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Speakers

Keynote Speaker  
Thomas A. Steitz, Ph.D.
Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry
Professor of Chemistry
Yale University
"The Structural Basis of Crick's Central Dogma"
David A. Agard, Ph.D.
University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
"Conformational Dynamics, Structure & Functional Interactions of Hsp90 Chaperones"
José M. Barral, M.D., Ph.D.,
The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
“Regulation of Protein Folding during Translation"
Tracy M. Handel, Ph.D.,
University of California, San Diego, CA
"Chemokine:Receptor Structural and Functional Dynamics. Can it Get More Complex?"
Arthur E. Johnson, Ph.D.
Texas A&M Health Science Center, College Station, TX
"FRET-detected Folding and Biogenesis of Nascent Membrane Proteins"
Leemor Joshua-Tor, Ph. D.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY
“DNA translocation through a replicative hexameric helicase”
Susan Marqusee, M.D., Ph.D.
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
"Manipulating a Protein's Energy Landscape"
Joseph D. Puglisi, Ph.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA
"Dynamics of Translation"
Yousif Shamoo, Ph.D.
Rice University, Houston, TX
"Adaptation and Atoms: Biophysical Origins of Molecular Evolution"
William E. Balch, Ph.D.
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA

"Membrane Trafficking and Proteostasis in Misfolding Disease"

Thomas Walz, Ph.D.
Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
"Electron Microscopy of AQP0-mediated Membrane Junctions"
Dagmar Ringe, Ph.D.
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
"Structural Neurology"