It is with great pleasure that we announce the beginning of the Protein Electrostatics Webinar Series, a periodic appointment envisioning seminars and discussion on the domain of electrostatics in biomolecular systems.

Electrostatics affects almost every structural and functional aspect of proteins, including stability, solubility, dynamics, interactions, and catalysis. It is especially important for key processes involving movement of charges, including proton and electron transfer reactions and transport of ions.

More information, including the updated programme, can be found here: https://proteinelectrostatics.org/

First appointment

• Jan 13th, at 5.30pm CET, (i.e. 11.30 am EST, or 8.30 am PST).
• Dr Jim Warwicker, University of Manchester (UK)
• Title: Prediction of pH-dependence in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein ectodomain

You can find the registration form on the https://proteinelectrostatics.org/ website.

The webinars will be held on the Zoom platform and streamed on a dedicated Youtube channel, updated details on how to attend the online event will be available here.

Walter Rocchia
Principal Investigator
Computational Modelling of Nanoscale and BioPhysical Systems
IIT - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova - Italy

February 2 -5, 2021

Scientific Committee: Carlo Massimo Casciola, Giovanni Ciccotti, Ignacio Pagonabarraga Mora

Organizers: Alberto Giacomello, Carlo Guardiani, Antonio Tinti

ONLINE EVENT

Ion channels are proteins opening pores through biological membranes allowing selective ion transport. This workshop aims at bringing together scientists from the biological and physical sciences, advocates a biomimetic approach, whereby the study of biological channels is aimed at unveiling general design principles transferable to the engineering of artificial nanopores.

Further information FICN 2021 (google.com)

The Workshop will be held online from June 14 to June 16, 2021.

The workshop focuses on the discussion of state-of-the-art theoretical approaches to treat photoinduced charge transfer processes in light-sensitive proteins that are currently exploited in optogenetic tools. Attention is also devoted to the experimental probing of such events.

Leading scientists from the fields of excited-state properties of biological matter and charge transfer processes in proteins, and in particular in rhodopsins and flavin-containing domains, will share and discuss their theoretical and experimental approaches.

Current optogenetic challenges will be faced from a chemicophysical perspective, highlighting the main achievements and open questions in this timely and stimulating research field.

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The fourth edition of the Molecular Simulation and Engineering workshop was due to take place in September 2020. Due to the Covid19 pandemic, we have decided to postpone it to Friday, 24 September 2021. As usual, it will take place at the Politecnico di Milano. Please save the date.

In the meantime, throughout the winter and spring, we will offer a limited number of online seminars, showcasing current developments and applications of molecular simulation to engineering problems. The tentative program includes (details and links for attendance/registration of each event will be published here in due course):

16 October 2020, 11:30. Nicola Marzari (EPFL, CH): "The great acceleration in the design and discovery of novel materials"
29 January 2021, 11:30. Enrico Masoero (University of Newcastle, UK): "Coarse grained kinetic simulations of chemo-mechanical processes at the nano-to-micro mesoscale"
26 March 2021, 11:30. Sauro Succi (IIT@La Sapienza, IAC-CNR and Harvard University): "Simulating Dropland: computational design of exotic soft mesoscale materials"
21 May 2021, 11:30. Martin Lisal (Czech Academy of Science, CZ): "Generalised energy-conserving dissipative particle dynamics with reactivity: A coarse-grain method for simulations of energetic materials"
16 July 2021, 11:30. Cristian Micheletti (SISSA): "Designing molecular knots”
Alberto Giacomello (Roma "La Sapienza"): "Gas-induced drying of biological and solid-state nanopores"

The workshop and the online seminars are organized and sponsored by the CECAM-IT-SIMUL node of the Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire, in collaboration with the Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering "Giulio Natta" of the Politecnico di Milano.

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The Organizing Committee
Guido Raos and Matteo Tommasini (Politecnico di Milano), Antonio Di Carlo (CECAM-IT-SIMUL node), Carlo M. Casciola (Università di Roma "La Sapienza"), Daniele Marchisio (Politecnico di Torino).

Venue: Polo di Lecco, Politecnico di Milano
Dates: 5 July – 9 July 2021
Contact information: Prof. Carlo Cavallotti
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Phone: +39 02 2399 3044
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Summer Workshop 23 - 26 June 2021

S. Anna in Camprena, Italy

Phase transitions occurring in nanoscale systems or in nanoconfinement may have a dramatic influence on the macroscopic behavior of physical systems, calling for a truly multiscale understanding of such phenomena. These kinds of systems are ubiquitous in nature and technology and have intriguing properties such as superhydrophobicity, rate dependent wetting, and superlubricity. Hence, the study of phase transitions at the nanoscale is of great importance for understanding the behavior of such heterogeneous systems and to exploit their properties for the design of new devices. This workshop is aimed at exchanging cutting-edge ideas concerning phase transitions at the nanoscale, ranging from modeling and simulation to the experimental study of real systems. Specifically, the workshop will focus on three main topics: the wetting of nanoporous materials and their energy absorption properties, the formation of nanoclusters and nanoalloys, and the friction of materials at the nanoscale. The workshop will be held in the fascinating venue of the ancient monastery of Sant’Anna in Camprena, in Tuscany.

External guests: B. Coasne, R. Ferrando, N. Manini, C.M. Casciola, Y. Grosu, S. Meloni

Organizers:

Alberto Giacomello, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  Antonio Tinti, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Alberto Gubbiotti, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  Emanuele Telari, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  Silvia Venturini, silvia.venturini@uniroma1.

June 29 - July 1, 2021

ONLINE Meeting, Strasbourg - France

Please refer to this page for information about the meeting:

The ISQBP President’s meeting 2021 - Sciencesconf.org