KAUST Research Conference

Computational Advances in Structural Biology

May 1 - 3, 2023 Auditorium between building 4 & 5

Breakfast and Registration
08:00 AM
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08:40 AM

Prof. Xin Gao, Interim CBRC Director and Professor of Computer Science will give the opening remarks for the conference.

Xin Gao

Acting Director, Computational Bioscience Research Center, Principal Investigator, Structural and Functional Bioinformatics Group

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08:45 AM

Samir M Hamdan, Professor of Bioscience and Associate Dean of Biological and Environmental Sciences & Engineering (BESE) will give the opening remarks for the conference.

Samir M. Hamdan

Professor, Bioscience; Associate Dean, Biological and Environmental Sciences & Engineering

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08:50 AM

This session will be chaired by conference co-chair Prof. Stefan Arold.

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08:51 AM
Dmitri Svergun

Group leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, EMBL, Germany

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09:35 AM
Rebecca Thompson

Director of Sales Development ,Thermo Fisher Scientific, UK

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10:05 AM
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10:20 AM
Sergei Grudinin

Team leader, CNRS Research Scientist, Inria Grenoble, France

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10:50 AM
Mikhail Kudryashev

Group Leader, Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Germany

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11:20 AM
Ivan Viola

Professor, Computer Science

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11:50 AM
Thomas Miller

Associate Professor of Genome Stability, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

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12:20 PM
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02:00 PM

This session will chaired by Robert Hoehndorf, Interim Associate Director of CBRC and Associate Professor of Computer Science.

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02:01 PM
Jean-Louis Reymond

Professor of Chemistry, the University of Bern, Switzerland

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02:30 PM
Jianlin (Jack) Cheng

Distinguished Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, USA

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03:00 PM
Mohit Chawla

Research Scientist

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03:30 PM
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03:50 PM
Lamya Alomair

Head of AI and Bioinformatics, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center (KAIMRC), KSA

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04:20 PM
Lukasz Jaremko

Assistant Professor, Bioscience

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04:50 PM
Edina Rosta

Professor of Molecular Modelling, University College London

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05:20 PM
David Baker

Head of the Institute for Protein Design, Professor in Biochemistry, University of Washington, USA

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06:30 PM
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Breakfast
08:00 AM
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08:30 AM

This session will be chaired by Prof. Mikhail Moshkov.

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08:30 AM
John Stone

Senior Research Programmer, University of Illinois, USA

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09:00 AM
Michael Nilges

Professor Structural Biology, Institute Pasteur, France

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09:45 AM
Jan Kosinski

Group leader, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Hamburg

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10:15 AM
Agata Nawrotek

Researcher CNRS, ENS Paris Saclay

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10:45 AM
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11:00 AM
Florence Tama

Professor of Physics & ITbM, Nagoya University, Japan

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11:30 AM
Beata Turonova

Project Group Leader, Max-Planck Institute of Biophysics, Deutschland

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12:00 PM
Sarah Harris

Associate Professor of Biological Physics, University of Leeds, UK

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12:30 PM
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12:45 PM

Poster competition will take place in Building 9 Hallway.

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02:00 PM

This session will be chaired by Prof. Ivan Viola

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02:01 PM
Sameer Velankar

Team Leader, EMBL-EBI , UK

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02:30 PM
Stefan Arold

Professor, Bioscience

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03:00 PM
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03:15 PM
Nazim Bouatta

Scientist, Harvard Medical School, USA

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03:45 PM

Core Lab representative will take guests through a guided tours of the Imaging & Characterization Core Lab and the Bioscience Core Lab. (On demand)

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05:00 PM
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Breakfast
08:00 AM
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08:30 AM

This session will be chaired by Associate Professor Ricardo Henao.

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08:31 AM
Haribabu Arthanari

Associate Professor of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, USA

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09:00 AM
Fowzan S Alkuraya

Professor of Human Genetics, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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09:30 AM
Marta Carroni

Head of Swedish National cryo-EM facility and Principal Investigator at Scilifelab, Sweden

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10:00 AM
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10:15 AM
Krzysztof Kuczera

Professor, University of Kansas, USA

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10:45 AM
Alfredo De Biasio

Assistant Professor, Bioscience

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11:15 AM
Aleksandr Aliper

President at Insilico Medicine, New York, USA

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11:45 AM
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02:00 PM

This session will be chaired by Assistant Professor Andreas Naschberger.

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02:01 PM
Haoyang Li

PhD Student, KAUST

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02:15 PM
Johannes Schwab

Postdoc, University of Cambridge, UK

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02:30 PM
Ruben Sanchez-Garcia

Computational Biologist, University of Oxford, UK

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02:45 PM
Fei Wu

PhD Student, Stockholm University, Sweden

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03:00 PM
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03:15 PM
Spyridon Gourdoupis

Postdoctoral fellow, KAUST

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03:30 PM
Kelly J. Cardona

PhD Student, KAUST

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03:45 PM
Inas Zein

PhD Student, KAUST

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04:00 PM

Closing remarks will be given by Prof. Stefan Arold and Prof. Lawrence Carin (KAUST Provost)

Lawrence Carin

KAUST Provost, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Stefan Arold

Professor, Bioscience

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06:30 PM
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Computational Advances in Structural Biology