Program

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Friday, April 1st
8:00am Breakfast
8:30am Welcome Address - Bob Guldberg, PhD, Director, Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
8:40am Keynote Speaker: Ada E. Yonath, PhD - Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2009 Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel A Vestige of an RNA Apparatus with Ribozyme Capabilities Embedded and Functions within the Modern Ribosome
9:40am Loren Williams Georgia Institute of Technology Toward an Ancestral Ribosome
10:30am Break
10:50am Jamie Williamson The Scripps Research Institute Dynamics of Ribosome Assembly In Vitro and in Cells
11:40am Jody Puglisi Stanford University School of Medicine Direct Observation of Translational Dynamics
12:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Ruben Gonzalez Columbia University The Structural Dynamics of Translation Initiation
2:20pm Mike Yarus University of Colorado at Boulder The Meaning of a Miniscule Ribozyme
3:00pm Break
3:20pm Steve Harvey Georgia Institute of Technology Probing the Magnesium Binding Sites of the Ancestral Ribosomal RNA
4:00pm Roger Wartell Georgia Institute of Technology Folding and Footprinting of a Model Ancestral rRNA
4:25pm Nicholas Hud Georgia Institute of Technology Chemical Probing of Mg2+- Specific Folds in RNA
4:50pm 2011 Suddath Award Winner Announcement
5:00pm Poster Session and Reception
Saturday, April 2nd
8:00am Breakfast
8:30am Joachim Frank Columbia University The Tedious Business of Going from A to B: Translocation Intermediates Visualized by Cryo-EM
9:30am Olke Uhlenbeck Northwestern University tRNA Tuning
10:20am Break
10:40am Alexander Mankin University of Illinois Nascent Peptide-controlled Arrest of Translation: Putting a Wrench in the Works of an RNA Machine
11:30am Christine M. Dunham Emory University School of Medicine Molecular Characterization of Translation Regulation
12:15pm Lunch
1:00pm George Fox University of Houston Timing Events Provide Insight to Ribosome Evolution
1:50pm Eric Gaucher Georgia Institute of Technology Molecular Evolution as a Guide to Engineer Protein Synthesis
2:40pm Graeme L. Conn Emory University Molecular mechanisms of target selection by aminoglycoside-resistance rRNA methyltransferases
3:30pm Yomi Oyelere Georgia Institute of Technology Peptolides - Molecular Probes for Nascent Peptide Passage through the Ribosome Exit Tunnel
4:10pm Adjourn