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”

Poster Winners

• Didier Devaurs, Postdoc., Rice University
  Title: Predicting Binding Modes of Peptide-HLA Complexes with Molecular Docking
• Shanti Pal Gangwar, Postdoc., UTMB
  Title: Structural Insights Into The Regulation Of Neuroligin2:Neurexin Trans Synaptic Bridge By MDGA1
• Eunhye Lee, Postdoc., UTMB
  Title: The dengue stem loop A (SLA), the promoter for virus genome replication, shows a three-way junction structure
• Zoe Hoffpauir, Student, UTMB
  Title: Searching for New Allosteric Activators of Glutamate Dehydrogenase
• Elizabeth Jaworski, Student, UTMB
  Title: Parallel ClickSeq and Nanopore Sequencing elucidates the rapid evolution of Defective-Interfering RNA in Flock House virus
• Pragya Manandhar, Student, U of Houston
  Title: Probing Conformational Changes and Stability of the Ligand Binding Site of Integrin aXb2
• Omneya Nassar, Student, UTMB
  Title: Discovery of a 40-year-old Sequence Error Unveils New Understanding of Allosteric Ligand Binding to Glutamate Dehydrogenase