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The final program for Frontiers in Membrane Protein Structural Dynamics 2014 has been made available and posted to the website. To see the program, please click here.

Frontiers in Membrane Protein Structural Dynamics

May 7th, 8th, and 9th, 2014*
Chicago Hilton Hotel, Chicago IL

This meeting is being hosted by the Membrane Protein Structural Dynamics Consortium (MPSDC), an NIH/NIGMS Glue Grant funded consortium which focuses on elucidating the relationship between structure, dynamics and function in a variety of membrane proteins.

The early registration deadline is on April 7th. After this date, registration is still possible but the fee schedule will increase significantly!

  

* The MPSDC will also host a NAMD mini-course on May 6th, plus satellite computational and spectroscopy workshops on May 7th. These will take place on the campus of the University of Chicago. More information will be released soon.

We are happy to present two keynote speakers for next year’s Frontiers in Membrane Protein Dynamics conference:

Our first speaker is Robert Stroud, Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of California at San Francisco. At the Stroud lab, scientists seek to understand molecular mechanisms of certain key biological processes, as well as signal transduction between processes at the level of protein structure, dynamics, and mechanism. In addition to his posting at UCSF, Dr. Stroud is also the director of the Membrane Protein Expression Center, one of the centers funded by the NIH Common Fund Structural Biology Program. The MPEH develops and applies the latest innovative methods yielding structurally and functionally intact eukaryotic membrane proteins for drug development, and structural and functional characterization.

Our second keynote speaker is one of our very own Consortium members: Klaus Schulten, Swanlund Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Professor Schulten is a full-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute and directs the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics Group. His professional interests are theoretical physics and theoretical biology. His current research focuses on the structure and function of supramolecular systems in the living cell, and on the development of non-equilibrium statistical mechanical descriptions and efficient computing tools for structural biology. Professor Schulten is a leader in the field of computational biophysics, having devoted over 40 years to establishing the physical mechanisms underlying processes and organization in living systems from the atomic to the organism scale. Schulten is a strong proponent of the use of simulations as a “computational microscope”, to augment experimental research, and to lead to discoveries that could not be made through experiments so far. The molecular dynamics and structure analysis programs NAMD and VMD, born and continuously developed in his group, are used today by many thousands of researchers across the world.

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