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Time
ID
Title
Presenting author
Page
Day 1
8:55
Opening remarks
Session 1 - Protein Structure Part I ( Rafael Najmanovich - Chair)
9:00
K05
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Anna Tramontano
9
9:30
15
Comparative protein structure modeling by combining of multiple templates and optimizing sequence-to-structure alignments
Andras Fiser
27
9:50
13
Charting the evolution of structural information
Iakes Ezkurdia
25
10:10
66
NQ-Flipper: Validation and Correction of Asparagine/Glutamine Amide Rotamers in Protein Crystal Structures
Christian X Weichenberger
70
10:30
Coffee
Session 2 - Protein function Part I (Dietlind Gerloff - Chair)
11:00
K02
Protein structure, function and interactions - basic research and applications
Thomas Lengauer
7
11:30
38
Density-based characterization of hot spots by computational fragment mapping and its application to accurate three-dimensional pharmacophore generation
Melissa R. Landon
47
11:50
61
firestar and FireDB - structure-based prediction of functionally important residues
Michael Tress
66
12:10
Lunch & Poster/Laptop session (even ID numbers)
Session 3 - Binding sites, ligands & interactions Part I (Melissa Landon - Chair)
15:00
K04
Protein - Ligand Interactions
Janet Thornton
8
15:30
19
Finding and Extracting Active Site Cavities in Proteins
Thomas A. Funkhouser
31
15:50
56
Moment Invariants as Shape Recognition Technique for Comparing Protein Binding Sites
Ingolf Sommer
61
16:10
29
The Variation of Geometrical and Physicochemical Properties in Protein Binding Pockets
Abdullah Kahraman
39
16:30
Coffee
Session 4 - Binding sites, ligands & interactions Part II (Krzysztof Fidelis - Chair)
17:00
43
3-D atomic similarities and the prediction of ligand-binding
Rafael Najmanovich
50
17:20
26
An exhaustive analysis of analogies in protein binding sites of known structure
Manuela Helmer-Citterich
38
17:40
Discussion I - Past and future contributions of computational studies to understanding biological macromolecules (Roland Dunbrack - Discussion Leader)
18:30
Pre-dinner break
19:30
Dinner - Hilton Vienna Stadtpark (Park Congress Room - ground level)
21:00
Post-dinner scientific event - Careers in Computational Biology - Anna Tramontano (discussion leader) and other discussants
Day 2
Session 5 - Protein Interfaces Part I (John Moult - Chair)
9:00
K01
Better than Chance: the importance of null models in bioinformatics
Kevin Karplus
7
9:30
11
Instrinsically unstructured proteins in complexes
Zsuzsanna Dosztanyi
24
9:50
12
Structural bioinformatics identifies probable biologically relevant interfaces in protein crystals
Roland Dunbrack
24
10:10
36
Detection of Macromolecular Asssemblies in Crystalline State using Principles of Chemical Thermodynamics
Eugene Krissinel
44
10:30
Coffee
Session 6 - Protein Interfaces Part II (Michael Tress - Chair)
11:00
K09
New Approaches to Protein-Protein Docking
Sandor Vajda
10
11:30
20
1D-surface profiles: a simplified representation of electro-static model surfaces for protein interaction prediction
Dietlind L Gerloff
32
11:50
39
Determining the configuration of high-resolution components in a cryoEM map of their assembly
Keren Lasker
47
12:10
Lunch & Poster/Laptop session (odd ID numbers)
Session 7 - Protein Function Part II (Ron Unger- Chair)
15:00
K03
Evolution teaches protein function prediction
Burkhard Rost
8
15:30
02
Enzyme function evolution: Mapping catalytic mechanisms to structural domains
Daniel E. Almonacid
18
15:50
03
A new approach for flexible ligand - flexible receptor docking
Iris Antes
19
16:10
54
Computational Design of D-Peptides that Target Transmembrane Helices
Joanna S. Slusky
60
16:30
Coffee
Session 8 - Protein Structure Part II ( - Chair)
17:00
46
VAMSAS: Bridging the gaps between the analysis of DNA, Protein Sequences and Protein Structure
James Proctor
53
17:20
67
A computational representation and quantitative analysis of functional mechanisms of the molecular machines responsible for intrtcellular signaling at the cell membrane signaling
Harel Weinstein
70
17:40
Discussion II - 10 suggested discussion topics will be distributed before the meeting, and on Day 1 we will vote on these and with any additional audience suggestions. The discussion will cover the five most requested topics, where the discussion leader will ask five participants to introduce the topics. (John Moult - Discussion Leader)
18:30
End of 3DSig 2007