TCB Hands-on Workshop in Pittsburgh

Program

Location: 

  • Lectures: Building 12A, Room B51

Mon, 11/5: Introduction to Protein Structure and Dynamics

09:00-09:10 Opening Remarks - E. Tajkhorshid
09:10-10:40 Structure and Sequence Analysis with VMD - E. Tajkhorshid
Coffee Break
11:00-12:10 VMD for Structure Building and Dynamics Analysis - E. Tajkhorshid
12:10-12:30 Q & A
Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 VMD Tutorial I
Coffee Break
16:00-17:30 VMD Tutorial II
 

Tue, 11/6: Statistical Mechanics of Proteins

09:00-10:30 Molecular Dynamics with NAMD I - K. Schulten
Coffee Break
10:50-12:10 Molecular Dynamics with NAMD II - K. Schulten
12:10-12:30
 
Q & A
Group photo
Lunch Break
14:00-16:00 NAMD Tutorial I
Coffee Break
16:15-18:00 NAMD Tutorial II

 

Wed, 11/7: Parameters for Classical Force Fields

09:00-10:30 Molecular Dynamics of Cellular Processes I - E. Tajkhorshid
Coffee Break
10:50-12:10 Molecular Dynamics of Cellular Processes II - K. Schulten
12:10-12:30 Q & A
Lunch Break
14:00-16:30 Parameterizing a Novel Residue, Topology File Tutorial
Coffee Break
16:45-18:00 Nanotube Tutorial / Stretching Deca-alanine Tutorial

Workshop supported in part by NIH P41-RR005969 "Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics".