tentative_program_2023

Day 

Time 

Lectures 

Demonstrations/Hands-on 

Poster Session 

25 September 2023 

Monday 

9:00-9:50 REGISTRATION 

9:50-10:00 Opening words 

10:00-10:50 

Professor Dame Janet Thornton

Computational Enzymology - Enzyme Reactions and active sites in 1D, 2D and 3D

10:50-11:00 

Discussion 

11:00-11:50 

Professor Ita Gruić-Sovulj

Pre-steady and steady state kinetics of enzyme catalysed reactions 

11:50-12:00 

Discussion 

12:00-13:30 Lunch Break and Coffee Break 

13:30-14:20 

Professor Kenneth A. Johnson

KinTek Explorer software: explore key kinetic concepts 

14:20-14:30 

Discussion 

14:30-16:30 

Dr. Deepti Gupta 

EMBL-EBI data resources and tools  

16:30-16:45 Coffee Break  

16:45-18:15 

Participants’ 2-minute presentation 

18:15 Departure 

Day 

Time 

Lectures 

26 September 2023 

Tuesday 

9:00-9:50 

Assistant Professor Tina Perica 

Allosteric pathways in protein function 

9:50-10:00 

Discussion 

10:00-10:50 

Professor Chris Oostenbrink 

Molecular dynamics simulation as a tool in protein engineering 

10:50-11:00 

Discussion 

11:00-12:30 Lunch Break and Coffee Break 

12:30-14:00 

Professor Chris Oostenbrink

tutorial on MD simulations 

14:30-16:00 

Professor Chris Oostenbrink

Analysis of Protein Conformational Changes 

16:00-16:30 Coffee Break and discussion 

16:30-18:00 

Professor Chris Oostenbrink 

Analysis of Protein Conformational Changes 

18:00  Departure 

Day 

Time 

Lectures 

27 September 2023 

Wednesday 

9:00-9:50 

Research Assistant Profesor Ajasja Ljubetič

Demo/lecture - De novo protein design using Rosetta and deep learning methods.  

10:00-10:20 

Professor Beata G. Vertessy, 

FEBS-MIC, FEBS opportunities for scientists in molecular life sciences 

10:20-12:30 

Research Assistant Profesor Ajasja Ljubetič

Tutorial - De novo protein design using Rosetta and deep learning methods

12:30-13:30 Lunch Break and Coffee Break 

13:30-14:30 

Poster session 

14:30-17:30 

Research Assistant Professor Ajasja Ljubetič

Tutorial - De novo protein design using Rosetta and deep learning methods

17:30-
18:00

Coffee Break 

18:00-18:50 

Professor David Baker 

Design of new protein functions using deep learning

 Online

18:50-19:00

Discussion 

19:00 Bus departure for Social event, Dinner in town 

Day 

Time 

Lectures 

28 September 2023 Thursday 

9:00-9:50 

Dr. Marc Van der Kamp

The use of (QM/MM) biomolecular simulation to understand enzyme-catalyzed reactions: activity and selectivity

9:50-10:00 

Discussion 

10:00-10:50 

Dr Jernej Stare 

Reaction Pathway Sampling by Empirical Valence Bond Simulation 

10:50-11:00 

Discussion 

11:00-12:30 Lunch Break  

12:30-13:20 

Professor Jiri Damborsky

Computational tools for designing and engineering enzymes 

13:20-13:30 

Discussion 

13:30-15:00 

Professor Jiri Damborsky/ Mgr. David Bednář, Ph.D. 

Engineering Protein Stability (FireProt; FireProtASR ) 

15:00-17:00 

Professor Jiri Damborsky/ Mgr. David Bednář, Ph.D. 

Identification of Enzyme Tunnels and Ligand Pathways 

17:00-17:15 Coffee Break 

17:15-18:15 

Q&A session on all tutorials during the course 

18:15-19:15 

Q&A session on all lectures during the course 

19:15 Departure 

Day 

Time 

Lectures 

29 September 2023 

Friday 

9:00-9:50 

Professor Per-Olof Syrén 

Novel enzyme engineering strategies for applications in biopolymer science 

9:50-10:00 

Discussion 

10:00-10:50 

Professor Donald Hilvert 

Designing proteins with customized catalytic properties 

10:50-11:00 

Discussion 

11:00 

The Best Presentation and FEBS Open Bio Poster Prize Award

Concluding remarks