The 28th Structural Biology Annual Symposium

Date: Saturday, April 13, 2024
Location: Health Education Center (HEC) Room 1.200
Chair: Prof. Werner Braun
co-Chair: Prof. Guy Nir

The Center's 28th Annual Symposium was successfully held on April 13th. Five talks were presented by renowned scientists and students and postdoctoral fellows presented posters. Four of those posters were selected for awards of $100. The winners were Kosha Rahimi, Justin Van Riper, Stephenie Rogers, and Seth Scott.

Picture from Left to Right: (Mark White, UTMB, Manager, X-ray Crystallography Resource), (Stephenie Rogers, UTMB, Graduate Student), (Kosar Rahimi, U of H, Graduate Student) (Justin Van Riper, Baylor College of Medicine, Graduate Student) (Seth Scott, UTMB, Postdoctoral)

Full Abstract Book (PDF)

Speakers

• Yunfeng Chen, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor
  Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  University of Texas Medical Branch
  Galveston, TX, USA
  E-mail: yunfchen@utmb.edu
  Title: "Identifying a Hotspot in von Willebrand Factor that Differentially Modulates Platelet Adhesion and Aggregation and a New Strategy to Safely Prevent Arterial Thrombosis"
• Peter D. Kwong , Ph.D.
  Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University
  New York, NY
  Chief, Structural Biology Section, NIH
  Vaccine Research Center, Nationa Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
  National Institutes of Health
  Bethesda, MD, USA
  E-mail: pdkwong@nih.gov
  Title: "Structure-Assisted Vaccine Design for HIV and Other Human Pathogens"
• Jose N. Onuchic, Ph.D.
  Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Chair of Physics
  Professor of Chemistry and BioSciences
  Rice University
  Houston, TX, USA
  E-mail: jose.onuchic@rice.edu
  Title: "Modeling the Genome: a View by a Physicist"
• Anna Pomes, Ph.D.
  Research Director
  INDOOR Biotechnologies
  Charlottesville, VA, USA
  E-mail: apomes@inbio.com
  Title: "Structural Basis of Allergenicity"
• Tamar Schlick, Ph.D.
  Professor
  Department of Chemistry
  New York University
  New York, NY, USA
  E-mail: Schlick@nyu.edu
  Title: "Modeling and Simulating Gene Folding at Nucleosome Resolution"

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