ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM

From Sequence to Consequence: Celebrating
30 years of Science with Dagmar Ringe and Greg Petsko





June 18-19, 2010
Shapiro Theater, Shapiro Campus Center
Brandeis University

Portrait of Dagmar
Portrait of Greg

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Symposium Schedule


Friday, June 18, 2010


Session Chair: Raji Edayathumangalam
8:30Introduction
8:45Opening Remarks -- Louise Johnson
9:15Diane Joseph-McCarthy
"Fragments for Drug Discovery"
9:45Axel Brunger
"Reconstitution of Calcium Triggered Synaptic Vesicle Fusion"
10:15Coffee

Session Chair: Jared Auclair
10:45Steve Almo
"Sequence, Structure, Function, Immunity"
11:15Roland Strong
"Why Things are Red: Siderocalin, from Siderophores & Bacterial Virulence to Apoptosis & Cancer"
11:45Ken Gabbay
"From Aldose Reductase to Osterix: Diabetes to Osteoporosis"
12:15Lunch

Session Chair: Ce Feng Liu
1:45Connie Jeffery "Phosphoglucose Isomerase and Other Moonlighting Proteins" 2:15Tom Alber "Oldies but goodies: B-values, temperature, FDR and noise" 2:45Coffee
Session Chair: Paul Hubbard
3:15Steve Burley
"Structure-Guided Fragment Based Drug Discovery Using a Structural Genomics Platform"
3:45Martin Karplus
"How Proteins Work: Insights from Simulations"
4:15Closing Remarks
6:00Reception/Social
7:00Dinner



Saturday, June 19, 2010


Session Chair: Xu Simon
8:30Introduction
8:45Opening Remarks -- Barbara Seaton
9:15Charlie Brenner
"New Steps in NAD Metabolism: Regulation of Life, Death, and Aging"
9:45Emil Pai
"The Ever-Growing Epitope of an Anti-HIV-1 Antibody"
10:15Coffee

Session Chair: Dali Liu
10:45Ann Stock
"Conformational Dynamics: A Target for Regulating Protein Activity"
11:15Carla Mattos
"Allosteric Modulation of Ras: A Direct Role for Glutamine 61 in Catalysis"
11:45John Kuriyan
"How DNA Polymerase Clamp Loaders Work"
12:15Lunch

Session Chair: Melissa Landon
1:45Lynne Howell
"The Good, the Bad and the Slimy: Biosynthesis and Export of Bacterial Exopolysaccharides"
2:15David Rose
Mind the GAP: Glycosidases from Lysozyme to Human Health
2:45Coffee

Session Chair: Quyen Hoang
3:15Barry Stoddard
"Homing Endonucleases: Structures, Engineering, and Application to Genome Engineering"
3:45Elias Lolis
"Non-Competitive Inhibitors of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor: an Induced-Fit Allosteric Mechanism"
4:15Closing Remarks -- Greg & Dagmar