National Doctoral Programme in
Informational and Structural Biology
ISB 2006 Winter School at Tahkovuori
December 15: Photos available!
The Winter School will take place on December 11 – 14 (week 50) at Tahkovuori (near Kuopio) in Sokos Hotel Tahkovuori.
Committee
The scientific organization committee for 2006 Winter School is
- Jyrki Heino, Prof., University of Turku
- Maija Vihinen-Ranta, Ph.D., Docent, University of Jyväskylä
- Esko Oksanen, University of Helsinki
- Mikko Purmonen, University of Joensuu
Program
Monday, Dec 11th
Note! Travel to Tahkovuori is organized in two groups because there are not enough seats for all of us on one flight.
Group I
- 10.00 Group I departure from Helsinki-Vantaa Airport (flight AY 3503)
- 11.45 Bus (marked
ISB
) Kuopio/Rissala airport - Tahkovuori, Sokos Hotel (45 min) - 14.00 Lunch
Group II
- 13.25 Group II departure from Helsinki-Vantaa Airport (flight AY 505)
- 14.35 Bus (marked
ISB
) Kuopio/Rissala airport - Tahkovuori, Sokos Hotel (45 min) - 16.00 Lunch
Everyone
- 17.05 Session I, chair Riitta Lahesmaa
- 17.05 ISB Director Mark Johnson
- 17.10 Kanury Rao, India (invited speaker): Structural flexibility of germline antibodies
- 18.10 Coffee
- 18.30 Session II, chair to be announced
- 18.30 Jenny Björkqvist: Domain formation by long chain sphingolipids in model membranes
- 19.00 Anna-Maria Brandt: Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of a lipase
- 19.30 Elena Gorbikova : What ATR-FTIR can tell one about intraprotein proton transfer
- 20.30 - 22.00 Sauna
Tuesday, Dec 12th
- 07.00 - 09.30 Breakfast
- 09.00 - 11.00 Individual group or project meetings or free time
- 14.00 Lunch
- 15.00 Session III, chair Jyrki Heino
- 15.00 Uwe Hansen, Germany (invited speaker): Supramolecular organization of the extracellular matrix: Electron microscopy as a tool to study complex matrix suprastructures
- 16.00 Katrin Halling: On the effect of sterols in phospholipid model membranes
- 16.30 Outi Heikkinen: How parvulin-type PPIases catalyse the peptidyl-prolyl cis-trans isomerization? - The role of active site histidines
- 17.00 Coffee
- 17.30 Session IV, chair Maija Vihinen-Ranta
- 17.30 Pasi Kankaanpää: Building new tools for the BioImageXD software to analyze integrin clustering
- 18.00 Tapio Lönnberg: Characterization of transcriptional regulatory proteins involved in T helper cell differentiation using DNA affinity purification
- 18.30 Juha Määttä: Chimeric avidin-AVR4 protein has remarkable stability
- 19.00 Sonja Nybom: Removal of cyanobacterial toxins by probiotic bacteria
- 21.00 Dinner
Wednesday, Dec 13th
- 07.00 - 09.30 Breakfast
- 09.00 - 11.00 Individual group or project meetings or free time
- 14.00 Lunch
- 15.00 Session V, chair Esko Oksanen
- 15.00 George Turner, USA (invited speaker): Coding region determinants of membrane protein over-expression
- 16.00 Santeri Puranen: Towards accurate molecular conformation-dependent atomic charges: implementing and parameterizing an electronegativity-based procedure
- 16.30 Coffee and Poster Session
- 17.30 Session VI, chair Mikko Purmonen
- 17.30 Jani Seitsonen: Structure of human parechovirus 1 determined by cryo-electron microscopy
- 18.00 Annu Söderholm: Development and experimental testing of a virtual screening assay for detection of novel scaffolds for androgen receptor ligands
- 18.30 Pekka Tiikkainen: Discovery of 5-alpha-reductase inhibitors using three different ligand-based methods
- 19.00 ISB Director Mark Johnson
- 20.00 - 22.00 Sauna
Thursday, Dec 14th
- 07.00 - 09.30 Breakfast
- 09.00 - 11.00 Individual group or project meetings or free time
- 12.00 Bus to Kuopio/Rissala airport (45 min)
- 14.40 Leave for Helsinki (AY506)
- 15.30 Arrival at Helsinki-Vantaa airport