13TH ANNUAL RETREAT

 

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS PROGRAM Thursday, September 27, 2012

Wadsworth Mansion – Long Hill Estate

421 Wadsworth Street, Middletown, CT 06457

 

 

9:15 am          Breakfast and Poster setup

 

10:00 am        Introductory Remarks

 

10:15 am        Dr. Michael Weir, "Amino Termini of Many Yeast Proteins Map to Downstream Start Codons"

 

11.00 am        Dr. Kylie Walters, "Signaling for Destruction: How Cells Remove Unwanted Proteins"

 

11:45 am        Poster session

 

12:30 pm        LUNCH

 

1:30 pm          Dr. Amy MacQueen, "Chromosome Courtship in Budding Yeast"

 

2:15 pm          Poster session

 

3:15 pm          Dr. David Beveridge, "The ABCs of Molecular Dynamics Simulations on DNA"

 

4:15 pm          Keynote Speaker – Dr. Bertrand García-Moreno Professor and Chair, Department of Biophysics Johns Hopkins University

     "Molecular Determinants of Electrostatic Effects in Proteins"