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

4:25 – 4:55 PM

Janusz Bujnicki, International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Poland Simulations of Folding and Unfolding of Pseudoknots in RNA

4:40 – 8:00 PM

Free Time

Auditorium Lobby

8:00 – 9:30 PM

Poster Session I

Friday, September 19, 2014 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Registration/Information Auditorium Lobby Session: Mathematical Perspectives on Knotting Chair: Kenneth C. Millett, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA 8:30 – 9:00 AM Stuart Whittington, University of Toronto, Canada Defining and Identifying Knots in Linear Polymers

9:00 – 9:30 AM

Chris Soteros, University of Saskatchewan, Canada The Knot Complexity of Compressed Polygons in a Lattice Tube Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas, USA Knotting in Subchains of Proteins and Other Entangled Chains

9:30 – 10:00 AM

Auditorium Lobby

10:00 – 10:30 AM

Coffee Break

Session: Puling Knots and Slipknots Chair: Matthias Rief, Technical University of Munich, Germany Michael Woodside, University of Alberta, Canada Mechanical Unfolding of Single RNA Pseudoknots Reveals that Conformational Plasticity, Not Resistance to Unfolding, is a Determinant of Programmed −1 Frameshifting Hongbin Li, University of British Columbia, Canada Mechanically Tightening a Protein Slipknot into a Trefoil Knot Piotr Szymczak, University of Warsaw, Poland Untying a Protein Knot – Translocation of Knotted Proteins Through a Pore Katrina Forest, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA* Why are Phytochroms Knotted?

10:30 – 11:00 AM

11:00 – 11:30 AM

11:30 AM – 12:00 PM

12:00 – 12:15 PM

12:30 – 1:30 PM

Lunch

*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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