1st Annual UK-Southeast USA Symposium on Structural Genomics and Proteomics of Membrane and Metalloproteins

Program

-> Day 1 (Oct. 14) -> Day 2 (Oct. 15) -> Day 3 (Oct. 16)

Friday, October 14
	8:00 AM	Registration and Continental Breakfast
	9:00 AM	Welcome Michael F. Adams, President, University of Georgia C. Michael Cassidy, President, Georgia Research Alliance Martin Rickerd, UK Consul-General
	9:45 AM - 12:00 PM	Session 1.1 – Genomics & Proteomics Chair: Bi-Cheng Wang
	9:45 AM	Bi-Cheng Wang, University of Georgia Challenges in Structural Genomics and Proteomics – Introduction and an Overview
	10:15 AM	Jim Naismith, University of St. Andrews A Progress Report from the SSPF
	10:45 AM	Break
	11:00 AM	Seiki Kuramitsu, RIKEN/Osaka University/University of Tokyo A Structural and Functional Whole-Cell Project for the Model Organism, Thermus thermophilus HB8
	11:30 AM - 12:30 PM	Session 1.2 - Bioinformatics Chair: Ying Xu
	11:30 AM	Ying Xu, University of Georgia Computational Prediction of Helical Membrane Protein Structures
	12:00 PM	Rob Harrison/P.C. Tai, Georgia State University Transmembrane and Embedded Membrane Segments Prediction with Support Vector Machine Based on Advanced Encording Schemes
	12:30-12:45 PM	Group Picture
	12:45 PM	Lunch
	1:45 PM - 3:15 PM	Session 1.3 – Cloning and Expression Chair: James Hartley
	1:45 PM	James Hartley, National Cancer Institute/SAIC Frederick Using Proteomics Methods to Screen ORF Collections for Well-expressed Proteins
	2:15 PM	Peter Horanyi, University of Georgia Parallel Gene Expression
	2:45 PM	Steve Baldwin, University of Leeds Membrane Protein Expression in the Genomic Era
	3:15 PM	Break
	3:30 PM - 5:00 PM	Session 1.4 Mass Spectrometry
	3:30 PM	Lance Wells, University of Georgia Tandem Mass Spectrometry Approaches for the Study of Glycoproteins
	4:00 PM - 5:30 PM	Session 1.5 Biophysical Tools and Data Management Chair: Laurence Barron
	4:00 PM	Laurence Barron, University of Glasgow Raman Optical Activity: A Powerful New Tool for Protein Structure Analysis
	4:30 PM	Anne Pajon, European Bioinformatics Institute PIMS: Designing a Laboratory Information Management System for the BBSRC SPoRT Initiative
	5:00 PM	C.W. Yong/Bill Smith, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory Use of High Performance Computer for Molecular Dynamics/Quantum Mechanical Picture
	5:30 PM	General Discussions
	6:00 PM	Dinner and Evening Open
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Saturday, October 15
	8:00 AM	Continental Breakfast
	9:00 AM - 12:15 PM	Session 2.1 - Membrane Proteins Chair: Neil Isaacs, Co-Chair: Larry DeLucas
	9:00 AM	Neil Isaacs, University of Glasgow Structural Studies on Membrane Proteins: The Membrane Protein Structure Initiative (Mpsi)
	9:30 AM	Larry DeLucas, University of Alabama at Birmingham Novel Crystallization Techniques for Membrane Proteins
	10:00 AM	Zihe Rao, Chinese Academy of Sciences/Tsinghua University Crystal Structure of Mitochondrial Respiratory Membrane Protein Complex II
	10:30 AM	Break
	10:45 AM	J. David Puett, University of Georgia G Protein-Coupled Receptors: A Conduit for Information Flow Into Cells
	11:15 AM	Stephen Sligar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Self-Assembled Nanometer Scale Lipid Bilayers for Drug Discovery and Therapeutic Delivery
	11:45 AM - 2:45 PM	Session 2.2 – Metalloproteins Chair: Samar Hasnain, Co-Chair: Robert Scott
	11:45 AM	Samar Hasnain, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory Crystallography and 3D-XAFS: Powerful Resource for Metallogenomics
	12:15 PM	Lunch
	1:15 PM	Robert Scott, University of Georgia Application of High-Throughput X-ray Spectroscopy to Structural Genomics and Metalloproteomics
	1:45 PM	David Richardson, University of East Anglia Structural Resolution of the Nitrogen cycle Respirome
	2:15 PM	Gary Sawers, John Innes Centre Maturation of Metalloproteins
	2:45 PM - 5:30 PM	Session 2.3 – Crystallomics & Crystallography Chair: John Rose
	2:45 PM	John Rose, University of Georgia Developing a High-Throughput Crystallization Pipeline for Structural Genomics Applications at SECSG
	3:15 PM	Break
	3:30 PM	Svetlana Antonyuk, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory Persuading Crystals Diffract to Atomic Resolution - An Essential Step in Understanding Metalloproteins Structure Based Mechanisms
	4:00 PM	Martin Caffrey, Ohio State University/University of Limerick Crystallizing Membrane Proteins in Lipidic Mesophases
	4:30 PM	Joseph Ng, University of Alabama at Huntsville Fundamentals of counter-diffusion compared to traditional protein crystallization methods: Application for structural genomics
	5:00 PM	Xiaodong Cheng, Emory University Many Paths to Methyltransfer: Five Different Structural Folds of SAM-Dependent Methyltransferases
	5:30 PM	General Discussions
	6:00 PM	Dinner and Evening Open
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Sunday, October 16
	8:00 AM	Continental Breakfast
	9:00 AM - 10:30 AM	Session 3.1 - High-Throughput & Novel Methods Chair: Zhi-Jie (James) Liu
	9:00 AM	Zhi-Jie (James) Liu, University of Georgia High-throughput Structure Determination Pipelines at SECSG
	9:30 AM	Peng (George) Wang, Ohio State University Mechanism of Polysaccharide Synthesis: the Last Frontier on the Biosynthesis of Biopolymers
	10:00 AM	Robert Yu, Medical College of Georgia Glycomics and Glycolipidomics
	10:30 AM	Break
	10:45 AM - 12:45 PM	Session 3:2 – Scientific Aspects of New Diffraction Equipment Chair: John Chrzas
	10:45 AM	Bi-Cheng Wang and John Chrzas, SER-CAT Consortium SER-CAT’s Beamlines at the Advanced Photon Source
	11:15 AM	Jules Hendrix, MAR Research The mar555 Flat Panel Detector
	11:45 AM	Roger Durst, Bruker AXS A New High Speed, Large Area Photon-Counting Detector for X-Ray Crystallography
	12:15 AM	Joe Ferrara, Rigaku MSC Advances in SAD Phasing in the HomeLab
	12:45 PM	Lunch
	1:45 PM - 2:45 PM	Session 3:3 – Next Generation Macromolecular Crystallography Methods Chair: Zheng-Qing (Albert) Fu
	1:45 PM	Zhi-Jie (James) Liu, University of Georgia Sulfur Phasing: A New Frontier in Crystallography
	2:15 PM	Zheng-Qing (Albert) Fu, University of Georgia SGXPro – A User Friendly Computational Environment for Protein Crystallography
	2:45 PM - 3:15 PM	Session 3:4 – Late Additions
	2:45 PM	Ming Luo, University of Alabama at Birmingham Proteomics Platform for Higher Eukaryotic Proteins
	3:15 PM	Break
	3:30 PM - 4:15 PM	Session 3:5 – Integration of Access Grid, Remote Site Participation and Robotics in Beamline Operations
	3:30 PM	Zhongmin Jin and John Chrzas Demonstration of SER-CAT Remote Access from Georgia Center
	4:15 - 6:00 PM	Poster Session
	6:00 PM	Conference Banquet Keynote Speaker: Arnett Mace, Provost and Senior Vice President, University of Georgia	Back to top

*Note: Sessions on Friday's program will be held in Mahler Hall. Sessions for Saturday and Sunday will be held in Masters Hall.* *For more information on the Georgia Center, UGA and the Athens area, please visit our links page.*

1st Annual UK-Southeast USA Symposium on Structural Genomics and Proteomics of Membrane and Metalloproteins
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