Save the Date The 29th Annual symposium, April 5, 2025.
Questions about the Symposium? Contact:
Chasity Taylor
Lisa Pipper
Past Symposia
On May 4th, 2019, the 24th Structural Biology Annual Symposium was successfully held. Six talks were given by renowned scientists. Of the 58 posters presented and 4 posters were selected as winners. Each winner was awarded a prize of $100.
Speakers
- Thomas E. Cheatham, III, Ph.D.,
Professor,
Department of Medicinal Chemistry,
College of Pharmacy,
Director, Research Computing and CHPC, UIT,
University of Utah,
Salt Lake City, UT
Title: “Convergence, Reproducbility and Accuracy - There are Still Some Surprises in Modeling the Structure and Dynamics of Nucleic Acids” - Edward H. Egelman, Ph.D.,
Harrison Distinguished Professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics,
University of Virginia School of Medicine,
Charlottesville, VA
Title: “Cryo-EM of Helical Protein and Nucleoprotein Polymers at Near-Atomic Resolution” - Matthieu G. Gagnon, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor ,
Department of Microbiology & Immunology,
Sealy Center for Structural Biology & Molecular Biophysics,
University of Texas Medical Branch,
Galveston, TX
Title: “How RRF and tRNA Disassemble the Ribosome During Recycling” - Karen Maxwell, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor,
Department of Biochemistry,
University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Title: “The Role of anti-CRISPRs in the Phage-Host Evolutionary Arms Race” - Michael Sheetz, Ph.D.,
Director, Mechanobiology Institute,
Distinguished Professor, Dept of Biological Sciences,
National University of Singapore,
Singapore
Title: ”Nanometer Level Matrix Structures Control Adhesion Clustering and Dynamics” - Liang Tong, Ph.D.,
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor and Chair,
Department of Biological Sciences,
Columbia University,
New York, NY
Title: “Structural Studies of RNA 3’-end Processing Machineries”
Poster Winners
- Jonathan Clinger, Postdoc., Rice University
Title: Cryo-trapping Crystal Studies of Photoreceptor PixJ Yield New Insights into its Photoconversion Mechanism - Bianka Holguin, Student, University of Texas at El Paso
Title: Mutations in Small Heat-Shock Protein 27 Affect Phosphorylation Regulated Chaperone - Caleb Huang, Student, University of Texas Medical Branch
Title: Diffusion in Membraneless Organelles: A Simple Model - Jonathan Mercado, Student, Baylor College of Medicine
Title: Targeting the Leishmania Hsp100 N Domain to Prevent Infective Parasite Stage Differentiation