Agenda

Viruses (Moderator, Roger Hendrix, University of Pittsburg)

• 9:00 am - Jonathan King, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Scaffolding Proteins in Phage ProCapsid Assembly"
• 9:30 am - Wen Jiang, Purdue University, "Near atomic resolution cryo-EM structure of tailed dsDNA phages"
• 10:00 am - Frazer Rixon, MRC Virology Unit, "Our evolving view of herpes simplex virus structure"
• Break

Molecular Machines (Moderator: Dick McIntosh, University of Colorado)

• 11:00 am - Paul Matsudaira, National University of Singapore, "The mechanics of an actin spring"
• 11:30 am - Hays Rye, Texas A & M University, "Frozen in Time: A snapshot of protein folding inside the GroEL-GroES cavity"
• 12:00 Noon - Lunch Break

Molecular Machines (Moderator: Robert M. Glaeser, LBNL, Berkeley)

• 1:30 pm - Irina Serysheva, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, "Structural Insights into Calcium Release Channel Function revealed by Cryo-EM"
• 2:00 pm - Steve Ludtke, Baylor College of Medicine, "Near atomic resolution cryo-EM of chaperonins"

Translational Applications (Moderator: Jack Smith, UTHSC, Houston)

• 2:30 pm - Ted Wensel, Baylor College of Medicine, "Signal-transducing complexes and their transport machinery"
• 3:00 pm - Henry Pownall, Baylor College of Medicine, "Cryo EM Studies of Human Plasma Lipoprotein Structure and Therapeutics"
• 3:30 pm - Coffee Break

Emerging Technology (Moderator: Wah Chiu, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston)

• 4:00 pm - Souhei Motoki, JEOL, Japan, "Phase plate for TEM"
• 4:30 pm - Linda Melanson, Gatan, Inc.,"Cryo-specimen preparation"