On May 6th, 2017, the 22nd Structural Biology Annual Symposium was successfully held with the theme "Macromolecular Interactions and Complexes". Six talks were given by renowned scientists. Of the 55 posters presented six student posters were selected as winners. Each winner was awarded a prize of $200.
Speakers
- James Chou, PhD, Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Title: “Pore Architecture and Ion Selectivity Filter of the Mitochondrial Calcium Uniporter” - Rachelle Gaudet, PhD, Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, Boston, MA
Title: “Panning for Precious Metals: Mechanics of a Transition Metal Transporter” - Petr Leiman,
PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry & Molecular
Biology, Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics,
University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
Title: “Structure and Function of Contractile Injection Systems” - Daniela Nicastro, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Cell Biology & Biphysics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Title: “Probing the Molecular Organization of Cells and Organelles using Cryo-ET and TYGRESS” - Brian Shoichet, PhD, Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF School of Pharmacy, San Francisco, CA
Title: “Docking for New Chemotypes Against Under- and Over-studied GPCRs” - Kylie Walters, PhD, Senior Investigator, Structural Biophysics Laboratory
Head, Protein Processing Section, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD
Title: “Structural and Mechanistic Basis of Substrate Recognition by the Proteasome”