 Structure, Folding and Dynamics of Proteins and Their Complexes
FEBS Practical Course
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 It is a pleasure to invite PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to take part in our course focused on current methods to investigate molecular mechanism of action of proteins. The course will cover theoretical lectures and hands-on practicals in small groups to facilitate problem-oriented training. Accepted students from foreign countries will receive FEBS Youth Travel Fund Fellowship awards to cover registration, travel and subsistence. The course will take in place in Budapest, a city that blends together history, culture and a youthful cozy friendliness. |
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Systems biology produces numerous arrays of data that need to be properly handled and translated into molecular pathways, interactions and macromolecular structure and function to yield the much needed improved insights into physiological phenomena. This translation process necessarily involves detailed case studies of the macromolecular objects (with special focus on proteins) and their complexes using the methodology of biochemistry and biophysical chemistry.
Several state-of-the-art methods have been proved to be much informative for thermodynamic and kinetic analyses of structure, folding and dynamics of proteins and their complexes. The present course will cover some of the most useful such methods and will provide theoretical background and hands-on practical training on each technique, as well. By allowing participants to make trial experiments using their own samples, the course will offer an opportunity to get relevant and problem-oriented training.
The methods for the course were selected to cover both kinetic and thermodynamic viewpoints into structure and dynamics of proteins and complexes. Instead of focusing on one single method, an important message of the course will be the great advantage of integrating different techniques to solve a biological problem. Students will get acquinted with the techniques, will gather a background on theory and applications and will meet some expert scientists in these fields, whom they can later also contact for advice.
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The organizing committee wishes to thank all applicants for their interest in our course. 45 applications have been received, all of these fullfilled the necessary criteria and the majority of these were excellent or very good. Unfortunately, the course can offer only 18 places, so grading the high number of good applications was a hard task. We selected 18 aplications based on the submitted materials and also trying to keep pan-European representation. We also had to respect the requirements of FEBS to accept four Hungarian students. Based on the high level of interest, we will try to repeat this course again in the future. To help those applicants who are not among the selected ones, we will post course documents on the webpage.
International selected applicants:
- Viivi Majava (Finland)
- Manuel Taft (Germany)
- Anastasia Pivovarova (Russia)
- Anton Shemetov (Russia)
- Olga Maloletkina (Russia)
- Rute Matos (Portugal)
- Lina Baranauskiene (Lithuania)
- Dimitra Georgiadou (Greece)
- Andras Boeszoermenyi (Austria)
- Svetlana Loznikova (Belarus)
- Halina Wojtowicz (Poland)
- Aleksandr Sahakyan (UK)
- Anastasiia Kamenska (Ukraine)
- Jonathan Ulmer (France)
Hungarian selected applicants:
- Róbert Bátori
- Milán Szabó
- Kinga Futó
- Tünde Tót
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- Beáta G. Vértessy, Institute of Enzymology, Karolina 29, H-1113 Budapest, Hungary
- László Nyitray, Department of Biochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter 1/C, H-1117, Budapest, Hungary
- Bonnie A. Wallace, Dept. of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London London WC1E 7HX U.K.
- Dmitrii I. Levitsky, A.N. Bach Institute of Biochemistry of Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prosp. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
- András Málnási-Csizmadia, Department of Biochemistry, Eötvös Loránd University, Pázmány Péter 1/C, H-1117, Budapest, Hungary
- Péter Tompa, Institute of Enzymology, Karolina 29, H-1113 Budapest, Hungary
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