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From Computational Biophysics to Systems Biology (CBSB2017)
May 18-20, 2017  Cincinnati, Ohio
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Workshop Program

Wednesday, May 17, 2017
afternoonArrival in Cincinnati
Thursday, May 18, 2017
8:00 - 8:45 amRegistration and Check-in
8:45-9:00 amWelcome notes by Anna Gudmundsdottir, Department Head, Department of Chemistry
Morning Session I: Cellular environments and interaction networks (Session Chair: U.H.E. Hansmann)
9:00-10:00 am Ivet Bahar (Keynote Talk)
Dynamics of Dopamine Transport: Molecular-to-Cellular Simulations
10:00 - 10:30 am Xiaochuan Zhao (CBSB2017 Outstanding Young Researcher Award Talk)
Multiscale Modeling of Membrane Proteins in a Heterogeneous Environment
10:30-11:00 amBreak
Morning Session II: Cellular environments and interaction networks (Session Chair: Ivet Bahar)
11:00-11:30 am Angel E. Garcia (Invited Talk)
Molecular Simulations of Cosolvent effects on Protein and RNA Stability
11:30 am -12:00 pm Chen Li CBSB2017 (Outstanding Young Researcher Award Talk)
Reweighting the apo to the holo ensemble
12:00 - 2:00 pmLunch
Afternoon Session I: Computational approaches in molecular and cellular biology (Session Chair: Angel Garcia)
2:00 - 2:30 pm Stephan C. Schürer (Invited Talk)
Novel therapeutic combinations and targeted poly-pharmacology in Glioblastoma
2:30 - 3:00 pm Avi Ma'ayan (Invited Talk)
Global Analysis and Visualization of Thousands of Expression Signatures for Drug and Target Discovery
3:00-3:20 pm Marcus Thomas
Using Bayesian Optimization to Learn Parameters of Molecular Self-Assembly
3:20-4:00 pmBreak
Afternoon Session II: Computational approaches in molecular and cellular biology (Session Chair: Stephan C. Schürer)
4:00-4:30 pm Karissa Sanbonmatsu (Invited Talk)
Towards automated fitting of high resolution cryo-EM data
4:30-5:00 pm Arghya Chakravorty (CBSB2017 Outstanding Young Researcher Award Talk)
Modeling Electrostatic Potential around Proteins: Role of Bound Ions and Implications for Zeta-Potential
5:00-5:20 pm David Minh
Protein-Ligand Binding Free Energy Calculations between T4 Lysozyme at 141 Small Molecules based on Multiple Rigid Receptor Conformations
5:20-5:40 pm Gia Maisuradze
Protein misfolding and neurodegenerative diseases
5:40-6:00 pm Zhe Jia
A simulation study of integrin alpha-2 I domain activation
6:00-7:30 pmPoster Session (Best Poster Awards to: Nathan Bernhardt, Samuel Bowerman, Sarah Leininger, and Daniel Nissley)
7:30 - 9:00 pmConference Dinner
Friday, May 19, 2017
Morning Session I: Protein folding and aggregation (Session Chair: George Stan)
9:00-10:00 am Teresa Head-Gordon (Keynote Talk)
Computational Methods and Models for Intrinsically Disordered Peptides
10:00-10:30 am Adolfo Poma (CBSB2017 Outstanding Young Researcher Award Talk)
GoMARTINI: Studying Conformational transition in proteins with the Martini force-field
10:30-11:00 amBreak
Morning Session II: Protein folding and aggregation (Session Chair: Teresa Head-Gordon)
11:00-11:30 am Edward P. O'Brien (Invited Talk)
Non-equilibrium physics in nascent protein structure and function
11:30-12:00 pm Toshiko Ichiye
Extreme Biophysics: Proteins and the Intracellular Environment
12:00 - 2:00 pmLunch
Afternoon Session I: Multi-protein complexes and data mining (Session Chair: Toshiko Ichiye)
2:00-2:30 pm Oliver Lichtarge (Invited Talk)
Towards Clinical Applications of AI and Evolutionary Theory
2:30-3:00 pm Tina Percia (CBSB2017 Outstanding Young Researcher Award Talk)
Mutational perturbation of a fundamental biological switch
3:00-3:20 pm Daisuke Kihara
Computational modeling of flexible protein-protein and protein-drug and interactions
3:20-4:00 pmBreak
Afternoon Session II: Multi-protein complexes and data mining (Session Chair: Oliver Lichtarge)
4:00-4:30 pm Andrzej Kloczkowski (Invited Talk)
Computational Identification and Screening for Deleterious Mutants
4:30-4:50 pm Jason Harris
ScrubChem: Cleaning of PubChem Bioassay Data to Create Diverse and Massive Bioactivity Datasets for Use in Modeling Applications
4:50-5:10 pm Michael Gribskov
Graph theoretic approaches to RNA topology comparison
5:10-5:30 pm Jun Yi
Crystallographic Characterization of the Nitric Oxide and the C-Nitroso Derivatives of R-State Human Hemoglobin
5:30-6:30 pmPanel Discussion (Eshel Faraggi)
Saturday, May 20, 2017
Morning Session I: Models, algorithms and computers (Session Chair: Ruxandra Dima)
9:00-9:30 am Anton Feenstra (Invited Talk)
Seeing the Trees through the Forest: Sequence-based Homo- and Heteromeric Protein-protein Interaction sites prediction using Random Forest
9:30-10:00 am Yiqin Gao (Invited Talk)
DNA methylation landscape and modelling of 3D chromatin structure
10:00-10:30 am Harinder Singh (Invited Talk)
Binary cell fate choices as violations of symmetry in biological systems `
10:30-11:00 amBreak
Morning Session II: Models, algorithms and computers (Session Chair: Jarek Meller)
11:00 -11:30 am Raphael Kopan (Invited Talk)
How can a hypomorphic and a hypermorphic mutation in Notch cause the same cancer?
11:30 am - 12:30 pm Bernard Brooks (Keynote Talk)
Exploring reaction mechanism and folding pathways using the Action-CSA method
12:30 -12:35pmParting words
Conference ends