Program

Monday, July 17:

09:00 Application of molecular dynamics to biomolecular modeling
MD-Introduction.pdf, Overcoming_Timescale.pdf
Emad Tajkhorshid
NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Visualization
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:30 Coffee Break  
10:45 Ab initio protein structure modeling with Alphafold in VMD Diego E.B. Gomes
Department of Physics, Auburn University
11:45 Quick setup and analysis of NAMD simulations with QwikMD Rafael Bernardi
Department of Physics, Auburn University
12:15 Q & A  
12:30 Lunch Break  
14:00 Hands-on tutorial session I: VMD and NAMD tutorial H.S. Hasdemir, Y. Li, P.S.F.C. Gomes, M.C.R. Melo, D.E.B. Gomes
15:30 Coffee Break  
15:45 Hands-on tutorial session II: QwikMD tutorial H.S. Hasdemir, Y. Li, P.S.F.C. Gomes, M.C.R. Melo, D.E.B. Gomes

Tuesday, July 18:

09:00 Enhanced sampling and free energy calculations in NAMD - Part I
EnhancedSamplingRecording.mp4
Mahmoud Moradi
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Arkansas
10:30 Coffee Break  
10:45 Enhanced sampling and free energy calculations in NAMD - Part II
EnhancedSamplingRecording2.mp4
Mahmoud Moradi
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
University of Arkansas
11:30 Free energy calculations at QM/MM level Rafael Bernardi
Department of Physics, Auburn University
12:10 Q & A  
12:30 Lunch Break  
14:00 Hands-on tutorial session I: Free energy and enhanced sampling tutorial H.S. Hasdemir, Y. Li, P.S.F.C. Gomes, M.C.R. Melo, D.E.B. Gomes
15:30 Coffee Break  
15:45 Hands-on tutorial session II: Free energy and enhanced sampling tutorial H.S. Hasdemir, Y. Li, P.S.F.C. Gomes, M.C.R. Melo, D.E.B. Gomes

Wednesday, July 19:

09:00 VMD+ Special features and capabilities
VMD+recording.mp4
John Stone
NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Visualization
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:00 Advanced visualization, figures and movies in VMD
AdvancedVisVMDrecording.mp4, AdvancedVisVMD.pdf
Mariano Spivak
NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Visualization
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:30 Coffee Break  
10:45 NAMD 3.0 features, performance and capabilites
NAMD3recording.mp4, NAMD3.pdf
David Hardy
NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Visualization
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
11:45 Force field parameterization with FFTK
FFTKrecording.mp4, FFTK.pdf
Mariano Spivak
NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Visualization
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12:15 Q & A  
12:30 Lunch Break  
14:00 Hands-on tutorial session I: FFTK tutorial H.S. Hasdemir, Y. Li, P.S.F.C. Gomes, M.C.R. Melo, D.E.B. Gomes
15:30 Coffee Break  
15:45 Hands-on tutorial session II: PMF tutorial H.S. Hasdemir, Y. Li, P.S.F.C. Gomes, M.C.R. Melo, D.E.B. Gomes

Thursday, July 20:

09:00 Molecular simulation at the interface of biology and nanotechnology
Bionanotechnology.mp4
Aleksei Aksimentiev
NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Visualization
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:30 Coffee Break  
10:45 Multi-resolution simulations with ARBD
ARBD.mp4
Christopher Maffeo
NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Visualization
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
12:15 Q & A  
12:30 Lunch Break  
14:00 Hands-on tutorial session I: Modeling nanopores for sequencing DNA H.S. Hasdemir, Y. Li, P.S.F.C. Gomes, M.C.R. Melo, D.E.B. Gomes, C. Maffeo
15:30 Coffee Break  
15:45 Hands-on tutorial session II: Other tutorial H.S. Hasdemir, Y. Li, P.S.F.C. Gomes, M.C.R. Melo, D.E.B. Gomes, C. Maffeo

Friday, July 21:

09:00 Molecular Dynamics in the Era of Exascale Computing Rafael Bernardi
Department of Physics, Auburn University
09:30 Advanced Analysis Methods: Network Analysis Marcelo C.R. Melo
Department of Physics, Auburn University
10:30 Coffee Break  
10:45 Introducing Cybershuttle: A platform to launch and control simulation jobs in HPC Sudhakar Pamidighantam
Cyberinfrastructure Integration Research Center, Indiana University
11:45 Cybershuttle for Molecular Dynamics Applications Marcus Christie
Cyberinfrastructure Integration Research Center, Indiana University
12:15 Q & A  
12:30 Lunch Break  
14:00 Hands-on tutorial session I: Cybershuttle tutorial P.S.F.C. Gomes, M.C.R. Melo, D.E.B. Gomes, M. Christie
15:30 Coffee Break  
15:45 Hands-on tutorial session II: Other tutorial P.S.F.C. Gomes, M.C.R. Melo, D.E.B. Gomes, M. Christie