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.

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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

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Speakers