Frontiers in Membrane Protein Dynamics full schedule announced

The Membrane Protein Structural Dynamics Consortium (MPSDC) will be holding its first Frontiers in Membrane Protein Dynamics conference on Thursday, May 3rd and Friday, May 4th.

This conference consists of scientific sessions and poster presentations, and will feature both Consortium members and external invitees.

Attendance is open to the public and will take place within the context of our 3rd Annual MPSDC Meeting, where all members, NIH representatives and our External Advisory Committee will participate.

The MPSDC’s Computational Modeling Core will host a NAMD/VMD workshop and a mini-symposium prior to the conference, which will take place on the University of Chicago campus. For more information on either of these events, click here »

We are currently booked over capacity for the conference, and are therefore no longer taking registrations. Please inquire at [email protected] if you have any questions.

The full schedule is as follows:

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Thursday May 3, 2012

7:30-8:30

Registration and Breakfast

Welcome & Introduction

8:30-8:45

Eduardo Perozo, University of Chicago

NMR Approaches to Membrane Protein Motion in the ns-μs Range

8:45-8:50

Merritt Maduke, Stanford University, Session Chair

8:50-9:15

Marc Baldus, Utrecht University

9:15-9:40

Dorothee Kern, Brandeis University

9:40-10:05

Katherine Henzler-Wildman, Washington University at St. Louis

10:05-10:20

Coffee Break

Engineering/Methods to investigate Membrane Protein Dynamics

10:20-10:25

Steve Kent, University of Chicago, Session Chair

10:25-10:50

Francis Valiyaveetil, Oregon Health & Science University

10:50-11:15

Christopher Ahern, University of British Columbia

11:15-11:40

Anthony Kossiakoff, University of Chicago

11:40-12:05

Benoît Roux, University of Chicago

12:05-1:30

Poster Session and Lunch

Computational Approaches to Transmembrane Signaling

1:30-1:35

Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Session Chair

1:35-2:00

Ivet Bahar, University of Pittsburgh

2:00-2:25

Emad Tajkhorshid, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

2:25-2:50

Wonpil Im, University of Kansas

2:50-3:10

Coffee break

Alternative Approaches to Membrane Protein Expression and Stability

3:10-3:15

Shohei Koide, University of Chicago, Session Chair

3:15-3:40

Volker Dötsch, Goethe University

3:40-4:05

Brian Fox, University of Wisconsin, Madison

4:05-4:30

James Bowie, University of California, Los Angeles

4:30-4:50

Coffee break

Dynamics of Ion-Protein Interactions

4:50-4:55

Francisco Bezanilla, University of Chicago, Session Chair

4:55-5:20

Martin Zanni, University of Wisconson-Madison

5:20-5:45

Miguel Holmgren, NINDS

5:45-6:10

José Faraldo-Gómez, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics

6:10-

Free evening

Friday May 4, 2012

Mechanistic Paradigms of Membrane Protein Function

8:30-8:35

Claudio Grosman, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Session Chair

8:30-9:00

Doug Rees, California Institute of Technology

9:00-9:25

Ming Zhou, Columbia University

9:25-9:50

Anthony Auerbach, University at Buffalo, New York

9:50-10:10

Coffee Break

Conformational Coupling in Secondary Transporters

10:10-10:15

Robert Nakamoto, University of Virginia, Session Chair

10:15-10:40

Hassane Mchaourab, Vanderbilt University

10:40-11:05

Olga Boudker, Cornell University

11:05-11:30

Geoffrey Chang, Scripps Research Institute

11:30-11:40

Closing Remarks

11:40-1:00

Lunch

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Note: we are still deciding on the final list of poster presentations. We will send out an email about these shortly.

This year the conference will be held in downtown Chicago at the University of Chicago’s Gleacher Center located at 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago IL 60611.

The Gleacher Center is the downtown home of the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. The work of internationally known architect Dirk Lohan, grandson of Mies van der Rohe, the striking and expansive stone and glass structure rises six stories above the Chicago River. We hope this centrally located venue will enhance our interactions and allow for easy transportation to and from the conference.