Keeping it Cool in Austin: Cryo-EM Comes to UT

August 23rd, 2019 | NHB 1.720

Schedule

09:00 - 09:30:   Coffee and Pastries

09:30 - 09:50:   IT set-up

09:50 - 10:00:   Opening Remarks by Daniel Leahy, Ph.D.

10:00 - 10:45:   Elizabeth Wright, Ph.D. - "Using cryo-electron tomography to study host-pathogen interactions"

10:45 - 11:30:   Jason McLellan, Ph.D. - "Cryo-EM Structure of the RSV Polymerase Complex Reveals a Tentacular Arrangement of the Phosphoprotein"

11:30 - 12:15:   Jun Liu, Ph.D. - "Seeing bacteriophage T7 remodeling at high resolution"

12:15 - 14:15:   Lunch

14:15 - 15:00:   Basil Greber, Ph.D. - "Insights into the structures, mechanisms, and dynamics of large molecular assemblies from high-resolution cryo-EM"

15:00 - 15:45:   Gabriel Lander, Ph.D. -"Redefining 'small' - How low can we go?"

15:45 - 16:30:   David Taylor, Ph.D. - "Structures of CRISPR-Cas surveillance complexes"

16:30 - 17:15:   Daniela Nicastro -"Probing the molecular organization of cells and organelles using cryo-electron microscopy"

17:15 - 18:00:   Reception