Conference Schedule & Program

Fri
Oct 17
1:00 – 1:30 Registration

Hach Hall Atrium

1:30 – 1:35 Opening remarks

Hach Hall Auditorium

Session Chair: Vincenzo Venditti

Hach Hall Auditorium

1:35 – 2:20 Plenary Lecture 1 - Nikolaos Sgourakis (University of Pennsylvania)

The molecular basis of MHC-I antigen repertoire selection

2:20 – 2:40 Stephan Azatian (Latham Lab. – University of Minnesota)

Nanosecond to Microsecond Timescale Dynamics Spanning 300 Ångstroms in the Mre11-Rad50 DNA Repair Complex

2:45 – 3:00 Kathy Duong (Reichhardt Lab. – Washington University)

Structure and dynamics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm exopolysaccharides

3:05 – 3:20 Aprajita Jha (Garcia Lab. – Kansas State University)

Identification and Optimization of Peptide Inhibitors of the Classical Complement Pathway

3:25 – 3:40 Layne Jensen (Estrada Lab. – SUNY Buffalo)

Revolving Doors: 1D 19F-NMR as a tool to study open-close dynamics of CYP107 in response to a mutation responsible for pH sensitivity

3:45 – 4:15 Break

Hach Hall Atrium

Session Chair: Michael Latham

Hach Hall Auditorium

4:20 – 4:50 Ishwar Radharkishnan (Northwestern University)

Structural Biology by NMR in the AlphaFold Era

4:55 – 5:10 Nirbhik Acharya (Castaneda Lab. – Syracuse University)

STI1 domain dynamically engages transient helices to drive phase separation of yeast ubiquilin

5:15 – 5:30 Nicholas Wood (Marassi Lab. – Medical College of Wisconsin)

In situ NMR studies of an outer membrane protein pH sensor motif in native outer membrane vesicles

5:35 – 5:50 Shilla Owusu Ansah (Eichhorn Lab. – University of Nebraska)

Environmental conditions tune conformational exchange in the bistable 7SK stem-loop 3 RNA by modulating non-canonical base-pair thermodynamics

5:55 – 6:10 Ritika Kukreja (Latham Lab. – University of Minnesota)

DNA modulates structural transitions and oligomerization kinetics of the functional amyloid CRES

6:15 – 9:00 Banquet and poster session

BBMB Atrium

6:15 – 7:15 Banquet

7:20 – 9:00 Poster session

Sat
Oct 18
7:00 – 8:25 Coffee and light breakfast

BBMB Atrium

Session Chair: Roberto De Guzman

Hach Hall Auditorium

8:30 – 9:00 Moriah Beck (Witchita State University)

Mapping Palladin–Actin Interfaces with NMR, SAXS, XL-MS, and Docking Approaches

9:05 – 9:35 Fernando Estrada (SUNY Buffalo)

Everything old is new again: 19F NMR in the study of cytochrome P450 structure and function

9:40 - 10:10 Vincenzo Venditti (Iowa State University)

Cracking the Alkb Homologues’ Code

10:15 - 10:40 Break

Hach Hall Atrium

Session Chair: Julien Roche

Hach Hall Auditorium

10:45 - 11:15 Frédéric Perras (Ames National Laboratory)

Deconvolution, a New Approach to Enhance the Resolution of Multidimensional NMR Spectra

11:20 - 11:50 Sarah Keane (University of Michigan)

Structural and molecular investigation of regulatory non-coding RNA molecules

11:55 - 12:40 Plenary Lecture 2 - Joshua Ziarek (Northwestern University)

Design principles of relaxation-optimized 19F-13C aromatic spin systems

12:45 - 12:55 Award Ceremony

Hach Hall Auditorium

1:00 - 2:30 Box Lunch

BBMB Atrium

2:30 - 5:30 CPMG-RD workshop

BBMB Auditorium