On April 28th, 2018, the 23rd Structural Biology Annual Symposium was
successfully held. Six talks were given by renowned scientists. Of the
42 posters presented and 7 posters were selected as winners. Each winner
was awarded a prize of $150.
Speakers
- Grant Jensen, PhD,
Professor, Department of Biophysics & Biology, Investigator, Howard
Hughes Medical Institute, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena,
CA
Title: “Progress and Challenges in Electron Cryotomography”
- Ayyalusamy Ramamoorthy, PhD,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry and Biophysics,
University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI
Title: “Membrane-Assisted Dynamic Protein-Protein Interactions by NMR”
- Andrew Routh, PhD,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,
Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biolihysics,
University of Texas Medical Branch,
Galveston, TX
Title: “Parallel ClickSeq and Nanopore Deep-Sequencing Characterizes the Emergence and Evolution of Defective Viral Genomes”
- Joan-Emma Shea, PhD,
Professor,
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry,
Department of Physics,
University of California Santa Barbara,
Santa Barbara, CA
Title: “Binding and Assembly of Intrinsically Disordered Peptide”
- Yizhi Tao, PhD,
Associate Professor,
Department of BioSciences,
Rice University,
Houston, TX
Title: “The Tail of a Nematode Virus”
- Adam Zlotnick, PhD,
Professor,
Department of Molecular and Cellular Biochemistry,
Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN
Title: “Multiple Mechanisms for Assembly-Directed HBV Antivirals”