PROGRAM


THURSDAY, October 27

7:30 Continental breakfast
8:25 Welcome - Organizers

Session chair: Olson
8:35 Honig, Structure-informed interactomes and genome-wide function annotation using PrePPI
9:00 Wodak, Interactomes: How nature copes with imperfection
9:25 Nussinov, Oncogenic KRAS signaling pathways
9:50 Sternberg, Exploiting the interactome to study genetic variation and disease

10:15 Coffee break

Session chair: Dunbrack
10:45 Godzik, Mutations on Protein Interaction Interfaces - cancer driver mutations disrupting protein interaction networks
11:10 Lichtarge, Evolution vs Disease: From Big Data and Text Mining to Personalized Care
11:35 Moult, Genomics, Disease, and Protein Structure (how structure helps interpret mutations, as revealed through CAGI)

12:00 Lunch

Session chair: Nussinov
1:30 Skolnick, Comprehensive prediction of drug-protein interactions and side effects for the human proteome
1:55 Ma, Enhanced sampling in high accuracy protein structural refinement
2:20 Grishin, Interactions and interfaces of homologous domains in ECOD database

2:45 Coffee break

Session chair: Skolnick
3:15 Camacho, On the regulation of protein-protein interactions by phosphorylation on intrinsically disordered tails: ACTN-Actin a case study
3:40 Karanicolas, Designing de novo inhibitors of protein interactions
4:05 Slusky, Design of an inhibitor for antibiotic efflux
4:30 Fiser, ProtLID, a residue-based pharmacophore approach to identify cognate protein ligands in the Immunoglobulin Superfamily
4:55 Free time, dinner on your own
Poster session
8:00 - 10:00 Poster presentations, open bar

FRIDAY, October 28

7:30 Continental breakfast
Session chair: Honig
8:35 Voth, Ultra-coarse-graining and its application to multi-protein complexes
9:00 Olson, Interacting with the Molecular Cell: from CellPACK to CellView
9:25 Feig, Protein-protein interactions in concentrated environments: Simulations vs. experiment
9:50 Zhou, Modeling intermolecular interactions and liquid-liquid phase equilibria in cell-like conditions
10:15 Coffee break

Session chair: Voth
10:45 Levy, Exploring fitness and free energy landscapes of proteins for allostery and binding
11:10 Jernigan, Two types of protein entropies
11:35 Elofsson, Accurate modelling of thousands of protein domain families using PconsC3

12:00 Lunch

Session chair: Wodak
1:30 Bonvin, Energetics, scoring and binding affinity riddles in biomolecular interactions
1:55 Vajda, Simplified statistical mechanics approaches to the analysis of protein interactions
2:20 Vakser, Structural and functional relationships in protein docking

2:45 Coffee break

Session chair: Bonvin
3:15 Weng, Integrating cross-linking experiments with ab initio protein-protein docking
3:40 Kortemme, Phenotypic consequences of interface mutations in multi-functional proteins
4:05 Fernandez-Recio, The challenge of flexibility in protein-protein docking: using precomputed ensembles or explicit conformational search?
4:30 DISCUSSION: New challenges in modeling of biomolecular interactions
6:30 Reception and 7:00 - 9:00 Dinner at Eldridge

SATURDAY, October 29

7:30 Continental breakfast
Session chair: Sternberg
8:35 Dunbrack, Structural bioinformatics and computational design of antibodies
9:00 Elber, The response of coiled-coil system to load
9:25 Ben-Tal, In proteins, segments reuse is common at all levels, domains are just one arbitrary example
9:50 Deeds, Crosstalk and the evolvability of intracellular communication

10:15 Coffee break

Session chair: Levy
10:45 Liang, Beta Barrel Membrane Protein: Energy, structure, function, and design
11:10 Im, Modeling and simulation of bacterial outer membranes and interactions with proteins
11:35 Shen, Predicting protein conformational change upon binding and mutation

12:00 Lunch

Session chair: Weng
1:30 Keskin, TBA
1:55 Mitchell, Predicting RNA binding sites on protein surfaces
2:20 Kozakov, Towards fast simulation of flexible protein-protein interactions

2:45 Coffee break

Session chair: Liang
3:15 Ray, Regulation of bacterial growth in discrete steps and structured lineages
3:40 Kundrotas, Physics and knowledge in scoring of predicted protein complexes
4:05 Concluding remarks - Vakser, Vajda