Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting - November 16-20, 2015

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

Biophysics in the Understanding, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Infectious Diseases Stellenbosch, South Africa November 16 - 20, 2015 PROGRAM Scientific sessions will be held in the Auditorium and the poster sessions in the Old Wine Cellar of the Spier Wine Estate Conference Center unless otherwise noted. Sunday, November 15, 2015

Registration/Information

Auditorium Foyer

17:00 – 19:00

Reception

Auditorium Foyer and Lounge

18:00 – 19:00

Monday, November 16, 2015

Registration/Information

Auditorium Foyer

8:00 – 17:00

Opening Session

9:00 – 9:05 9:05 – 9:10

Ed Egelman, Biophysical Society President

Tjaart Kruger, Chairman of the Biophysics Committee of SAIP

Session I

Chair: Musa Mhlanga, CSIR Biosciences, South Africa

9:10 – 9:50

Sriram Subramaniam, NCI/NIH, USA The Cryo-EM Revolution: Applications to Biology and Medicine Peijun Zhang, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA Structural Basis of HIV-1 and Host Cell Interactions Gnana Gnanakaran, Los Alamos National Labs, USA* Characterization of Glycosylation Profiles of the HIV Envelope Protein

9:50 – 10:30

10:30 – 10:50

Coffee Break

10:50 – 11:20

11:20 – 12:00

Erica Ollmann Saphire, The Scripps Research Institute, USA The Molecular Tool-Kit of the Filoviruses

12:00 – 12:40

Edward Egelman, University of Virginia, USA Cryo-EM of Helical Polymers

12:40 – 13:00

Caroline Ross, Rhodes University, South Africa* In Silico Analysis of Evolutionary Conserved Interacting Motifs within Picornavirus Capsids

Lunch

Riverside Terrace

13:00 – 15:00

*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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