Official Program

Esteban Orellana

_{(Graduate student in Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University)}

Enhancing miRNA therapeutic efficacy through vehicle free delivery

Adriano Mendes

_{(Graduate student in Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University)}

Packaging of Sindbis virus genomic RNA in mosquito versus mammalian cells using next generation sequencing

Lee Stunkard

_{(Graduate student in Department of Biochemistry at Purdue University)}

Valentyn Stadnytskyi 

_{(Graduate student in Department of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University)}

Accessing chiral information in macromolecules via time-resolved circular dichroism spectroscopy

Matthew Wohlever

_{(Postdoctoral scholar in Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at The University of Chicago)}

Msp1 is a membrane protein dislocase for tail-anchored proteins

Rui Yan

_{(Graduate student in Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University)}

s2stigmator: real-time detection and single-pass minimization of TEM objective lens astigmatism

Lyman Monroe

_{(Graduate student in Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University)}

Variability of Protein Structure Models from Electron Microscopy

Feifei Zhao

_{(Graduate student in Department of Chemistry at Purdue University)}

Joule heating and thermal denaturation of proteins in nano-electronspray ionization mass spectrometry (nESI-MS) theta tips

Ahmed Hassan

_{(Graduate student in Department of Comparative Pathology at Purdue University)}

Ignacio Mir-Sanchis

_{(Postdoctoral scholar in Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at The University of Chicago)}

Structural studies of the initiation of replication of two staphylococcal mobile elements linked to disease.

Matthias Fellner

_{(Postdoctoral scholar in Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Michigan State University)}

Structural Insights into the Catalytic Mechanism of LarE, a Sacrificial Sulfur Insertase of the N-type ATP Pyrophosphatase family

Adam Yokom

_{(Graduate student in Department of Chemical Biology at University of Michigan)}

Translocation mechanism of the AAA+ disaggregase Hsp104

Nathan Gardner

_{(Postdoctoral scholar in Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at The University of Chicago)}

Plug-and-play: a calmodulin based fiducial marker to solve protein structures by Cryo-EM

Amar Parvate

_{(Graduate student in Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University)}

Cryo-electron tomography of New World Hantaviruses for morphological and structural analyses

Erh-Ting Hsu

_{(Graduate student in Department of Chemistry at Purdue University)}

Monitoring Integral Membrane Proteases ZMPSTE24 and Ste24p Activities by a Peptide-Based FRET Assay

Jonathan Fine

_{(Graduate student in Department of Chemistry at Purdue University)}

Differential target profile based computational drug library design

Aashish Jain

_{(Graduate student in Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University)}

Phylo-PFP: Highly accurate phylogenomics-based protein function prediction method

Matthew Pharris

_{(Graduate student in Department of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University)}

A Rule-based Model of the Calcium/Calmodulin-dependent Protein Kinase II

Ying Yang

_{(Graduate student in Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology at Purdue University)}

Addressing the Effects of Solvation in Protein-ligand Binding using Advanced GPU-enabled Computational Method WATsite