Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting - November 16-20, 2015

Biophysics in the Understanding, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Infectious Diseases Program

Lunch

Riverside Terrace

12:20 – 14:20

Session IV

Chair: Eric Rubin, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA

14:20 – 15:00

Jonathan Blackburn, University of Cape Town, South Africa Raman Biosensing for TB Diagnosis

15:00 – 15:40

James Sacchettini, Texas A&M University, USA Combining Structural Genomics and Drug Discovery to Develop New TB Drugs Ian Mbano, KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV, South Africa* Light Forge: A Microfluidic High Throughput Platform for Rapid and Affordable Detection of Drug Resistant Strains of Tuberculosis

15:40 – 16:00

Coffee Break

16:00 – 16:30

16:30 – 17:10

Adrie Steyn, KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV, South Africa Energy Metabolism in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and the Infected Host Cell

17:10 – 17:30

Michael A. Reiche, University of Cape Town, South Africa* Visualizing the Mycobacterial Mutasome

Poster Session II

Old Wine Cellar

17:30 – 19:30

Banquet

Riverside Terrace

20:00

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Registration/Information

Auditorium Foyer

8:00 – 12:00

Session V

Chair: Stefan Raunser, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany

8:30 – 9:10

Helen R. Saibil, Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom EMBO Keynote Lecturer Actions of Plasmodium Falciparum on Its Human Erythrocyte Host Studied by Electron Tomography Pradipsinh Rathod, University of Washington, USA Structure-inspired Disruption of Proper Folding of an Essential Malaria Parasite Protein

9:10 – 9:50

9:50 – 10:10

Jacky Snoep, Stellenbosch University, South Africa* Modelling Blood Glucose Concentration in Malaria Patients

Coffee Break

10:10 – 10:40

10:40 – 11:20

David Stuart, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Structural Biology of Some Virus Pathogens

11:20 – 12:00

Mario Amzel, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA Inhibition of Parasitic Farnesyl Diphosphate Synthases (FPPS)

*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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