BDBDB:  
 
Biological Diffusion and
Brownian Dynamics Brainstorm
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BDBDB Workshop Program
26-29 March 2007
 
Monday - 26.03.2007
 
11:00   Registration
12:00   Lunch
 
Introductory session
 
13:30   Historical overview
13:45   Brownian dynamics algorithm
14:00   Brownian & Langevin Dynamics, diffusion equations, hydrodynamics
14:15   Poisson-Boltzmann equation, dielectrics
 
Software presentation session
 
14:30 • Jose Garcia de la Torre   (University of Murcia, Department of Physical Chemistry)
• The HYDRO Suite of Computer Programs for Macromolecular Hydrodynamics in Dilute Solutions.
15:00 • Jörg Langowski   (DKFZ (German Cancer Research Center))
• corchy++ - A Brownian dynamics / Monte Carlo simulation package for flexible polymer chains
15:20   Coffee break
15:50 • Gary Huber   (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
• UHBD / SMOL
16:20 • Razif Gabdoulline   (BIOMS (Center for Modeling and Simulation in the Biosciences))
• SDA - Simulation of diffusional association of proteins
16:40 • Kathryn Thomasson   (University of North Dakota)
• MACRODOX
17:00   End Software presentations
 
Session 1 - Experimental approaches
 
17:05   Welcome
17:15 • Jan Ellenberg   (European Molecular Biology Laboratory)
• Dissecting the contribution of diffusion, interactions and molecular crowding to the mobility of nuclear proteins in living cells
18:00   End
20:00   Dinner 1
22:00   Social events
 
Tuesday - 27.03.2006
 
9:00 • G. V. Shivashankar   (National Center for Biological Sciences, TIFR-Bangalore)
• Spatio-temporal organization of chromatin assembly and function within single living cells
9:45 • Dimitar Pachov   (Brandeis University / Martin Fisher School of Physics)
• Adenylate Kinases (ADKs) at Pressures - Characterization of the Conformational Transition Energy Landscape by MD, TMD and NMR Experiments
10:15   Coffee break
10:45 • Jörg Langowski   (DKFZ (German Cancer Research Center))
• Coarse-grained modelling of chromatin
11:30   Discussion
 
Session 2 - Hydrodynamics
 
11:45 • Jose Garcia de la Torre   (University of Murcia, Department of Physical Chemistry)
• Hydrodynamics and Brownian Dynamics of Rigid and Flexible Bioparticles in Solution: Theoretical and Computational Aspects
12:30 • Silvia Carlotto   (Universitā degli Studi di Padova)
• A coarse-grained approach to solvation of nanoparticle colloidal suspensions
13:00   Lunch
14:00   Poster session + demo
15:15 • Gianni De Fabritiis   (Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB))
• Extending the time resolution: high performance and multiscale molecular simulations
16:00   Discussion
 
Session 3 - Multiparticle models
 
16:15 • Adrian Elcock   (University of Iowa)
• Brownian Dynamics of Macromolecular Assemblies
17:00   Coffee break
17:20 • Razif Gabdoulline   (BIOMS (Center for Modeling and Simulation in the Biosciences))
• Reduced protein models for multiparticle simulations
17:50 • Martin Zacharias   (International University Bremen)
• Approximate inclusion of flexibility during Brownian dynamics and docking of proteins
18:35   Discussion
18:50   End
22:00   Social events
 
Wednesday - 28.03.2006
 
 
Session 4 - Coarse-grained models
 
9:00 • Joanna Trylska   (ICM Warsaw University)
• Binding pathways of ligands to HIV-1 protease
9:45 • David Sept   (Washington University)
• Multiscale Modeling of Actin Filament Dynamics
10:15   Coffee break
10:45 • Matthias Weiss   (German Cancer Research Center)
• Probing the size-dependent diffusion of membrane inclusions and nonequilibrium fluctuations of lipid bilayers with mesoscopic simulations
11:30 • Dirk Lebiedz   (IWR)
• Modeling subdiffusion using reaction diffusion systems
12:00 • Karel Jelinek   (Polymer Research, BASF Aktiengesellschaft)
• Simulation of Polymer Chain Collapse and Swelling Process
12:30   Discussion
13:00   Lunch
14:00   Poster session + demo
 
Session 5 - Computational approaches
 
15:15 • Dieter W. Heermann   (Institute of Theoretical Physics)
• Lattice and Off-Lattice Simulation Methods for Diffusive Systems
16:00 • Gary Huber   (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
• Generic Software Engineering Techniques for Simulations
16:45   Coffee break
17:05 • Yaakov (Koby) Levy   (Weizmann Institute of Science)
• Energy landscape of protein self-assembly: Lessons from native topology-based models
17:35 • John McCaskill   (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
• Mesoscale kinetic simulation: from reactive spin lattice models to multipole reactive DPD
18:20   Discussion
18:35   End
20:00   Dinner 2
22:00   Social events
 
Thursday - 29.03.2006
 
 
Session 6 - Applications
 
9:00 • Volkhard Helms   (Saarland University)
• Diffusional Encounter of Barnase and Barstar
9:45 • Michal Harel   (Weizmann Institute of Science)
•  On the dynamic nature of the transition state for protein-protein association as determined by double-mutant cycle analysis and computer simulation
10:15   Coffee break
10:45 • Kathryn Thomasson   (University of North Dakota)
• Brownian Dynamics Simulations of Glycolytic Enzyme/Actin Interactions
11:30 • Domantas Motiejunas   (EML Research gGmbH)
• Following protein-protein association towards the bound complex
12:00 • Jan Antosiewicz   (Department of Physics, Warsaw University)
• Binding of mRNA cap analogues to eIF4E protein: Simulations using SDA package.
12:45   Closing discussion
13:00   Lunch
14:00   Bye-bye
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