Minisymposia will be held Sunday – Wednesday, running concurrently with platform sessions.

10:45 AM - 12:45 PM

Sunday, February 21

Cellular Decision Making: Gene Networks and Evolutionary Dynamics

Jeff Gore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Co-Chair
Tanja Kortemme, University of California, San Francisco, Co-Chair

Speakers:
Maxim N. Artyomov, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Richard Oberdorf, University of California, San Francisco
Lanying Zeng, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Arjun Raj, University of Pennsylvania
Long Cai, Caltech
Jeff Gore, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Monday, February 22

Nanomedicine: Biophysical Approaches to Clinical Problems at the Nanoscale

Wah Chiu, Baylor College of Medicine, Co-Chair
Ehud Isacoff, University of California, Berkeley, Co-Chair

Speakers:
Yao Cong, Baylor College of Medicine
Yan Jiang,Stanford University
Rebecca Petit, UC Berkeley
David L. Richmond, UC Berkeley
Harald Janovjak, UC Berkeley
Vijay Pande, Stanford University

Tuesday, February 23

Tug of War: Molecular Motor Interactions

M. Yusuf Ali, University of Vermont, Co-Chair
Sean Sun, Johns Hopkins University, Co-Chair

Speakers:
Vladimir Gelfand,Northwestern University
Harry W. Schroeder III, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
M. Yusuf Ali, University of Vermont
Stefan Diez, MPI-CBG, Dresden, Germany
Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, Rice University
Melanie JI Muller, Max Planck Institute, Potsdam, Germany, and Harvard University
 

1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Wednesday, February 24

New Chemical Modulators by Rational Design

Marta Filizola, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, Co-Chair
Yuan Chen, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Co-Chair

Speakers:
Alexander MacKerell, University of Maryland, Baltimore
Eric Hajjar, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
Jerod S. Denton, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Yang Su, Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope
Eric Oldfield, University of Illinois at Urbana