CMM Philadelphia

2nd CMM 'Users Meet Developers' Workshop on QM/MM Simulations
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Aug 24th - 26th 2007 in Philadelphia


Workshop Program


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Time line:

Thursday, Aug 23, 2007. Arrival
Friday, Aug 24, 2007, "Developers Day"
Saturday, Aug 25, 2007, "Applications Day"
Sunday, Aug 26, 2007, "Users Day" / Departure

Thursday, Aug 23, 2007

Arrival of participants.

Check-in at the Latham Hotel for participants with reservations organized through the CMM.

For Restaurants and Bars that serve dinner on or close to the campus, University City District, or in Center City District.

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Friday, Aug 24, 2007, "Developers Day"

Session 1:
Session Chair: Axel Kohlmeyer, CMM, University of Pennsylvania
8.30am
Coffee and Late Registration
8.45am
Title: Welcome and Introduction
Presenter: Axel Kohlmeyer
9.00am
Title: Using DYNAMO to Simulate Enzymatic Reactions with Hybrid QM/MM Potential Energy Functions
Presenter: Troy Wymore, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
9.45am
Title: ChemShell: A Modular QM/MM Simulation Package Based on the Tcl Interpreter
Presenter: Johannes Kaestner, Daresbury, UK
10.30am - 10.45am
Coffee Break
10.45am
Title: An overview of the QM/MM Molecular Dynamics Support in Amber 9.0
Presenter: Ross Walker, San Diego Supercomputing Center
11.30am
Title: PUPIL: A New Tool for Multi-scale Simulation
Presenter: Joan Torres-Costa, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
12.15pm
Title: QM/MM via Common Component Architecture
Presenter: Curtis Janssen, Sandia National Labs
1.00pm - 3.00pm
Lunch Break
Session 2:
Session Chair: Shawn Brown, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
3.00pm
Title: Coupling between Chemistry and Structural Transitions in Molecular Machines - Insights from QM/MM Studies
Presenter: Qiang Cui, University of Wisconsin
3.45pm
Title: Substrate Selectivity in the Pore of AmtB Ammonium Transporter Studied with QM/MM Free Energy Calculations
Presenter: Guillaume Lamoureux, Concordia University, Canada
4.30pm - 4.45pm
Coffee Break
4.45pm
Title: Vibrational Spectroscopy within QM/MM: Dynamics of Protonated Water Networks in Bacteriorhodopsin
Presenter: Gerald Mathias, Serge Ivanov, Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany
5.30pm
Title: Optimized QM/MM Capping Potentials for the Calculation of NMR Properties
Presenter: Sittipong Komin, MPIP Mainz, Germany
6.15pm
Title: Closing Remarks, Announcements
6.30pm
Reception
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Saturday, Aug 25, 2006, "Applications Day"

Session 3:
Session Chair: Jochen Blumberger, University of Cambridge, UK
8.45am
Title: Welcome/Announcements
Presenter: Jochen Blumberger
9.00am
Title: QM/MM with plane waves and the construction of molecular pseudopotentials
Presenter: Mark Tuckerman, New York University
9.45am
Title: QM/MM Calculations using ChemShell: Insights into Enzymatic Halogenation
Presenter: Hans-Martin Senn, University of Glasgow, UK
10.30am - 10.45am
Coffee Break
10.45am
Title: Applications of CPMD QM/MM to heme protein modeling
Presenter: Carme Rovira, Parc Cientific de Barcelona, Spain
11.30am
Title: QM/MM investigation of chemical reactivity of heme proteins
Presenter: Dario Estrin, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
12.15pm
Title: QM/MM Studies of metallo-beta-lactamases
Presenter: Fabio Simona, SISSA, Italy
1.00pm - 3.00pm
Lunch Break
Session 4:
Session Chair: Teodoro Laino, University of Zürich, Switzerland
3.00pm
Title: QoMMMa: A User's Perspective from Modeling Enzyme Active Sites
Presenter: Ann Schmiedekamp, Pennsylvania State University
3.45pm
Title: Dissociation of Angeli's Salt in Explicit Water: An Application of the PUPIL Package as an Interface between Amber and Gaussian
Presenter: Gustavo Seabra, University of Florida
4.30pm - 4.45pm
Coffee Break
4.45pm
Title: Revisiting the Direct Decarboxylation Mechanism of ODCase with CP2K
Presenter: I-Feng Will Kuo, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
5.30pm
Title: Solvent Effects on Charge Spatial Extent in DNA and Implications for Transfer
Presenter: Yves Mantz, ETHZ, Switzerland
6.15pm
Title: Closing Remarks, Announcements
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Sunday, Aug 26, "Users Day"

Session 5:
Session Chair: Axel Kohlmeyer
8.45am
Title: Welcome/Announcements
Presenter: Axel Kohlmeyer
9.00am
Title: Acetylcholinesterase: 10000 ways that will not work
Presenter: Margaret Hurley, US Army Research Laboratory
9.30am
QM/MM Demonstrations, Part 1
for details see the demo page.
10.30am - 10.45am
Coffee Break
10.45am
QM/MM Demonstrations, Part 2
for details see the demo page.
12.00am - 12.30pm
Title: Plenary Discussion, Closing Remarks.
Presenter: Axel Kohlmeyer, University of Pennsylvania
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