Workshop Announcement

	Boston University
	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Boston, MA July 24 - 27, 2002


			Local Organizers Prof. Zhiping Weng Prof. Rosina Georgiadis Prof. Lev Levitin Karl Clodfelter Steering Committee Prof. Charles DeLisi Chair, Bioinformatics Graduate Program Boston University Prof. Tom Tullius Chair, Chemistry Department, Boston University Prof. Dr. Reinhart H. Heinrich Research Group Leader, Department of Theoretical Biophysics Berlin Organizers Prof. Dr. Ernst W. Knapp Prof. Dr. Hermann G. Holzhutter Prof. Erwin Frey


	Boston University and Humboldt University are hosting an annual bioinformatics workshop at Boston University in the summer 2002.

Sponsored By: Boston University Bioinformatics Program: Boston, MA, USA Humboldt University Program and Evolution of Cellular & Marcomolecular Processes: Berlin, Germany

All Scheduled Events Will Be Held in or Directly Outside of Photonics Rm.206

Schedule of Events

Wednesday, July 24, 2002

9:15am	Professor David Campbell, Dean, College of Engineering, Boston University Introduction by Prof. Charles DeLisi
9:40am	Prof. Charles DeLisi Chair, Bioinformatics Graduate Program Dean Emeritus, College of Engineering, Boston University
10:00am	Professor Dr. Reinhart Heinrich Humboldt University, Institute of Biology, Research Group Leader, Department of Theoretical Biophysics
	MACROMOLECULAR RECOGNITION AND MODELING Introductions by Professor Rosina Georgiadis
10:20am	Professor Evan Evans Boston University Biomedical Engineering & Physics Departments "Dynamic Force Chromatography: high-resolution assay of weak biomolecular interactions"
10:55am	Coffee Break
11:15am	Björn Peters Humboldt University, Faculty of Medicine (Charité), Institute of Biochemistry "Sequence based prediction of peptide binding ability to MHC class I"
11:45am	Jahnavi Prasad Boston University, Bioinformatics Graduate Program "Confident Comparative Modeling Based on Consensus Alignment"
12:15pm	Lunch Break
1:45pm	Professor Dr. Hermann-Georg Holzhutter Humboldt University, Faculty of Medicine (Charité), Institute of Biochemistry "Proteolytic peptides generated by proteasomes: how many?"
2:20pm	Julian Mintseris Boston University, Bioinformatics Graduate Program "Contacts in Protein-protein Recognition"
2:50pm	Coffee Break
3:10pm	Vio Buchete Boston University, Chemistry Department "Spherical Harmonic Analysis of Orientation Dependent Statistical Potentials Derived from Protein Structural Databases"
3:40pm	Enoch Huang, Ph.D. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Bioinformatics Program, Boston University Head of Molecular Informatics, Pfizer Discovery Technology Center "Sequence, Structure, and Function in the GPCR superfamily"

Thursday July 25, 2002

	MACROMOLECULAR RECOGNITION AND MODELING Introductions by Karl Clodfelter, Boston University
9:00am	Professor Sandor Vajda Boston University, Biomedical Engineering Department "Computational solvent mapping for the analysis of enzyme active sites"
9:35am	Professor Dr. Earnst Walter Knapp Free University of Berlin, Department of Biology, Chemistry, and Pharmacy "Synthetic Cytochrome b: Computer Modeling and Evaluation of Redox Potentials"
10:10am	Yu Zheng Boston University, Bioinformatics Graduate Program "Genomics annotation using co-evolution profiles of gene clusters"
10:40am	Coffee Break
11:00am	Rong Chen Boston University, Bioinformatics Graduate Program "A Novel Shape Complementarity Scoring Function for Protein Docking"
11:30am	Carlos Camacho Research Assistant Professor Boston University, Biomedical Engineering Dept. "On the origin and conservation of singlets and paralogs across genomes"
12:05pm	Lunch Break
1:30pm	Poster Session

Friday July 26, 2002

	GENOME ANNOTATION Introductions by Prof. Zhiping Weng, Boston University
9:00am	Key Note Speaker George Church, Ph.D. Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School Director of the Lipper Center for Computational Genetics "Biosystems Measures and Models of Reproductive Fitness" Introduction by Professor Zhiping Weng
9:45am	Professor Scott Mohr Boston University, Dept. of Chemistry Biomolecular Engineering Research Center "Examination of Eukaryotic Origins via Sequence/Structure Correlations of Small-subunit Ribosomal Proteins"
10:20am	Coffee Break
10:40am	Megon Walker Boston University, Bioinformatics Graduate Program "Prokaryotic translation initiation site detection by product hidden Markov model"
11:10am	Research Asst. Prof. Joel Graber Boston University, Bioinformatics Program Bioinformatic studies of post-transcriptional processes
11:45am	Lunch Break
	PATHWAY IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS Introductions by Joel Graber, Research Assistant Professor, Boston University
1:50pm	Dr. Jana Wolf Humboldt University, Institute of Biology, Department for Theoretical Biology "RAS-mediated signal transduction in mammalian cells"
2:25pm	Dr. Martin Falcke Hahn-Meitner Institute, Department of Theory "On the role of fluctuations in intracellular calcium dynamics"
3:00pm	Professor James Collins Boston University, Biomedical Engineering Co-Director, Center for Biodynamics "Designer Gene Networks"
3:35pm	Coffee Break
3:50pm	Professor Dr. Thomas Hofer Humboldt University, Institute of Biology, Department of Theoretical Biophysics "Deterministic and stochastic models of cytokine memory in T helper lymphocytes"
4:25pm	Professor Reinhart Heinrich Humboldt University, Institute of Biology, Department of Theoretical Biophysics "Mathematical modeling of metabolic and regulatory networks"

Saturday July 27, 2002

	PATHWAY IDENTIFICATION AND ANALYSIS Introductions by Robert Anderson, Boston University
9:00am	Professor Scott Schaus Boston University, Dept. of Chemistry "A Chemical Genetic Approach to Understanding Kinase Activation and Function"
9:35am	Katrin Hafez Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Bioinformatics, Berlin, Germany "Intraparticle and interparticle distribution of lipoprotein components - an object-oriented modeling approach"
10:05am	Professor Erwin Frey Hahn-Meitner Institute, Department of Theory "Actin Networks and Polymer Physics"
10:40am	Coffee Break
11:00am	Andreas Modler Max Delbruck Center of Molecular Medicine, Department of Biopolymerphysics "Nucleation versus coagulation ? parallel pathways for amyloid formation?"
	GENE EXPRESSION AND FUNCTIONAL GENOMICS Introductions by Joe Mellor, Boston University
11:30am	Avi Spira Senior Fellow in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Boston University School of Medicine "Gene-Experssion Profiles of Smokers and Nonsmokers with Denocarcinoma of the lung"
12:00pm	Lunch Break
1:30pm	T.M. Murali Research Associate Professor Boston University, Bioinformatics Program "Distilling Gene Formulae from Gene Expression Data"
2:05pm	Professor Erwin Stoschek Technical University Dresden, Faculty of Informatics, 01062 Dresden, Germany "Algorithmic generation of computer graphics, particularly of oral and animal patterns, mimicing aspects of gene expression"
2:40pm	Peter Haverty Boston University, Bioinformatics Graduate Program "Cross Validation and Comparison of High-Density Oligonucleotide Arrays and EST-Based Expression Analysis"
3:10pm	Closing Remarks Prof. Charles DeLisi Chair, Bioinformatics Graduate Program Dean Emeritus, College of Engineering, Boston University