Amber
AMBER MOLECULAR DYNAMICS WORKSHOP
April 26th- 30th 2015
Pre-Academic Education Center, Technion, Haifa
Workshop Facilitators:
Topics:
Professor Ross Walker
San Diego Supercomputer Center
& Department of Chemistry and
Biochemistry,
UC San Diego, USA
Introduction to force fields and molecular dynamics
Professor Adrian Roitberg
Department of Chemistry
University of Florida, USA
Visualizing AMBER simulations
Professor Tom Kurtzman
Department of Chemistry,
Lehman college, USA
Introduction to implicit solvent and binding
energy calculations
Overview of AMBER and AmberTools and its programs
Introduction to setting up and running simulations
Overview of AMBER Force Fields / Solvent Models etc
Protein folding and advanced analysis
Designing good simulation projects
Dealing with non-standard residues
What to do if there is no crystal structure
Statistical mechanics for free energy calculations
Organizing committee:
Dr. Fabian Glaser
Head of Structural Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics Knowledge Unit (BKU)
Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center for
Life Sciences & Engineering Technion
Prof. Yael Mandel-Gutfreund
Director
Bioinformatics Knowledge Unit
Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center
for Life Sciences & Engineering
Technion
Shira Sagee
Administrative Executive
Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center
for Life Sciences & Engineering
QM/MM coupled potential simulations
Advanced sampling methods
Lipid bilayer simulations
Sponsored by:
The Moshe Yanai Fund
for the Promotion of
international Conferences