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Biophysics in the Understanding, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Infectious Diseases Program
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12:00 – 12:20
Ross Douglas, University of Heidelberg Medical School, Germany*
Using Molecular Biophysics to Understand Plasmodium Actin Dynamics
and Cell Motility
13:00
Excursions
Thursday, November 19, 2015
8:00 – 17:00
Registration/Information
Auditorium Foyer
Session VI
Chair: Helen Saibil, Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom
8:30 – 9:10
Gabriel Waksman, University College London & Birkbeck, University of London,
United Kingdom
Structural and Molecular Biology of Type IV Secretion Systems
9:10 – 9:50
Wolf-Dieter Schubert, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Bacterial Infections at Atomic Resolution
9:50 – 10:10
Tarakdas Basu, University of Kalyani, India*
Calcium Phosphate Nanoparticle (CPNP)-entrapped Tetracycline: A Potential
Drug against Diarrheal Diseases
10:10 – 10:40
Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:20
Neeraj Dhar, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Microengineering for Microbiology
11:20 – 12:00
Frederick Balagaddé, KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV,
South Africa
Drug Tolerance in Mycobacteria Replicating in a Microdialyser Mediated by an
Efflux Mechanism
12:00 – 12:20
Lizbe Koekemoer, Stellenbosch University, South Africa*
Elucidating the Differences between Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Type II
Pantothenate Kinases
12:20 – 14:20
Lunch
Riverside Terrace
Session VII
Chair: Valerie Mizrahi, University of Cape Town, South Africa
14:20 – 15:00
Sarah Fortune, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA
Post-Translational Modification of a Nucleoid Associated Protein Regulates Cell
State in Mycobacteria
15:00 – 15:40
Frank von Delft, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
XChem: From Crystals to Potent Molecules with X-Rays and Poised Synthesis
15:40 – 16:00
Tom Solmajer, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia*
Structure-based Discovery of Novel DNA Gyrase B Inhibitors
16:00 – 16:30
Coffee Break
*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts