Significance of Knotted Structures for Function of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
Program
Session: DNA/RNA, Nanorobots, Origami –
Theory/Experiment, Part 2
Chair: Giovanni Dietler, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
(EFPL), Switzerland
3:30 – 4:00 PM
Lynn Zechiedrich, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
How Positive or Negative Supercoiling Affects the Structure of
Reactivity of DNA
4:00 – 4:15 PM
Pawel Zawadzki, Oxford University, United Kingdom*
Escherichia coli Live Cell Super-resolution Analysis of
Topoisomerase IV Action
4:15 – 4:45 PM
Remus Dame, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, The Netherlands
Fine-tuning the Activity of DNA Bridging Proteins
4:45 – 5:00 PM
Coffee Break
Auditorium Lobby
5:00 – 5:30 PM
Sarah Harris, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Closing the Loop: Comparing the Results of Experiment and
Computer Simulations in the Study of DNA Minicircles
Session: Energy Landscape Proteins
Chair: Joanna Sulkowska, University of Warsaw, Poland
5:30 – 6:00 PM
Jose Onuchic, Rice University, USA
Knotting a Protein in the Computer – From Simple Models to
Explicit Solvent Simulations
Sunday, September 21, 2014
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8:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Registration/Information
Auditorium Lobby
Session: DNA Knots and Viral Topology, Part I
Chair: Alexander Grosberg, New York University, USA
8:30 – 9:00 AM
Todd Yeates, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Discoveries, Implications and Utilities of Proteins with Barriers,
Knots, Slipknots, and Links
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Marek Cieplak, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Knotted Proteins under Tension
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Peter Virnau, Johannes Gutenberg University, Germany
Molecular Simulations of Knotted Proteins and DNA
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Tetsuo Deguchi, Ochanomizu University, Japan
Probability of DNA Knots and the Effective Diameter of DNA
Double Helix
*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts
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