Friday, July 24

 

08:30 - 11.30 am

Intrinsically Disordered Proteins
CONCURRENT MORNING SYMPOSIA 1
Auditorium

08:30 Intro from Chair: Xavier Salvatella, IRB Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain.

08:35 Monika Fuxreiter, Debreceni Egyetem. Debrecen, Hungary.
Fuzzy Interactions and Context Dependence of Proteins..

Young Investigator Speaker
09:05 Mariano Maffei, University of Barcelona. Barcelona, Spain.
Structuring Disorder: the Case of the Intrinsically Disordered Unique Domain of c-Src.

09:20 Ben Schuler, Universität Zürich. Zürich, Switzerland.
Single-Molecule Spectroscopy of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.

09:50 25-min Coffee Break

10:15 Robert Konrat, University of Vienna. Vienna, Austria.
Identifying Order in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.

Young Investigator Speaker
10:45 Daniel Jarosz, Stanford University. Stanford, CA, United States.
Intrinsically Disordered Proteins Drive Heritable Transformations of Biological Traits.

11:00 Tanja Mittag, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Memphis, TN, United States.
The Role of Protein Disorder and Self-Association in the Formation of Cellular Bodies.

Observing Dynamics in Single Cells
CONCURRENT MORNING SYMPOSIA 2
Room 6 (room 5 - overflow)

08:30
Intro from Chair: Eva Nogales, University of California, Berkeley/HHMI. Berkeley, CA, United States.

08:35 Garry Nolan, Stanford School of Medicine. Palo Alto, CA, United States.
A Single Cell Systems Based View of Immunity and Cancer.

Young Investigator Speaker
09:05 Francois St. Pierre, Stanford University. Stanford, CA, United States.
Imaging Neuronal Voltage Dynamics in Vivo with Millisecond-timescale Precision.

09:20 Lani Wu, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center. Dallas, TX, United States.
ORACLs: Optimized Reporter cell lines for Annotating Compound Libraries Across Diverse Drug Classes Via Imaged Based Phenotypic Screens.

09:50 25-min Coffee Break

10:15 Joelle Pelletier, University of Montreal. Montreal, QC, Canada.
Does Engineering Functional Enzymes Require Preserving Protein Dynamics?

Young Investigator Speaker
10:45 Robert Gahi, The National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, MD, United States.
Live-cell Measurements of the Conformational Rearrangements in Bax at the Initiation of Apoptosis

11:00 Bo Huang, University of California. San Francisco, CA, United States.
Imaging the Genome in Living Cells.

11:30 am - 01:30 pm

 

Lunch
Poster Displays and Exhibits Open – Exhibit Hall
11:30 - 01:30 pm


Mentoring Committee Workshop: How to Give a Great Talk.

Noon - 01:00 pm
Room 3

01:30 - 06:00 pm

Plenary Awards Session
Auditorium

01:30
Intro from Chair: James Bowie, Protein Society President, University of California Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA, United States
01:35 Presenting The Hans Neurath Outstanding Promise Awards*
01:50 Claudio Ciferri, Genentech - Presenting The Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Award** to Eva Nogales
01:55
Eva Nogales, University of California Berkeley/HHMI. Berkeley, CA, United States.
Visualizing molecular complexity by cryo-EM to understand biological function.
02:25 Presentation of the Protein Science Young Investigator Award to Nieng Yan
02:30 Nieng Yan
, Tsinghua University/HHMI. Beijing, China.
Structural and mechanistic investigation of glucose transporters.
03:00 Presenting The Emil T. Kaiser Award to Anna Mapp
03:05 Anna Mapp, University of Michigan. Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
Dissecting Transcriptional Protein Networks.

03:35
30-min Coffee Break
04:05 Presenting the Christian B. Anfinsen Award to Sachdev Sidhu
04:10 Sachdev Sidhu, University of Toronto. Toronto, ON, Canada.
Synthetic Proteins in the Real World.
04:40 Presenting The Carl Brändén Award*** to C. Robert Matthews
04:45 C. Robert Matthews, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Worcester, MA, USA.
Superoxide Dismutase: From Folding and Stability to Potential Therapeutics for ALS.
05:15 Acknowledgement of the 2015 Neurath Award and Stein & Moore Award recipients
05:20 Presentation of the Protein Science Best Paper Awards
05:30 Presentation of the Protein Society Service Awards
05:45 Presentation of the Best Poster Competition Prizes

*Sponsored by the Hans Neurath Foundation
**Sponsored by Genentech
***Sponsored by Rigaku

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