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Engineering Approaches to Biomolecular Motors: From in vitro to in vivo
Program Schedule
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Engineering Approaches to Biomolecular Motors: From in vitro to in vivo
Vancouver, Canada
June 14-17, 2016
PROGRAM
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
18:00 – 21:00
Registration/Information
Steamworks Brewpub
18:00 – 21:00
Reception
Steamworks Brewpub
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
8:00 – 17:30
Registration/Information
Outside Fletcher Challenge Theatre
9:00 – 9:15
Welcome
Fletcher Challenge Theatre
Organizers
Session I
Synthetic Motors I: DNA-based Walkers
Nancy Forde, Simon Fraser University, Canada, Chair
9:15 – 9:30
Session Introduction - Nancy Forde
9:30 – 10:00
Andrew Turberfield, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Molecular Machinery from DNA
10:00 – 10:30
Jong Hyun Choi, Purdue University, USA*
A Synthetic DNA Motor that Transports Nanoparticles along Carbon Nanotubes
10:30 – 10:50
Coffee Break
Harbour Centre Concourse
Session II
DNA-based Walkers and General Theory
Nancy Forde, Simon Fraser University, Canada, Chair
10:50 – 11:05
Jason Wagoner, Stony Brook University, USA*
The Nonequilibrium Statistical Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Motors
11:05 – 11:35
Zhisong Wang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Biomimetic Nanowalkers: a Nano-engineering Path to the General Science
behind Motor Proteins
11:35 – 11:50
Jieming Li, University of Michigan, USA*
Rapid Unbiased Transport by a DNA Walker
11:50 – 12:05
Katharine Challis, Scion, New Zealand*
Discretizing the Fokker-Planck Equation for Energy Conversion in a Molecular
Motor to Predict Physical Observables
12:05 – 12:20
Flash talks from posters
*Contributed talks selected from among submitted abstracts