Engineering Approaches to Biomolecular Motors
Engineering Approaches to Biomolecular Motors: From in vitro to in vivo
Program Schedule
Engineering Approaches to Biomolecular Motors: From in vitro to in vivo Vancouver, Canada June 14-17, 2016 PROGRAM Tuesday, June 14, 2016 18:00 – 21:00 Registration/Information Steamworks Brewpub
Reception
Steamworks Brewpub
18:00 – 21:00
Wednesday, June 15, 2016 8:00 – 17:30
Registration/Information
Outside Fletcher Challenge Theatre
Welcome Organizers
Fletcher Challenge Theatre
9:00 – 9:15
Session I
Synthetic Motors I: DNA-based Walkers Nancy Forde, Simon Fraser University, Canada, Chair
9:15 – 9:30
Session Introduction - Nancy Forde
9:30 – 10:00
Andrew Turberfield, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Molecular Machinery from DNA
10:00 – 10:30
Jong Hyun Choi, Purdue University, USA* A Synthetic DNA Motor that Transports Nanoparticles along Carbon Nanotubes
Coffee Break
Harbour Centre Concourse
10:30 – 10:50
Session II
DNA-based Walkers and General Theory Nancy Forde, Simon Fraser University, Canada, Chair
10:50 – 11:05
Jason Wagoner, Stony Brook University, USA* The Nonequilibrium Statistical Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Motors Zhisong Wang, National University of Singapore, Singapore Biomimetic Nanowalkers: a Nano-engineering Path to the General Science behind Motor Proteins
11:05 – 11:35
11:35 – 11:50
Jieming Li, University of Michigan, USA* Rapid Unbiased Transport by a DNA Walker
11:50 – 12:05
Katharine Challis, Scion, New Zealand* Discretizing the Fokker-Planck Equation for Energy Conversion in a Molecular Motor to Predict Physical Observables
12:05 – 12:20 Flash talks from posters *Contributed talks selected from among submitted abstracts
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