Disordered Motifs and Domains in Cell Control
Program
4:15 – 4:30 PM
Chi Pak, University of Texas Southwestern, USA*
Discerning Sequence-encoded Mechanisms of De Novo Nuclear
4:30 – 5:00 PM
Coffee Break
Gandon South
5:00 – 5:15 PM
Patrick Farber, Hospital for Sick Children, Canada*
Phase Separation of a Disordered Protein in the Formation of
Membrane-less Organelles
5:15 – 5:45 PM
Roy Parker, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
Assembly and Functions of mRNP Granules in Eukaryotic Cells
Wednesday, October 15, 2014
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Session VII: Motifs that Drive Disease: A Biological
Double-edged Sword
Co-Chairs: Tanja Mittag, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital,
USA & Ashok Deniz, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Gilles Trave, University of Strasbourg, France
The Oncoproteins of Human Papillomaviruses: Instances of Viral
Strategies for Hijacking of Host Motifs
9:30 – 9:45 AM
Brian Bothner, Montana State University, USA*
The C-Terminal Domain of Hepatitis B Virus Capsid Protein has
Mastered being a Jack-of-all-trades
9:45 – 10:15 AM
Ashok Deniz, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Single-Molecule Biophysics of Proteins Disordered and Misfolding
10:15 – 10:45 AM
Coffee Break
Gandon South
10:45 – 11:15 AM
Rohit Pappu, Washington University of St. Louis, USA
Modulation of Huntingtin Exon 1 Interactions through Synergy
between Polyglutamine Tracts and Flanking Sequence Motifs
11:15 – 11:45 AM
Sonia Longhi, CNRS at University of Axi-Marseille, France
How Order and Disorder within Paramyxoviral Nucleoproteins
and Phosphoproteins Orchestrate the Molecular Ballet of
Transcription and Replication
Session VIII: Motif Biology: State of Understanding and
Future Directions
Chair: Norman Davey, University of California, San Francisco,
USA
*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts
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