National Doctoral Programme in
Informational and Structural Biology
ISB 2010 Winter School at Ruka
The Winter School will take place on December 7 – 10 (week 49) at Rukatunturi, in Hotel Rantasipi Rukahovi. More information about Ruka in English and in Finnish.
Committee
The scientific organization committee for 2010 Winter School is
- Jarmo Käpylä, PhD University Lecturer, University of Turku
- Antti Poso, Professor, University of Eastern Finland, Kuopio Campus
- Olli-Pekka Salin, Åbo Akademi University
- Jesper Øemig, 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
Last updated 2010-12-01 at 18:00
Tuesday, December 7th
- 12.10 Departure from Helsinki-Vantaa airport (AY 399)
- 13.25 Arrival to Kuusamo airport
- 13.45 Bus (ISB) Kuusamo airport - Ruka (40min)
- 15.00 Lunch
- 16.15 Session I, chair Jarmo Käpylä
- 16.15 Mark Johnson, Director of ISB
- 16.30 Jonas Emsley, University of Nottingham, UK: Structural studies of coagulation factors and platelet receptor ectodomains: method and results
- 17.30 Coffee
- 18.00 Session II, chair Jesper Øemig
- 18.00 Bhanupratap Singh Chouhan: Conservation of the human integrin-type β-propeller domain in bacteria
- 18.20 Feras Hatahet: Enzymatic generation of disulfide bonded proteins in the cytoplasm of Escherichia coli
- 18.40 Heli Havukainen: Deconstructing honeybee vitellogenin: novel 40 kDa fragment assigned to its N-terminus
- 20.00 - 22.00 Sauna
Wednesday, December 8th
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
- 15.00 Session III, chair Antti Poso
- 15.00 Åsmund Rinnan, University of Copenhagen, Denmark: Multivariate data analysis - from a pharmaceutical perspective
- 16.00 Geir Isaksen: Structure of short cationic antimicrobial peptides and their interactions with membranes as revealed by MD simulations
- 16.20 Olli Kalliolinna: Regions of N-terminal and helicase domain are mainly responsible for intranuclear binding of canine parvovirus NS1
- 16.40 Coffee and poster session
- 18.10 Session IV, chair Pia Vuorela
- 18.10 Daniela Karlsson: Selective butyrylcholinesterase inhibitors for alternative cholinergic restoration in Alzheimer's disease
- 18.30 Tiia Koho: Production of norovirus virus-like particles
- 18.50 Olli-Pekka Salin: Inhibitory effect of two sets of compounds against intracellular bacterium Chlamydia pneumoniae
- 19.10 ISB 2011 Students' Spring Meeting Info
- 20.00 - 22.00 Sauna
Thursday, December 9th
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 14.00 - 15.00 Lunch
- 15.00 Session V (chair to be announced)
- 15.00 Jarkko Koivunen: Blockage of collagen binding to α2β1 integrin: Structure-activity relationships of protein-protein interaction inhibitors
- 15.20 Tapio Lönnberg: Proteomic analysis of STAT6 interactome in human CD4+ T-cells
- 15.40 Sampo Mäntylahti: Stretching towards intrinsically disordered proteins
- 16.00 Coffee
- 17.00 Poster final (selected 7 posters with a 5 min presentation each)
- 17.50 Session VI, chair Olli-Pekka Salin
- 17.50 Terhi Oja: Biosynthesis of the dioxan moiety of the antibiotic alnumycin
- 18.10 Heidi Repo: Systematic structure-activity study on potential chaperone lead compounds for acid α-glucosidase
- 18:30 Thomas Meyer, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany: Challenges towards a global understanding of pathogen-host cell interactions
- 19.30 Mark Johnson, Director of ISB
- 20.30 - 22.30 Dinner
Friday, December 10th
- 07.00 - 10.00 Breakfast
- 10.00 - 11.00 Individual group or project meetings or free time
- 11.45 Bus to Kuusamo airport (40 min)
- 14.00 Leave for Helsinki (AY400)
- 15.10 Arrival at Helsinki-Vantaa airport