Thomas E. Cheatham, III, PhD, Professor, Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy, Director, Research Computing and CHPC, UIT, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Title: “Convergence, Reproducbility and Accuracy - There are Still Some Surprises in Modeling the Structure and Dynamics of Nucleic Acids” |
Edward H. Egelman, PhD, Harrison Distinguished Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA
Title: “Cryo-EM of Helical Protein and Nucleoprotein Polymers at Near-Atomic Resolution” |
Matthieu G. Gagnon, PhD, Assistant Professor , Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Sealy Center for Structural Biology & Molecular Biophysics, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
Title: “How RRF and tRNA Disassemble the Ribosome During Recycling” |
Karen Maxwell, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Title: “The Role of anti-CRISPRs in the Phage-Host Evolutionary Arms Race” |
Michael Sheetz, PhD, Director, Mechanobiology Institute, Distinguished Professor, Dept of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Title: ”Nanometer Level Matrix Structures Control Adhesion Clustering and Dynamics” |
Liang Tong, PhD, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY
Title: “Structural Studies of RNA 3’-end Processing Machineries” |