National Doctoral Programme in
Informational and Structural Biology
ISB 2009 Winter School at Ylläs
The Winter School will take place on December 7 – 10 (week 50) at Yllästunturi, in Fontana Spahotel Ylläs Saaga. More information about Ylläs.
Sponsors
ISB 2009 Winter School is sponsored by- Bruker Daltonics
- Waters Corporation
- Biotie Corporation
- Finnish Ministry of Education
- Academy of Finland
- Norden / NordForsk
- ScanBalt
Committee
The scientific organization committee for 2009 Winter School is
- Milla-Riina Neffling, Åbo Akademi University
- Olli Pentikäinen, PhD, Professor (acting) University of Jyväskylä
- Mikael Peräkylä, PhD, Senior assistant, University of Kuopio
- Jani Seitsonen, 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 7th
- 11.10 Departure from Helsinki-Vantaa airport (AY 447)
- 12.40 Arrival at Kittilä airport
- 13.15 Bus (ISB) Kittilä airport - Ylläs (40min)
- 15.00 Lunch
- 16.15 Session I, chair Milla-Riina Neffling
- 16.15 Mark Johnson, Director of ISB
- 16.30 Liam McDonnell, University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands: Imaging Mass Spectrometry: molecular histology
- 17.30 Coffee
- 18.00 Session II, chair Henri Xhaard
- 18.00 Vitaly Kochin: Needles in a Haystack. Finding and Characterizing Protein Phosphorylation Sites that Determine Cellular Decisions and Functions
- 18.20 Tiia Koho: Production of norovirus virus-like particles
- 18.40 Pilvi Ylander: Mathematical modelling as a tool in bioaffinity assays in in vitro diagnostics
- 20.00 - 22.00 Sauna
Tuesday, December 8th
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 14.00 Lunch
- 15.00 Session III, chair Olli Pentikäinen
- 15.00 John Kozarich, president of ActivX Biosciences Inc., California, USA: Toward a Functional Interrogation of Kinome and Nucleotide Binding Space
- 16.00 Heikki Käsnänen: Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase Binding Mode Studies of 2H-isoxazol-5-one: Building the Basis for Lead Optimization
- 16.20 Pekka Tiikkainen: Critical comparison of virtual screening methods against the MUV dataset
- 16.40 Coffee and poster session
- 18.10 Session IV, chair Garry Corthals
- 18.10 Justin Benesch, University of Cambridge, UK: Ion-Mobility Mass Spectrometry to Determine the Structure and Dynamics of Protein Assemblies
- 18.50 Taiana Oliviera, University of Tromsø, Norway: Structure and functional studies of Aurora protein kinases
- 19.10 Shishir Jaikishan: Membrane properties of phosphatidyl alcohols: effect of head group size
- 20.00 - 22.00 Sauna
Wednesday, December 9th
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 14.00 Lunch
- 15.00 Session V, chair Mikael Peräkylä
- 15.00 Ulla Pentikäinen, University of Jyväskylä: The regulation mechanism for the auto-inhibition of binding of human filamin A to integrin
- 15.30 Tuomas Venäläinen: Allosteric communication in nuclear receptor heterodimers
- 15.50 Thadee Grocholski: Unraveling the monooxygenase mechanism of SnoaB
- 16.10 Joonas Jämsén: Nucleotide- and Substrate-induced Conformational Transition of the CBS Domain-containing Pyrophosphatase of Moorella thermoacetica
- 16.30 Coffee
- 17.00 Poster final (selected 6 poster with 5 min presentations)
- 17.40 Session VI, chair Jani Seitsonen
- 17.40 Mirko Maksimainen: An atomic resolution crystal structure of beta-galactosidase from Trichoderma reesei and its complex with galactose
- 18.00 Jesper Øemig: Solution structure of DnaE intein from Nostoc punctiforme and design of new split inteins
- 18.20 Mark Johnson, Director of ISB
- 20.00 - 22.00 Dinner
Thursday, December 10th
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 10.00 - 11.00 Individual group or project meetings or free time
- 11.00 - 11.30 Lunch
- 11.45 Bus to Kittilä airport (40 min)
- 13.20 Leave for Helsinki (AY448)
- 14.45 Arrival at Helsinki-Vantaa airport