Thursday June 14, 2012

(8:45 – 9:30 a.m. Set-up for all posters in Clothier Memorial Hall)

Session I

Lecture Hall 101, Science Center

Discussion Leader: Mark A. Lemmon, Ph.D.

(9:15 – 9:45 a.m. Coffee & Refreshments)

INTRODUCTION

Mark A. Lemmon, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Biochemistry & Biophysics

Benjamin A. Garcia, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics
Quantitative mass spectrometry for global proteome analysis

Elizabeth A. Sweeny

Graduate student (laboratory of James Shorter, Ph.D.)

Conformational changes of Hsp104

Ganesh Shankarling, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow (laboratory of Kristen W. Lynch, Ph.D.)

Signal-induced genome-wide changes in binding of the RNA processing factor hnRNP L

BREAK

Kathryn M. Ferguson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Physiology

Chair, Graduate Group in Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics

The BMB Graduate Group - current and future directions

P. LESLIE DUTTON AWARD TALK

Emily A. Bassett

Graduate student (laboratory of Ben E. Black, Ph.D.)

HJURP uses distinct CENP-A surfaces to recognize and to stabilize CENP-A/histone H4 for centromere assembly

Harry Ischiropoulos, Ph.D.

Research Professor of Pediatrics & Pharmacology

Redox-regulated post-translational protein modifications and signaling pathways

POSTER SESSION I & LUNCH

(Clothier Memorial Hall)

Session II

Lecture Hall 101, Science Center

Discussion Leader: Kristen W. Lynch, Ph.D.

2:30 - 3:00 p.m.

Kim A. Sharp, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics

The biophysics of a genetic switch: the lac operon

3:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Ekaterina L. Grishchuk, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Physiology

A ring coupler for the microtubule depolymerization motor

3:30 - 3:50 p.m.

Christopher G. Skipwith

Graduate student (laboratory of X. Long Zheng, M.D., Ph.D.)

A mechanistic study of the factor VIII/von Willebrand factor interaction in hemostasis

3:50 - 4:15 p.m.

BREAK

4:15 - 5:30 p.m.

KEYNOTE LECTURE:

Harvey M. Friedman, M.D.

Director, Botswana - UPenn Partnership

Chief, Infectious Diseases Division, Department of Medicine

with comments by Alexandra L. Bryson (first year CAMB graduate student)

Botswana-UPenn Partnership: emerging opportunities for global health research

5:30 – 7:00 p.m.

POSTER SESSION II & RECEPTION

(Clothier Memorial Hall)

Friday, June 15, 2012

Session III

Lecture Hall 101, Science Center

Discussion Leader: Kathryn M. Ferguson, Ph.D.

(8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Coffee & Refreshments)

9:00 - 9:30 a.m.

Yale E. Goldman, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Physiology

Allostery in the protein synthesis elongation cycle, a single-molecule approach

9:30 - 9:50 a.m.

Veronica R. Moorman

Graduate student (laboratory of A. Joshua Wand, Ph.D.)

Twist and shout - Propagation of protein dynamics in response to ligand binding

9:50 - 10:20 a.m.

Paul A. Janmey, Ph.D.

Professor of Physiology

How phosphoinositide-binding proteins find their targets in the cell membrane

10:20 a.m. - 12:00 noon

POSTER SESSION III

Coffee & Refreshments (Clothier Memorial Hall)

12:00 noon - 12:30 p.m.

BREAKDOWN OF POSTERS & EASELS

12:30 - 1:00 p.m.

Hua-Ying Fan, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics

Embracing stress: a tale of a sophisticated chromatin remodeler and a complex disease

1:00 - 1:20 p.m.

Fumin Shi

Graduate student (laboratory of Mark A. Lemmon, Ph.D.)

Derailed by Wnt

1:20 - 1:40 p.m.

Ihab Younis, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow (laboratory of Gideon Dreyfuss, Ph.D.)

snRNPs: major and unexpected gene expression regulators

1:40 - 1:50 p.m.

PRESENTATION OF POSTER AWARDS

1:50 - 2:00 p.m.

GROUP PHOTOGRAPH

(the steps outside Beardsley Hall)

2:00 p.m. - ??

PICNIC AND SOFTBALL GAME

(lawn by Sharples Dining Hall)