Mutations in proteins: structure, function, dynamics and disease

Date:: 20 Sep 2010
Location:: UMC St Radboud, Nijmegen

The Netherlands Society on Biomolecular Modelling (NSBM) is happy to announce its second one-day conference on protein structure and modelling related topics.

Location
UMC St Radboud
NCMLS Building, Colloquium Room
8th Floor, Route 289
Geert Grooteplein Zuid 26-28
6525 GA Nijmegen
The Netherlands

Programme
10:00 Reception / registration / coffee

10:20 Welcome by G. Nicolaes, University of Maastricht, presentation of NSBM

10:25 G. Vriend opening of the morning session

10:30 Mahesh Kulharia, Cardiovascular research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht
University
“In silico simulation of the membrane binding process of coagulation factor
VIII: prediction of the phenotype in haemophilia A patients, and ramifications
for anticoagulant drug design”

11:30 Frederic Rousseau, VIB Switch Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit, Brussels,
Belgium.
“The evolutionary relationship between protein structure and aggregation and
its consequences for disease”

12:30 Lunch and Poster sessions

14:30 Selected abstract by PhD student

14:50 Selected abstract by PhD student

15:10 Hanka Venselaar, CMBI, UMC St. Radboud
"Predicting the phenotypic effect of disease causing mutations"

16:10 Tea

16:30 Henk-Jan Joosten, Wageningen University & Research Centre.
"Predicting mutations that cause a desired phenotypic effect"

17:10 Closing remarks, poster prize award

17:20 Drinks

Registration and abstract submission details

To register for the meeting, please fill out the registration form.

The capacity at the conference venue to put up posters is limited. If too many abstracts are handed in, priority will be given to PhD students and master students who want to present a poster that deals with the conference topic. Poster abstracts should be 1-page A4 in PDF format, not exceeding 5 Mb in size. Poster abstracts should be sent before September 6 to Gerry Nicolaes, g.nicolaes@removethis.bioch.unimaas.nl (tel +31(0)43 3881688).

Two master or PhD student poster presenters will be invited to discuss their poster in a 15 minute seminar. A poster prize will be awarded to the best poster presented at the conference. Please indicate with the submitted poster abstract if you are a master student or PhD student, and wether you are interested in presenting a short seminar.

The abstracts will be published on the NBIC website.