Significance of Knotted Structures for Function of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
Program
10:30 – 10:45 AM
Coffee Break
Auditorium Lobby
Session: DNA Knots and Viral Topology, Part II
Chair: Wilma Olson, Rutgers University, USA
10:45 – 11:15 AM
John Maddocks, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL),
Switzerland
Coarse-grain Models of DNA Free Energy and Sequence-
dependent Minicircle Shapes
11:15 – 11:45 AM
Mariel Vazquez, University of California, Davis, USA
DNA Unlinking in Bacteria
11:45 AM – 12:15 PM
Public Talk
De Witt Sumners, Florida State University, USA
DNA Knots Reveal Enzyme Mechanism and Viral Capsid
Packing Geometry
12:15 PM
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