2002 biophysical discussions study book
 
View PDF version of Table of Contents with links
View Posters
Poster Instructions
View Daily Schedule
View printable Onsite Program
Study Book, Part 1 of 2
Study Book, Part 2 of 2
 
View list of Meeting Participants
 

Saturday AM

9:00 AM to 12:00 NOON 
Session I: The State of Structural Biology of Large Structures 
Moderator Helen Saibil, Birkbeck College 

The Power of Electron Cryomicroscopy
Richard Henderson, MRC–Laboratory of Molecular Biology 

The Ribosome–A Molecular Machine in Motion
Joachim Frank, SUNY, Albany 

Biochemical Basis for X-Ray Crystallography of the Ribosome
Jamie Cate, University of California, Berkeley

Saturday PM
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM 
Posters
7:30 PM to 10:30 PM 
Session II: Extending X-Ray Crystallography to Ever Larger Structures 
Moderator Keith Hodgson, Stanford University 
Can We Routinely Collect Useful Data from Micro-Crystals?
Andrew Thompson, EMBL, Grenoble 

Future X-Ray Sources (tentative) 
Janos Hajdu, Upsala University 

The Phase Problem: Does Size Matter?
Randy Read, University of Cambridge


Sunday AM

9:00 AM to 12:00 NOON
Session III: What Does the Future Hold for Electron Cryomicroscopy?
Moderator Bob Glaeser, University of California, Berkeley

Single Particles Always Fit the Mold
Niko Grigorieff, Brandeis University

Tubulin and Microtubule Structures - The Best of Electron Crystallography and Single Particle Approaches
Ken Downing, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory

Electron Tomography: Towards Visualizing Macromolecular Assemblies Inside Cells
Wolfgang Baumeister,Max-Planck Institute, Martinsried

Polymorphism, Can We Detect It? Can We Use It? Can We Control It? Examples from Actin and Nucleoprotein Complexes
Edward Egelman, University of Virginia Health Science Center


Sunday PM

4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Posters
7:30 PM to 10:30 PM 
Session IV: Can Hybrid Methods Provide Credible Atomic Models? 
Moderator Eva Nogales, University of California, Berkeley 
Atomic Model of the Cell: Docking in a Ttomographic Environment
Niels Volkmann, Burnham Institute 

Reconciling Shape with Structure: Morphometric Strategies for Multi-Resolution Flexing
Willy Wriggers, Scripps Research Institute 

Combining electron microscopic with x-ray crystallographic structures
Michael Rossman, Purdue University 
Addendum


Monday AM

9:00 AM to 12:00 NOON 
Session IV: Computational Methods 
Moderator Axel Brunger, Stanford University 

Modeling of Molecular Assemblies by Satisfaction of Constraints
Andrej Sali, Rockefeller University 

Probing the Structural and Energetic Basis of Protein-Protein Interactions
Barry Honig, Columbia University


Biophysical Society - 9650 Rockville Pike - Bethesda, Maryland 20814   Phone: 301.634.7114    Fax: 301.634.7133    society@biophysics.org