Conference Schedule & Program

Fri

Oct 23

12:45 -1:20 Registration

Hach Hall Atrium

1:20 - 1:30 Opening remarks

Hach Hall Auditorium

Session Chair: Vincenzo Venditti

1:30 – 2:15 Rob Tycko (National Institute of Health)

New Directions for Biomolecular Solid State NMR

2:20 – 2:35 Ankur Ankur (Michigan State University – Wang Lab)

α-Glucans as Structural Scaffolds in Cryptococcus Cell Walls: Insights from ¹³C and ¹H Solid-State NMR

2:40 – 2:55 Rana Mansour (Medical College of Wisconsin – Marassi Lab)

Towards the Structure of Vitronectin: An NMR Perspective

3:00 – 3:15 Olivia Krise (University of Minnesota – Latham Lab)

SPINDLE: Unlocking protein dynamics from single-field NMR relaxation data using a deep learning ensemble

3:20 – 3:35 Veliparambil Subrahmanian (University of Minnesota – Veglia Lab)

Applications of AI-Designed Pulses in NMR of Proteins, Nucleic Acids and Metabolites

3:40 – 3:50 Clemens Anklin (Buker BioSpin)

TBD

3:50 – 4:20 Break

Hach Hall Atrium

Session Chair: Roberto De Guzman

Hach Hall Auditorium

4:20 – 4:50 Francesca Marassi (Medical College of Wisconsin)

TBD

4:55 – 5:10 Sayan Das (Iowa State University – Venditti Lab)

Getting ‘In Line’ for Catalysis: How Substrates Reshape the Conformational Energy Landscape of E. coli AlkB

5:15 – 5:30 Stephan Azatian (University of Minnesota – Latham Lab)

Deep Learning of NMR Relaxation Data Resolves Millisecond-Microsecond Macromolecular Dynamics

5:35 – 5:50 Kusum Yadav (University of Colorado – Vugmeyster Lab)

Hydration Water Dynamics in Amyloid-β Aggregates and Globular proteins Studied Using ¹⁷O and ²H NMR

5:55 – 6:10 Songlin Wang (NMRFAM)

Advanced Optimal Control RF Pulses for Ultra-High Field Solid-State NMR

6:15 – 9:00 Banquet and poster session

BBMB Atrium

6:15 – 7:30 Banquet

7:30 – 9:00 Poster session

Odd numbers 7:30 – 8:30

Even numbers 8:30 – 9:30

Sat

Oct 24

7:50 – 8:25 Coffee and light breakfast

Hach Hall Atrium

Session Chair: Michael Latham

8:30 – 9:00 Courtney Reichhardt (Washington University)

Molecular-scale mapping of the biofilm matrix.

9:05 – 9:35 Tuo Wang (Michigan State University)

Solid-State NMR and DNP Reveals Dynamic Lignin-Carbohydrate Architectures Across Plant Development and Carbon Cycling

9:40 - 10:10 Will Pomerantz (University of Minnesota

Fluorine Tagged Proteins to Facilitate ¹⁹F NMR/MRI and Thoughts on Developing More Sustainable Organofluorine Materials

10:15 - 10:20 Srikanth Maddali (Milliporesigma)

Stable Isotopes in Scientific Research and Applications

10:25 - 10:50 Break

Hach Hall Atrium

Session Chair: Julien Roche

10:50 - 11:20 Sam Butcher (University of Wisconsin)

The pUG fold, gene silencing and TDP-43

11:25 - 11:55 Brent Znosko (St. Louis University)

Integrating Thermodynamics, Bioinformatics, and Structural Data for RNA Structure Prediction and Discovery

12:00-12:45 Plenary Lecture 2 - Juli Feigon (University of California, Los Angeles)

Structural biology of 7SK RNP, a dynamic regulator of eukaryotic and HIV-1 transcription

12:50 - 1:00 Award Ceremony

Hach Hall Auditorium

1:00 - 2:30 Box Lunch

BBMB Atrium

2:30 - 5:30 Solvent PRE workshop

BBMB Auditorium