Welcome

We are delighted to invite you to the first edition of the FEBS Advanced Practical and Lecture Course on Computational Approaches to Understanding and Engineering Enzyme Catalysis, which will be held in Oulu, Finland, October, 2021. This course aligns with the activities of the 3D-BioInfo ELIXIR Community and the Biocenter Oulu Structural Biology core facility. The course is also funded by the Health and Biosciences Doctoral Programme, University of Oulu Graduate School. It will bring together computational and (bio)chemistry experts. The course addresses and disseminates recent advances in techniques that facilitate the development of new taylor-made biocatalysts, which is of great interest for potential applications in biotechnology, biomedicine and industrial processes.

The course is aimed at disseminating important in silico tools, such that experimental researchers, Ph.D. students, and young postdocs, can apply them in their research projects. The topics addressed in the course are covered by leading scientists. The computational expert speakers will give comprehensive lectures and demonstrations on how to use their web-based applications and software, whereas the experimental researchers will give lectures on how these in silico tools have successfully guided them towards finding answers related to their research in the field of enzyme catalysis. The aim of this advanced course is to bring together computational and experimental communities providing a valuable bridge between theory and experiment. Our program provides opportunities for active interactions between all the participants through lectures, demonstrations, tutorials, discussions, as well as poster and oral presentations given by the student participants.

There are additional classrooms available for tutorials and hands-on sessions. We will promote efficient connections in small “break-out” groups, for the remote access, such that students can easily interact with the teachers when using the software tools that are presented in the lectures, demonstrations and tutorials.