Disordered Motifs and Domains in Cell Control - October 11-15, 2014

Disordered Motifs and Domains in Cell Control

Program

4:15 – 4:30 PM

Chi Pak, University of Texas Southwestern, USA* Discerning Sequence-encoded Mechanisms of De Novo Nuclear

Gandon South

4:30 – 5:00 PM

Coffee Break

5:00 – 5:15 PM

Patrick Farber, Hospital for Sick Children, Canada* Phase Separation of a Disordered Protein in the Formation of Membrane-less Organelles Roy Parker, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Assembly and Functions of mRNP Granules in Eukaryotic Cells

5:15 – 5:45 PM

Wednesday, October 15, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Session VII: Motifs that Drive Disease: A Biological Double-edged Sword

Co-Chairs: Tanja Mittag, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA & Ashok Deniz, The Scripps Research Institute, USA Gilles Trave, University of Strasbourg, France The Oncoproteins of Human Papillomaviruses: Instances of Viral Strategies for Hijacking of Host Motifs Brian Bothner, Montana State University, USA* The C-Terminal Domain of Hepatitis B Virus Capsid Protein has Mastered being a Jack-of-all-trades Ashok Deniz, The Scripps Research Institute, USA Single-Molecule Biophysics of Proteins Disordered and Misfolding Rohit Pappu, Washington University of St. Louis, USA Modulation of Huntingtin Exon 1 Interactions through Synergy between Polyglutamine Tracts and Flanking Sequence Motifs Sonia Longhi, CNRS at University of Axi-Marseille, France How Order and Disorder within Paramyxoviral Nucleoproteins and Phosphoproteins Orchestrate the Molecular Ballet of Transcription and Replication Session VIII: Motif Biology: State of Understanding and Future Directions Chair: Norman Davey, University of California, San Francisco, USA Coffee Break Gandon South

9:00 – 9:30 AM

9:30 – 9:45 AM

9:45 – 10:15 AM

10:15 – 10:45 AM

10:45 – 11:15 AM

11:15 – 11:45 AM

*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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