Official Program

Ahmed Hassan

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

Carbonic Anhydrase Inhibitors Curb Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci Gut Colonization Through a Unique Target

Ekramy Sayedahmed

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

Complete Protection Against a Potentially Pandemic H5N1 Influenza Virus Using a Bovine Adenoviral Vector-Based Vaccine

Lee Stunkard

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

Brenda Gonzalez

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

Introducing Cryo-EM Virtual Reality Training & Outreach Tool

Divya Tankasala

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

Engineering Glucose Binding Proteins with a Chemo-Enzymatic Tag for Glucose Detection

Elizabeth Phillips

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

Toehold-Mediated DNA Strand Displacement Reactions for Specific and Sensitive Disease Detection

Matt Therkelsen

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

Budding Induces Asymmetry into Flavivirus Virions

Liz Garland-Kuntz

_{(Research Associate in Department of Chemistry at Purdue University)}

Conformational Dynamics Contribute to Regulation of Phospholipase Cϵ

Chen Sun

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

Jozlyn Clasman

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

Genki Terashi & Yuhong Zha

_{(Postdoctoral scholar in Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University & Undergraduate student in Department of Computer Science at Purdue University)}

Algorithm and Chimera Plugin of MAINMAST, de novo Main-Chain Tracing Method for EM maps

Sai Raghavendra Maddhuri

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

Protein Secondary Structure Detection in Medium to Low Resolution Cryo-Electron Microscopy Maps using Deep Learning

Amar Parvate

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

Chelsea Theisen

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

Characterization and Mutational Analysis of the Proposed Ste24p Substrate Binding Site

Alan Hsu

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

Identification and Characterization of Micro-RNAs that Modify Acute Neutrophilic Migration and Inflammation

Kedar Puvar

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

Continuous Fluorescent Assay to Measure SidE Family Ubiquitin Ligase Activity

Arpita Pal

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

Coffee Break

Sumit Bandekar

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

Crystal Structure of the C-terminal Guanine Exchange Factor Module of Trio Reveals its Oncogenic Potential

Ravi Yadav

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

Structural Insight into Neisseria meningitidis Lactoferrin Binding Protein B’s Interaction with Human Lactoferrin

S. Saif Hasan

_{(Postdoctoral scholar in Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University)}

Structural Investigations of an Infectious Alphavirus

Quiyan Chen

_{(Postdoctoral scholar in Department of Biological Sciences at Purdue University)}

Structural Basis of the Interactions Between GPCRs and GPCR Kinases