PROGRAM
Friday, February 14, 2014
Scientific Symposium (Registration required)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Bldg. 66 Auditorium
| 9:30 | Check-in |
| 10:00 | Welcome Eva Nogales, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| Chair: Eva Nogales | |
| 10:05 | Single-Sideband Contrast: From the Early (Downing)Years to Today
Bob Glaeser, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley |
| 10:30 | Progress Towards Realizing the Full Potential of Single Particle Cryo-EM Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom |
| 10:55 | Membrane Protein Structure and Function by Cryo-EM Werner Kühlbrandt, Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany |
| 11:20 | Cryo-EM of Viruses Wah Chiu, Baylor College of Medicine |
| 11:45 | Lunch (lunch boxes served) |
| Chair: Grant Jensen | |
| 1:15 | The Trouble with Ken David DeRosier, Brandeis University |
| 1:40 | A Reverse Path through 3DEM: From 3 Angstrom to 3 nm Resolution Sharon Wolf, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |
| 2:05 | Atomic Structures of Assembled Tubulin: From Zinc-Induced Sheets to Microtubules Eva Nogales, UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
| 2:30 | EM Reveals How the MCM2-7 Helicase Ring is Loaded onto the Replication Origin DNA Huilin Li, Stony Brook University |
| 2:55 | Break |
| Chair: Sharon Wolf | |
| 3:20 | Electron Cryotomography Past and Present Grant Jensen, California Institute of Technology |
| 3:45 | Cryo-Electron Tomography of Radial Spokes by Zernike Phase-Contrast Imaging Haixin Sui, Wadsworth Center |
| 4:10 | "Kenning" Kinesin: Taking a Molecular Motor to the Next Level Chuck Sindelar, Yale University |
| 4:35 | My Perspective Ken Downing, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley |
| 5:00 | Closing Remarks Grant Jensen |
| 5:05 - 6:00 | Reception |
| 6:30 | Dinner (by invitation only) |
