Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Protein Evolution
Discussion Leaders: Edward O'Brien (Pennsylvania State University, USA) and David Jacobson (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Shion Lim (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Investigating the Evolution of Protein Energy Landscapes by Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction"
4:00 pm - 4:05 pm
Discussion
4:05 pm - 4:20 pm
Catherine Knoverek (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
"The Role of a Folding Intermediate in Protein Evolution"
4:20 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Protein Folding, Misfolding and Aggregation
Discussion Leaders: Stefano Piana (D. E. Shaw Research, USA) and Franziska Zosel (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
7:30 pm - 7:50 pm
Jessica Flynn (National Institutes of Health, USA)
"Real-Time Raman Studies of Amyloid Formation of a-Synuclein Using Segmental 13C-Labeling"
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:20 pm
Gokhan Selamet (Gaziantep University, Turkey)
"Protein Folding Thermodynamics and Kinetics: Intra-Chain Interaction Network Perspective"
8:20 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:50 pm
Anna Kamenik (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
"Local Unfolding and Proteolytic Susceptibility"
8:50 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:20 pm
Naira Rashid (Amity University, India)
"Insights into the Chemical Chaperone Based Therapeutic Approach in Treatment of Protein Misfolding Diseases"
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
External Effects on Protein Folding and Dynamics
Discussion Leader: Michele Di Pierro (Rice University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:20 am
Tsega Solomon (Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (IBBR), University of Maryland, USA)
"Temperature-Dependent Protein Fold Switching"
9:20 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Joerg Schoenfelder (Fundación IMDEA Nanociencia, Spain)
"Insights of Ultrafast Protein Folding Under Force by AFM"
9:50 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:20 am
Alex Guseman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
"Protein Dimerization in Physiologically-Relevant Environments and Living Cells"
10:20 am - 10:30 am
Discussion
10:30 am - 10:50 am
Andrei Gasic (University of Houston, USA)
"Critical Phenomena in the Temperature-Pressure-Crowding Phase Diagram of a Large Protein"
10:50 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Panel
Discussion Leader: Benjamin Schuler (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Careers in Scientific Research
Margaret Cheung (University of Houston, USA)
Jane Clarke (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
Edward O'Brien (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Gregory Bowman (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes