Global COE Study Abroad Project

Koji Umezawa（Biomedical Engineering Laboratories(Affiliates)）

Date 2009.2.19-2.26
Purpose To participate in Biophysicl Society and poster presentation.






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(Title) Report on My Poster Presentation and Information Gathering at the 54th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
(Name) Koji Umezawa
(Name of Laboratory) Laboratory of Protein Informatics (Prof. Haruki Nakamura)
(Destination) The Moscone Center, 747 Howard Street, San Francisco, California, 94103, United States
(Purpose) To present my research in the poster session and collect the latest information in our research field at the 54th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting
(Schedule)
2010.2.19. Itami -> Narita -> San Francisco
2010.2.20-24. The 54th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting (The Moscone Center)
2010.2.25-26. San Francisco -> Narita -> Itami
(Result)
I attended the 54th Biophysical Society Annual Meeting at the Moscone Center, San Francisco, California, United States on 20-24 Feb. 2010. At San Francisco International Airport, I took Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) bound for Powell St. and walked to the Powell Hotel. It takes about 10 minutes from the hotel to the Moscone Center by walk. The poster session was held at the Moscone Center North, and the mini-symposium and platforms at the Moscone Center South.
    There were more than 3,500 poster presentations and 120 scientific sessions. On the first day (Feb. 20th) of the conference, the session about the intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) was held. The IDP has no rigid structure alone and plays the important role in the biological activity such as signal transduction, transcription, protein degradation and so on. On the session, A. Matouschek told his interesting research as the title "the role of unstructured regions in proteins as part of the proteasome degradation signal". He insisted that the degradation efficiency correlates with the sequence complexity (i.e. the variety of amino acid) of protein. And, though all presentations that I heard, there were many computational studies. The computational studies supported their experimental studies and vice versa.
    In the poster session, I was interested in many studies, especially the five posters by Chaunying Chen et al., Tod D. Romo et al., Komatsuzaki, Charles Kehoe et al., and Debabani Ganguly et al. Chaunying Chen presented the computational study of the protein-DNA encounter. Tod D. Romo told the molecular dynamics simulation result of the β2 adrenergic receptor and suggested a water molecule plays the role in the ionic lock. Komatsuzaki presented the accurate definition of free energy landscape and the dimension of protein folding. Charles Kehoe showed the accurate and rapid method to calculate the solvation energy of small compounds. Debabani Ganguly presented her simulation result of IDP. Her targeting protein was the same as my own study, but her method was different from my one. In my poster presentation on Feb. 22nd, she asked me about my method and told she also started a simulation by the method similar to me. And, the man who studies the multicanonical simulation came to my presentation and asked the detail of my method and the name of the software I use. The conference totally provided me the useful information and reminded me of scientific interests.

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