MBSB Symposium 2022
The ninth annual MBSB research symposium will be held on Friday, May 6th from 9:00am to 5:00pm in the Frick Fine Arts Building. The 2022 symposium will feature Dr. Yifan Cheng 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!
The 2022 symposium will feature Dr. Yifan Cheng 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. Yifan Cheng
"Single particle cryo-EM studies of TRPV1: from atomic structures to mechanism of channel gating"
Registration Information
MBSB Symposium 2021 registration form and abstract submissions should be completed no later than April 22rd, 2022.
Completed forms should be emailed to Ari Selzer at ars289@pitt.edu
Registration Form: Click HERE to register!!
Abstract Template: Click HERE to download
Program Details - MBSB Symposium 2022
9:00-9:10 Program Welcome
Morning Session 1:
Chaired by Anna Belford
9:10 am Investigating the activity of G-quadruplex binding protein BG4.
Samuel Johnson
9:30 am Characterization of the ABC methionine transporter from Neisseria meningitidis reveals that lipidated MetQ is required for interaction.
Naima Sharaf
Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Stanford University
10:15 am Parallel Session: Career Development session for Students
MBSB Faculty Meeting for Faculty
Morning Session 2:
Chaired by Michael Dalton
11:30 am Watching DNA repair in real time: from cells to single molecules.
Ben Van Houten
Richard M. Cyert Professor of Molecular Oncology and is in the Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology.
12:05 pm Parasitic Adaptation of a CCP-Scaffold to Mimic TGB-Beta Immunosuppressive Signaling
Ananya Mukundan
Lunch Break: 12:25pm - 1:15pm
Afternoon Session:
Chaired by Brittani Schnable
1:15 pm Nanoscale Imaging of Biological systems using Molecule Anchorable Gel-enabled Nanoscale In-situ Fluorescence Microscopy.
Yongxin (Leon) Zhao
Eberly Family Associate Professor of Biological Sciences, Department of Biological Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
1:50 pm Developing Spin-labels for In-Cell Measurements and Orthogonal Labelling Schemes.
Zikri Hasanbasri
2:10 pm Atomic-level characterization of SARS-CoV-2 spike activation.
Lillian Chong
Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
2:45-3:45 Poster Session
Keynote Address:
Chaired by Ari Selzer
3:45 pm Single particle cryo-EM studies of TRPV1: from atomic structures to mechanism of channel gating
Yifan Cheng
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco
4:45 pm Reception
Check back for schedule details
MBSB Symposium 2021
The eighth annual MBSB research symposium will be held on Friday, May 14th, virtually, from 9:00am to 5:00pm. The symposium will be held on gather.town (https://gather.town/i/4tog0X3T). The 2021 symposium will feature Dr. Gregory Petsko 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. Gregory Petsko, Professor of Neurology, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital
"How Parkinson's Disease Starts - And How It Might be Stopped."
Registration Information
MBSB Symposium 2021 registration form and abstract submissions should be completed no later than April 23rd, 2021.
Completed forms should be emailed to Ananya Mukundan at Mukundan.Ananya@medstudent.pitt.edu
Registration Form: Click HERE to register
Abstract Template: Click HERE to download
Program Details - MBSB Symposium 2021
9:00-9:10 Program Welcome
Morning Session 1:
Chaired by Ari Selzer
9:10 am Title TBA
Maria Kurnikova
Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, MBSB Training Faculty
9:35 am Peeking and Poking at Cells: Optochemical Control of Biological Processes
Alex Deiters
Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh, MBSB Training Faculty
10:00 am Parallel Session: Career Development session for Students
MBSB Faculty Meeting for Faculty
Morning Session 2:
Chaired by Ananya Mukundan
11:00 am Sub-Pocket EXplorer (SubPEx): a Weighted ensemble algorithm to sample protein conformations
Erich Hellemann Holguin
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, MBSB student
11:20 am Holding it Together: Contact Tracing within the NHEJ Synaptic Complex
Sean Carney
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Loparo Laboratory, Harvard University, MBSB Alumnus
Lunch Break: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Afternoon Session:
Chaired by Brittani Schnable
1:00 pm Activation of Tec family kinase Btk by HIV-1 Nef
Manish Aryal
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, MBSB Student
1:20 pm Tetramerization: a new paradigm for regulating SNX-BAR membrane interaction
Marijn Ford
Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh, MBSB Training Faculty
1:45 pm Pull yourself together! Mapping mechantransduction of cellular tension forces.
Kirill Lavernyuk
Department of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, MBSB Student
2:10-3:15 Poster Session
Keynote Address:
Chaired by Ananya Mukundan
3:20 pm How Parkinson's Disease Starts - And how It Might be Stopped.
Gregory Petsko
Professor of Neurology, Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital
Brittani Schnable
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MBSB Symposium 2019
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
