Conference Schedule & Program

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Fri
Oct 25
1:00 – 1:30 Registration

Hach Hall Atrium

1:30 – 1:35 Opening remarks

Hach Hall Auditorium

Session Chair: Vincenzo Venditti

1:35 – 2:30 Charles D. Schwieters (National institutes of Health)

Toward an atomic model of Huntingtin Exon 1 fibrils

2:30 – 3:00 Katherine Henzler-Wildman (University of Wisconsin)

The Network for Advanced NMR

3:05 – 3:20 Aayushi Singh (Venditti Lab. – Iowa State University)

Structure-based discovery of a non-competitive FTO inhibitor bound to a cryptic

site at the domain interface

3:25 – 3:40 Stephan Azatian (Latham Lab. – University of Minnesota)

Structure and Dynamics of the Zn Hook Domain in the Mre11-Rad50 Complex

3:45 – 4:15 Break

Hach Hall Atrium

Session Chair: Michael Latham

Hach Hall Auditorium

4:20 – 4:50 Beat Vögeli (University of Colorado)

Where NMR is better than AI: Allostery within and between protein domains viewed by eNOEs

4:55 – 5:10 Steven Siang (Roche Lab. – Iowa State University)

DNA binding activity and conformation of ATF4 are influenced by a secondary basic region unique to the ATFx subfamily of bZip transcription factors

5:15 – 5:30 Jeffrey Krall (Vögeli Lab. – University of Colorado)

Biophysical Characterization of the Nucleic Acid Binding Domains of Z-DNA Binding Protein 1 (ZBP1)

5:35 – 5:50 Manu Veliparambil Subrahmanian (Veglia Lab – University of Minnesota)

Rapid Pulsing Broadband NMR Experiments for Fast Acquisition of Protein Spectra at High and Ultra-High Magnetic Fields

5:55 – 6:10 Baboucarr Faal (Venditti Lab – Iowa State University)

The C-terminal tail of human Alkbh7 controls its nucleic acid demethylase activity

6:15 – 9:00 Banquet and poster session

BBMB Atrium

6:15 – 7:15 Banquet

7:20 – 9:00 Poster session

Sat
Oct 26
7:00 – 8:25 Coffee and light breakfast

BBMB Atrium

Session Chair: Vincenzo Venditti

Hach Hall Auditorium

8:30 – 8:45 Om Prakash (Kansas State University)

Simultaneous Inhibition of two Serine Proteases: NMR Insights into the Molecular Function

8:50 – 9:20 Bob Powers (University of Nebraska)

Metabolomics: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

9:25 - 9:55 Ernie Fuentes (University of Iowa)

Insights into Pseudomonas aeruginosa directed motility by integrative structural biology

10:00 - 10:30 Break

Hach Hall Atrium

Session Chair: Julien Roche

Hach Hall Auditorium

10:35 - 11:05 Smita Mohanty (Oklahoma State University)

Olfaction: Structure and Function Studies of a Pheromone-Binding Protein

11:10 - 11:40 Nicholas Levinson (University of Minnesota)

Mechanistic basis for the allosteric suppression of c-Myc ubiquitination by Aurora kinase A

11:45 - 12:30 Haribabu Arthanari (Harvard University)

Emerging Methods in Solution NMR: Illuminating Blind Spots in Mechanistic Biology

12:40 - 12:50 Award Ceremony

Hach Hall Auditorium

12:55 - 2:00 Box Lunch

BBMB Atrium

2:00 - 5:0 Xplor-NIH NMR workshop

BBMB Auditorium