• Major Sponsors
14th Summer Meeting
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Bungtown Rd.
Cold Spring Harbor, NY
The 65th meeting of a series originally organized by John Kuriyan and
Barry Honig, and continued by Leemor Joshua-Tor, Lawrence Shapiro,
David Stokes, Hao Wu, David Eliezer, David Cowburn and Ming Zhou.
Session I
9:30 Scott Blanchard, Weill Cornell Medical College; Structures of
the Bacterial Ribosome in Classical and Hybrid States of tRNA
Binding
10:00 Thomas Schalch, Cold Spring Harbor Lab (Joshua-Tor lab);
Coupling RNAi to Heterochromatin: Insights into the Structure of
the RITS Complex
10:20 Evripidis Gavathiotis, Albert Einstein College of Medicine;
Tracing a Killer's Path: Structural insights into the Activation
Pathway of Pro-Apoptotic BAX
Lunch, Sponsored Lecture & Posters
12:45 Brian Lang, GE; Using SPR to study interactions of
membrane proteins
Session III
2:45 Gaetano Montelione, Rutgers University; Structural Biology
of the Human Cancer Protein Interaction Network
3:15 Jikui Song, Sloan-Kettering Institute (Patel lab); DNMT1 and
maintenance DNA methylation
3:35 Poster Awards and Speaker Photo Session
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
Session II
Session IV
11:20 Paul Driscoll, MRC National Institute for Medical Research,
London; Tracking death domain complex assembly with NMR
11:50 Yinghao Wu, Columbia University (Honig lab); Multiscale
simulation of cadherin-mediated cell adhesion
12:10 Qing Fan, Columbia University; Structural studies of human
GABA(B) receptor
4:10 Alexander Shekhtman, SUNY at Albany; Signal transduction
in RAGE: structural biology of the receptor for advanced glycation
end products
4:40 Vivek Patel, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Singer lab);
Conserved RNA recognition element identifies ZBP1-operated
post-transcriptional regulatory networks
5:00 Wayne Hendrickson, Columbia University; Structural Analysis
of SLAC1-family Anion Channel Activity