Significance of Knotted Structures for Function of Proteins and Nucleic Acids - September 17-21, 2014

Significance of Knotted Structures for Function of Proteins and Nucleic Acids

Program

Session: Proteins – Experiment Chair: Jane Clarke, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Sophie Jackson, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom Folding of Nascent Chains of Knotted Proteins Patricia Jennings, University of California, San Diego, USA Exploring the Coordinated Functional and Folding Landscapes of Knotted Proteins Ya-Ming Hou, Thomas Jefferson University, USA Methyl Transfer from AdoMet by a Knotted Protein Fold Lunch Session: Energy Landscape of Biomolecules, Part 1 Chair: Dave Thirumalai, University of Maryland, USA Peter Wolynes, Rice University, USA Harvesting the Fruits of the Energy Landscape Theory of Protein Folding Shoji Takada, Kyoto University, Japan Knotted Structures in Refolding and Cotranslational Folding of Multi-domain Protein Andrzej Kolinski, University of Warsaw, Poland Coarse Grained Modeling of Protein Structure, Dynamics and Interactions Jeffrey Noel, Rice University, USA Connecting Simplified Models with Explicit-Solvent Forcefields: Slipknotting during the Folding of the Smallest Knotted Protein Session: Energy Landscape of Biomolecules, Part 2 Chair: Alexey Murzin, Medical Research Council Center, United Kingdom Alexander Grosberg, New York University, USA Significance, Complexity, and Beauty of Knot-avoiding Structures Coffee Break Auditorium Lobby

10:45 – 11:15 AM

11:15 – 11:45 AM

11:45 AM – 12:15 PM

12:15 – 1:30 PM

1:30 – 2:00 PM

2:00 – 2:30 PM

2:30 – 3:00 PM

3:00 – 3:15 PM

3:15 – 3:40 PM

3:40 – 4:10 PM

4:10 – 4:25 PM

Sebastian Kmiecik, University of Warsaw, Poland* Multiscale Modeling of Protein Flexibility

*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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