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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