FOCEM Course: Introduction to Structural Biology and Bioinformatics
11 – 15 November 2013 Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay.
The Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, in collaboration with the Biomedicine Research Institute of Buenos Aires-Max
Planck Society Partner, is organizing a basic Hands on course on Structural Biology and Computational Methods, to take place from 11 to 15 November 2013 at the Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay.
The Course will primarily focus on strengths and limitations of experimental and computational science applied to structural biology, with particular emphasis on practical tutorials for non-experts. Speakers of outstanding reputation, on both theoretical and experimental, structural biology, will provide introductive lectures and Hands-on tutorials.
MAIN TOPICS:
· Structural and Molecular Biology
· X-ray
· NMR
· Molecular Visualization
· Bioinformatics
· Online Tools for Modeling
Program
Monday 11 – Introduction to Structural Biology
13:30 Registration
14:15 Opening by the Organizers (short
description of FOCEM program)
14:30 F. Trajtenberg: Structural Biology: from
macromolecular structure to function.
15:30 Coffee
Break
16:00 F. Trajtenberg: X ray Crystallography: an overview
of the method.
17:30 Get-together party
19:00 Bus departure to Hotel
Tuesday 12 –Structural and Computational Biology
08:30 Bus departure from Hotel to IP
09:00 R. Rasia : Introduction
to NMR spectroscopy.
10:30 Coffee
Break
11:00 J. Vila: Validation, Determination and Refinement
of Protein Structures
12:30 Lunch
14:30 A. Tramontano: Critical assessment of
structural bioinformatics methods
16:00 Coffee
Break
16:30 A. Tramontano: Applications
of Structural Bioinformatics to biomedical problems
17:30 S. Pantano: Accessing to 3D information: A
quick tour to the PDB.
18:15 Bus departure to Hotel
Wednesday 13 –Structural Bioinformatics I
08:30 Bus departure from Hotel to IP
09:00 P. Yankilevich: A Bioinformatics Approach to Personalized Medicine
10:00 E. Caffarena. Force fields and Short intro
to Molecular Dynamics.
11:00 Coffee
Break
11:30 C. Cavasotto: Comparative modelling
12:30 Lunch
15:00 F. Trajtenberg/M. Machado: Molecular
Visualization (Hands-on) DOWNLOAD TUTORIAL
18:30 Bus departure to Hotel
Thursday 14 – From Modeling to Design
08:30 Bus departure from Hotel to IP
09:00 C. Cavasotto: Computer-aided
Drug Discovery and Design
10:30 Coffee
Break
11:00 S. Pantano: Biomolecular
modeling on line
12:30 - 14:30 Lunch
14:30 Hands-on session: Modeling your system of interest
16:00 Coffee
Break
17:30 Bus departure to Hotel
Friday 15 – From biomolecular simulations
to design
08:30 Bus departure from Hotel to IP
09:00 Discussion
on how to address attendee’s specific problems
12:30 Closing Remarks, Certificates, etc.
13:00 – Lunch
