8:30-9:00 Registration, poster setup, and breakfast
9:00-9:05 Welcome Suzanne Tomlinson, Gulf Coast Consortia
Mehmet Sen, Univ. of Houston
Convener: John Tainer, MD Anderson Cancer Center
9:05-9:50 Keynote Presentation
New Problems and Answers for Atomic Models at >2.5Å – Pernicious Overfitting vs Good Analytics and Predictions
Jane Shelby Richardson, Duke Univ. School of Medicine
9:50-10:20 Regulation of Protein Complexes by Disordered Domains
Sheena D’Arcy, Univ. of Texas, Dallas
10:20-10:35 Networking Break
Session 1
Convener: Gul Zerze, Univ. of Houston
10:35-10:50 Regulation of WIPI2 Phosphorylation to Restore Autophagosome Biogenesis in Aged Neurons
Andrea Stavoe, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
10:50-11:05 Development of High Spatial and Spectral Resolution Chemical Imaging Tool for Biological Interfaces
Naihao Chiang, Univ. of Houston
11:05-11:20 Aberrant Phase Separation is a Common Killing Strategy of Positively Charged Peptides in Biology and Human Disease
Steven Boeynaems, Baylor College of Medicine
Session 2 Trainee Presentations
Convener: Zac Alabi, Univ. of Houston
11:20-11:35 Using Deep Learning to Accelerate Molecular Simulations of RNA Folding
Ayush Gupta, Univ. of Houston
11:35-11:50 Super-Resolution Tracing of the Entire Salmonella Genom
Victoria Flores, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch
11:50-12:05 Molecular Insight into the Mammalian SLFN14 Ribonuclease
Justin Van Riper, Baylor College of Medicine
12:05-12:20 Lightning Poster Talks, even-numbered posters
12:20-2:15 Lunch and poster presentation-Event Hall
12:20-12:50 Lunch
12:50-1:50 Poster presentation-even numbered posters
Convener: Mehmet Sen, Univ. of Houston
Afternoon Keynote and Rising Star Plenary Presentation
1:50-2:35 Keynote Presentation
Protein Disorder and Dynamics in Signaling Pathways
Jane Dyson, Scripps Research Institute
2:35-3:05 Rising Star Plenary Speaker
Mechanisms of RNA-guided DNA Integration
Liz Kellogg, Cornell Univ.
Session 3 Local Presentations
Convener: Matthew Baker, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center Houston
3:05-3:20 Unveiling Structural Disorder in Protein A: An Unexpected Twist in Antigen-Antibody Interactions
Gül H. Zerze, Univ. of Houston
3:20-3:35 Biophysical Studies of Condensation and Aggregation of Neurodegenerative Disease-Linked Disordered Proteins
Allan Chris Ferreon Baylor College of Medicine
3:35-3:50 Biomolecular Electrostatics by NMR Spectroscopy
Junji Iwahara, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch Galveston
3:50-4:05 Lightning Poster Talks-odd-numbered posters
4:05-6:00 Posters and Reception
4:05-5:05 Poster Presentation-odd numbered posters-Event Hall
5:05-6:00 Reception-Pre-Function