"Hands-On" Workshop on Computational Biophysics using VMD and NAMD

Topics: Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Molecular Modeling, Keywords: computational biophysics, bioinformatics, molecular dynamics, molecular modeling

Date: /17/18/19/20/21/ October 2011, Bremen, Germany, Europe

Web Site, Contact: workshop+bremen@ks.uiuc.edu

  

Official Information:

We are pleased to announce the CECAM tutorial (www.cecam.org), "'Hands-On' Workshop on Computational Biophysics using VMD and NAMD", to be held October 17-21, 2011, on the campus of Jacobs University Bremen, Germany. The workshop will be presented by members of the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group (www.ks.uiuc.edu), and will explore a wide range of physical models and computational approaches for the simulation of biological systems.

The workshop is based on case studies including the properties of membranes and membrane proteins, mechanism of molecular motors, trafficking in the living cell through water and ion channels, and signaling pathways. Physical concepts, mathematical techniques, and computational methods required will be introduced, including force fields and algorithms used in molecular modeling, molecular dynamics simulations on parallel computers, and steered molecular dynamics simulations.

The workshop is designed for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in computational and/or biophysical fields who seek to extend their research skills to include computational and theoretical expertise, as well as other researchers interested in theoretical and computational biophysics. Theory sessions in the morning will be followed by hands-on computer labs in the afternoon in which students will be able to set up and run simulations.

Applications to the workshop are due by September 4, 2011. Selection and notification of participants from the application pool will be completed by September 9, 2011. Participants must pay for their own housing and travel, please see workshop website for more details. Due to space and equipment constraints, the workshop is limited to 40 participants.