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2^nd Mini-symposium on computation of interactions in biological systems
University of Szeged, Hungary, 25 - 27 May, 2010.

Dear Colleagues,

We would like to invite you to participate at the 2^nd Mini-symposium on computation of interactions in biological systems which will be held at the University of Szeged, Hungary, 25 - 27 May, 2010. The aim of the Mini-symposium is to continue the Mini-symposium on computation of interactions in biological systems December 12 – 13 Nove Hrady, Czech Republic in order to discuss uptodate information about interactions in biological systems.
The site of Mini-symposium is at Szeged which is located in the southern part of Hungary, close to the borders with Romania and Serbia. With a population of almost 170 000 people, Szeged is the forth largest city in Hungary and the main commercial and cultural center of the Csongrád region.

Biomolecular modelling and simulations should play a key role in studying biomolecular systems because of their complexities. Understanding the interactions in such complex systems need information in molecular level which can help to formulate the connection between the structures of individual proteins in complex biological systems. With the knowledge of biomolecular modelling and simulationswith which is in basis of molecular level the structure and dynamics of lipid membranes, proteins, peptides and DNA can be studied in the range atomic level to the macroscopic level. Also description of protein-lipid interactions and protein dynamics because membrane proteins participate in many important cellular functions transport of small ions and molecules through the membrane. At the molecular scale sufficiently accurate classical force-fields is capable to describe both the thermodynamic phase behavior of the lipid system with multiple components as well as diffusive lipid transport processes. Molecular dynamics now is able to describe the interactions between individual lipid molecules and show the effects of small changes in their chemical structure on the membrane properties. Moreover, understanding the interactions of nanoparticles with lipid membranes because of their toxicity and their use in medicine is needed. We would like to bring together people with different scientific background in order to develop and discuss new theoretical, computational and experimental strategies for studying structural and dynamical phenomena in the filed of bilogical systems mainly membrane proteins and their environments. We will discuss cooperative phenomena in membranes in which we will explore how membranes and proteins interact in biological processes such as non-equilibrium membrane processes and protein aggregation dynamics.

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