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Where: Grand Hotel San Michele, Centraro, Italy

When: 14-16/06/2010

Abstract submission deadline: 21/05/2010

This meeting, which corresponds to the biennial conference organized by the President of the International Society of Quantum Biology and Pharmacology, aims at bringing together specialists from around the world, and from all areas of biomolecular simulation to look at recent progress and to identify the most important challenges facing the field in the coming years in terms of methodology and practical applications.

For details: ISQBP 2010

Dates: 2-3 September, 2010

Venue: ETH Zürich, Lecture Hall HG E7, Zürich, Switzerland

Confirmed plenary lecturer: James U. Bowie, Kathryn M. Ferguson, John Kuriyan, Jonathon Howard, Jan Löwe, Krzystof Palcezski, Bob Stround.

This symposium series provides a yearly update on current structural biology themes and newest developments in the field. Renowned structural biology scientists from all over the world exchange their knowledge and current research ideas in an interactive way. The format of the symposium includes plenary lectures by invited guest scientists, discussions and poster presentations by NCCR scientists.

More details on the meeting website

A meeting for everyone that liked this post (17 Protein disorder prediction servers):

Dates: 4-6 October, 2010

Venue: Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain.

Registration deadline: July 15, 2010.

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This is the first post in a series, summarizing the CAPRI (Critical Assessment of PRediction of Interactions) 4th Evaluation meeting. In this post I’ll try to give a more personal perspective of the experiment results, the state and trends of computational protein-protein docking and the vibes behind the scenes. The next posts in the series will shortly summarize select talks from the meeting, kindly provided by the speakers.

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RosettaCon 2009 has ended just a few days ago.

This was a very exciting meeting, gathering almost all Rosetta developers from around the world, and representatives of the major industry licensees of Rosetta. The talks were quite diverse, ranging from new Rosetta protocols under development, applications with regards to numerous biological systems, and up to code architecture and future development of the code.

For scientists specializing in a specific field (such as computational structural biology – just off the top of my head) there are rare occasions in which meetings are dedicated entirely to their topic. This was such a conference! All through the three days of conference and one day of hiking, people had talked, discussed, brain stormed, ate, breathed, thought, swam, hiked, mingled and laughed protein structure. If the coffee break was drawn as a comic figure, with bubble clouds to depict thoughts and conversations, it would be a sea of alpha-helices, weird looking loops, rotamers, ligands and co-factors at interfaces, strange folds and stranger rainbow colored cartoon proteins. A modeler’s utopia.
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The Annual International Meeting of the Molecular Graphics and Modeling Society (MGMS) will take place in Erlangen, Germany from September 7th (registration and mixer) – 11th 2009.

The meeting will be preceded by the annual Molecular Modelling Workshop organised by the Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society – Deutschsprachige Sektion (MGMS-DS) from Sunday 6th to Monday, September 7th.

More Details: Modeling’09

An ISMB satellite meeting. Stockholm, June 27-28 2009.

3Dsig has established itself as a main event in the field of structural bioinformatics and computational biophysics since 2004. Amongst this year’s confirmed keynote speakers are Michael Levitt and Gunnar von Heijne. This is a unique event bringing together in one place the structural computational biology community. The program will be built around talks from accepted abstracts and invited speakers.

Keydates:

• February 16, 2009 – Registration opens for 3Dsig and ISMB/ECCB. 
• March 18, 2009 – Deadline for submitting an abstract to 3Dsig to be considered for oral presentation.
• April 2, 2009 – Deadline for travel fellowship application for the main ISMB/ECCB conference.

November 4-5, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

The 2008 Computational Structural Bioinformatics Workshop (CSBW) will be held in conjucntion with the IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2008) The rapid accumulaiton of macromolecular structures presents a unique set of challenges and opportunities in analysis, modeling and prediction of mcrommolecular structures and interactions. This workshop aims to bring together researchers with expertise in bioinformatics, computational biology, structural biology, data mining, optimization and high performance computing to discuss recent results, new techniques and open research problems in computational structural bioinformatics. Workshop website.