Significance of Knotted Structures for Function of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
Program
Significance of Knotted Structures for Function of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
University of Warsaw
Warsaw, Poland
September 17-21, 2014
PROGRAM
All scientific sessions and poster presentations will be held in the Auditorium of the Old Library
at the University of Warsaw unless otherwise noted.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
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6:00 – 8:00 PM
Registration/Information
Auditorium Lobby
6:50 – 8:05 PM
Opening Talks
Jane Clarke, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Unfolded, but not Knotted! Mechanistic Studies of IDP Folding
Upon Binding
Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Ribosomes: RNA Machines for Protein Production that Withstand
Evolution Pressures
8:10 – 9:30 PM
Welcome Reception
Auditorium Lobby
Thursday, September 18, 2014
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8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Registration/Information
Auditorium Lobby
Session: Structure of Proteins - Theory
Chair: Jose Onuchic, Rice University, USA
8:30 – 9:00 AM
Alexey Murzin, Medical Research Council Center,
United Kingdom
Geometrical and Topological Aspects of Protein Structures
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Wladek Minor, University of Virginia, USA
Experiment and Modeling: Competitive or Complementary
Approaches to Structural Biology?
9:30 – 10:00 AM
Kenneth C. Millett, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Knots and Slipknots in Proteins
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Robert Jernigan, Iowa State University, USA
Extracting Protein Dynamics from Experimental Structures
10:30 – 10:45 AM
Coffee Break
Auditorium Lobby
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