Section: Dissemination

Promoting scientific activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

Frédéric Cazals, together with C. Robert (IBPC, CNRS Paris) and J. Cortés (LAAS, CNRS Toulouse) organized the energy landscapes workshop, an international gathering devoted to all topics revolving around energy landscapes, as encountered in physics, chemistry, biochemistry, biology, applied mathematics, and computer science. See details at https://eland2016.inria.fr/.

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

– Frédéric Cazals was member of the following program committees:

• Symposium On Geometry Processing

• Shape Modeling International: 2016

• Symposium on Solid and Physical Modeling

• Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), PC member of Protein Interactions & Molecular Networks

• International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics

Journal

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

– Frédéric Cazals reviewed papers for the following journals:

• The International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications

• Bioinformatics

• The Journal of Immunology

Invited Talks and Presentations

– Frédéric Cazals gave the following invited talks:

• Energy landscapes: sampling, analysis, Congrès de la Société Française de Biophysique – Structural biology meets biophysics, Obernai. December 2016.

• Modeling energy landscapes of biomolecular systems, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan. September 2016.

• Novel structural parameters of Ig-Ag complexes yield a quantitative description of interaction specificity and binding affinity, Structural Aspects of Infectious Disease, Cambridge, UK, August 2016.

• Energy landscapes: sampling, analysis, and comparison, Energy Landscapes Workshop, Porquerolles. July 2016.

• Improved understanding of protein dynamics via energy landscape sampling, analysis, and comparison, TSRC on protein dynamics. Les Houches, March 2016.

– Romain Tetley gave the following invited talk:

• A bootstrap method for detecting structurally conserved motifs, Energy Landscapes Workshop, Porquerolles. July 2016.

– Poster presentations:

• Dorian Mazauric presented the following poster:

  Unveiling Contacts within Macro-molecular Assemblies by solving Minimum Weight Connectivity Inference Problems, Congrès de la Société Française de Biophysique – Structural biology meets biophysics, Obernai. December 2016.

• Augustin Chevallier presented the following poster:

  Towards free energy calculations for biomolecules: generic Wang-Landau algorithm with automatic parameters selection, Congrès de la Société Française de Biophysique – Structural biology meets biophysics, Obernai. December 2016.

• Dorian Mazauric presented the following poster:

  Mass Transportation Problems with Connectivity Constraints and Energy Landscape Comparison, Energy Landscapes Workshop, Porquerolles. July 2016.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

– FrédéricCazals:

• 2010-.... Member of the steering committee of the GDR Bioinformatique Moleculaire, for the Structure and macro-molecular interactions theme.

Scientific Expertise

– Frédéric Cazals acted as expert for the Italian Research and University Evaluation Agency (ANVUR).