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Workshop on the definition of protein domains and their likelihood of crystallization
University of Vienna
28th - 30th June 2006

  June 28
  08.30 - 09.00    Registration  
  09.00 - 09.15    Paul Tucker and Kristina Djinovic - Introductory remarks  
  In silico et in solido -
New ideas and strategies to predict the likelihood of crystallization
Chair:Paul Tucker
  09.30 - 10.10    Dmitri Frishman (TU München) - Will my protein crystallize?  
  10.10 - 10.50    Jaime Prilusky (Weizman) - Bioinformatics Tools for Structural Proteomics  
  10.50 - 11.10    Break and discussion  
  Experimental identification of domain boundaries
Chair:Oliviero Carugo
  11.10 - 11.50    Zygmunt Derewenda (Virginia) - Protein crystallization by rational molecular surface engineering  
  11.50 - 12.30    Darren Hart (EMBL Grenoble) - Library-based construct screening for soluble protein expression  
  12.30 - 14.00    Lunch  
  14.00 - 14.40    Tobias Cornvik (Stockholm) - Library Screening Methods for the Production of Human Proteins and Domains  
  14.40 - 15.20    Arnaud Poterszman (Strasbourg) - Domain architecture of core subunits from the human transcription/repair factor TFIIH: experiences from limited proteolysis and mass spectrometry analysis  
  15.20 - 16.00    Michel Dumontier (Ottawa) - Protein domains and small molecule binding sites  
  16.00 - 16.20    Break and discussion  
  Post-translational modification -
State of the art in predicting indirectly coded modifications
Chair:Kristina Djinovic
  16.20 - 17.00    Frank Eisenhaber (IMP Vienna) - Posttranslational modifications and subcellular localization signals: Indicators of sequence regions without inherent 3D structure  
  17.00 - 17.40    Birgit Eisenhaber (IMP Vienna) - The GPI lipid anchoring: An alternative for membrane attachment for proteins  
  Selected short presentations from the participants
Chair:Robert Konrat
  17.45 - 18.00    Simone Müller (EMBL Hamburg) - Structural studies on domains in proximity to titin kinase and domains involved in its downstream signaling pathway  
  18.00 - 18.15    Sonja A. Dames (Basel) - The solution structure of the dimeric carboxy-terminal domain of Hexim1 and the characterization of its interaction with Cyclin T1 by nuclear magnetic resonance  
  18.15 - 18.30    Eva Freisinger (Zürich) - Domain structure of a plant metallothionein  
  18.30 - 18.45    Walter Keller (Graz) - The domain structure of the bacterial S-layer protein SbsC  
 

  June 29
  Conformational disorder and compactness. Estimations of the conformational rigidity on the basis of protein sequences
Chair:Paul Tucker
  09.00 - 09.40    Anne Poupon (Paris-Sud) - Predicting unfolded regions from sequence using simple rules  
  09.40 - 10.20    Zsuzsanna Dosztanyi (Budapest) - Dissecting proteins into ordered and disordered parts using estimated pairwise energies  
  10.20 - 10.40    Break and discussion  
  10.40 - 11.20    Robert Konrat (Vienna) - Bioinformatic disorder prediction - from sequence to dynamic structures  
  11.20 - 12.00    Sonia Longhi (Marseille) - Predicting structural disorder and induced folding: from theoretical principles to practical applications  
  12.00 - 13.30    Lunch  
  Predictions of domain boundaries
Chair:Frank Eisenhaber
  13.30 - 14.10    Sasha Gorbalenya (Leiden) - Dissecting polyproteins of RNA viruses: insight and lessons for domain definition  
  14.10 - 14.50    Christoph Meier (Oxford) - Defining protein domains-computational and experimental approaches  
  14.50 - 15.30    Jaap Heringa (Amsterdam) - Predicting Domain Features from Sequence  
  15.30 - 15.50    Break and discussion  
  15.50 - 16.30    Christina Elsik (Texas A+M) - Predicting protein interdomain linkers using hidden Markov models  
  16.30 - 17.10    Oxana Galzitskaya (Pushchino) - Prediction of domain boundaries and unfolded regions in protein chain  
  Selected short presentations from the participants
Chair:Sasha Gorbalenya
  17.15 - 17.30    Valeriy A. Sorokin (Moskow) - Efficient approach to the delineation of permuted domains in sequences of homologous proteins  
  17.30 - 17.45    Hongyi Zhou (Buffalo) - Dividing structures into domains using a normalized domain-domain interaction profile  
  17.45 - 18.00    Ian M. Overton (Dundee) - A Normalized Scale To Estimate Protein 'Crystallization Propensity' - The OB-Score  
  18.00 - 18.15    Cataldo Tarricone (EIO-Milan) - Crystal structure of Ndel1, a co-regulator of cytoplasmic dynein  
  19.00    Bus leaving for dinner  
  23.00    Bus leaving for the hotels  
 

  June 30
  Prediction of domain boundaries
Chair:Sasha Gorbalenya
  09.00 - 09.40    David Jones (University College London) - Integrated approaches to domain boundary prediction  
  09.40 - 10.00    Break and discussion  
  Software tutorials
  10.00 - 13.00    Software tutorials