Program Schedule

6:30pm

Welcome Reception
Beer, wine and light snacks

Location: Cypress Ballroom

8:50am

Rick Bott, Genencor, "The role of temperature in visualizing flexible domains"

9:10am

Matthew Warkentin, LBL, "New results using temperature-dependent protein crystallography"

9:30am

James S. Fraser, UCSF, "Crystal freezing biases protein packing and obscures functional motions'

9:50am

James Holton, LBL, "The noise level of electron density maps"

10:10am

P. Therese Lang, UC Berkeley, "Revealing structural ensembles hidden in electron density"

10:50am

Zachary A. Bornholdt , Scripps, "Ebola virus: Some assembly required"

11:10am

Minglei Zhao, UCLA, "Structures of segments of α-synuclein fused to maltose-binding protein suggest intermediate states during amyloid formation"

11:30am

Heidi L. Schubert, Univ. Utah, "The nuclear Arp heterodimer bound to an HSA-domain"

11:50am

Ron Diskin, CalTech, "Crystal structure of a clade C HIV-1 gp120 bound to CD4 and CD4-induced antibody"

12:10pm

Ryan VanderLinden, Univ. Utah, "The X-ray Crystal Structure of Rpn13:Uch37: Ubiquitin Complex and Implications for Uch37 Activation and Function"

7:30pm

Eric Johnson, CalTech, "Relating conformational changes the ATPase active state in the E. Coli high-affinity methionine ABC transporter MetNI"

7:50pm

Theresa Tiefenbrunn, Scripps, "The 1.8 Å Resolution Structure of Cytochrome ba3 Oxidase Obtained From the Lipidic Cubic Phase"

8:10pm

Troy Walton, CalTech, "Exploring the structural role of the MscL cytoplasmic bundle"

8:30pm

8:50am

James Holton, LBL, "What is "good enough"? Predicting the success or failure of structure solution from first principles"

9:10am

Puneet Souda, UCLA, "High Resolution Mass Spectrometry to Profile Integral Membrane Proteins And Their Post Translational Modifications"

9:30am

Tzanko Doukov, SSRL, "Crystallographic and Single Crystal Spectral Analysis of the Peroxidase Ferryl Intermediate"

9:50am

Allen M. Orville, BNL, "Removing the Mystery from Mystery Density in X-ray Crystallography with Single-Crystal Spectroscopy"

10:10am

10:50am

Eric Montemayor, Univ. Texas Health Sci. Ctr. San Antonio, "Structures of the RNA Lariat Debranching Enzyme Dbr"

11:10am

John C. Williams, City of Hope, "The role of valency on the regulation of protein function: Structural, biochemical and in vivo studies of the dynein regulatory subunits"

11:30am

Rick Cooley, Oregon State, "Symerythrin: an unorthodox story of protein evolution from a simple peptide to the most powerful oxidizing enzymes in biology"

11:50am

Elizabeth J. Goldsmith, Uni. Texas. Southwest. Med. Ctr. Dallas, "The third conformer of p38α observed in solution and in phosphorylated p38α"

12:10am

Camden M. Driggers, Oregon State, "Structural Studies Toward Understanding the Mechanism of Mammalian Cysteine Dioxygenase"

7:30pm

Jeffrey J. Headd, LBL, "Knowledge-based restraints in phenix.refine for improved macromolecular refinement at low resolution"

7:50pm

Dale Tronrud, Oregon State, "Using a Conformationally-Dependent Stereochemical Library Improves Crystallographic Refinement of Proteins"

8:10pm

Alex McPherson, UCI, "1.45 Å Resolution Refinement of STMV"

8:30pm

Lida K. Gifford, LBL, "PSI SBKB Technology Portal: A Web Resource for Structural Biologists"

8:50am

Hay Dvir, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, "Structure of the LDL receptor tail in complex with ARH: Implications to Hypercholesterolemia"

9:10am

Argentina Becker, Univ. Texas Health Sci. Ctr. San Antonio, "The Structure of CARDS Toxin from Mycoplasma pneumonia"

9:30am

Enrico Girardi, La Jolla Institute for Allergy & Immunology, "Recognition of microbial antigens by the invariant NKT TCR

9:50am

Debasish Chattopadhyay, Univ. Alabama, Birmingham, "Trypanosoma cruzi Dihydrofolate Reductase Thymidylate Synthase: a potential target for drugs against Chagas' disease"

10:10am

Ahmad Galaleldeen, Univ. Texas Health Sci. Ctr. San Antonio, "Structure of the Chlamydial Effector Protein Pgp3"

10:50am

Eva Rose M. Balog, UCSC, "The structure of a monomeric mutant Cks protein reveals multiple roles for a conserved hinge-region proline"

11:10am

Seth M. McDonald, UCSC, "Structure and Biochemistry of the Yeast Transcription Factors Spt6 and Spn1/Iws1"

11:30am

Victoria S. Jasion, UCI, "The Crystal Structure of Leishmania major Peroxidase and Characterization of the Compound I Tryptophan Radical"

11:50pm

Sheryl Tsai, UCI, "Structural Basis of Polyketide Cyclization"

12:10pm

Arthur Laganowsky, UCLA, "Revealing the structural mechanisms of alpha crystallins in eye lens transparency"

12:30pm