Scientific Program
November 21 (Thursday)
Session 1
| 09:30 – 09:40 | Opening by Yuji Sugita (RIKEN) |
| 09:40 – 10:10 | John E. Straub (Boston University) Critical evaluation of the use of micelles in structural studies of soluble and membrane proteins |
| 10:10 – 10:40 | Li Suan Mai (Polish Academy of Science) Computer-aided drug design: basic concepts and applications to influenza virus and Alzheimer’s disease |
| << Break >> | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Charles L. Brooks III (University of Michigan) Modeling pH-mediated processes in integral membrane proteins and peptides |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Changbong Hyeon (Korea Institute for Advanced Study) Manifestation of molecular heterogeneity in dynamics of biomolecules |
| << Lunch (Kobe Kachoen) >> |
Session 2: Japanese Young Scientists
| 13:30 – 13:50 | Jaewoon Jung (RIKEN) Development of GENESIS for large scale molecular dynamics simulation |
| 13:50 – 14:10 | Yasuhiro Matsunaga (RIKEN) Sequential data assimilation to single-molecule FRET photon-counting data by using molecular dynamics simulations |
| 14:10 – 14:30 | Yoshitake Sakae (Nagoya University) Refinement of force-field parameters for protein systems |
| 14:30 – 14:50 | Yuko Ito (Yokohama City University) Free energy simulations for the conformational change of the αβ subunits in F1-ATPase after the ATP hydrolysis |
| 14:50 – 15:10 | Kazuhiro Takemura (University of Tokyo) Evaluation of protein-protein complex model using molecular dynamics simulation with the solution theory in the energy representation |
| 15:10 – 15:30 | Tsuyoshi Terakawa (Kyoto University) Transcription factor p53 search and recognition mechanism on naked and chromosomal DNA |
| << Break >> |
Session 3
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Robert Best (National Institutes of Health) Models for the effect of molecular chaperones on protein folding and misfolding |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Giovanni La Penna (Institute for Chemistry of Organo-Metallic Compounds) Metal ions in biological systems: why models are so important |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Jeffery B. Klauda (University of Maryland) Mechanisms for a novel pore-forming lipid and lipid binding to a peripheral membrane protein |
| 17:30 – 17:40 | Closing by Yuko Okamoto (Nagoya University) |