PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Program Schedule: Features

DAY 1

29 October 2018

7.30 am : Registration

8.30 am : Opening Ceremony

8.45 am : Keynote address by Prof. Dr. Amir Feisal Merican Aljunid Merican

Title: "Bioinformatics: Current Trends, Challenges and Future Directions."

9.15 am : MASBIC Extraordinary General Meeting

10.45 am: Tea Break

11.00 am: Plenary lecture by Asssoc. Prof. Dr. Zeti Azura Mohamed Hussein

Title "Implementation of structural systems biology in modeling PCOS protein interaction network"

12.00 pm:

Parallel Workshop A (CRISPR/Cas9)

Principles of CRISPR/Cas9 Analysis

Parallel Workshop B (Molecular docking)

Principles of Molecular Docking Simulations

1.00 pm : Lunch and prayer

2.00 pm :

Parallel Workshop A (CRISPR/Cas9)

Hands-on Practicals:

I- Understanding the concept of single guide RNA (sgRNA)

II- Design primers and identify off-target regions using bioinformatics tools for CRISPR technologies

III- Viewing the construct

Parallel Workshop B

(Molecular Docking Simulations)

Hands-on Practicals:

I- Protein and Ligand preparation for docking simulation using Autodock

II- Docking simulation and Analysis

III- Visualization and H-bond analysis using Ligplot

4.00 pm : Parallel Wrap up and Discussion

5.00 pm : Tea Break

DAY 2

30 October 2018

8.30 am : Breakfast

9.00 am : Workshop B – Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulation

Principles of Molecular Dynamics Simulation using GROMACS

Hands-on Practical:

IV- System preparation and Setting up Molecular Dynamics simulation

10.00 am : Tea Break

10.30 am : Workshop B – Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulation

Hands-on Practicals:

V- Introduction to analysis tools for MD simulations and analysis of MD trajectory

VI- Molecular visualization using PyMol and VMD

12.00 pm : Lunch and prayer

2.00 pm : Workshop B – Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulation

Hands-on Practical:

VII- Analysis of MD trajectory using GROMACS tools

4.00 pm : Wrap up and Discussion

5.00 pm : Tea Break and Disperse