Official Program
May 9
6:30 PM Career Session (Lafayette Brewing Company - second floor)
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May 10
Note: All talks will be in ARMS 1010 (See on google maps)
8:00 AM – 9:20 AM |
Breakfast, Check-in and Posters Setup |
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9:20 AM – 9:30 AM |
Opening Remarks by Samantha Lee |
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Session 1: Disease, Pathogenesis and Therapeutics (Chair: Emma Lendy) |
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9:30 AM – 9:55 AM |
Esteban Orellana (Graduate student in Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University) |
Enhancing miRNA therapeutic efficacy through vehicle free delivery |
9:55 AM – 10:20 AM |
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 |
10:20 AM – 10:45 AM |
Lee Stunkard (Graduate student in Department of Biochemistry at Purdue University) |
Investigating the Catalytic Molecular Details of Malonyl-thioester Decarboxylating Enzymes |
10:45 AM – 11:10 AM | Coffee Break | |
Session 2: Biophysical Methods and Emerging Techniques I (Chair: Scott Jensen) |
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11:10 AM – 11:35 AM |
Valentyn Stadnytskyi (Graduate student in Department of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University) |
Accessing chiral information in macromolecules via time-resolved circular dichroism spectroscopy |
11:35 AM – 12:00 AM |
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 |
12:00 AM – 12:25 PM |
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 |
12:25 PM – 1:20 PM | Lunch & Talks | |
12:45 pm - 1:05 pm |
Edward Pryor - Anatrace An update on detergent usage in membrane protein structural biology |
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1:05 pm - 1:20 pm |
Steve Ouellette - KinaSense A Startup Company's Journey Through the Biomolecular Galaxy |
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Session 3: Disorder and Conformational Plasticity in Macromolecules (Chair: Kristina Kesely) |
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1:30 PM – 1:55 PM |
Lyman Monroe (Graduate student in Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University) |
Variability of Protein Structure Models from Electron Microscopy |
1:55 PM – 2:20 PM |
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 |
2:20 PM – 2:45 PM |
Ahmed Hassan (Graduate student in Department of Comparative Pathology at Purdue University) |
Repurposing approach identifies auranofin with novel antimicrobial activities against Clostridium difficile |
2:45 PM – 3:10 PM | Coffee Break | |
Session 4: Macromolecular Complexes and Assemblies (Chair: Yvon Rugema) |
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3:10 PM – 3:35 PM |
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. |
3:35 PM – 4:00 PM |
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 |
4:00 PM – 4:25 PM |
Adam Yokom (Graduate student in Department of Chemical Biology at University of Michigan) |
Translocation mechanism of the AAA+ disaggregase Hsp104 |
4:25 PM – 6:30 PM |
Poster Session and Reception: hors d'oeuvres and drinks provided |
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7:00 PM |
Networking Event: Stacked Pickle - 516 Northwestern. Ave. |
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May 11
8:30 AM – 9:30 AM | Breakfast | |
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Session 5: Biophysical Methods and Emerging Techniques II (Chair: Vatsal Purohit) |
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9:30 AM – 9:55 AM |
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 |
9:55 AM – 10:20 AM |
Amar Parvate (Graduate student in Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University) |
Cryo-electron tomography of New World Hantaviruses for morphological and structural analyses |
10:20 AM – 10:45 AM |
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 |
10:45 AM – 11:10 AM | Coffee Break | |
11:10 AM – 12:20 PM | Keynote Presentation: Lorena Beese |
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12:20 PM – 1:20 PM | Lunch & Talks | |
12:35 PM - 12:55 PM | Issa Isaac - TTP Labtech |
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12:55 PM - 1:10 PM |
Andy Mesecar - Purdue University StructureBio Facilities at Purdue |
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Session 6: Computational Biology (Chair: Aaron Krabill) |
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1:20 PM – 1:45 PM |
Jonathan Fine (Graduate student in Department of Chemistry at Purdue University) |
Differential target profile based computational drug library design |
1:45 PM – 2:10 PM |
Aashish Jain (Graduate student in Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University) |
Phylo-PFP: Highly accurate phylogenomics-based protein function prediction method |
2:10 PM – 2:35 PM |
Matthew Pharris (Graduate student in Department of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University) |
A Rule-based Model of the Calcium/Calmodulin-dependent Protein Kinase II |
2:35 PM – 3:00 PM |
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 |
3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Closing Remarks, Awards, and Acknowledgements |