Program

Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Locations

Morning lectures: Beckman Institute Auditorium
Coffee breaks: 1003 Beckman Institute
Afternoon and evening computer labs: 252 Everitt Lab / 406B1 Engineering Hall
campus map

Handouts

Running Simulations During the Afternoon Hands-on Sessions (html ,pdf)
Four Ways to Run NAMD at SS03 (html, pdf)

Collaborative Exercises

Energies
Echoes

Mon, 6/2: Introduction to Protein Structure and Dynamics (K. Schulten)

07:30-12:00 Registration
08:30-09:00 Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Overview (pdf)
09:00-10:00 Molecular Graphics Perspective of Protein Structure and Function (pdf)
10:00-11:00 Molecular Dynamics Method (part 1 - pdf; part 2 - pdf) (J. Phillips and J. Gullingsrud)
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Equilibrium Properties of Proteins (pdf)
12:30-12:45 Daily Q & A
Lunch Break (12:45-13:30 Staff Meeting, 3169 BI )
13:45-14:30 Overview of Technical Resources (pdf) (T. Skirvin, K. Vandivort, R. Brunner) [Beckman Institute Auditorium]
14:30-15:30 Hands-on -- Molecular Graphics Tutorial 1 (html, pdf) (E. Villa, F. Khalili)
15:45-17:00 Hands-on -- Molecular Graphics Tutorial 2 (html, pdf) (E. Villa, F. Khalili)
19:00-21:00 Free Session -- Model Your Own System (E. Villa, J. Gullingsrud, M. Sotomayor, M. Dittrich)

Tue, 6/3: Statistical Mechanics of Proteins (I. Kosztin)

09:00-11:00 Registration
09:00-10:00 Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Properties of Proteins (pdf)
10:00-11:00 Coherent Motion in Proteins: Temperature Echoes (pdf, paper)
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Simulated Cooling of Proteins (pdf)
12:30-12:45 Daily Q & A
Lunch Break (12:45-13:30 Staff Meeting, 3169 BI )
14:30-15:30 Hands-on -- Molecular Dynamics Tutorial 1 (html, pdf) (A. Aksimentiev, D. Lu)
15:45-17:00 Hands-on -- Molecular Dynamics Tutorial 2 (html, pdf) (A. Aksimentiev, D. Lu)
18:00-20:00 Banquet [Beckman Institute Atrium] (closed event; nametags required)

Wed, 6/4: Steered Molecular Dynamics of Proteins (K. Schulten)

09:00-10:00 Introduction and Examples (pdf)
10:00-11:00 Mechanical Proteins (pdf)
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Determining Potentials (pdf)
12:30-12:45 Daily Q & A
Lunch Break (12:45-13:30 Staff Meeting, 3169 BI )
14:30-15:30 Hands-on -- Molecular Dynamics Tutorial 3 (html, pdf) (S. Park, M. Gao)
15:45-17:00 Hands-on -- Stretching Deca-Alanine (html, pdf) (S. Park, M. Gao)
19:00-21:00 Free Session -- Model Your Own System (A. Aksimentiev, J. DeSouza, B. Isralewitz, J. Cohen)

Thu, 6/5: Simulating Membrane Channels (E. Tajkhorshid)

09:00-10:00 Introduction and Examples (pdf)
10:00-11:00 Transport in Aquaporins (pdf)
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Nanotubes (pdf)
12:30-12:45 Daily Q & A
12:45 Summer School Photo
Lunch Break (12:45-13:30 Staff Meeting, 3169 BI )
14:30-15:30 Hands-on -- Water Channel 1 (html, pdf) (F. Zhu, J. Cohen)
15:45-17:00 Hands-on -- Water Channel 2 (html, pdf) (F. Zhu, J. Cohen)
17:30-19:00 Demonstration of Aquaporin channel and Haptic Device IMD (3 demos) [3151 BI]
19:00-21:00 Free Session -- Model Your Own System (D. Lu, F. Zhu)

Fri, 6/6: Quantum Chemistry of Proteins (T. Martinez)

09:00-10:00 Introduction and Examples (pdf)
10:00-11:00 Ab Initio and Semiempirical Quantum Chemistry (pdf)
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 QM/MM Methods and Direct Dynamics (pdf)
12:30-12:45 Daily Q & A
Lunch Break (12:45-13:30 Staff Meeting, 3169 BI )
14:30-15:30 Hands-on -- Introduction to QM Simulations (html, pdf) (M. Dittrich, S. Olsen)
15:45-17:00 Hands-on -- Computational Determination of Proton Affinities (html, pdf) (M. Dittrich, S. Olsen)
19:00-21:00 Free Session -- Model Your Own System (C. Kanchanawarin, M. Gao)

Sat, 6/7

Bus Trip to Chicago (Optional, Not Funded by School, Sign up Early)

Sun, 6/8

14:00-21:00 Free Session -- Model Your Own System

Mon, 6/9: Parameters for Classical Force Fields (Z. Schulten)

09:00-10:00 Introduction and Examples (pdf)
10:00-11:00 Introduction to Classical Force Fields (pdf)
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Methods of Parameterization (pdf)
12:30-12:45 Daily Q & A
Lunch Break (12:45-13:30 Staff Meeting, 3169 BI )
14:30-15:30 Hands-on -- System Setup of HisH with the Molecular Modeling Package Moe (html, pdf) (R. Amaro, F. Autenrieth, R. Braun)
15:45-17:00 Hands-on -- Semiempirical Parameter Generation with Spartan (html, pdf) (R. Amaro, F. Autenrieth, R. Braun)
17:30-19:00 Demonstration of Aquaporin channel and Haptic Device IMD (3 demos) [3151 BI]
19:00-21:00 Free Session - Model Your Own System (G. Zheng, S. Kumar)

Tue, 6/10: Bioinformatics of Proteins (Z. Schulten)

09:00-10:00 Protein Structure Prediction and Function html, (pdf)
10:00-11:00 Sequence and Structure Alignment Algorithms (pdf)
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Sequence and Structural Analysis Tools on the Web (pdf)
12:30-12:45 Daily Q & A
Lunch Break (12:45-13:30 Staff Meeting, 3169 BI )
14:30-15:30 Hands-on -- Bioinformatics Introduction on Class II tRNA Synthetases (html, pdf) (F. Autenrieth, B. Isralewitz, T. Pogorelov)
15:45-17:00 Hands-on -- Sequence and Structural Alignment Methods (html, pdf) (F. Autenrieth, B. Isralewitz, T. Pogorelov)
19:00-21:00 Free Session -- Model Your Own System (D. Hardy, F. Khalili)

Wed, 6/11: Simulation of Lipids (M. Klein); Parallel Computing (L. Kale)

08:55-09:00 Entries for Beauty Contest are due
09:00-10:00 Atomic Level Simulation of Membranes (pdf) (M. Klein)
10:00-11:00 Coarse Grained Modeling of Lipid Phases (pdf) (M. Klein)
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Introduction to Parallel Computing Issues (pdf) (L. Kale)
12:30-12:45 Daily Q & A
12:45-12:50 Announcement of Beauty Contest Finalists
Lunch Break (12:50-13:30 Staff Meeting, 3169 BI )
14:30-15:30 Hands-on -- Case Studies in Effective Parallelization of MD Simulations (pdf) (L. Kale)
15:45-16:30 Optional - Introductory Lessons on Cluster Building (pdf); Choose-up for Section 1, 2, or 3 (T. Skirvin, J. Stone, J. Phillips)
16:30-18:30 Optional - Hands-on -- Build Your Own Cluster 1 (html, pdf) (T. Skirvin, J. Stone, J. Phillips) (5602 BI)
19:00-21:00 Free Session -- Model Your Own System (R. Braun, D. Brandon)

Thu, 6/12: Numerical Algorithms (T. Schlick, R. Skeel)

09:00-10:00 Force Evaluation, Integrators, and Propagators (Slides, Notes) (R. Skeel)
10:00-11:00 Optimization Techniques (pdf, HW) (T. Schlick)
Coffee Break
11:30-12:30 Monte Carlo Methods (pdf, HW) (T. Schlick)
12:30-12:45 Feedback Forms
Lunch Break (12:45-13:30 Staff Meeting, 3169 BI )
14:30-15:30 Hands-on -- Numerical Laboratory (pdf) (D. Hardy, R. Engle, J. Marriott, W. Wang)
15:30-17:30 Optional - Hands-on -- Build Your Own Cluster 2 (html, pdf) (T. Skirvin, J. Stone, J. Phillips) (5602 BI)
17:30-19:30 Optional - Hands-on -- Build Your Own Cluster 3 (html, pdf) (T. Skirvin, J. Stone, J. Phillips) (5602 BI)
15:30-17:00 NCSA Cave Tours (6 Tours) [3510 BI]
19:30-21:00 Beauty Contest [Beckman Institute Auditorium]
The certificate of the summer school will be handed out.

Fri, 6/13: Modeling Large Systems (K. Schulten)

09:00-10:00 Molecular Machines of the Living Cell (pdf)
10:00-11:00 Light Harvesting in Photosynthesis (pdf)
Coffee Break
11:30-12:00 ATP Synthase (pdf)
12:00-12:15 Daily Q & A
12:15-12:45 Concluding Remarks
Lunch Break (12:45-13:30 Staff Meeting, 3169 BI )
13:00-14:30 NCSA Cave Tours (6 Tours) [3510 BI]
14:30-15:30 Hands-on -- Excitation Transfer (html, pdf) (M. Sener, C. Kanchanawarin)
15:45-17:00 Hands-on -- Electron Transfer (html ,pdf) (M. Sener, C. Kanchanawarin)