20TH ANNUAL RETREAT
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS PROGRAM
Thursday, September 26, 2019
Wadsworth Mansion – Long Hill Estate
421 Wadsworth Street, Middletown, CT 06457
9:15 am Breakfast and Poster setup
10:00 am Introductory remarks, Joseph Knee, Dean of Natural Science and Mathematics
10:10 am David Beveridge, Professor Emeritus, Chemistry, Wesleyan University
Molecules to Medicine
11:00 am Michael LeVine '11, D.E. Shaw Research
A Decade Under Allosteric Regulation or: How I Learned to Stop Begging the Question
11:50 am Poster session
12:20 pm LUNCH
1:20 pm Erika Taylor, Associate Professor, Chemistry, Wesleyan University
Understanding Metabolic Flux: Exploring the Activation and Inhibition of Lignin Derived Aromatic Compounds on their Pathway Enzymes
2:10 pm Poster session
3:15 pm Laverne Melón, Assistant Professor, Biology, Wesleyan University
Tonic for all ales: Tonic GABAergic inhibition, alcohol and anxiety
4:15 pm Keynote Speaker – Dr. Lila Gierasch, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Hsp70s: Allosteric machines that perform a multitude of cellular functions
5:30 pm Reception
Sponsors: Molecular Biophysics Training Program, Biology Department, Chemistry Department, MB&B Department, and Physics Department
Please contact adane@wesleyan.edu with any questions.