Nobel Laureate
Phillip A Sharp MIT
Albany 2015: The 19th Conversation, June 9-13, 2015
Presented by the Dept. of Chemistry & Biological Sciences
University at Albany SUNY, Albany NY 12222
http://www.jbsdonline.com/19th_Conversation.html
Contact: Prof. Ramaswamy H. Sarma: rhs07@albany.edu
Optogenetics:
Ed Boyden, MIT;
Xue Han, Boston Univ.;
Keith Moffat, University
of Chicago; Shigehiko
Hayashi, Kyoto University, Japan.
CRISPR: Structural
Biology: Hong Li, Florida
State University;
B. Wiedenheft, Montana;
Eugene Koonin, NIH;
Konstantin Severinov,
Rutgers Univ.
Exciting Developments:
Sunney Xie, Harvard;
Bernd Bukau, Univ. of
Heidelberg, Germany;
Eric Greene, Columbia;
Hashim Al-Hashimi, Duke
Univ.; Michael Weiss,
Case Western Reserve.
Nobel Laureate
Martin Karplus, Harvard
RNA: Localization,
Catalysis & Structure:
Natalia Broude, Boston
Univ.; David Lilley, Univ.
of Dundee, UK; Alan Chen,
Univ. at Albany; Manju
Bansal, IISc, Bangalore, India.
DNA Damage, Repair,
Recombination: S. Williams,
NIH; Sarah Delaney, Brown
Univ.; Michal Hammel, LBL,
Univ. of Calif. Berkeley;
Mara Prentiss, Harvard
University; Chantal Prevost,
IBPC, Paris, France.
Computational Structural Biology: DNA.
Jiri Sponer, Institute of
Biophysics Brno, Czech
Republic; Celia Fonseca
Guerra, VU, The Netherlands; Sarah Harris, University of Leeds, UK.
Manju Hingorani (NSF)
& Peter Preusch (NIH)
present grant opportunities
and strategies.
Below: Protein Design
T. Head-Gorden, Univ. of
California, Berkeley;
N. Srinivasan, IISc, India
Molecular Machines:
J. Onuchic, Rice Univ;
D. Thirumalai, UMD;
B. Roux, Univ. Chicago;
H-X. Zhou, Florida State;
Moitrayee Bhattcharyya,
Univ. of California,
Berkeley.
Molecular Simulations in
Life Sciences:
Rommie Amaro, Univ. of
California, San Diego; Vijay
Pande, Stanford Univ.;
Carol Post, Purdue
University; Sandor Vajda,
Boston University.
Computational Structural Biology: DNA-Protein
Complexes: Michael
Feig, Univ. of Michigan;
Koby Levy, Weizmann
Institute of Science, Israel;
Remo Rohs, Univ. of
Southern California.
Chairs
P. Agris, D. Beveridge
S. Brahmachari, A.Garcia
Frank-Kamenetskii, T. Haran
N. Kallenbach, L. Marky
A. Mittal, W. Olson
Tom Bishop, Indira Ghosh
U. Heinemann, A. Maxwell
Chairs contd.
Ned Seeman
Vladmir Teif
Ed Trifonov
Zippi Shakked
Tom Tullius
S. Vishveshwara
Victor Zhurkin