Confirmed Speakers

Ruedi Aebersold, Ph.D
Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich. Zürich, Switzerland.
Show BioJuly 22nd - 9:45am
Talk: Chemical cross-linking/mass spectrometry and the structural biology toolbox.
John Albeck, Ph.D.
University of California. Davis, CA, United States.
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July 25th - 9:05am
Talk: Dynamic heterogeneity in the ERK and AMPK networks and its role in human disease.
Brenda Andrews, Ph.D
University of Toronto. Toronto, ON, Canada.
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July 22nd - 11:00am
Talk: Yeast Proteome Dynamics from Single Cell Imaging and Automated Analysis.
Patricia Babbitt, Ph.D
University of California, San Francisco, CA, United States.
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July 23rd - 4:00pm
Talk: How nature evolves new enzyme functions.
Patricia Bassereau, Ph.D
Institut Curie Centre de Recherche. Paris, France.
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July 23rd - 2:20pm
Talk: Multifaceted BAR-domain proteins to shape cell membranes.
Eric Brustad, Ph.D
University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
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July 22nd - 9:45am
Talk: New recipes for biocatalysis: Expanding the cytochrome P450 reaction landscape for non-natural chemistry.
Susan Buchanan, Ph.D
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health. Bethesda, MD, United States.
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July 23rd - 11:00am
Talk: Structural insight into the biogenesis of beta-barrel membrane proteins.
Martha Bulyk, Ph.D
Brigham & Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Boston, MA, United States.
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July 25th - 8:35am
Talk: Disease-associated mutations and coding variation in human transcription factors.
John Christodoulou, Ph.D
University College London & Wellcome Trust. London, United Kingdom.
Show Bio July 23rd - 8:35am
Talk: Structural observations of protein folding on the ribosome.
Patricia Clark, Ph.D
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, United States.Show BioJuly 23rd - 9:20am
Talk: Folding to the Rhythm of Translation Rate.
Robert Copeland, Ph.D
Epizyme, Inc. Cambridge, MA, United States.
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July 23rd - 9:20am
Talk: Protein Methyltransferase Inhibitors as Personalized Cancer Therapeutics.
Volker Dötsch, Ph.D
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität. Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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July 23rd - 10:15am
Talk: The unfolded N- and C-termini of TAp63a regulate p63's transcriptional activity by locking the protein in an inhibited, dimeric conformation.
Miki Ebisuya, Ph.D
RIKEN Quantitative Biology Center. Kobe, Japan.
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July 22nd - 1:35pm
Talk: Reconstitution of an intercellular symmetry breaking mechanism driven by Delta-Notch signaling.
Deborah Foguel, Ph.D
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Latin American Protein Society Guest Speaker

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July 25th - 9:50am
Talk: Studies with the Amyloidogenic Protein Transthyretin: from the Patients to the Protein.
David Fushman, Ph.D
University of Maryland. College Park, MD, United States.
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July 23rd - 1:35pm
Talk: Deciphering the 'ubiquitin code': conformations and molecular recognition of polyubiquitin signals.
Monika Fuxreiter, Ph.D
Debreceni Egyetem. Debrecen, Hungary.
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July 24th - 8:35am
Talk: Fuzzy interactions and context dependence of proteins.
Zev Gartner, Ph.D
University of California. San Francisco, CA, United States.
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July 22nd - 4:00pm 
Talk: Engineering cell-cell interactions.
Anne-Claude Gavin-Perrin, Ph.D
European Molecular Biology Laboratory. Heidelberg, Germany.Show Bio
July 25th - 9:50am 
Talk: Lipid-protein networks.
Ernest Giralt, Ph.D
Institut de Recerca Biomèdica. Barcelona, Spain.
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July 23rd - 11:00am
Talk: Peptides and Molecular Recognition at Protein Surfaces.
Jeanne Hardy, Ph.D
University of Massachusetts Amherst. Amherst, MA, United States.
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July 23rd - 3:15pm
Talk: Mapping Allosteric Sites Across the Apoptotic Caspases.
Linda Hsieh-Wilson, Ph.D
California Institute of Technology/HHMI. Pasadena, CA, United States.Show BioJuly 23rd - 10:15am
Talk: Dynamic Regulation of Metabolic Enzymes and Pathways by O-Glycosylation.
Bo Huang, Ph.D.
University of California. San Francisco, CA, United StateShow BioJuly 24th - 11:00am
Talk: Imaging the genome in living cells.
Keith Joung, Ph.D
Massachusetts General Hospital. Charlestown, MA, United States.
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July 23rd - 3:15pm
Talk: Defining, Improving, and Altering the Specificities of CRISPR-Cas9 Nucleases.
Chaitan Khosla, Ph.D
Stanford University. Stanford, CA, United States.
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July 22nd - 10:15am
Talk: Assembly Line Biosynthesis of Polyketide Antibiotics.
Takanori Kigawa, Ph.D
Riken Quantitative Biology Center. Yokohama, Japan.
Show BioJ uly 25th - 9:05am
Talk: NMR analysis of protein structure and dynamics with computational and information sciences.
Robert Konrat, Ph.D
University of Vienna. Vienna, Austria.
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July 24th - 10:15am
Talk: Identifying Order in Intrinsically Disordered Proteins.
Anthony Kossiakoff, Ph.D
University of Chicago. Chicago, IL, United States.
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July 22nd - 4:00pm
Talk: Modifying biological function using conformational trapping by customized synthetic antibodies.
Brian Kuhlman, Ph.D
University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, NC, United States.
Show BioJuly 22nd - 2:20pm
Talk: Engineering Light-Activatable Proteins for Controlling Cell Signaling Pathways.
Sierin Lim, Ph.D
Nanyang Technological University. Singapore, Republic of Singapore.
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July 22nd - 3:15pm
Talk: Engineering Protein-Protein Interaction for Tunable Assembly and Release of Molecular Cargos from Protein Cages.
David Liu, Ph.D
Harvard University/HHMI. Cambridge, MA, United States.
Show BioJuly 22nd - 1:35pm
Talk: Engineering the Specificity and Delivery of Genome-Editing Proteins.
Sheena McGowan, Ph.D
Monash University. Clayton, VIC, Australia.
Lorne Conference on Protein Structure and Function Guest Speaker
July 25th - 8:35am
Talk: Targeting the Plasmodium falciparum neutral aminopeptidases for development of novel antimalarial agents.
Stephen Michnick, Ph.D
University of Montreal. Montreal, QC, Canada.
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July 22nd - 3:15pm
Talk: Phasing and dephasing cell morphogenesis.
Tanja Mittag, Ph.D
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Memphis, TN, United States.
Show BioJuly 24th - 11:00am
Talk: The role of protein disorder and self-association in the formation of cellular bodies.
Garry Nolan, Ph.D
Stanford University. Stanford, CA, United States.Show Bio
July 24th - 8:35am
Talk: A Single Cell Systems Based View of Immunity and Cancer.
Osamu Nureki, Ph.D
Unveristy of Tokyo. Fukuoka, Japan.Show Bio
July 23rd - 1:35pm
Talk: Structural basis for RNA-dependent DNA cleavage and PAM recognition by CRISPR-Cas9.
Joelle Pelletier, Ph.D
University of Montreal. Montreal, QC, Canada.Show Bio
July 24th - 10:15am
Talk: Does engineering functional enzymes require preserving protein dynamics? 
Stanley Qi, Ph.D
University of California. San Francisco, CA, United States.
Show BioJuly 23rd - 2:20pm
Talk: CRISPR tools for genome engineering and cell reprogramming.
Ronald Raines, Ph.D
University of Wisconsin. Madison, WI, United States.Show BioJuly 22nd - 2:20pm
Talk: Ribonuclease A: From kcat/KM to the Clinic
Lynne Regan, Ph.D
Yale University. New Haven, CT, United States.
Show BioJuly 22nd - 11:00am
Talk:Novel strategies for pathway engineering in vivo
Andrej Sali, Ph.D
University of California. San Francisco, CA, United States.
Show BioJuly 22nd - 10:15am
Talk: Integrative Structural Biology.
Ben Schuler, Ph.D
Universität Zürich. Zürich, Switzerland.
Show BioJuly 24th - 9:20am
Talk: Single-molecule spectroscopy of intrinsically disordered proteins.
Harald Schwalbe, Ph.D
Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität. Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
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July 23rd - 4:00pm
Talk: Allosteric Inhibition of FGF-FGFR-complex by small molecules.
Edward Tate, Ph.D
Imperial College. London, United Kingdom.
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July 23rd - 8:35am
Talk: Probing dynamic protein lipidation: from chemical proteomics to drug discovery.
Lani Wu, Ph.D
University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center. Dallas, TX, United States.Show BioJuly 24th - 9:20am
Talk: ORACLs: Optimized Reporter cell lines for Annotating Compound Libraries across diverse drug classes via imaged based phenotypic screens.