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8:15
Welcome: Keck Center Overview and Conference Day Overview
Irina Serysheva, PhD, and Xiaodong Cheng, PhD
8:25-9:25
Edward Egelman, PhD
Professor
Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
University of Virginia
“CryoEM of Polymers: From Proteins to Peptides”
9:25-10:05
Youxing Jiang, PhD
Professor
Physiology and Biophysics
UT-Southwestern
“Assembly, Permeation, Gating and Pharmacology of Rod CNG Channel”
10:05-10:15
Mauricio Menegatti Rigo, PhD
Computer Science
Rice University
Computational Cancer Biology Training Program
“Developing Structural Tools for Immunotherapy Improvement”
10:15-10:25
Jordan Johnson
Biology and Biochemistry
University of Houston
Houston-Area Molecular Biophysics Program
“Single-Molecule Studies of EF-Tu Accommodation and Proofreading Mechanism”
10:25-11:20
Poster Session and Coffee Break
11:20-11:30
Astrid Manuel
School of Biomedical Informatics
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
NLM Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
“Innovating Drug Repositioning Strategies for Multiple Sclerosis via Translational Bioinformatics Approaches”
11:30-11:40
William Shropshire, PhD
Infectious Diseases and Infection Control
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Training Program in Antimicrobial Resistance
“Elucidation of Molecular Mechanisms Underlying Successful Adaptation to Carbapenem Antimicrobials in High Risk Carbapenem Resistant Escherichia coli Lineages”
11:40-12:20
Naoko Mizuno, PhD
Senior Investigator
Structural Cell Biology Lab
National Heart, Lung, Blood Institute
“Top-down and Bottom-up of Cell Shape Formation Visualized by Cryo-electron Microscopy”
12:20-12:50
Lunch Break
12:50-1:50
Scott Stagg, PhD
Professor
Chemistry and Biochemistry, Institute of Molecular Biophysics Florida State University
“Determining the Structures of Challenging Membrane Remodeling Complexes”
1:50-2:30
Gabrielle Rudenko, PhD
Professor, Toxicology and Pharmacology
Sealy Center for Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
UT Medical Branch at Galveston
“Drugging the Redox Switch in the Transcription Factor ΔFosB – a Potential Therapeutic Target for Neuropsychiatric and Neurological Disorders”
2:30-2:40
Miranda Lewis
Molecular Virology and Microbiology
Baylor College of Medicine
Training Interdisciplinary Pharmacology Scientists
“Drugging the Redox Switch in the Transcription Factor ΔFosB – a Potential Therapeutic Target for Neuropsychiatric and Neurological Disorders”
2:40-2:50
Hannah Wilson
Microbiology and Infectious Disease
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Molecular Basis of Infectious Diseases
“Characterizing C. albicans Morphogenesis Regulation in the Context of Host Macrophages”
2:50-3:45
Poster Session and Coffee Break
3:45-3:55
Rachel Keuls
Development, Disease Models and Therapeutics Graduate Program
Baylor College of Medicine
Training in Precision Environmental Health Sciences
“Yolk Sac-Derived Cells Are Required for Brain Development”
3:55-4:05
Kehinde Idowu, PhD
Center for Biomedical and Minority Health Research
Texas Southern University
Cancer Therapeutics Training Program
“The Design and Development of GMC1 Analogues: Targeting the Regulation of FKBP52 and Hormonal Receptors in Prostate Cancer Cells”
4:05-4:45
Tom Terwilliger, PhD
Laboratory Fellow
Los Alamos National Lab
“AlphaFold Changes Everything”
4:45-5:00
Awards and Closing / Reception Following