanoscopy on Cell-ECM - signaling during osteoclast binding
- 18.55 Mark Johnson, Director of ISB
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 20.30 - 22.00 Sauna
Thursday, December 15th
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 10.00 - 11.00 Individual group or project meetings or free time
- 11.30 Bus to Kuusamo airport (40 min)
- 13.45 Leave for Helsinki (AY400)
- 15.00 Arrival at Helsinki-Vantaa airport