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: RNA Dynamics Chair: Sarah Woodson, Johns Hopkins University, USA Dave Thirumalai, University of Maryland, USA Crowing Promotes the Switch from Hairpin to Pseudoknot Conformation in Human Telomerase RNA Paul Whitford, Northeastern University, USA Parallels between Protein Folding and Ribosome Dynamics Joanna Trylska, Center of New Technologies, Poland Conformational Dynamics of RNA Functional Motifs: Ribosomal A-site and Thermosensing Hairpin Session: DNA-Protein Interaction, Knotted DNA Chair: Mariel Vazquez, University of California, Davis, USA Tamar Schlick, New York University, USA Chromatin Looping and Interdigitation Mechanisms: Insights from Mesoscale Simulations Nicolas Clauvelin, Rutgers University, USA Protein-induced Entanglement of DNA: Connecting and Organizing Chromosomes via Multiple Loops Dorothy Buck, Imperial College of London, United Kingdom Knotted DNA: Mathematical Models and Biological Consequences Open Discussion Wilma Olson, Rutgers University, USA Jose Onuchic, Rice University, USA Matthias Rief, Technical University of Munich, Germany Coffee Break Auditorium Lobby

1:30 – 2:00 PM

2:00 – 2:30 PM

2:30 – 3:00 PM

3:00 – 3:20 PM

3:20 – 3:50 PM

3:50 – 4:20 PM

4:20 – 4:50 PM

4:50 – 5:10 PM

Joanna Sulkowska, University of Warsaw, Poland Sarah Woodson, Johns Hopkins University, USA

5:10 – 8:00 PM

Free Time

Auditorium Lobby

8:00 – 9:30 PM

Poster Session II

*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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