Sunday, 20 June 2004

9:30 - 10:00	Location -- Room -101, Building 58
	Welcome and Opening Remarks

Session I

10:00 - 10:25	Chen Keasar (Computer Science and Life Sciences) "Meshi - a new object oriented molecular modeling package"
10:25 - 10:50	Danny Barash (Computer Science) "Matrix graph representation for predicting mutations leading to conformational rearrangements in RNAs"
10:50 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:25	Michal Shapira (Life Sciences) "RNA binding activity of the Ribulose-1,5-Bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase large subunit from Chlamydomonas reinhardtii-combining bioinformatics with biological experiments"
11:25 - 11:50	Klara Kedem (Computer Science) "Metrics for protein structure comparison and alignment"
11:50 - 12:00	Coffee Break

Session II

12:00 - 13:00	Guest Lecture by Edward N. Trifonov (Head of the Genome Diversity Center, Institute of Evolution, Haifa): "Early billenia of the triplet code. Reconstruction and surprises."
13:00 - 14:00	Lunch: Catering from the Salad Bar, in Room -101

Session III

14:00 - 14:25	Vered Caspi (Head, Bioinformatics Support Unit, COBI BGU node, Department of Life Sciences) "Providing knowledge and infrastructure for promoting the use of Bioinformatics resources in the biological and biomedical research"
14:25 - 14:50	Nir Kalisman (Computer Science) "A novel energy term for torsion angles in proteins"
14:50 - 15:00	Coffee Break
15:00 - 15:25	Oriel Bergig (Computer Science) "Searching for RNA motifs using computational geometry: the Structure to String (STR2) method"
15:25 - 15:50	Karin Noy (Life Sciences) "Structural stability prediction of short beta-hairpin peptides by molecular dynamics and knowledge based potentials"
15:50 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 - 16:25	Adaya Cohen (Computer Science) and Meital Kupervaser (Life Sciences) "Characterization of an RNA element involved in translational regulation of the Hsp83 gene in Leishmania: structure prediction and verification"

Closing Remarks & Thanks

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