Research workshop of the Israel Science Foundation.

This meeting will bring together leading experts in protein design to discuss synergistic combinations of computational methodology and experimental directed evolution, and their applications in synthetic biology, materials science, bioelectronics, biotechnology, food technology, vaccine development, and drug design. 

The topics to be covered are:

• Deep learning approaches and other new methods in computational design
• Applications of deep mutational scanning
• Proteins with unnatural amino acids
• The design of protein-cofactor complexes
• Protein therapeutics
• Design and engineering of enzymes with novel functions
• Membrane protein design
• Building blocks for synthetic biology

The organizers are Julia Shifman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) and Dror Noy (Migal Galilee Research Institute, Israel). The keynote speakers are William F. DeGrado (UCSF, San Francisco) and Don Hilvert (ETH Zurich). 

Key dates:

• Abstract submission deadline: 10 September 2022
• Last minute abstract deadline (posters only): 30 September 2022
• Registration ends: 7 October 2022

For more information, including a full list of speakers, check the conference website.