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Netherlands Society on Biomolecular Modelling Fall Meeting
VUB welcomes for the first time in Brussels the NSBM Fall Meeting with topic: Structural Bioinformatics Beyond AlphaFold2
When and where
Date and time
Thursday, October 27, 2022 · 10am - 7pm CEST
Location
U - Residence, Green Room 271 Boulevard Géneral Jacques 1050 Ixelles Belgium
About this event
Full programme and list of posters:
https://www.bio2byte.be/static_tools/NSBM2022_programme_and_posters_electronic.pdf
Sessions:
- Structural bioinformatics in the age of AlphaFold2
Keynote speaker: Gert Vriend, Senior Professor Bioinformatics of Macromolecular Structures and director of the CMBI bioinformatics institute at the Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Sciences at the Radboud University Medical Centre.
- Proteomics & Protein Structure
Keynote speaker: Ron Heeren, M4I, Professor and Limburg co-chair of the Maastricht Multimodal Molecular Imaging Institute, Maastricht University
- Large scale AlphaFold2 analyses
Keynote speaker: Christine Orengo, Professor of Bioinformatics at University College London (UCL)
- Probabilistic approaches to protein conformation
Keynote speaker: Max Bonomi, CNRS researcher and group leader of the “Integrative structural biology of dynamic systems” team
Final programme :
9:15 - 9:55 Arrival, coffee, poster setup
9:55 - 10:00 Welcome word
10:00 - 10:45 Session 1: Structural bioinformatics in the age of AlphaFold2 (Gert Vriend)
10:45 - 11:30 Session 2: Proteomics & Protein Structure (Ron Heeren)
11:30 - 12:15 Flash talks from submitted abstracts (3 presentations of 10min + 5min Q&A)
- Ida de Vries: AlphaFill: Enriching the AlphaFold models with co-factors, small molecules and metal ions.
- Marius Wanko: Mechanism of enzyme inhibition by nanobody: from molecular structure to molecular dynamic.
- Hessel Poelman: The cation-π interaction: lost in normalization.
12:15 - 13:00 Lunch break
14:30 - 15:15 Session 4: Probabilistic approaches to protein conformation (Max Bonomi)
13:00 - 13:45 Poster session
13:45 - 14:30 Session 3: Large scale AlphaFold2 analysis (Christine Orengo)
15:15 - 16:00 Flash talks from submitted abstracts (3 presentations of 10min + 5min Q&A)
- Alexander Gress: Features derived from protein 3D structure improve prediction of variant effects in novel proteins.
- Athanasios Baltzis: nf-core/proteinfold: a bioinformatics best-practice pipeline for protein 3D structure prediction.
- Mainak Guha Roy: SNPeffect 5.0: Large-scale structural phenotyping of protein coding variants extracted from next-generation sequencing data using AlphaFold models.
16:00 - 16:10 Closing speech & poster prize
16:10 - end Networking and reception
Key dates:
- Abstract submission deadline for talks: 16th October
- Communication for speakers: 20th October
- Deadline registration: 23th October
- Abstract submission deadline for posters: 16th October
Abstract submission:
- Via Easychair: https://easychair.org/cfp/NSBM2022
Sponsors:
- Elixir Belgium
- FWO Scientific Research Network ‘Novel Knowledge from Public Life Sciences Data’
- Structural Biology Brussels
- Belgian Biophysical Society
Want to be a sponsor?
- Contact us via email on nsbm2022@ibsquare.be
How to arrive from the Netherlands?
- Via Intercity Brussels to Brussel Centraal, then Metro 5 to Pétillon. (This ticket allows to take any IC Brussels any time of the day).
- Via Thalys or Eurostar to Brussels Midi, then Metros 2 or 6 until Kunst-Wet and Metro 5 until Pétillon