22nd ANNUAL RETREAT

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS PROGRAM

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

Wadsworth Mansion – Long Hill Estate
421 Wadsworth Street, Middletown, CT 06457

9:00 am Breakfast and Poster setup

10:00 am Introductory remarks
               Janice Naegele, Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics

10:10 am Dr. Bethany Kormos
               Associate Research Fellow, Computational Chemistry, Pfizer
               Driving Drug Design Using Computational Chemistry

11:00 am Poster session

11:40 am Dr. Benjamin Elling
               Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Wesleyan University
               Reassessing the Role of Mechanism in Covalent Adaptable Networks

12:30 pm Lunch

1:20 pm  Dr. Joseph Coolon, 
              Assistant Professor, Biology, Wesleyan University
              Information flow through regulatory networks: using transcription factor titration           
               to understand the rules of regulator-target relationships
    

2:10 pm Poster session

3:15 pm Teresita Padilla-Benavides
             Assistant Professor,Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University
             Differential roles of the SWI/SNF complex in the growth and differentiation
              of cultured myoblasts

4:00 pm Keynote Speaker – Dr. Ann McDermott
             Esther Breslow Professor of Biological Chemistry, Columbia University

              Signaling in Ion channels and other systems—Insights from NMR

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.

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