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

Auditorium Lobby

10:30 – 10:45 AM

Coffee Break

Session: DNA Knots and Viral Topology, Part II Chair: Wilma Olson, Rutgers University, USA

10:45 – 11:15 AM

John Maddocks, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland Coarse-grain Models of DNA Free Energy and Sequence- dependent Minicircle Shapes Mariel Vazquez, University of California, Davis, USA DNA Unlinking in Bacteria Public Talk De Witt Sumners, Florida State University, USA DNA Knots Reveal Enzyme Mechanism and Viral Capsid Packing Geometry

11:15 – 11:45 AM

11:45 AM – 12:15 PM

12:15 PM

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