| UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences A Newton Institute Satellite WorkshopMathematical Virology14 - 17 June 2004 Programme |
13.15 - 13.45 Introduction (P. Stockley, R. Twarock)
13.45 - 14.40 D. Stuart (University of Oxford):TBA
14.40 - 15.10 TEA
15.10 - 16.05 C. Brooks (The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla): Exploring mechanical, physical and chemical aspects of virus swelling and assembly using elastic network normal mode analysis
16.05 - 17.00 R. Bruinsma (UCLA):Viral self-assembly and icosahedral symmetry
10.00 - 10.55 M. Thorpe (Arizona State University):Flexibility and Assembly of Viral Capsids
10.55 - 11.50 P. Carloni (SISSA, Trieste):Targets for anti-AIDS Intervention Investigated by Molecular Simulation
11.50 - 13.00 LUNCH
13.00 - 13.55 J. King (MIT):Subunit-subunit and coat-scaffold interactions in icosahedral shell assembly
13.55 - 14.50 R. Hendrix (University of Pittsburgh):Bacteriophage HK97 head assembly: dramatic rearrangements in the context of icosahedral symmetry
14.50 - 15.20 TEA
15.20 - 16.15 A. Zlotnick (University of Oklahoma):Interpreting Virus Assembly Reactions with Minimal Thermodynamic-Kinetic Models
16.15 - 16.45 T. Keef (University of Durham): A Tiling Approach to Viral Capsid Assembly
17.00 Champagne reception at Brasenose College
10.00 - 10.55 D. Nelson (Harvard University):Virus shapes and buckling transitions in spherical shells
10.55 - 11.50 D. Wales (University of Cambridge):Energy landscapes of clusters, biomolecules and glasses
11.50 - 13.00 LUNCH
13.00 - 13.55 D. Marenduzzo (University of Oxford):Thermodynamics of DNA packaging inside a viral capsid: a coarse grained approach
13.55 - 14.50 R. Tuma (University of Helsinki);In vitro assembly of bacteriophages: folding, kinetic control and intermediates
14.50 - 15.20 TEA
15.20 - 15.50 N. Stonehouse (University of Leeds):The bacteriophage Φ29 DNA packaging motor
15.50 - 16.45 P. Stockley (University of Leeds):Dissecting the fine details of RNA bacteriophage assembly
19.00 Conference dinner
10.00 - 10.55 R. Kerner (Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI):Models of self-similar growth
10.55 - 11.50 R. Schwartz (University of Pittsburgh):Simulating Capsid Assembly Kinetics with Local Rules Models
11.50 - 13.00 LUNCH
13.00 - 13.30 F. MacKintosh (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam):Elasticity of small shells: Microtubule and viral capsid mechanics
13.30 - 14.00 H. Jäälinoja (University of Helsinki):Dimers and trimers in a T=28 virus
14.00 - 14.55 R. Twarock (City University, London):Structure and assembly of viral capsids via viral tiling theory
after 15.00 TEA + DISCUSSIONS