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Under the auspices of the New York Structural Biology Center, and its member institutions, leading investigators will gather in New York in May to discuss the future of structural biology. The schedule includes Kurt Wüthrich, Timothy Springer, David DeRosier, Jacob Schaefer, Janet Smith, Joachim Frank, Juli Feigon, Michael Sternberg, Peter Moore, Charles Sanders, Lewis Kay, Stephen Fesik, Wolfgang Baumeister, Wayne Hendrickson and others invited. Sessions will be chaired by distinguished local faculty, Steven Almo, Dinshaw Patel, Ruth Stark, and David Stokes. The current speaker and title list is –
Because of changes in travel details and other unavoidable issues, the session allocation and order of speakers may be changed up to the last minute. See this web site for the most recent version.
Weds. May 7, 9 am, Welcome, David Cowburn, NYSBC
Chair, Dinshaw Patel, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Institute
9:15 am Kurt Wüthrich, ETHZ & Scripps Institute, 'NMR in structural and functional proteomics'
10:15 am Coffee Break
10:35 am Timothy Springer, Harvard Medical School, 'Integrins, β-propellers, and predicted and experimental structures'
11:30 am David DeRosier, Brandeis University, 'Structure of the chemotaxis machinery'
12:25 am Lunch Break
Weds. May 7, Chair, David Stokes, NYU Medical School & NYSBC
1:45 pm Wolfgang Baumeister, Max Plank Institut, 'Electron tomography: visualizing macromolecular structures in intact cells'
2:30 pm Jacob Schaefer, Washington University, St. Louis, 'Redor characterization of protein binding sites'
3:15 pm Coffee/ Tea
3:35 pm William Weis, Stanford University, 'β-catenin in cell adhesion and Wnt signaling'
4:25 pm Joachim Frank, Wadsworth Center & HHMI, 'What makes it tick? Attempts to understand the dynamics of the ribosome using Cryo EM'
Thurs. May 8, Chair, Ruth Stark, City University of New York
9:00 am Stephen Fesik, Abbott Labs, 'Structural biology in drug research'
9:45 am Michael Sternberg, Imperial College, London, 'The role of bioinformatics in structural genomics projects'
10:30 am Coffee
10:50 am Janet Smith, Purdue University, 'Complex enzymes: past and future'
11:35 am Juli Feigon, UCLA, 'Biophysical studies of telomerase RNA structure and mutations linked to disease'
12:25 pm Lunch Break
Thurs. May 8, Chair, Steven Almo, Einstein Coll. Medicine
1:45 pm Peter Moore, Yale University, 'Solving big structures – the ribosome'
2:30 pm Charles Sanders, Vanderbilt University, 'Membrane protein misfolding and disease'
3:15 pm Coffee/ Tea
3:35 pm Lewis Kay, University of Toronto, 'Looking to the future with NMR'
4:25 pm Wayne Hendrickson, Columbia University & HHMI, 'Conformational Adaptability in the HIV envelope glycoprotein gp120'
Because of changes in travel details and other unavoidable issues, the session allocation and order of speakers may be changed up to the last minute. See this web site for the most recent version.
Structural biology will provide exceptional new advances in basic biology and in the understanding and treatment of human disease. Recent advances in genomics and proteomics provide significant opportunities for structural biology to define the molecular basis of disease-causative processes, for the development of new therapeutics. In addition, this detailed understanding of the building blocks of the cell permit us to integrate the molecular and cellular levels by investigating macromolecular machines At this conference, international leaders in the areas of structural biology – magnetic resonance, cryoelectron microscopy, crystallography and informatics – will present their view of where structural biology is now, and what its future holds.
The meeting will be held over two days with 40-60’ lectures from the speakers. There will be coffee and other breaks to encourage discussions. There is additionally a meeting on Structural Biology at NYU Medical Center on the Friday following, May 9th.
The meeting will be held in the ARONOW THEATRE in the North Academic Center of City College of New York. The entrance is at 136th St & Convent Avenue.
There is no fee to attend. To assist us in planning, please pre-register by e-mailing your interest (to attend@nysbc.org), please indicate the number attending of your group. Please address any other questions to nysbc@nysbc.org.
Please download the poster(s) for the conference by clicking here.
Lectures will start at 9 am. The complete schedule will be posted here one-two days in advance. Because of travel and other considerations, the exact times of presentations may be changed without notice.
