Saturday, October 21, 2006: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Richmond 2 ( Houston Westchase Marriott Hotel)
Protein Folding (Invited)
This symposium will discuss recent advances in our understanding, characterization and modeling of protein dynimics and folding. Experimental and theoretical/computational approaches will be presented.
Organizer:Cecilia Clementi
8:00 AMOptimal combination of theory and experiment to characterize protein folding landscapes
Cecilia Clementi
8:30 AMCharacterization of the Conformational Landscape of Proteins
Vincent J. Hilser
9:00 AMTheory and simulations of protein translocation and unfolding inside pores
Dmitrii E. Makarov
9:30 AMProtein disulfide formation and the rearrangement of incorrect disulfides in vivo and in vitro
H. F. Gilbert
10:00 AMBreak
10:30 AMIn vivo molecular evolution reveals biophysical origins of organismal fitness
Yosif Shamoo
11:00 AMEnhanced Sampling in Molecular Dynamics Simulations: Applications to Nanoscale Molecular Motion
Zhiyong Zhang, Willy Wriggers
11:30 AMFactors determining the pK values of the ionizable groups in proteins
Nick Pace

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