2012 PRESIDENT'S MEETING

CHALLENGES IN BIOMOLECULAR MODELING - FROM QM TO COARSE-GRAINING

Långholmen, Stockholm, Sweden, 17-20 June 2012

ORGANIZERS
Lennart Nilsson, President ISQBP, Karolinska Institutet
Alessandra Villa, Karolinska Insitutet
Fahmi Himo, Stockholm University

This meeting, the biennial conference organized by the President of the International Society of Quantum Biology and Pharmacology, intends to illuminate the state-of-the-art in molecular modeling and simulations of biological systems, with specific problems taken from currently active research areas at multiple time-, energy-, and length scales.

PROGRAM OUTLINE
The meeting starts at lunch Sunday June 17 and ends in the afternoon of Wednesday June 20. In addition to presentations by the invited speakers, ca 15 oral presentations (20 minutes) will be selected from the poster abstracts.  On Monday there will be a poster session (with poster prizes!), and Tuesday evening features a boat-cruise-banquet in the inner Stockholm archipelago.

PROGRAM

INVITED SPEAKERS
Charles L. Brooks III, Tom Cheatham, Cecilia Clementi, Tatjana Domratcheva, Holger Gohlke, Gerrit Groenhof, William Jorgensen, Richard Lavery, Alexander MacKerell, Wilma Olson, Monte Pettitt, Carol Post, Nathalie Reuter, Julia Rice, Per Siegbahn, Joanna Trylska, Michele Vendruscolo, Johan Åqvist.

REGISTRATION AND FEES (includes social events and lunches)
Student fee reduction is sponsored by the ISQBP Loew Memorial Fund.
Early registration before April 1, 2012:  Student fee €200 (poster required), regular fee €350
Registration before May 1, 2012: Student fee €300 (poster required), regular fee €400
Abstract deadline is May 1, 2012.

The registration is now closed. Please contact Monica Ahlberg (Monica.Ahlberg@ki.se) for information about the conference, which is limited to a total of 80 people.  The web-page will be updated as new information becomes available.