2019 Cryo-EM Symposium
Molecular Biophysics Symposium in Honor of the Grand Opening of the MSU Cryo-EM Core Facility
Friday October 4th and Saturday October 5th, 2019
To inaugurate the new Cryo-EM facility at Michigan State, we are hosting a symposium to highlight cutting edge research in molecular biophysics. We will feature invited talks, student posters and a tour of the new cryo-EM facility. Registration is free but required. To submit an abstract for a poster (template), please email biophysics@pa.msu.edu. You can contact Lisa Lapidus for further information.
- Talks and meals will be in the Radiology building
- Poster sessions will be in the cryo-EM facility in the Engineering Research Complex
- Map
- Program (PDF)
Registration for 2019 is closed.
Program
Friday, October 4
8:00-8:30 Registration/breakfast – Radiology Atrium
8:30-8:35 Acknowledgements – Kristin Parent
8:35-8:45 Introduction - Phil Duxbuy – Radiology Auditorium
8:45-9:00 Introduction - Doug Gage
9:00-9:45 James Conway - Resolving protein structure at high resolution by cryo-electron microscopy - from viruses to crystals
9:45-10:30 Aaron Frank - Data-Driven Solutions to Challenges in Biophysics
10:30 Coffee Break
10:45-11:30 Vinny Manohoran- Watching individual RNA viruses self-assemble
11:30-11:50 Jens Schmidt - Mechanism of processive telomerase catalysis revealed by optical tweezers
11:50-1:00 Lunch – Radiology Atrium
1:15-4:00 Poster session and Cryo-EM Facility Tour –
Saturday, October 5
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-9:45 Tom Walz - Electron Microscopy Approaches to Studying Lipid-Protein Interactions
9:45-10:30 Yann Chemla - Probing nature’s nano-machines with single-molecule techniques
10:30-10:50 coffee break
10:50-11:10 Dipali Sashital - Memory Formation by the Cas4-Cas1-Cas2 Complex During CRISPR Adaptation
11:10-11:55 Nils Walter - The RNA Nanomachines of Gene Expression Dissected at the Single Molecule Level
11:55- 12:15 Susan Hafenstein- Transferrin receptor binds virus capsids with dynamic motion - receptor and virus rock and roll
12:15-1:45 Lunch
1:45-2:30 Mark Foster - Population Shifts from Allosteric Coupling of RNA and Tryptophan in the Gene-Regulating Ring-Shaped Protein TRAP
2:30-2:50 Kelly Kim - Characterization of membrane proteins using Cryo-EM: a story of insect olfactory receptor Orco
2:50 – 3:35 Liz Kellogg - Cryo-EM structure of the P element transposase strand-transfer complex
3:35 – Closing remarks – Lisa Lapidus
Speakers
University of Michigan
Data-Driven Solutions to Challenges in Biophysics
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Harvard University
Watching individual RNA viruses self-assemble
University of Michigan
The RNA Nanomachines of Gene Expression Dissected at the Single Molecule Level
Ohio State University
Population Shifts from Allosteric Coupling of RNA and Tryptophan in the Gene-Regulating
Ring-Shaped Protein TRAP
University of Pittsburgh
Resolving protein structure at high resolution by cryo-electron microscopy - from
viruses to crystals
Cornell University
Cryo-EM structure of the P element transposase strand-transfer complex
Rockefeller University
Electron Microscopy Approaches to Studying Lipid-Protein Interactions