MODREF 2006
Algunos de vosotros habrá escuchado hablar de competiciones como CASP (Comprehensive Assessment of Structure Prediction), que sirven para comprobar el estado del arte de los métodos de predicción de las distintas características de las estructuras de proteínas (y que este año llega a su séptima edición). Pues bien, si quereis asistir a una reunión donde hay charlas que traten estos temas, pero sin tener que viajar al otro lado del charco, los próximos 3,4 y 5 de Julio se va a celebrar en Barcelona «Current challenges in computational structural biology: improving model refinement for functional predictions«. A continuación viene el anuncio oficial que me llegó por e-mail:
Meeting announcement. Last call for participants.
Current challenges in computational structura biology:
improving model refinement for functional predictions
Barcelona, 3-5 July 2006
Please, check the program at the meeting’s web page:
http://mmb.pcb.ub.es/MODREF2006
Thanks to its ability to generate usable models, computational chemistry
has branched into many different biological applications. Nevertheless,
the uncertainty associated with all molecular models is high. New
refinement methods are clearly needed to upgrade these models to
reliable predictions, which could be used with confidence both by
experimentalist and further computational studies. The goal of the
workshop is to share new views about computational refinement and
theoretical approaches that will enable us to improve current
low-resolution models and make better use of experimental structures.
We will have great pleasure in welcoming you to Barcelona for the MODREF
2006 Workshop and we trust that you will enjoy it.
The Organizing Committee
Confirmed speakers
Opening lecture
David T. Jones (University College London, UK)
Current challenges in model refinement
Alfonso Valencia CNIO, Madrid
Ruben Abagyan The Scripps Research Institute, CA. USA
Nick Furnham Univ. of Cambridge, UK
Roland Dunbrack Fox Chase Cancer Center, PA. USA
Xavier Salvatella Univ. of Cambridge, UK
Improving structural models for systems of pharmacological interest
Angel Ortiz CBM-CSIC, Madrid
Max Totrov Molsoft, CA. USA
Nils Weskamp Philipps-Universität Marburg. Germany
Experimental and theoretical models in the structural proteomics era
Jeremy Smith Univ. Heidelberg, Germany
Javier Sancho Univ. Zaragoza
Miquel Pons Univ. Barcelona, IRB-PCB
JM Sanchez Ruiz Univ. Granada
Patrick Aloy IRB-PCB. ICREA. Barcelona
Xavier Gomis-Rüth IBMB – CSIC. Barcelona
Pau Bernado Univ. Barcelona- PCB
New trends in model refinement
Modesto Orozco Univ. Barcelona, IRB-PCB, BSC
Anna Tramontano Univ. La Sapienza. Roma Italy