QLS guest seminar on Thursday 14 September at 11h30

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

*QLS guest seminar on Thursday 14 September at 11:30*

ICTP, Central Area, 2nd floor, old SISSA building, Via Beirut


Title: Multi-scale analysis of protein-protein interactions: from 
residues to phylogeny

Speaker: Thomas Gueudré, Italian Institute for Genomic Medicine, Turin

Abstract:

Proteins are an essential part of life and participate in virtually 
every process within cells. Proteins rarely act alone, and in recent 
years, the problem of reconstructing the proteins interactome from the 
large database of available proteins sequences has triggered much 
interest. Yet, this network has been shaped by various factors and 
constraints (chemical interactions between residues, evolution by 
mutations...). After an overview of the biological forces behind protein 
protein interactions, I will present a "first principle" statistical 
analysis, to infer putative interactions between proteins based on their 
sole amino-acids sequences.

Everyone interested is most welcome to attend!


Erica Sarnataro
Group Secretary
Quantitative Life Sciences
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste,  Italy
Tel. +39-040-2240623
e-mail:qls at ictp.it