Save the Date The 29th Annual symposium, April 5, 2025.
Questions about the Symposium? Contact:
Chasity Taylor
Lisa Pipper
Past Symposia
The 21st Annual Symposium was successfully held on April 23, 2016 at the Levin Hall on UTMB campus. Six talks were presented by renowned scientists. The program also included a poster session and several social events to allow formal and informal discussion with the speakers and other symposium participants.
Speakers
- Patrick Griffin, PhD, Professor, Molecular Therapeutics, The Scripps Research Institute, Scripps Florida
Title: "Differential HDX to Probe Ligand Mediated Receptor Signaling" - Nick Grishin, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, HHMI, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Title: "Evolutionary Classification of Protein Domains" - Jun Qin, PhD, Professor, Department of Molecular Cardiology, Lerner Research Institute and Cleveland Clinic
Title: "Structural Elucidation of Weak Protein-protein Interactions in Cell Adhesion" - Matthew Redinbo, PhD, Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Title: "Structural and Chemical Biology of Drugging the Microbiome" - Gary Ren, PhD, Staff Scientist, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Title: "Individual-Particle Electron Tomography (IPET): An Approach to Study Flexible Protein Structure, Dynamics, Mechanism and Aggregation" - Thomas Smith, PhD, Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch
Title: "Glutamate Dehydrogenase: Structure, Regulation, Evolution, Insulin, Cancer, and a Cup of Tea"
Student Poster Winners
- Melvin Young; Baylor College of Medicine
Title: Computational Modeling and Design of Orthogonal GPCR-Mediated Signaling Complexes - Emily Thomas; Rice University
Title: Post-Translational Control Over Metabolic Labeling of Newly Synthesized Proteins
Postdocs Poster Winners
- Didier Devaurs; Rice University
Title: Guiding Protein Conformational Sampling With Experimental HDX-MS Data - Valerie Klema; UTMB
Title: Dengue Virus Nonstructural Protein 5 (NS5) Assembles into a Dimer With a Unique Methyltransferase and Polymerase Interface