UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences

A Newton Institute Satellite Workshop

Mathematical Virology

14 - 17 June 2004

Programme

Abstracts (PDF Document)


Monday 14 June

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


Tuesday 15 June

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


Wednesday 16 June

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


Thursday 17 June

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



Mustapha Amrani
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