Save the Date The 29th Annual symposium, April 5, 2025.
Questions about the Symposium? Contact:
Chasity Taylor
Lisa Pipper
Past Symposia
This year's symposium was a great success. The one day event was held at the Levin Hall on UTMB campus and attended by around 200 people. Six talks were presented by renowned scientists; the keynote presenter was Prof. William A. Eaton from National Institutes of Health and Prof. Wah Chiu from Baylor College of Medicine. The judges had a difficult time choosing winners from the 78 posters presented.
Speakers
- Wah Chiu, Distinguished Service Professor, Alvin Romansky Professor, Member of the National Academy of Sciences
Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine
Title: "Visualizing viruses inside and outside the host cell" - William A. Eaton, NIH Distinguished Investigator, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health
Title: "Toward observing transition paths in protein folding using single molecule FRET" - Dorothee Kern, Professor of Biochemistry, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Brandeis University
Title: "The choreography of an enzymes dance – dynamics during catalysis" - John Kuriyan, Chancellor's Professor, Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Title: "Allosteric mechanisms in the activation of the EGF receptor" - Todd O. Yeates, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: "Giant protein assemblies in nature and by design: a geometry lover in molecular paradise" - Whitney Yin, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
Title: "The dual functions of DNA polymerase gamma in replication and repair"
Student Poster Winners
- Alexey Koyfman — Baylor College of Medicine
- Rita Sirrieh — UTHSC-Houston
- Chuan Hong — Baylor College of Medicine