Friday, May 13
Muscle Biology
8:30-8:45
Welcome
President Richard McCullough
8:45-9:00
Introduction
Scott Stagg
9:00-9:30
Helical Polymers: The Surprises Continue
Ed Egelman
9:30-10:00
Why is the thin filament important for thick filament function?
Jose Pinto
10:00-10:30
Ken Taylor and the myosin interacting-heads motif
Raúl Padrón
10:30-10:45
Break /Group photo
10:45-11:15
That muscular question has been bugging me: Can we really untangle the thick and thin of it?
Bryant Chase
11:15-11:45
Three-dimensional structure of vertebrate muscle Z-band
Pradeep Luther
11:45-12:00
Reaching higher and higher with JEOL’s CRYO ARM
Jaap Brink, JEOL
12:00-1:00
Lunch
Friday, May 13
Single Particle Cryo-EM
1:00-1:30
Visualizing cryoEM structures beyond expectations
Wah Chiu
1:30-2:00
CryoEM Structures of Pseudouridine-free Ribosome Suggest Impacts of Chemical Modifications on Ribosome Conformations
Hong Li
2:00-2:30
Detection of distinct 60S ribosome maturation intermediates in cells by 2D template matching
Niko Grigorieff
2:30-3:00
Determining the structures of challenging membrane remodeling complexes
Scott Stagg
3:00-3:15
Break
3:15-3:45
AAGAB chaperones step-wise assembly of adaptor complexes
Qian Yin
3:45-4:15
AAV and the circle of life
Michael Chapman
4:15-5:00
Keynote Address - My 27 years of cryoEM and Structural Biology research at Florida State University
Ken Taylor
Saturday, May 14
Taylor Alumni and Collaborators
8:30-8:40
Introduction
Beth Stroupe
8:40-9:00
Remembrances of Don Caspar
Michael Chapman
9:00-9:30
Structural snapshots of TRPV1 in response to stimuli
Yifan Cheng
9:30-10:00
Visualizing a reversible rotary motor in action
Jun Liu
10:00-10:30
Myosin coiled-coil in its native environment
Hamidreza Ramani
10:30-10:45
Break
10:45-11:15
Cryo-EM: A Computer Scientist's Perspective
Chaity Banerjee
11:15-11:30
The Cryo-EM structure of the flight muscle thick filament from the Bumble Bee, Bombus ignitius, at 6 Å Resolution
Jiawei Li
11:30-11:45
CryoEM studies on F-actin decorated with smooth muscle heavy meromyosin
Alimohammad Hojjatian
11:45-12:00
Advances in Electron Microscopy for the Life Sciences
Natalia de Val, Thermo Fisher Scientific
12:00-1:00
Lunch
Saturday, May 14
Structural Biology and Hybrid Methods
1:00-1:30
Roles of shared structural modules in large human transcription complexes
Eva Nogales
1:30-2:00
Development of fluorescence probes to visualize HIV-1 disassembly in situ, by correlative light and CryoEM
Ashwanth Francis
2:00-2:15
Break
2:15-2:45
When cryo-EM gives you lemons, use small angle scattering
Beth Stroupe
2:45-3:15
Ultra-Fast Optical Trapping Reveals MechanoChemical Steps in Cardiac Muscle and Myopathies
Yale Goldman
3:15-3:45
Protein Functional Motion as Revealed by Long-Timescale Atomistic Simulation
Wei Yang
3:45-4:00
Closing statements