Schedule

Life at the Nanoscale Mini-Symposium, 2016

Friday, June 17, 2016

All talks will take place in Willamette Hall, Room 100 unless otherwise noted.

 

8:30 – 8:50 Registration in Willamette Hall, Room 100 (pastries and coffee)
9:00 – 9:30 Melanie Ohi, Vanderbilt University
Using cryo-EM to determine structures of dynamic molecular machines
9:30 – 9:40 Questions
9:40 – 10:10 Partho Ghosh, University of California, San Diego
Adaptation at the nanoscale through massive protein sequence variation
10:10 – 10:20 Questions
10:20 – 10:40 Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:10 Antonina Roll-Mecak, National Institutes of Health
How cells write and read the tubulin code
11:10 – 11:20 Questions
11:20 – 11:50 Babis Kalodimos, University of Minnesota
Molecular chaperones in action
11:50 – 12:00 Questions
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break, Willamette Hall Atrium
1:30 – 2:00 Aaron Hoskins, University of Wisconsin
When Better is Bad—Molecular Basis for Spliceosome Dysfunction in Blood Cancers
2:00 – 2:10 Questions
2:10 – 2:40 David Julius, University of California, San Francisco
Exploiting cryo-EM to understand pain at the atomic level
2:40 – 2:50 Questions
2:50 – 3:10 Coffee Break
3:10 – 3:50 Panel Discussion
4:00 – 5:30  Poster session (Lewis Integrative Science Building)
6:30 Dinner
7:30 Keynote Seminar, Brian Matthews, University of Oregon (Willamette Hall Atrium)
Structural Biology: Getting in on the Ground Floor