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May 16-17, 2008
Levin Hall – Main Auditorium
The University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas

Friday, May 16, 2008

11:00am-1:00pm

Registration (Levin Hall Foyer)

 

 

Poster Mounting

 

     

1:00pm-1:15pm

Welcome Address

 

 

Opening Remarks   

 

 

Introduction to Keynote Address   

 

1:15pm-2:15pm

Dr. Thomas A. Steitz (Keynote)

“The Structural Basis of Crick's Central Dogma”

2:20pm-3:00pm

Dr. Arthur E. Johnson

"FRET-detected Folding and Biogenesis of Nascent Membrane Proteins"

 

 

 

3:00pm-3:20pm

Break (Foyer) and Posters

 

 

 

3:20pm-4:00pm

Dr. José Barral

“Regulation of Protein Folding during Translation”

 

 

 

4:05pm-4:45pm

Dr. Leemor Joshua-Tor

“DNA Translocation Through a Replicative Hexameric Helicase”

 

 

 

4:50pm-5:30pm

Dr. Joseph D. Puglisi

“Dynamics of Translation”

 

 

 

5:30pm-7:00pm

Reception (Foyer) and Posters

 

Saturday, May 17, 2008

8:30am-9:00am

Registration (Levin Hall Foyer)

 

 

 

 

9:00am-9:40am

Dr. Susan Marqusee

“Manipulating a Protein's Energy Landscape”

 

 

 

9:45am-10:25am

Dr. David A. Agard

“Conformational Dynamics, Structure & Functional Interactions of Hsp90 Chaperones”

 

 

 

10:30am-10:50am

Break and Posters

 

 

 

 

10:50am-11:30am

Dr. Yousif Shamoo

“Adaptation and Atoms: Biophysical Origins of Molecular Evolution”

 

 

 

11:35am-12:15pm

Dr. Tracy M. Handel

“Chemokine:Receptor Structural and Functional Dynamics. Can it Get More Complex?”

 

 

 

12:20pm-1:20pm

Lunch (Dining Room) and Posters

 

 

 

 

1:20pm-2:00pm

Dr. Dagmar Ringe

“Structural Neurology”

 

 

 

2:05pm-2:45pm

Dr. Thomas Walz

“Electron Microscopy of AQP0-mediated Membrane Junctions”

 

 

 

2:50pm-3:30pm

Dr. William E. Balch

“Membrane Trafficking and Proteostasis in Misfolding Disease”

 

 

 

3:30pm-3:45pm

Break

 

 

Presentations of Selected Abstracts

 

 

 

3:45pm-4:00pm

Mr. Mikyung Han

 “Pore Formation By Antimicrobial Peptide, Magainin 2, in Phospholipd Vesicles Detected and Visualized By Cryo-Electron Microscopy”

 

 

 

4:00pm-4:15pm

Mr. Kerry Fuson

 Inferring Synaptotagmin Function From C2 Domain Stability: Analysis of Structurally Defined Mutations in Synaptotagmin 1 C2A”

 

 

 

4:15pm-4:30pm

Mr. Char Hu

 “TMAO'S Influence On The Backbone Of Proteins”

 

 

 

4:30pm-6:00pm

Reception (Dining Room) and Posters Awards

 

 

 

 

7:00pm

Banquet  

Hotel Galvez  - East Parlor Room

 

 

2024 Seawall Boulevard

 

Concluding Remarks

Galveston, TX  77555

HOPE TO SEE YOU NEXT YEAR AT THE
14TH ANNUAL SCSB SYMPOSIUM

March 26-27, 2009