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37th Mid-Atlantic Protein Crystallography Meeting

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
June 7-9, 2007






Talks are presented in Gilmer Hall 190
Posters are displayed along the wall outside of Gilmer 190
Exhibitors are in the Lobby of the Chemistry Building
Registration, meals, coffee breaks, refreshments are served in the Lobby of the Chemistry Building.




Thursday, June 7
 
 
1:00--3:30 PM Registration, posters, exhibitors
 
3:45 PM Welcome and opening remarks
Robert Kretsinger (University of Virginia)
Ariel Gomez (Vice-President for Research, University of Virginia)
Keynote Speaker Introduction: Wladek Minor (University of Virginia)
4:00 PM Keynote Speaker

Andrzej Joachimiak
Professor, University of Chicago
Director, Structural Biology Center, Argonne National Laboratory
Principal Investigator, Midwest Center for Structural Genomics

"Structural Genomics - Expanding Protein Fold Space and Discovering Function"
 
 
5:15--8:00 PM Reception & dinner
 
 

Friday, June 8
 
Talk and poster code:
T = Talk (25 minutes)
E = Exhibitor Talk (15 minutes)
S = Student Poster
P = Poster
M = Methods Talk (30 minutes)
 
7:30--8:30 AM Coffee & continental breakfast, posters, exhibitors
8:00--12:00 AM Registration
 
Session 1 (Chair, Robert Kretsinger)
 
8:30--8:55 AM Christian Biertumpfel (NIH, NIDDK)
T1. Crystal Structure of T4 Endonuclease VII Resolving a Holliday Junction
 
8:55--9:20 AM Jacek Lubkowski (NCI-Frederick)
T2. Structural Basis of the CCR6-Mediated Chemotaxis of Human Beta-Defensins
 
9:20--9:45 AM Heping Zheng (University of Virginia)
T3. Analysis of Metal Environments in Protein Structures
 
9:45--10:10 AM Joseph Ferrara (Rigaku Americas Corporation)
T4. Phasing with In-house Softer X-ray Radiation
 
10:10--10:25 AM Ruth Crowe (QIAGEN)
E1. Process Development: Scaling Up Human IL-1L
 
10:25--10:40 AM (Formulatrix)
TBA
 
10:40--11:10 AM Coffee break, posters, exhibitors
 
 
Session 2 (Chair, Fraydoon Rastinejad)
 
11:15--11:40 AM Kinlin Chao (UMBI, CARB)
T5. Structure of Human Hyaluronidase 1: a Hyaluronan Hydrolase and Tumor Growth Regulator
 
11:40--12:05 PM Michael Murray (Wake Forest University)
T6. Human Glycolate Oxidase 1: a Structural and Biochemical Examination of a Possible Target for Hyperoxaluria Treatment
 
12:05--12:30 PM Jean Jakoncic (BNL, NSLS)
T7. The Structure of PhnI; a Dioxygenase from Sphingomonas CHY-1
 
12:30--12:45 PM Joseph Ferrara (Rigaku Americas Corporation)
E3. HomeLabs vs. Synchrotrons: The Facts Will Surprise You
 
12:45--1:00 PM (TTP Labtech)
TBA
 
1:00--2:00 PM Lunch, posters, exhibitors
 
 
Session 3 (Chair, Wladek Minor)
 
2:00--2:25 PM Eric Ortlund (UNC - Chapel Hill)
T8. Functional Anatomy of Phospholipid Binding and Regulation of Phosphoinositide Homeostasis by Proteins of the Sec14-Superfamily
 
2:25--2:50 PM Chao Tu (NCI-Frederick)
T9. Structural Basis for p53 Deactivation by Hotspot Mutation R282Q as Revealed by X-Ray Crystallography and Molecular Dynamics Simulations
 
2:50--3:15 PM Jamie Wallen (Wake Forest University)
T10. Crystallographic and Kinetic Analyses of the Coenzyme A-Disulfide Reductase-Rhodanese Homology Domain Protein from Bacillus anthracis Indicate Novel Function
 
3:15--3:40 PM Igor Pechik (UMBI, CARB)
T11. Structural Basis for the Two-Stage Mechanism of Thrombin-Induced Fibrin Assembly
 
3:40--3:55 PM (Oxford Diffraction)
TBA
 
3:55--4:15 PM Business Meeting
 
4:15--7:00 PM Coffee & Refreshments, posters, vendors
Primary Poster Session
Student Poster Competition Judging
 
 

Saturday, June 9
 
 
7:30--8:30 AM Coffee & continental breakfast, posters, exhibitors
 
Methods 1 (Chair, Michael Wiener)
 
8:30--9:00 AM David Cooper (University of Virginia)
M1. Crystallization by SER when Serendipity Fails
 
9:00--9:30 AM Abraham Lenhoff (University of Delaware)
M2. Protein Interaction Measurements as a Guide to Crystallization
 
9:30--10:00 AM Robert Rose (North Caroline State University)
M3. Small Angle Scattering as an Approach to Model a Multi-Protein Complex on the Insulin Promoter
 
10:00--10:30 AM Coffee break, posters, exhibitors
 
 
Methods 2 (Chair, Zygmunt Derewenda)
 
10:30--11:00 AM Cameron Mura (University of California, San Diego)
M4. A Structural Biologist's Guide to Molecular Dynamics Simulations
 
11:00--11:30 AM Scott Stagg (The Scripps Research Institute)
M5. Appion: an Automated Pipeline for Single Particle Reconstructions
 
11:30--12:00 PM Wladek Minor (University of Virginia)
M6. HKL3000: Towards the Future of Protein Crystallography
 
12:00 PM Closing Remarks
 
12:00--1:00 PM Lunch
 
1:30-- PM HKL3000 Practical Course (Jordan Hall)
 
The HKL3000 session will be run by Wladek Minor. A key part of this Practical Course is for participants to bring/use their own "unsolved" data. Please email Wladek Minor (wladek@iwonka.med.virginia.edu) for instructions and information.