National Doctoral Programme in
Informational and Structural Biology
ISB 2012 Winter School at Saariselkä
The Winter School will take place on December 10 – 13 at Saariselkä in Hotel Tunturi. See more iformation about the Inari municipality and Saariselkä (location on Google Maps).
Committee
The scientific organization committee for the 2012 Winter School is
- Ilona Rissanen, University of Jyväskylä
- Tiina Salminen, PhD, Academy Lecturer, Åbo Akademi University
- Gloria Wissel, University of Helsinki
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 10th
- 11.25 Departure from Helsinki-Vantaa airport (AY 465)
- 13.05 Arrival to Ivalo airport
- 13.30 Bus (ISB) Ivalo airport - Saariselkä (30 min)
- 14.30 - 15.25 Lunch
- 15.30 Session I, chair Tiina Salminen
- 15.30 Mark Johnson, Director of ISB
- 15.40 Invited speaker: Ilme Schlichting (Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg and Max Planck Advanced Study Group, Center of Free Electron Laser Science, Hamburg, Germany): X-ray free-electron lasers - emerging opportunities for structural biology
- 16.40 Coffee
- 17.00 Session II, chair Lari Lehtiö
- 17.00 Invited speaker: Arwen Pearson (Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds, UK): Dynamic Structural Science: how complementary methods can help us understand biological mechanism
- 18.00 Annamari Paino: Molecular mechanism of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans in host-bacterium crosstalk
- 18.25 Ritika Sethi: New structural units in the actin cross linking protein filamin C
- 18.50 Mohit Narwal: Homogenous screening assay for human tankyrases and their selective inhibition
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 20.0 - 22.00 Sauna
Tuesday, December 11th
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
- 15.00 Session III, chair Ilona Rissanen
- 15.00 Invited speaker: Juha Huiskonen (Division of Structural Biology, University of Oxford, UK): Understanding Enveloped Virus Structure, Entry and Assembly > Using Electron Cryo-Microscopy
- 16.00 Elina Mäntylä: Parvovirus capsid interactions with nuclear pore complex
- 16.25 Maria Salmela: Echovirus 1 -generated cell adhesion complex
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 16.50 Coffee and poster session
- 18.20 Session IV, chair Heidi Kidron
- 18.20 Gloria Wissel: 3D-QSAR modeling to understand structure-activity relationships among the alpha-2 adrenoceptor subtypes
- 18.45 Yeushou Zhang: Large scale study of bioisosteric replacements in the PDB: phosphate groups as an example
- 19.10 Dina Navia-Paldanius: Biochemical and pharmacological characterization of human α/β-hydrolase domain containing 6 (ABHD6) and 12 (ABHD12)
- 19.35 Tommi Nyrönen, presentation of CSC services
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 20.30 - 22.30 Sauna
Wednesday, December 12th
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
- 15.00 Session V, chair Gloria Wissel
- 15.00 Subhash Kumar Tripathi: Towards identification of gene regulatory network resulting in human Th17 differentiation
- 15.25 Anni Vehmas: Validation of ovarian endometriosis biomarkers in mass spectrometry based proteomics
- 15.50 Annika Ciragan: Structural studies of Bacillus subtilis PrsA and MreC; two essential proteins involved in cell wall biosynthesis of Gram-positive bacteria
- 16.15 ISB 2013 Students' Spring Meeting Information
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 16.30 Coffee
- 17.00 Poster final (selected seven (7) posters with 5 min presentations)
- 17.40 Session VI, chair Teemu Haikarainen
- 17.40 Tarmo Nuutinen: Approaches to multifunctional surfaces: enhancing biochemical and optical performance
- 18.05 Bartosz Gabryelczyk: Diamond-like carbon binding peptides - selection and characterization of long peptides
- 18.30 Mark Johnson, Director of ISB
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 20.30 - 22.00 Dinner
Thursday, December 13th
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 10.00 - 12.00 Meeting regarding the future of national doctoral programmes, e.g. ISB
- 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
- 16.15 Bus to Ivalo airport (30 min)
- 18.30 Leave for Helsinki (AY472)
- 20.00 Arrival at Helsinki-Vantaa airport
Online registration
Online registration is closed. The web service is kept online for the use by event organizers.