Significance of Knotted Structures for Function of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
Program
4:25 – 4:55 PM
Janusz Bujnicki, International Institute of Molecular and Cell
Biology, Poland
Simulations of Folding and Unfolding of Pseudoknots in RNA
4:40 – 8:00 PM
Free Time
8:00 – 9:30 PM
Poster Session I
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Friday, September 19, 2014
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8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Registration/Information
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Session: Mathematical Perspectives on Knotting
Chair: Kenneth C. Millett, University of California, Santa Barbara,
USA
8:30 – 9:00 AM
Stuart Whittington, University of Toronto, Canada
Defining and Identifying Knots in Linear Polymers
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Chris Soteros, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
The Knot Complexity of Compressed Polygons in a Lattice Tube
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Eric Rawdon, University of St. Thomas, USA
Knotting in Subchains of Proteins and Other Entangled Chains
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Coffee Break
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Session: Puling Knots and Slipknots
Chair: Matthias Rief, Technical University of Munich, Germany
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Michael Woodside, University of Alberta, Canada
Mechanical Unfolding of Single RNA Pseudoknots Reveals that
Conformational Plasticity, Not Resistance to Unfolding, is a
Determinant of Programmed −1 Frameshifting
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Hongbin Li, University of British Columbia, Canada
Mechanically Tightening a Protein Slipknot into a Trefoil Knot
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Piotr Szymczak, University of Warsaw, Poland
Untying a Protein Knot – Translocation of Knotted Proteins
Through a Pore
12:00 – 12:15 PM
Katrina Forest, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA*
Why are Phytochroms Knotted?
12:30 – 1:30 PM
Lunch
*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts
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