National Doctoral Programme in
Informational and Structural Biology
ISB 2014 Winter School at Levi
The Winter School will take place on November 24 – 27 at Levi at Spa Hotel Levitunturi. See more information about the Kittilä municipality and the Levi ski resort (location on Google Maps).
Committee
The scientific organization committee for the 2014 Winter School is
- Adyary Fallarero, PhD, University of Helsinki
- Tommi Kajander, PhD, University of Helsinki
- Piia Kokkonen, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus
- Vigneshwari Subramanian, 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, November 24th
- 10.15 Departure from Helsinki-Vantaa airport (AY 557)
- 11.45 Arrival at Kittilä airport
- 12.15 Bus (ISB) Kittilä airport - Levi (15 min)
- 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
- 15.30 Session I, chair Tommi Kajander
- 15.30 Mark Johnson, Director of ISB
- 15.40 Invited speaker Robert Tampé (Institute of Biochemistry, Biocenter, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany): INs and OUTs of Adaptive and Viral Escape - The Antigen Translocation Machinery TAP
- 16.40 Coffee
- 17.00 Session II, chair Subramanian Vigneshwari
- 17.00 Martina Jokel: Strategies of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii to cope with fluctuating light
- 17.25 Nitin Agrawal: Structural studies on a sterol-binding avidin mutant
- 17.50 Alexandre Borrel: PockDrug: a new pocket druggability prediction model ables to overcome pocket estimation uncertainties
- 18.15 Käthe Dahlström: Directed evolution on FucO - structural explanations for changes in substrate scope
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 19.00 - 20.00 Poster session I
- 20.00 - 22.00 Sauna
Tuesday, November 25th
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
- 15.00 Session III, chair Adyary Fallarero
- 15.00 Invited speaker Marko Hyvönen (Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK): Fragment-based ligand discovery for the inhibition of protein-protein interactions
- 16.00 Suvi Manner: Systematic exploration of a collection of natural and synthetic flavonoids for the inhibition of Staphylococcus aureus biofilms: a free repository of meaningful bioactivity data
- 16.25 Kari Kopra: A homogeneous quenching resonance energy transfer assay for H-Ras activation and inactivation monitoring and inhibitor screening
- 16.50 Hariharan Dandapani: A plasmid-based fluorescent sensor system for monitoring iron-sulfur cluster damage in vivo: Evaluation of cold-induced oxidative stress in E. coli
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 17.15 Coffee
- 17:35 Session IV, chair Lari Lehtiö
- 17.35 Pekka Patrikainen: Structural and Functional Characterization of Angucycline Tailoring Enzymes
- 18.00 Kati Korhonen: The mechanism of PDI induced conformational change in substrate proteins
- 18.25 Heidi Luoto: The discovery of functionally diverse membrane pyrophosphatase subfamilies
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 19.00 - 20.00 Poster session II
- 20.00 - 22.00 Sauna
Wednesday, November 26th
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
- 15.00 Session V, chair Piia Kokkonen
- 15.00 Invited speaker John Overington (EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK): ChEMBL and SureChEMBL - Open Resources for Chemoinformatics and Drug Discovery
- 16.00 Vigneshwari Subramanian: Predictive proteochemometric models for kinases derived from 3D protein field-based descriptors
- 16.25 ISB 2015 Students' Spring Meeting Information
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 16.45 Coffee
- 17.15 Poster final (selected 5 posters with 5 min presentations)
- 17.45 Session VI, chair Mikko Metsä-Ketelä
- 17.45 Katja Rosti: Solution structure and characterization of Human Growth-Arrest-Specific-1
- 18.10 Mohammed Rahman: Structure-Function Studies of Xylonate Dehydratase - an Iron Sulphur Cluster Containing Enzyme from Caulobacter crescentus
- 18.35 Mark Johnson, Director of ISB: Closing words and the future of ISB
- Feedback groups convene with speakers
- 20.30 - 22.00 Dinner
Thursday, November 27th
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 10.30 Bus to Kittilä airport (15 min)
- 12.10 Leave for Helsinki (AY557)
- 12.40 - 13.05 Stopover at Ivalo airport
- 14.35 Arrival at Helsinki-Vantaa airport