2015 Annual Meeting final schedule posted

MPSDC 2015 Annual Meeting
Chicago, IL, USA • April 29 – May 1st, 2015 • Hosted by MPSDC

DAY 1: Wednesday, April 29th
8:00am-12:00pm | Mini-symposium: Computational Modeling
1:00pm-4:00pm | Workshop: Exploring the Interface Between Computation and Experiment
4:00pm-6:00pm | Round table: Membrane protein conformation & structural heterogeneity at the single molecule level

DAY 2: Thursday, April 30th
8:45am-5:00pm | Scientific Sessions: MPSDC Projects and Cores

DAY 3: Friday, May 1st
8:30am-1:00pm | Featured Talks: At the Vanguard of Membrane Protein Structural Dynamics

Wednesday April 29th

Computational Modeling Mini-Symposium

Gleacher Center Room 304

Color code: (Benoît Roux’s lab) (Emad Tajkhorshid’s lab) (Wonpil Im’s lab) (Klaus Schulten’s lab)

7:30 Continental Breakfast
8:00 Wonpil Im
Updates on the overall CHARMM-GUI development project
8:15 Yifei Qi
CHARMM-GUI HMMM Builder and Martini Maker for membrane simulations
8:30 Brian Radak
Implementation of a constant pH simulation method in NAMD
8:45 Rong Shen
DEER data with the restrained-ensemble MD method implemented in NAMD
9:00 Abhisek Singha Roy
xMDFF refimenets of synthetic abiological molecules: macromolecular crystallography to the rescue of small-molecule structure determination
9:20 Koon Heng Ivan Teo
MDFF strategies for high-resolution EM maps
9:40 Coffee break
10:00 Soohyung Park
How tolerant are membrane simulations with mismatch in area per lipid between leaflets?
10:20 Sundar Thangapandian
Role of lipids in conformational equilibrium of P-glycoprotein between inward and outward-facing states
10:40 Tao Jiang
Differential anion binding and conformational coupling modes of ClC transporters
11:00 Noah Trebesch
Elevator mode of transport in a bacterial Na-coupled transporter
11:20 Huan Rui
Small charge movements in the function of the Na/K pump
11:40 Avisek Das
The transport cycle of the calcium pump SERCA

Workshop: Exploring the Interface Between Computation and Experiment

Gleacher Center Room 200. Notice the room change between sessions.

12:55 Introduction: Robert Nakamoto, University of Virginia
1:00 Vasanthi Jayaraman, University of Texas, Houston
Spectroscopic investigations of ligand gated ion channels
1:30 Ka-Yee Lee, University of Chicago
Differential Phosphatidylserine Recognition by the TIM Family of Immune Regulatory Receptors
2:00 Julio Fernandez, Columbia University
The physics of titin and muscle function
2:30 Break
2:45 Markus Weingarth, Utrecht University
The Supramolecular Organization of Ion Channels as seen by ssNMR and MD simulations
3:15 Steve Ludtke, Baylor College of Medicine
CryoEM of Membrane Proteins, from Peptides to Large Oligomers

Round table: Membrane protein conformational & structural heterogeneity at the single molecule level

Gleacher Center Room 600. This round table will run from 4:00 to 6:00. Notice the room change between sessions.

Introduction: Eduardo Perozo, University of Chicago, Moderator

Claudio Grosman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Single-molecule electrophysiology: multiple conformations inferred from dwell-time and current-amplitude measurements

Steve Ludtke, Baylor College of Medicine
Single particle imaging

Julio Fernandez, Columbia University
Single molecule force measurements and energy landscapes

Yeon-Kyun Shin, Iowa State University
Conformational heterogeneity and errors in single molecule FRET

Tobin Sosnick, University of Chicago
Identification of H-bond levels in individual proteins as they fold using hydrogen exchange and mass spectrometry

Katherine Henzler-Wildman, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Heterogeneity in the ensemble through solution NMR

Reception / Poster Session

Gleacher Center Room 600, from 6:00.

Thursday April 30th

MPSDC Annual Meeting

Gleacher Center Room 200

8:15 Continental Breakfast
8:45 Eduardo Perozo, University of Chicago
Welcome and State of the MPSDC

Session I (Olga Boudker, Weill Cornell Medical College, Chair)

9:00 Bridge Project 1: Conformational Transitions in P-class ATPases
Robert Nakamoto (PI), Francisco Bezanilla, Yifan Cheng, Chris Ahern, Miguel Holmgren, Benoît Roux, Klaus Schulten
9:30 Bridge Project 2: Structural Dynamics of ABC Transporter
Hassane Mchaourab (PI), Yeon-Kyun Shin, Tae-Young Yoon, Emad Tajkhorshid
10:00 Bridge Project 3: The Transport Cycle in Neurotransmitter Uptake Systems
Jonathan Javitch (PI), Hassane Mchaourab, Robert Nakamoto, Harel Weinstein
10:30 Break

Session II (Tobin Sosnick, University of Chicago, Chair)

10:45 Bridge Project 4: Dynamics of Ion Permeation and Conformational Coupling in K+ Channels
Eduardo Perozo (PI), Marc Baldus, Katherine Henzler-Wildman, Benoît Roux, José Faraldo-Gómez
11:15 Bridge Project 5: Conformational Dynamics in the CLC Channel/Transporter Family
Merritt Maduke (PI), Hassane Mchaourab, Emad Tajkhorshid
11:45 Bridge Project 6: H-bond Dynamics and α-helix Conformational Flexibility
James Bowie (PI), Volker Dötsch, Eduardo Perozo, Francis Valiyaveetil, Emad Tajkhorshid
12:15 Lunch

Session III (Anthony Kossiakoff, University of Chicago, Chair)

1:15 Pilot Project 1: Investigating Conformational Changes in a Saccharide Transporter
Ming Zhou (PI)
1:45 Pilot Project 2: Single Molecule Conformational Dynamics in GPCR
Georgios Skiniotis (PI)
2:15 Pilot Project 3: Conformational Dynamics in Pentameric Ligand-gated Ion Channels
Claudio Grosman (PI)
2:45 Break

Session IV (Hassane Mchaourab, Vanderbilt University, Chair)

3:00 Computational Modeling Core
Benoît Roux (PI), Wonpil Im, Vijay Pande, Klaus Schulten, Tobin Sosnick, Emad Tajkhorshid, Harel Weinstein
3:30 Protein and Chemistry Core
Robert Nakamoto (PI), Andrzej Rajca, Volker Dötsch, Eduardo Perozo, Chris Ahern, Francis Valiyaveetil
4:00 Synthetic Antigen Binder Core
Anthony Kossiakoff (co-PI), Shohei Koide (co-PI)
4:30 Spectroscopy Core
Francisco Bezanilla (PI), Scott Blanchard, Daniella Goldfarb, Hassane Mchaourab, Yeon-Kyun Shin, Tae-Young Yoon

Friday May 1st

Featured Talks: At the Vanguard of Membrane Protein Structural Dynamics

Gleacher Center Room 200

8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:30 Introduction: Francisco Bezanilla, University of Chicago
8:40 Sriram Subramaniam, National Institute of Health
Cryo-EM of membrane proteins and protein complexes at near-atomic resolution
9:20 Amy Rosenzweig, Northwestern University
An integral membrane metalloenzyme involved in biological methane oxidation
10:00 Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Modeling of Large Scale Membrane Processes
10:40 Break
11:00 Mei Hong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Structure, Dynamics and Mechanism of Actions of Viral Proteins from Solid-State NMR
11:40 David Clapham, Harvard Medical School
The Ion channels of Cilia
12:20 Brian Kobilka, Stanford University
Structural insights into the dynamic process of G protein coupled receptor activation
1:00 End of Meeting / Lunch
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