Significance of Knotted Structures for Function of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
Program
Session: Proteins – Experiment
Chair: Jane Clarke, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
10:45 – 11:15 AM
Sophie Jackson, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Folding of Nascent Chains of Knotted Proteins
11:15 – 11:45 AM
Patricia Jennings, University of California, San Diego, USA
Exploring the Coordinated Functional and Folding Landscapes of
Knotted Proteins
11:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Ya-Ming Hou, Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Methyl Transfer from AdoMet by a Knotted Protein Fold
12:15 – 1:30 PM
Lunch
Session: Energy Landscape of Biomolecules, Part 1
Chair: Dave Thirumalai, University of Maryland, USA
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Peter Wolynes, Rice University, USA
Harvesting the Fruits of the Energy Landscape Theory of
Protein Folding
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Shoji Takada, Kyoto University, Japan
Knotted Structures in Refolding and Cotranslational Folding of
Multi-domain Protein
2:30 – 3:00 PM
Andrzej Kolinski, University of Warsaw, Poland
Coarse Grained Modeling of Protein Structure, Dynamics
and Interactions
3:00 – 3:15 PM
Jeffrey Noel, Rice University, USA
Connecting Simplified Models with Explicit-Solvent Forcefields:
Slipknotting during the Folding of the Smallest Knotted Protein
3:15 – 3:40 PM
Coffee Break
Auditorium Lobby
Session: Energy Landscape of Biomolecules, Part 2
Chair: Alexey Murzin, Medical Research Council Center, United
Kingdom
3:40 – 4:10 PM
Alexander Grosberg, New York University, USA
Significance, Complexity, and Beauty of Knot-avoiding Structures
4:10 – 4:25 PM
Sebastian Kmiecik, University of Warsaw, Poland*
Multiscale Modeling of Protein Flexibility
*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts
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