Special Events

Fall 2009 - Second Annual Cohen Foundation Biophysics Symposium

TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10 — TOPICS IN PROTEIN FOLDING

Time Speaker Affiliation Title
8:45 am Michael Doyle

Chair, Chemistry and Biochemistry Department

University of Maryland

 Introductory Remarks
9:00 am Ken Dill University of California San Francisco Maximum Caliber — the Stochastic Dynamics of Few-particle Systems
9:50 am Doug Barrick Johns Hopkins University Using Repeat Proteins to Dissect Cooperativity and its Role in Protein Folding
11:00 am Jasna Brujic New York University Force-clamp Technique for Accurate Recording of Single Protein Folding Kinetics
11:50 am Dave Thirumalai University of Maryland Universality and Specificity in Protein Folding
1:30 pm William A. Eaton National Institute of Health Ultrafast Protein Folding
2:20 pm Lila Gierasch University of Massachusetts Moving the Protein Folding Problem from the Test Tube to the Cell
3:30 pm George Lorimer University of Maryland The GroELS Nanomachine:  Allostery, Time and Distance Scales Matter!
3:55 pm Jose Onuchic University of California San Diego The Energy Landscape for Protein Folding, Function and Biomolecular Machines