Mini-Symposium

The Center for Molecular Machines at the Wadsworth Center is proud to announce the upcoming Mini-Symposium on Molecular Motors and Biological Motion, to be held on June 13th, 2007 at the Center for Medical Sciences (New Scotland Ave) in Albany, NY.

The one-day symposium will be held in 2nd floor auditorium and includes internationally recognized scientists as speakers:

9:00 Joachim Frank, HHMI/Wadsworth Center

Molecular machines: Introductory remarks

MORNING SESSION: THE RIBOSOME

9:15 Rajendra K. Agrawal, Wadsworth Center (chair)

"Ribosome dynamics as inferred by cryo-EM"

9:50 Ruben Gonzalez Jr., Columbia University, USA

"Ribosome and tRNA dynamics during protein synthesis"

10:30 Coffee break

11:00 Charles Brooks III, The Scripps Research Institute, USA

"Springs and things: Exploring Nature's approach to building robust motors and machines"

11:40 Jirí Šponer, National Center for Biomolecular Research, Czech Republic

"Ribosomal RNA motifs and segments have salient flexibilities."

12:20 Announcements

12:30-2:00 Lunch break

AFTERNOON SESSION: PROTEIN MACHINES

2:00 Anna Marie Pyle, HHMI/Yale University, USA (chair)

"HCV helicase"

2:40 Klaus Schulten, University of Illinois, USA

"Picosecond-to-millisecond computational modeling of the small motor protein PcrA helicase"

3:20 Coffee break

3:40 Robert Sauer, MIT, USA

"Dissecting the function of ClpX, a hexameric AAA+ protein unfoldase."

4:20 Daniela Nicastro, Brandeis University, USA

"Cryo-Electron Tomography of Dynein"