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2003 Program Schedule


Friday, October 24, 2003  Registration, poster session and mixer 6:30 - 9:00pm
 
Saturday, October 25, 2003
 
Morning Session I - Structural Genomics
 
Kurt Krause, University of Houston - Chair
 9:00 - 9:30 Mischa Machius, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center   - Treponema pallidum lipoproteins:  A small-scale structural  genomics project in an academic setting.
 9:30 - 10:00 Clare Smith, Texas A&M University - Structural genomics of persistence targets in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
10:00 - 10:30

Mitchell Miller, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center  - Overview of the Joint Center for Structural Genomics and a review of progress to date.

   
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break sponsored by Nextal Biotechnologies
   
Morning Session II – General Structures of Interest I
 
Yousif Shamoo, Rice University - Chair
11:00 - 11:30 Whitney Yin, University of Texas at Austin  - Structural basis for ratchet-like translocation of RNA polymerase along DNA
11:30 - 12:00 Allen Edmundson, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation - Origins of lethal amyloid deposits from immunoglobulin precursors.
12:00 - 12:30 Francis Tsai, Baylor College of Medicine Structure of the Molecular Chaperone ClpB - A Molecular Machine that Rescues Proteins from an Aggregated State
   
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch
   
Afternoon Session I - Macromolecular Assemblies
 
Florante Quiocho, Baylor College of Medicine - Chair
 2:00 - 2:30 Michael Schmid, Baylor College of Medicine- 9.5 Å Cryo-EM structure of the acrosomal bundle from Limulus Sperm.
 2:30 - 3:00 Brian Bowman, Baylor College of Medicine - Structure of the herpesvirus major capsid protein.
 3:00 - 3:30 Stan Watowich, University of Texas at Galveston - Some assembly required: Structural reorganization of the VEE virus
   
 3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break Sponsored by Bruker - AXS
   
Afternoon Session II – General Structures of Interest II
 
Stephen Sprang, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Chair
 4:00 - 4:30 Donovan  Haines, University of Texas at Dallas - Computationally  characterizing an actuation mechanism in a P450 cytochrome.
 4:30 - 5:00 Yuh Min Chook, University of Texas Southwestern Medical  Center  - Nuclear import and export by Karyopherin betas
 5:00 - 5:30 Elizabeth Goldsmith, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Substrate Interactions in MAP kinase pathways
   
 5:30 - 6:30 Break
 
 6:30 - 9:00 Saturday Night Banquet: featuring Sir Thomas L. Blundell,  Cambridge University,introduction by Edgar Meyer, Founder, SWMS
   
Sunday, October 26, 2003
 
Workshop Sessions
   
 9:00 - 9:30 Careers in Structural Biology - Joseph Ferrara, Rigaku/MSC; Florante Quiocho, Baylor College of Medicine; James Sacchettini, Texas A&M University; Yousif Shamoo, Rice University.   Chaired by Kurt Krause, University of Houston
 9:30 - 10:30 X-rays & Hardware - Henry Bellamy, Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices (CAMD), Sue Byram - Bruker AXS, Joseph Ferrara, Rigaku/MSC
   
10:30 - 11:00 Break Sponsored by Fluidigm
   
11:00 - 11:45 Computational Crystallography - John Tanner, University of Missouri, Mitchell Miller, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Pierre LeMagueres, University of Houston. Chaired by John Tanner, University of Missouri
11:45 - 1:00 Automated Crystallization - DataCentric Automation, Diversified Scientific, Fluidigm, RoboDesign, TriTek.  Chaired by Yousif Shamoo, Assistant Professor, Rice University
   
 1:30 - 3:30 SouthWestern Barbeque Sponsored by Rigaku/MSC
   
   
   



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