Program overview

THURSDAY AFTERNOON, 6 MARCH 2003

Session x9. DBP: Physics of Biomolecular Binding.

Thursday afternoon, 17:30, Room 4ABC, Austin Convention Center

17:30 x9.001 Electrostatic Interactions and Biomolecular Binding
Rebecca Wade (European Media Laboratory)
18:06 x9.002 Hydrophobic Interactions and Biomolecular Binding Versus Folding
Ruth Nussinov (NCI/NIH)
18:42 x9.003 Monte carlo simulations of biomolecular binding
Gennady Verkhivker (Pfizer Global Research and Development, La Jolla Laboratories)
19:18 x9.004 Funneled Energy Landscape of Biomolecular Binding:Specificity and Universal Distributions
Jin Wang (SUNY at Stony Brook and Citigroup)
19:54 x9.005 Dynamic Coupling between Folding, Binding and Function
Peter G. Wolynes (University of California, San Diego)

Session x10. DBP: Physical Models of Ions/Protein Interactions.

Thursday afternoon, 17:30, Room 5ABC, Austin Convention Center

17:30 x10.001 Ionic selectivity of ion channels: charge/space competition
Wolfgang Nonner (Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Miami, Miami, FL)
18:06 x10.002 Monte Carlo Simulations of Calcium and Sodium Channels
Douglas Henderson (Brigham Young University)
18:42 x10.003 Modeling Electrostatic Interactions
Michael Gilson (University of Maryland)
19:18 x10.004 Probing the origin for the Selectivity of the KcsA Channel by Calculating Ion Currents With Realistic Protein Models.
Arieh Warshel (Department of Chemistry University of Southern california)