Scientific Program


Saturday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10:00-17:00

Registration

 

 

17:00-17:15

 

Opening

 

Chairman:

 A. Toro-Labbe

 

 

17:15-18:00

 A. MacKerell

Towards A Polarizable Force Field For Macromolecules: Optimization Of A Force Field Based On The Classical Drude Oscillator

 

18:00-18:45

 P. Hobza

Structure And Properties Of DNA And Proteins:  Stabilization Energies Of DNA Base Pairs And Amino Acid Pairs

 

19:20

 

Opening Reception

 

 

 

 

 

Sunday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chairman:

 M. Hall

 

 

9:00-9:45

 A. Michalak

Localized Orbitals From Chemical Valence Theory

 

9:45-10:30

 P. Politzer

Noncovalent Complex Formation Involving Interactions Between Like-Charged Atoms

 

 

Coffee break

 

 

10:50-11:35

 T. Andruniow

The Excited-State Time Evolution Of Rhodopsin Investigated With Multiconfigurational Quantum Methodology

 

11:35-12:20

 A. Sokalski

What Could We Learn From The Knowledge Of Intermolecular Interaction Energy Components?

 

 

Lunch

 

 

Chairman:

 T. Clark

 

 

15:00-15:30

 J. Neugebauer

Coupled Excitations Within A Subsystem Formulation Of TDDFT

 

15:30-16:00

 V. Sychrovský

Scalar Coupling Constants Across The Non-Covalent Contacts In RNA Base Pairs, The Cis- And Trans- Watson-Crick/Sugar Edge Base Pair Family

 

16:00-16:30

 L. Rulíšek

Molecular Design Of The Specific Metal-Binding Peptide Sequences From Protein Fragments. A Theory And Experiment

 

16:30-17:00

 B. Szefczyk

New Mechanism Of The P-C Bond Cleavage In Phosphonatase From QM/MM Modelling

 

17:30

 M. Zbrozek and L. Kuta

Six Sonatas For Two Violins By Jean-Marie Leclair

 

 

 

 

 

19:00

Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monday

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chairman:

 P. Hobza

 

 

9:00-9:45

 T. Clark

Signal Transduction: The Effect Of Mutations And Modified Inducers On TetR

 

9:45-10:30

 M. Hall

Modeling Di-Iron Hydrogenase

 

 

Coffee break

 

 

10:50-11:35

 J. Murray

The Complementary Nature Of The Electrostatic Potential And The Local Ionization Energy

 

11:35-12:20

 A. Klamt

Most Ab Initio pKa Calculation With COSMO-RS And Latest Improvements By Explicit Water Molecules

 

 

Lunch

 

 

Chairman:

S. Zaric

 

 

15:00-15:30

 T. Borowski

Reaction Mechanism Of A Retinal-Forming Carotenoid Oxygenase - A DFT Study

 

15:30-16:00

 M. Otyepka

Flexibilities of human microsomal cytochromes P450 studied by classical MD

 

16:00-16:30

 K. Riley

Halogen Boding In Biological Systems

 

16:30-17:00

 H. Valdes

RI-DFT-D: A Promising Tool For Studying Isolated Small Peptides

 

 

Coffee break

 

 

17:20

POSTER I

 

 

19:00

Dinner

 

 

 

 

 

Tuesday

 

 

 

 

 

Chairman:

 U. Ryde

 

9:00-9:30

 J. Kozelka

Modeling The Kinetics Of Cisplatin Reactions With DNA:  Does DNA Affect Cisplatin Hydrolysis?

9:30-10:00

 A. Toro-Labbe

The Electronic Flux In Chemical Reactions. Concept And Applications

 

coffee break

 

10:50-11:35

 D. Sundholm

The Primary Steps In The Photoisomerization Reaction Of Retinal

11:35-12:20

 J. Korchowiec

Elongation Cutoff Technique Armed With Quantum Fast Multipole Method For Linear SCF Scaling

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 

Wednesday

 

 

 

 

 

Chairman:

 F. J. Luque

 

9:00-9:45

 J. Koèa

Molecular Dynamics Simulations On Cyclin Dependent Kinases; Contribution To Designing New Inhibitors And Understanding Mechanism Of Activation/Inhibition

9:45-10:30

 J. Šponer

Computational Studies Of Nucleic Acids, Advances And Failures

 

Coffee break

 

10:50-11:35

 U. Ryde

Theoretical Studies Of Cytochrome P450

11:35-12:20

 S. Zaric

Study Of Noncovalent Interactions In Metalloproteins

 

Lunch

 

Chairman:

 J. Šponer

 

15:00-15:30

 R.Crehuet

A Dynamic View Of Enzyme Catalysis

15:30-16:00

 K.Réblová

Study Of Unusual RNA Structures Using Molecular Dynamics Methods

16:00-16:30

 M. Prokop

TRITON:  Graphic Software For Docking Ligands To Protein Mutants

 

16:30-17:00

 J. Wiesner

Tryptophane As A Rotating Flap: Omega Loop Dynamics In Acetylcholinesterase

17:00-17:30

 G. Hill

Methylation Effects On DNA Bases And Base Pairs

 

Coffee break

 

17:50

POSTER II

 

19:00

Dinner

 

 

 

 

Thursday

 

 

 

 

 

Chairman:

 A. Sokalski

 

9:00-9:45

 F. J. Luque

Molecular Basis Of The NO Detoxification Mechanism In Truncated Hemoglobin N

9:45-10:30

 O. Ventura

Observation Of Enzymatic Proton Networks By Combined X-Ray And Neutron Crystallography Supported By QM/MD Calculations

 

Coffee break

 

10:50-11:35

 N. Gresh

Refinements And Validations Of The SIBFA Polarizable Molecular Mechanics

11:35-12:20

 A. Wierzbicki

The Importance Of Nonpolar Interactions In The Structure-Function Relationship In The Mechanism Of Action Of The Type I Antifreeze Proteins

12:20-12:30

 

Closing Remarks

 

 

 

 

Lunch

 

 

Concert program: two excellent Czech violinists Martin Zbrozek and Lukas Kuta will perform six sonatas for two violins by French composer Jean-Marie Leclair (1692-1764).