15TH ANNUAL RETREAT
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS PROGRAM Thursday, September 18, 2014
Wadsworth Mansion – Long Hill Estate
421 Wadsworth Street, Middletown, CT 06457
9:15 am Breakfast and Poster setup
10:00 am Introductory remarks by Provost and VPAA Ruth Striegel Weissman
10:15 am Edwin Antony (PhD ’05)
Assistant Professor, Chemistry Department, Utah State University
ATP driven Nitrogen Reduction by Nitrogenase - a Two Cylinder Molecular Machine
11.00 am Colin Aitken (BA ’03)
Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health
Intermediate events during eukaryotic translation initiation, and the role of eIF3.
11:45 am Poster session
12:15 pm LUNCH
1:15 pm Psyche Loui
Assistant Professor, Psychology Dept. Neuroscience and Behavior Program
Action and Perception in the Musical Brain
2:15 pm Poster session
3:15 pm Mike Robinson
Assistant Professor, Psychology Dept. Neuroscience and Behavior Program
Optogenetically Targeting Desire
4:15 pm Keynote Speaker – Dr. Jay Levy (‘60)
Professor, Department of Medicine
University of California, San Francisco
HIV Discovery to Research Achievements and Future Challenges
5:30 pm Reception
Sponsors: NIGMS Molecular Biophysics Training Grant GM08271, Chemistry and MB&B departments