Significance of Knotted Structures for Function of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
Program
Saturday, September 20, 2014
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8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Registration/Information
Auditorium Lobby
Session: DNA Topology and Topoisomerase
Chair: Lynn Zechiedrich, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
8:30 – 9:00 AM
Tony Maxwell, John Innes Center, Norwich Research Park,
United Kingdom
DNA Topology, DNA Topoisomerases, and Small DNA Circles
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Stephen Levene, University of Texas, Dallas, USA
Conformational Free-Energy Calculations for Complex
Biopolymer Structures
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Phoebe Rice, University of Chicago, USA
Structural Basis for Regulation of Site-specific DNA Recombinases
by DNA Topology
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Anjum Ansari, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Unveiling the Molecular Trajectory during Binding Site
Recognition by DNA-bending Proteins
10:30 – 10:45 AM
Coffee Break
Auditorium Lobby
Session: DNA/RNA, Nanorobots, Origami –
Theory/Experiment, Part 1
Chair: Remus Dame, Leiden Institute of Chemistry,
The Netherlands
10:45 – 11:15 AM
Giovanni Dietler, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL),
Switzerland
Sedimentation of Macroscopic Rigid Knots and its Relation to Gel
Electrophoretic Mobility of DNA Knots
11:15 – 11:45 AM
Julie Feigon, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
RNA Pseudoknots in Telomerase and Riboswitches
11:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Ebbe Andersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Single-stranded Architecture for Cotranscriptional Folding of RNA
Nanostructures
12:15 – 12:30 PM
Zbyszek Otwinowski, UT Southwestern Medical Center, USA*
Single-stranded DNA Topology in Eukaryotes
12:30 – 3:30 PM
Lunch and Free Time
*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts
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