2005 Annual Retreat Program
8:30 - 9:15 Arrival, Poster Set-up and Continental Breakfast
9:15 - 9:30 Dr. Barbara Brodsky
Opening Remarks
9:35 – 9:50 Dr. Akira Sato
Characterization of a Novel Modulator of Wnt Signaling
9:55 – 10:10 Eduardo Perez
Identification of Methylation Sites in T. maritima Receptors & Redefining the Methylation “Consensus” Sequence
10:15 – 10:30 Dr. Vikas Nanda
Intelligent Protein Design
10:30 – 11:25 COFFEE AND POSTER SESSION
11:30 – 11:45 Dr. Sarah Hitchcock-DeGregori
Requirements for flexibility & specificity for binding of the coiled-coil tropomyosin to its target actin
11:50 – 12:05 Dr. Angela Mohs
Peptide model of an interruption of the Gly-X-Y repeating sequence of type IV collagen
12:10 – 12:25 Dr. Guo-Qing Tang
How does the RNA polymerase bind, bend, and open the DNA?
12:30 – 1:30 LUNCH
1:35 – 1:50 Dr. Krishnamurthy Shankarling
Ssu72, is an RNAP II CTD-phosphatase with specificity for serine-5
1:55 – 2:40 KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Bonnie Bassler HHMI/Princeton
Tiny Conspiracies: Cell-to-Cell Communication in Bacteria
2:45 Dr. Kiran Madura, Dr. Masayori Inouye
Awards and Closing Remarks
