2019 Purdue Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Biomolecular Galaxy Symposium Schedule
Day 1 | Wednesday May 8th
Breakfast and Check-in at Krannert Lobby
8:30 am — 8:50 am
Opening remarks at Rawls 1086
Chair: Chelsea Theisen & John Tesmer
8:50 am — 9:00 am
Scientific session 1: Disease, Pathogenesis, and Therapeutics at Rawls 1086
9:00 am — 10:40 am
Chair: Chelsea Theisen
Opening Speaker: Dr. Rob Stahelin from Purdue MCMP
Lipid-dependent assembly and budding of the Ebola virus from human cells
9:00 am — 9:40 am
Ngango Yvon Rugema | Purdue
Structural Insights into Phospholipase Cε Function
9:40 am — 10:00 am
Jeffery Nielsen | Purdue
Chemical homing to unlock the potential of neuropeptides as therapeutics to heal bone fractures
10:00 am — 10:20 am
Kedar Puvar | Purdue
The basis of substrate recognition and catalysis by a bacterial ubiquitin deamidase/ligase
10:20 am — 10:40 am
Coffee Break at Krannert Lobby
10:40 am — 11:00 am
Scientific session 2: Biophysical Methods & Emerging Techniques at Rawls 1086
11:00 am — 12:40 pm
Chair: Brenda Gonzalez
Opening Speaker: Dr. Herman O. Sintim from Purdue Chemistry
Expanding Roles for Higher-Order Nucleic Acid Structures- from Gene Regulation to Catalysis
11:00 am — 11:40 am
Fanfei Meng | Purdue
Tannic Acid-Mediated Surface Functionalization of Drug Carriers for Tumor-targeted Drug Delivery
11:40 am — 12:00 pm
Francis Roushar | IU
Rapid Pharmacological Profiling of Genetic Variants by Deep Mutational Scanning
12:00 pm — 12:20 pm
Satchal Erramilli | UChicago
Visualizing Conformational Changes of the Magnesium Channel CorA using Synthetic Antibodies
12:20 pm — 12:40 pm
Oakwood Chemical Talk in Rawls 1086
Chair: Trevor Boram
12:40 pm — 1:00 pm
Lunch Break at Krannert Lobby
1:00 pm — 2:00 pm
Scientific session 3: Computational Biology at Rawls 1086
2:00 pm — 3:40 pm
Chair: Matthew Pharris
Opening Speaker: Elsje Pienaar from Purdue BME
Computational prediction of drug resistance emergence in TB granulomas
2:00 pm — 2:40 pm
Xiaoling Zhai | Purdue
Signal Percolation in a Heterogeneous Bacterial Community
2:40 pm — 3:00 pm
Peiyi Zhang | Purdue
Understanding Complex Single Molecule Emission Patterns with Information Based Deep Learning
3:00 pm — 3:20 pm
Charles Christoffer | Purdue
LZerD Pipeline for Template Based and Ab Initio Protein-Protein Interaction Modeling
3:20 pm — 3:40 pm
Poster Session at Krannert Lobby
3:50 pm — 6:00 pm
Poster Session Half 1: PDF list of abstracts in Half 1 HERE!
3:50 pm — 4:50 pm | Poster Session Half 2 setup for 10min
Poster Session Half 2: PDF list of abstracts in Half 2 HERE!
5:00 pm — 6:00 pm
Day 2 | Thursday May 9th
Breakfast and Check-in at Krannert Lobby
8:30 am — 8:50 am
Opening remarks at Rawls 1086
Chair: Anna Gutridge
8:50 am — 9:00 am
Scientific session 4: Neuroscience at Rawls 1086
9:00 am — 10:40 am
Chair: Anna Gutridge
Opening Speaker: Dr. Yulia Pushkar from Purdue Physics
Synchrotron based techniques for chemical dynamics and brain imaging
9:00 am — 9:40 am
Emma Lendy | Purdue
Structure-based Design of Selective Inhibitors Against the BACE Protein Family
9:40 am — 10:00 am
Saranya Radhakrishnan | Purdue
Revealing Activity-Dependent Redox Dynamics: Multiplex Imaging of Compartment-Specific Redox Probes
10:00 am — 10:20 am
Shiqi Tang
Molecular Determinants of the Differential Modulation of Cav1.2 and Cav1.3 by Nifedipine and FPL 64176
10:20 am — 10:40 am
Coffee Break at Krannert Lobby
10:40 am — 11:00 am
Scientific session 5: Cancer Research at Rawls 1086
11:00 am — 12:40 pm
Chair: Soutick Saha
Opening Speaker: Dr. Sophie A. Lelièvre from Purdue Vet Med
Cancer…….. Why still a burden and living strong?
11:00 am — 11:40 am
Lama Alabdi | Purdue
Oct4 inhibits Lsd1 activity and affects gain of DNA methylation at pluripotency enhancers
11:40 am — 12:00 pm
Jennifer Wong | IU
Developing targeted cytotoxic therapeutics to treat cancer
12:00 pm — 12:20 pm
Anna Ratliff | Purdue
Dimerization of the Yeast Isoprenylcysteine Carboxyl Methyltransferase, Ste14
12:20 pm — 12:40 pm
Anatrace / Molecular Dimensions Talk with Jess Brustens in Rawls 1086
Chair: Chelsea Theisen
12:40 pm — 1:00 pm
Lunch Break at Krannert Lobby
1:00 pm — 2:00 pm
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Cynthia Wolberger from Johns Hopkins at Rawls 1086
Histone H2B ubiquitination in transcription and chromatin dynamics
Chair: Brenda Gonzalez
2:00 pm — 3:10 pm
Scientific session 6: Genetics at Rawls 1086
3:10 pm — 4:50 pm
Chair: Trevor Boram
Opening Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Wisecaver from Purdue Biochemistry
Honor by Association, Leveraging Co-expression Networks for Gene Discovery in Specialized Metabolism
3:10 pm — 3:50 pm
Samantha Brady | University of Missouri
RNA helicase A enhances the efficiency of HIV reverse transcriptase
3:50 pm — 4:10 pm
Allison Norvil | Purdue
The AML Variant Dnmt3a R882H Targets Dnmt3b Specific Sites
4:10 pm — 4:30 pm
Chennan Li
Identifying Critical Genes and MicroRNAs that Potentiate KRAS;p53-driven Lung Tumorigenesis
4:30 pm — 4:50 pm
Closing remarks and awards
Chair: Brenda Gonzalez
4:50 pm — 5:10 pm
