Protein Engineering

Wednesday, July 22
01:30 - 04:30 pm
Auditorium

CONCURRENT AFTERNOON SYMPOSIA 2
Chair: Beatriz Ibarra-Molero, Universidad de Granada. Granada, Spain..


01:35 David Liu,  Harvard University/HHMI. Cambridge, MA, United States.
Engineering the Specificity and Delivery of Genome-Editing Proteins.

Young Investigator Speaker

02:05 Gustav Oberdorfer,
 University of Washington. Seattle, WA, United States.
Parametric Design of Alpha-helical Barrels and Pore-like Assemblies with Very High Thermodynamic Stabilities.

02:20 Ronald Raines,
University of Wisconsin. Madison, WI, United States.
Ribonuclease A: From kcat/KM to the Clinic.

02:50 25-min Coffee Break

03:15 Sierin Lim, Nanyang Technological University. Singapore, Republic of Singapore.
Engineering Protein-Protein Interaction for Tunable Assembly and Release of Molecular Cargos from Protein Cages.

Protein Science Best Paper Speaker:

03:45 Minttu Virkki, Stockholm University. Stockholm, Sweden.
Folding of Aquaporin 1: How Marginally Hydrophobic Transmembrane Helices Can Shape Membrane Protein Folding

04:00 Anthony Kossiakoff, University of Chicago. Chicago, IL, United States.
Modifying biological function using conformational trapping by customized synthetic antibodies.