Friday, Oct. 29

1:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.
Registration, Simons Lobby

1:30 p.m.-1:35 p.m.
Opening Remarks:
Jennifer Laurence

Session Chair: Jennifer Laurence

1:35 p.m.-2:20 p.m.
Plenary Speaker: David Giedroc
Topic: “Bacterial Metal-sensing Transcriptional Regulators: Structure and Mechanism”

2:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Speaker: Om Prakash, Professor, Biochemistry, Kansas State University
Topic: “NMR Structural Insights into the Regulatory-functions of Arthropod Serine Proteinases”

3:10 p.m.-3:25 p.m.
Student Speaker: Sarma Akella,
University of Missouri–Columbia
Topic: “Locating Conformational Fluctuations and Phospholigand-dependent Adjustments in 51 kDa Phosphomannomutase/
Phosphoglucomutase Using ¹⁵N NMR”

3:30 p.m. -3:45 p.m.
Student Speaker: Vitaly Vostrikov,
University of Arkansas
Topic: “Application of Transmembrane Peptides to Investigation of Protein-Lipid Interactions”

3:50 p.m.-4:05 p.m.
Break
Session Chair: Susan Schroeder

4:05 p.m.-4:35 p.m.
Speaker: Rheal Towner, Associate Professor, Pathology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Topic: “Molecular Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Pre-clinical Disease Models”

4:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m.
Student Speaker: D. Fernando Estrada,
University of Kansas
Topic: “NMR Structure of the Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever Virus Gn Tail Provides Insight into Virus Assembly”

5:05 p.m.-5:20 p.m.
Student Speaker: Joshua Ziarek,
Medical College of Wisconsin
Topic: “Targeting SDF-1/CXCL12 with a Ligand That Prevents Activation of CXCR4 through Structure-Based Drug Design”

5:25 p.m.-5:40 p.m.
Break
Travel to Structural Biology Center
(SBC), West Lobby

5:40 p.m.-7:45 p.m.
Food and refreshments
at the Structural Biology Center (SBC) 

6:15 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Poster Session 1
(odd-numbered posters)

7:00 p.m.-7:45 p.m.
Poster Session 2
(even-numbered posters)

Saturday, Oct. 30

7:30 a.m.-8:15 a.m.
Coffee and refreshments
Session Chair: Suresh Kumar

8:15 a.m.-8:45 a.m.
Speaker: Robert Powers, Associate Professor, Chemistry, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Topic: “Protein Function and Ligand Binding”

8:55 a.m.-9:10 a.m.
Student Speaker: Moriah Beck,
University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
Topic: “Linking Palladin to Actin-associated Cell Motility and Invasion”

9:15 a.m.-9:30 a.m.
Student Speaker: Dustin Whitney,
Medical College of Wisconsin
Topic: “Protein Allostery Involvement in Transmission of Biological Signals”

9:35 a.m.-10:05 a.m.
Speaker: Liping Yu, Director, NMR Core Facility; Adjunct Professor, Biochemistry, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa – Iowa City
Topic: “NMR Studies of Biomolecular Structure and Function”

10:15 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Break
Session Chair: Steven R. Van Doren

10:30 a.m.-11:00 a.m.
Speaker: Suresh Kumar

11:10 a.m.-11:40 p.m.
Speaker: Paul Adams, Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas – Fayetteville
Topic: “Characterization of Molecular Details of RAS-related Proteins That Highlight their Diverse Roles in Cell Signaling Activity”

11:50 a.m.-Noon
Award Presentations
Closing Remarks: Jennifer Laurence
(tentative)

Noon
Adjourn

Box lunches will be available
in the Simons Lobby.