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Schedule of Events
9-9:30 Check-in, coffee and poster setup
Session 1: Characterizing Biomolecular Interactions. Chair: Mary Jo Ondrechen – Northeastern University
9:30-9:50 Min Chen – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
A ClyA nanopore tweezer to differentiate anomeric sugar bound states of MBP
9:55-10:07 Morgan R. Packer – Northeastern University
Raf promotes dimerization of the Ras G-domain
10:10- 10:22 Christopher Nordyke – University of New Hampshire
Structural and functional studies of the polar organizing protein Z from Caulobacter crescentus using solution NMR spectroscopy
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break – posters on display
Session 2: Bridging Computational and Experimental Biophysical Techniques. Chair: John Straub – Boston University
11:00-11:20 Yu-Shan Lin – Tufts University
Understanding and designing cyclic peptides
11:25-11:37 Christopher Myers – SUNY Albany
Accounting for electrostatic polarization in gas-phase simulations of ion mobility spectroscopy
11:40- 11:52 Koushik Kasavajhala – SUNY Stony Brook
Using structure reservoirs to accelerate biomolecular simulations
11:55- 12:07 Jacob Remington – University of Vermont
Molecular dynamics simulations reveal molecular basis of PAC1 receptor activation and internalization
12:10-2:00 Lunch and Posters: 12:30-1:15, even number posters. 1:15-2:00, odd posters
Session 3: Dynamics of Ribonucleoprotein Assemblies. Chair: Craig Martin – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2:00-2:20 Dmitri Ermolenko – University of Rochester Medical School
Making ends meet: A new role of mRNA secondary structure in translation
2:25-2:37 Christine Carbone – UMass Medical School
Complex dynamics of ArfB-mediated ribosome rescue revealed by cryo-EM
2:40- 2:52 Ailun Wang – Boston College
How diffuse ions regulate conformational dynamics of ribonucleoprotein assemblies
Session 4: Collective Dynamics at Large Length Scales. Chair: Michael Hagan – Brandeis University
3:00-3:20 Nicolas Fawzi – Brown University
Structural biology of RNA-binding protein phase separation in health and disease
3:25-3:37 Searle Duay – University of Connecticut
Exploring the pH-dependent interactions of the antimicrobial peptide clavanin A with E. coli outer membrane using molecular dynamics simulations
3:40-3:52 Wenjun Xie – MIT
Deep learning chromatin folding coordinate and landscape
4:00-4:30 Coffee break. Remove posters.
4:30 Introduction of Keynote Speaker: Carla Mattos – Northeastern University
4:35-5:35 Keynote Speaker: Martin Karplus – Harvard University
What does the future hold?
Closing remarks