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2006 Program Schedule


 
Friday, June 16, 2006  Registration, poster session and mixer 6:30 - 9:00pm
Saturday, June 17, 2006
Morning Session I - 
 Yousif Shamoo, Rice University - Chair
 9:00 - 9:25 Ray Jacobson,  M.D. Anderson Cancer Center -  Mass Spectrometry as a Tool for Structural Studies of Complex Biological Systems
 9:25 - 9:50 Kevin MacKenzie, Rice University - Complex of calmodulin with a ryanodine receptor target reveals a novel, flexible binding mode
 9:50 - 10:15

Marcia Newcomer, Louisiana State University - The structural basis for membrane targeting of an eicosanoid biosynthetic complex

10:15 - 10:45 Coffee Break
Morning Session II -
 Robert Fox, University of Texas Medical Branch - Chair
10:45 - 11:10 Javier Navarro, University of Texas Medical Branch - Crystal Structure of Cone Arrestin at 2.3A: Evolution of Receptor Specificity
11:10 - 11:35 Maria A. Schumacher, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center - Structures of ParB reveal the mechanism of P1 partition complex formation
11:35 - 12:00 Bryan Sutton, University of Texas Medical Branch - Crystal Structure of Human Synaptotagmin 1 C2A-C2B in a Ca+2- naive conformation.
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session I -
 Richard G. Brennan, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center - Chair
 1:30 - 1:55 Francis Tsai, Baylor College of Medicine - Visualizing the ATP-Driven Confomational Changes in a Protein Disaggregating Machine
 1:55 - 2:20 Masato Kato, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - A substrate-gating mechanism in the catalytic cubic core of the bovine branched-chain a-ketoacid dehydrogenase complex
 2:45 - 3:10 Carmen Moure, Baylor College of Medicine -  Crystal Structure of the Vaccinia Virus Polyadenylate Polymerase Heterodimer
 3:10 - 3:45 Coffee Break
Afternoon Session II - TBD
 Chair
 3:45 - 4:10  
 4:10 - 4:35  
 4:35 - 5:00  
 5:00 - 6:30 Break
 6:30 - 9:00 Saturday Night Banquet: Featuring Professor Wim Hol, University of Washington, Department of Biochemistry
Sunday, June 18, 2006
Morning Session I
Joseph Ferrara, Rigaku Americas Corporation - Chair
 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 
Morning Session II
Stephen Sprang, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Chair
10:45 - 11:10 Diana Tomchick, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Structural Basis for a Munc13-1 Homodimer to Munc13-1/RIM Heterodimer Switch
11:10 - 11:35 Whitney Yin, University of Texas - de novo RNA synthesis by T7 RNA polymerase
11:35 - 12:00 Yuh Min Chook,  University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Rules for NLS recognition by Kap-beta2/Transportin
 12:30 - 3:00 SouthWestern Barbeque Sponsored by Rigaku Americas Corporation

 



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