The seventh annual MBSB research symposium will be held on Monday, May 13th, in the Frick Fine Arts Building from 9:00am to 7:00pm. The 2019 symposium will feature Dr. Georgios Skiniotis as the keynote speaker. Other speakers will include MBSB faculty, current MBSB graduate students, and an MBSB alumnus. Scroll down to see the schedule of events!
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Georgios Skiniotis, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Stanford University
"Cryo-EM Insights into G Protein Couples Receptor Activation and Signaling"
Registration Information
MBSB Symposium 2019 registration form and abstract submissions should be completed no later than April 15th, 2019
Completed forms should be emailed to Janet Zambotti at zambotti@pitt.edu
Registration Form: Click HERE to download
Abstract Template: Click HERE to download
Program Details - MBSB Symposium 2019
9:00 am Registration and breakfast
9:45 am Welcome – Andy Hinck
Morning Session
Chaired by: Sara Whitlock
10:00 am New Methods—and Old Methods Applied in New Ways—to Find Human Cancer Viruses
Patrick Moore
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Univ of Pittsburgh, MBSB Training Faculty
10:35 am Structural Mechanisms of Parathyroid Hormone Receptor (PTHR) Signaling Through Gs
Lisa Clark
Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Univ of Pittsburgh. MBSB student
10:55 am Break
11:30 am Heterogeneous-Backbone Mimics of Disulfide-Rich Peptide Scaffolds
Chino Cabalteja
Chemistry, Univ of Pittsburgh. MBSB student
11:50 am Investigating the Role of Oxidative Stress in Telomere Maintenance
Patricia Opresko
Environmental and Occupational Health, Univ of Pittsburgh, MBSB Training Faculty
Lunch
12:25 pm – 1:25 pm
Afternoon Session
Chaired by: Stephen White
1:30 pm A Highly Ordered ENE Motif Within the MALAT1 Triple Helix lcRNA Reveals a Distinct Inhibitory Structure for
Small Molecule Therapeutic Intervention.
Mike Yonkunas
Chemistry & Biochemistry, Univ of the Sciences in Philadelphia. MBSB alumnus.
2:05 pm Optical Control of Cre Recombinase in Zebrafish Embryos
Wesley Brown
Chemistry, Univ of Pittsburgh. MBSB student
2:25 pm PROTACs: Lessons from HIV
Jinwoo Ahn
Structural Biology, Univ of Pittsburgh, MBSB Training Faculty
Poster Session
3:00 pm – 4:10 pm
Keynote Address
Chaired by: Kirill Lavrenyuk
4:15 pm Cryo-EM Insights into G Protein Coupled Receptor Activation and Signaling
Georgios Skiniotis
Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Structural Biology, Stanford Univ
Reception
5:30 pm
