University of Bologna
CIRB
CORSO DI LAUREA IN BIOTECNOLOGIE

European Science Foundation
INTEGRATED APPROACHES FOR  
FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS

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3rd BOLOGNA WINTER  SCHOOL on Biotechnology
PREDICTING THE 3D STRUCTURE OF DIFFICULT PROTEINS
Methods for the prediction of membrane protein structure and new fold recognition of globular proteins
3-9 February 2002, BOLOGNA (Italy) 

TEACHERS:
Pierre Baldi (University of California, Irvine, USA), Rita Casadio (University of Bologna, IT), Amiram Goldblum (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, IL), David Jones (University College, London, UK), Anders Krogh (Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, DK), Arthur Lesk  (University of Cambridge, UK), Marc Martì Renom (Rockefeller University, New York, USA), Hartmut Michel (Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt am Main, DE), Steffen Möller (University of Rostock, DE), Manfred Sippl (University of Salzburg, AT), Michael Sternberg (Imperial College, London, UK), Mike Taussig (The Babraham Institute, Cambridge, UK), Anna Tramontano (University "La Sapienza", Roma, IT), Alfonso Valencia (National Center of Biotechnology, Cantoblanco, ES), Michele Vendruscolo (Oxford Centre for Molecular Sciences, UK), Gunnar von Heijne (University of Stockholm, SE), Gert Vriend (University of Nijmegen, NL), Stephen White (University of California, Irvine, USA). 

SCHOOL CHAIRS: Prof. Rita Casadio (CIRB), Prof. Lanfranco Masotti (CIRB).

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE: R. Casadio, D. Jones, A. Tramontano.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: R. Casadio.

LOCAL COMMITTEE: E. Capriotti, M. Compiani, P. Fariselli, I. Jacoboni, P.L. Martelli, I. Rossi,  G.Tasco.

ORGANIZING SECRETARY 
CIRB
c/o  Dept. of Biology, University of Bologna
Via Irnerio 42, 40126, Bologna, ITALY. 
Tel: (+39) 051 2094005		Fax: (+39) 051 242576
http://www.biocomp.unibo.it/school/html2002/index.html

For application send a short C.V. to school@biocomp.unibo.it 
(Deadline: December 30, 2001)

3rd BOLOGNA WINTER SCHOOL 2002 PROGRAMME
Department Of Biology - Via Irnerio, 42 (Room B)

Monday 4
  8.30 -   9.00	 Registration 
  9.00 -   9.30	 Mike Taussig	 Opening remarks: Structural genomics and the ESF program.
  9.30 - 11.00 Hartmut Michel	Crystallization and structures of membrane proteins: routes 
 			and achievements.
11.00 - 11.30	 Coffee Break
11.30 - 13.00	 Arthur Lesk Protein folding: easy for nature, difficult for us.
Lunch
15.00 - 16.30	 Stephen White 	How membranes shape protein structure.
16.30 - 17.00	 Coffee Break
17.00 - 18.30	 Gert Vriend	 What bioinformatics can say about G protein coupled receptors.

Tuesday 5 
  9.30 - 11.00	 Marc Martì Renom 	Comparative modeling: methods and applications.
11.00 - 11.30	 Coffee Break
11.30 - 13.00	 Anna Tramontano Pitfalls and advances in molecular modelling.
Lunch
15.00 - 16.00	 Steffen Möller	 Swiss Prot membrane protein annotation and topology prediction.
16.00 - 17.00	 Alfonso Valencia	From the assignment of protein fold to the prediction of
 						functional specificity.
17.00 - 17.30	 Coffee Break
17.30 - 18.30	 Amiram Goldblum	Is it possible to predict long protein loops?

Wednesday 6
  9.30 - 11.00	 Michael Sternberg	Exploiting the protein structure in the post-genome era.
11.00 - 11.30	 Coffee Break 
11.30 - 13.00	 Davis Jones Predicting protein folds for globular and membrane proteins.
Lunch
15.00 - 16.30	 Manfred Sippl 	Structure based bioinformatics.
16.30 - 17.00	 Coffee Break
17.00 - 18.30	 Arthur Lesk Ab initio protein structure prediction: the state of the art.

Thursday 7 
  9.30 - 11.00 Pierre Baldi	Machine learning methods for structural proteomics.
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 - 13.00 Michele Vendruscolo  Protein fold prediction using contact information.
Lunch
15.00 - 18.00	ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION: Structural and functional genomics 
				(Chairpersons: Arthur Lesk and Mike Taussig)

Friday 8
9.30 - 11.00	Gunnar von Heijne	Membrane proteins: combining experiments and prediction 
 					for topology mapping.
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break 
11.30 - 13.00  Anders Krogh	 Hidden Markov Models and the prediction of membrane protein
    			topology.
Lunch 
15.00 - 16.30 Stephen White	 Energetics, stability and prediction of transmembrane helices.
16.30 - 17.00 Coffee Break
17.00 - 18.30 Rita Casadio  Predicting the structure of beta-barrel membrane proteins.
18.30 - 19.00 Concluding Remarks