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Biophysics in the Understanding, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Infectious Diseases Program
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16:30 – 17:10
Alex Sigal, KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV,
South Africa
Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Growth in Dead Infected Cells Results in a Positive
Feedback Loop Driving Additional Cycles of Host Cell Death
17:10 – 17:30
Holger Gohlke, Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Germany*
Complex Long-Distance Effects of Mutations that Confer Linezolid Resistance in
the Large Ribosomal Subunit
17:30 – 19:30
Poster Session III
Old Wine Cellar
Friday, November 20, 2015
8:00 – 12:00
Information
Auditorium Foyer
Session VIII
Chair: Wolf-Dieter Schubert, University of Pretoria, South Africa
8:30 – 9:10
Musa Mhlanga, CSIR Biosciences, South Africa
Super Resolution Microscopy Reveals a Preformed NEMO Lattice Structure that
is Collapsed in a Genetic Disease
9:10 – 9:50
Cheryl Arrowsmith, University of Toronto, Canada
Open Access Chemical Probes of Chromatin Regulators
9:50 – 10:10
Mintu Chandra, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India*
Insights into Molecular Switch: Crystal Structure Analysis of Wild Type and Fast
Hydrolyzing Mutant of EhRabX3, a Tandem Ras Superfamily GTPase from
Entamoeba Histolytica
10:10 – 10:40
Coffee Break
10:40 – 11:20
Timothy Wells, Medicines for Malaria Venture, Switzerland
Moving Forward New Medicines and New Targets in Malaria
11:20 – 12:00
Michael Starnbach, Harvard Medical School, USA
Bacterial Manipulations of the Host Cell Proteome
12:00 – 12:40
Bryan Trevor Sewell, University of Cape Town, South Africa
On the Mechanism of the Amidases – Consequences for Sulfhydryl Catalysis and
Drug Design
12:40 – 13:00
Closing Remarks and
Biophysical Journal
Poster Awards
*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts