Significance of Knotted Structures for Function of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
Program
Session: RNA Dynamics
Chair: Sarah Woodson, Johns Hopkins University, USA
1:30 – 2:00 PM
Dave Thirumalai, University of Maryland, USA
Crowing Promotes the Switch from Hairpin to Pseudoknot
Conformation in Human Telomerase RNA
2:00 – 2:30 PM
Paul Whitford, Northeastern University, USA
Parallels between Protein Folding and Ribosome Dynamics
2:30 – 3:00 PM
Joanna Trylska, Center of New Technologies, Poland
Conformational Dynamics of RNA Functional Motifs: Ribosomal
A-site and Thermosensing Hairpin
3:00 – 3:20 PM
Coffee Break
Auditorium Lobby
Session: DNA-Protein Interaction, Knotted DNA
Chair: Mariel Vazquez, University of California, Davis, USA
3:20 – 3:50 PM
Tamar Schlick, New York University, USA
Chromatin Looping and Interdigitation Mechanisms: Insights from
Mesoscale Simulations
3:50 – 4:20 PM
Nicolas Clauvelin, Rutgers University, USA
Protein-induced Entanglement of DNA: Connecting and
Organizing Chromosomes via Multiple Loops
4:20 – 4:50 PM
Dorothy Buck, Imperial College of London, United Kingdom
Knotted DNA: Mathematical Models and Biological Consequences
4:50 – 5:10 PM
Open Discussion
Wilma Olson, Rutgers University, USA
Jose Onuchic, Rice University, USA
Matthias Rief, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Joanna Sulkowska, University of Warsaw, Poland
Sarah Woodson, Johns Hopkins University, USA
5:10 – 8:00 PM
Free Time
8:00 – 9:30 PM
Poster Session II
Auditorium Lobby
*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts
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