EXPLORING PROTEINS PROGRAM
7:00 am
Continental Breakfast
8:00 am
Welcome - Dean Suresh Subramani / Chancellor Marye Anne Fox
8:10 am
Keynote Address: Stephen Harrison, Harvard Medical School -- Proteins: Assemblies in Action
8:55 - 10:30 am
Session I: Protein Folding and Function
Dorothee Kern, HHMI, Brandeis Unversity /Dynamic Personalities of Proteins
Frances Arnold, California Institute of Technology -- Lessons from Synthetic Protein Families
David Baker, University of Washington / Prediction and Design of Macromolecular Structures and Interactions
10:30 - 10:45 am
Morning Break
10:45 am - 12:30
Session II: Protein Assemblies and Machines
Tom Pollard, Yale University, Department of Cell Biology
Molecular Mechanisms of Cellular Motility and Cytokinesis
Wolfgang Baumeister, Max-Planck-Institute of Biochemistry
Mapping Molecular Landscapes inside Cells by Cryoelectron Tomography
Carlos Bustamante, University of California, Berkeley
Grabbing the Cat by the Tail: Following the Packaging of DNA Inside the Capsid of Bacteriophage phi 29 One Molecule at a Time and at Base-Pair Resolution
12:30 - 1:30 pm
Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:15 pm
Session III: Proteins Within Cells
Bob Buchanan, University of California, Berkeley
The Horizon of Redox REgulation Continues to Broaden in Plants
Randy Schekman, University of California, Berkeley
Morphogenesis of a Transport Vesicle: Mechanism and Disease Connections
Mark Davis, Stanford University School of Medicine -- Deconstructing T Cell Recognition
3:15 - 3:30 pm
Afternoon Break
3:30 -5:15 pm
Session IV: Protein-omics and Networks
Craig Venter, J. Craig Venter Institute --Genomics: From Medicine to the Environment
 
Andrei Osterman, The Burnham Institute for Medical Research
Comparative Genomic Cartography of Metabolic Networks
Susan Taylor, University of California, San Diego -- PKA: Prototype for the Evolution of Regulation