Friday October 4, 2013 (Heritage Hall, HUB):
9:00 - 10:30 am:
Poster Setup and Viewing
Coffee and Pastries Available
Coffee and Pastries Available
10:30 - 10:45 am:
Introduction and Welcome
10:45 - 11:10 am:
Dan Sacket, NIH (NICHD)
"The Importance of Structures that Don't Diffract - Tails of Tubulin"
"The Importance of Structures that Don't Diffract - Tails of Tubulin"
11:10 - 11:35 am:
David Hackney, Carnegie Mellon University
"Tight Energetic Coupling of Conformational Changes and Nucleotide Binding in the Motor Protein Kinesin"
"Tight Energetic Coupling of Conformational Changes and Nucleotide Binding in the Motor Protein Kinesin"
11:35 am- 12:00 pm:
Fred Sachs, SUNY Buffalo
"Biomechanics from Bed to Bedside"
"Biomechanics from Bed to Bedside"
12:00 - 2:00 pm:
Lunch and Poster Session
2:00 - 2:15 pm:
Anatoly Zaytsev, University of Pennsylvania
"NDC80 Microtubule Binding but not Cooperatively Decreases Proportionally to the Number of Phosphorylated Residues in NDC80 Tail"
"NDC80 Microtubule Binding but not Cooperatively Decreases Proportionally to the Number of Phosphorylated Residues in NDC80 Tail"
2:15 - 2:30 pm:
Senthil Perumal, Penn State University
"Human Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen DNA Sliding Clamp Dynamics Using Two-Step FRET"
"Human Proliferating Cell Nuclear Antigen DNA Sliding Clamp Dynamics Using Two-Step FRET"
2:30 - 2:45 pm:
Megan McClean, Princeton University
"Optogenetic Control of Intracellular Protein Concentration in Microbial Cell Cultures"
"Optogenetic Control of Intracellular Protein Concentration in Microbial Cell Cultures"
2:45 - 3:10 pm:
Paul Cremer, Penn State University
"The Effects of Salts on Protein Folding and Aggregation"
"The Effects of Salts on Protein Folding and Aggregation"
3:10 - 3:30 pm:
Coffee Break
3:30 - 3:55 pm:
Haim Bau, University of Pennsylvania
"Directing Molecular Motors"
"Directing Molecular Motors"
3:55 - 4:20 pm:
Wei Guo, University of Pennsylvania
"The Role of the Exocyst in Morphogenesis and Cell Migration"
"The Role of the Exocyst in Morphogenesis and Cell Migration"
4:20 - 4:30 pm:
Closing Remarks
