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2004 Program Schedule


 
Friday, October 22, 2004  Registration, poster session and mixer 6:30 - 9:00pm
Saturday, October 23, 2004
Morning Session I - Structural Biology of Infectious Disease
Kurt Krause, University of Houston - Chair
 9:00 - 9:25 Sangita Sinha, University of Texas Southwestern/HHMI - Asymmetry in Homodimeric Nucleotidyl Cyclases: Structures of M. tuberculosis Rv1900c
 9:25 - 9:50 Chad Brautigam, University of Texas Southwestern/HHMI - A Treponemal lipoprotein structural biology project: progress and crystal structure of the latest target.
 9:50 - 10:15

Hye-Jeong Yeo, University of Houston - Crystal structure of the Haemophilus influenzae Hia autotransporter

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break sponsored by Hampton Research
Morning Session II - Cryo EM and Structural Methods
Marvin Hackert, University of Texas @ Austin - Chair
10:45 - 11:10 Wen Jiang, Baylor College of Medicine - Estimating Contrast Transfer Function Parameters via Constrained Nonlinear Optimization
11:10 - 11:35 Christopher  Colbert, University of Texas Southwestern/HHMI - Using Crystallography and NMR to Structurally Analyze the Redox Cycle of a Thiol-Disulfide Oxidoreductase.
11:35 - 12:00 Robert Fox, University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston - Determining Function from Structure Using the GCPCC Beamline at CAMD
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session I - Structure and Function Session I  
Yousif Shamoo, Rice University - Chair
 1:30 - 1:55 Vince  LiCata, Louisiana State University - Taq DNA polymerase assumes an elongated conformation in solution
 1:55 - 2:20 Marilyn Yoder, University of Missouri-Kansas City - Structure function studies of phosphatidylinositol transfer proteins (PITP).
 2:45 - 3:10 Mischa Machius, University of Texas Southwestern/HHMI - Stepping on the brakes: internal regulation of a hyper-active enzyme
 3:10 - 3:45 Coffee Break Sponsored by Hampton Research
Afternoon Session II – Structure and Function Session II
Hong Zhang, University of Texas @ Dallas - Chair
 3:45 - 4:10 Christopher Booth, Baylor College of Medicine - Understanding the architecture of a mammalian protein folding machine
 4:10 - 4:35 David Lodowski, University of Texas at Austin - Structural Basis of GRK2 regulation by G{beta}{gamma}
 4:35 - 5:00 Bornali  Chakravarty, Baylor College of Medicine - Human fatty acid synthase: structure and substrate selectivity of the thioesterase domain.
 5:00 - 6:30 Break
 6:30 - 9:00 Saturday Night Banquet: featuring Professor Wayne A. Hendrickson, Columbia University Medical Center, Keynote Speaker
Sunday, October 24, 2004
Workshop Sessions
 9:00 - 9:20 Outstanding Poster Award Winner I (TBD)
 9:20 - 9:40 Outstanding Poster Award Winner II (TBD)
9:40 - 10:10 Coffee Break 
10:15 - 11:15 Ideal Crystallographic Computational Hardware & Software
11:20 - 11:40 A New Automated Isothermal Titration Calorimetry System for Increased Throughput, Eric Reese, MicroCal
11:40 - 12:00 Winners and Losers – Ranking Crystals from Diffraction Images, Angela Criswell, Rigaku/MSC
 12:30 - 3:00 SouthWestern Barbeque Sponsored by Rigaku/MSC

 



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