Preliminary Sessions and Speakers
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TPS Award Winners
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Arthur Lesk, Ph.D. Penn State University 2023 Carl Brändén Winner |
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Mei Hong, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2023 Christian B. Anfinsen Winner |
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Patricia Clark, Ph.D. University of Notre Dame 2023 Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Winner |
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Jason Gestwicki, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco 2023 Emil Thomas Kaiser Winner |
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Elena Conti, Ph.D.
Max Planck Institute 2023 Hans Neurath Winner
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Renã Robinson
Vanderbilt University 2023 Marie Maynard Daly Winner
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Kevin Gardner, Ph.D.
CUNY Advanced Science Research Center 2023 Stein & Moore Winner
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David Agard, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco 2021 Stein & Moore Winner |
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Plenary Speaker
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Susan Marqusee, Ph.D.
University of California, Berkeley
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Session 1: Modern Anti-viral Strategies |
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Peijun Zhang, Ph.D. Diamond Light Source
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Christopher Barnes, Ph.D. Stanford University |
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Celia Schiffer, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School |
CryoEM investigation of virus infection and vaccines in cells |
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Structural insights into the development of pan-Coronavirus immunotherapies |
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Session 2: Protein Folding and Function in Context |
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Patricia Clark, Ph.D. University of Notre Dame |
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Bil Clemons, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology |
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Christian Kaiser, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University |
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Session 3: Structures of Mega-Complexes |
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Alan Brown, Ph.D. Harvard University |
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Andre Hoelz, Ph.D. California Institute of Technology |
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Eva Nogales, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley |
Axonemal Structures Reveal Mechanoregulatory and Disease Mechanisms |
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Structural Insights into the Regulation of the Gene Silencer PRC2 |
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Session 4: Protein Evolution: Lessons From the Past |
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Betul Kacar, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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Shelley Copley, Ph.D. University of Colorado, Boulder |
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Jose Sanchez-Ruiz, Ph.D. Universidad de Granada |
Enigmatic evolution of nitrogenases: Insights from Earth’s past |
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Evolution of novel metabolic pathways: Insights from laboratory evolution |
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Ancestral Proteins as Scaffolds for Enzyme Engineering and Evolution |
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Session 5: RNA Protein Machines: Ancient Synergies |
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Jingyi Fei, Ph.S. University of Chicago |
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Aaron Hoskins, Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison |
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Rachel Green, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University |
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How snRNAs and Proteins Collaborate to Recognize Introns during pre-mRNA Splicing |
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Colliding Ribosomes Function as a Signaling Hub to Dictate Cell Fate Decisions |
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Session 6: Peptide Modalities: Size Doesn't Matter |
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Christina Schroeder, Ph.D. Harvard University |
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Cameron Pye, Ph.D. Unnatural Products |
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Lauren Monovich, Ph.D. Novartis Institute for BioMedical Research |
Recifin A, a Novel and Selective Allosteric Inhibitor of Tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase 1 (TDP1) |
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Session 7: Capturing Protein Interactions |
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James Monro, Ph.D. University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School |
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Giulia Palermo, Ph.D. University of California Riverside |
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Neel Shah, Ph.D. Columbia University |
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Dynamics and Mechanisms of CRISPR-Cas9 Through the Lens of Computational Methods |
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Rewired Interaction Specificity in Mutant Phosphotyrosine Signaling Proteins |
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Session 8: Membrane Proteins: From Natural to Designed |
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Tae-Young Yoon, Ph.D. Seoul National University |
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William DeGrado, Ph.D. University of California, San Francisco |
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Nieng Yan, Ph.D. Princeton University |
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Mobilizing the Immune System With Bispecific Antibodies and Potency-tuned Cytokines |
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Shuguang Zhang, Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Session 9: Structure Prediction and Design |
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Eva Maria Strauch, Ph.D. University of Georgia |
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Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, Ph.D. University of Copenhagen |
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How Phase Separation is Encoded in Intrinsically Disordered Low-Complexity Domains |
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Towards Structure Prediction and Design of Disordered Proteins |
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Session 10: Proteins in Motion |
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Jane Dyson, Ph.D. Scripps Research Institute |
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Rodrigo Maillard, Ph.D. Georgetown University |
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David Rueda, Ph.D. Imperial College London |
Role of Disorder and Dynamics in Protein Function |
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Conformational Dynamics Play a Catalytic and an Allosteric Role During the Activation Cycle of Protein kinase A |
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The Old Dog Still Has Some New Tricks: Non Canonical Allosteric Regulation of SIRT1 |
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Session 11: Engineering Protein Fate and Function |
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Ray Deshaies, Ph.D. Amgen |
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Dan Nomura, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley |
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Sara Buhrlage, Ph.D. Harvard University |
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Reimagining Druggability Using Chemoproteomic Platforms |
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Session 12: Aggregates, Amyloids, or Condensates? |
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Ibrahim Cisse, Ph.D. Massachssetts Institute of Technology |
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Rohit Pappu, Ph.D. Washington University in St. Louis |
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Amy Gladfelter, Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill |
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RNA Control of Biomolecular Condensates |
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