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<p class="MsoTitle" style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;font-weight:normal">VABILO NA INŠTITUTSKO PREDAVANJE / INVITATION TO THE INSTITUTE LECTURE<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Dr. Fabio Pietrucci<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%">Institute of Theoretical Physics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;line-height:150%"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fabiopietrucci">https://sites.google.com/site/fabiopietrucci</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:150%"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">četrtek / Thursday, 29. 05. 2014, ob / at 13:00<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<h6 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Velika predavalnica Kemijskega inštituta / Lecture Hall at the National Institute of Chemistry; Hajdrihova 19, Ljubljana
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<b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#993366">Reconstructing the thermodynamics and kinetics of activated processes with molecular dynamics simulations: from chemical reactions to biomolecular recognition<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:150%"><span lang="EN-US">Abstract:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Molecular dynamics allows simulating a number of different physico-chemical processes at the experimental conditions of temperature, pressure, concentration, etc. Unfortunately, the time scale
that is nowadays accessible is typically smaller than one nanosecond if interatomic forces are computed from density functional theory, or smaller than one millisecond if an atomistic force field is employed. Metadynamics [1] is an advanced technique designed
to overcome this limitation: it greatly accelerates the sampling of the configuration space and it allows reconstructing the free energy profile, and sometimes even the kinetics, of complex activated processes occurring over time scales exceeding seconds.
I will present the basic metadynamics algorithm and some recent developments. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">On one side, it is possible to combine metadynamics with graph theory by regarding a system of atoms as a "social" network whose connections are the chemical bonds [2]. This approach allowed
us to investigate complex multi-step chemical reactions without imposing any prejudice about the transformation pathway, leading us to rationalize the folding of a graphene flake into a fullerene-like cage observed by transmission electron microscopy [3],
and opening the way to the systematic study of reactions in solution and phase transitions in disordered systems [4].
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">On the other side, to tackle very challenging biomolecular processes characterized by several different reaction coordinates, multiple metadynamics simulations can be run in parallel and their
trajectories can be combined together to reconstruct high-dimensional free energy surfaces [5]. In this way we could investigate the detailed association mechanism of a substrate to HIV-1 protease [6], and the dimerization mechanism of the latter enzyme, discovering
a promising new route towards the design of new drugs [7].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">[1] A. Laio and M. Parrinello, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99, 12562 (2002).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">[2] F. Pietrucci and W. Andreoni, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 085504 (2011).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">[3] F. Pietrucci and W. Andreoni, J. Chem. Theory Comput. 10, 913 (2014).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">[4] G. A. Gallet and F. Pietrucci, J. Chem. Phys. 139, 074101 (2013).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">[5] F. Marinelli, F. Pietrucci, A. Laio, S. Piana, PLoS Comput. Biol. 5, e100045 (2009).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">[6] F. Pietrucci, F. Marinelli, P. Carloni, A. Laio, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 11811 (2009).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">[7] F. Pietrucci and A. Kranjc, (to be submitted).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-language:SL">Vljudno vabljeni! / Kindly invited!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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