Schedule
Sunday
4:00 – 6:00 PM Room check-in in the Asilomar Social Hall.
Pick up your name badge and program in the lobby of Asilomar Main Lodge.
Dinner: 6:00 – 7:00 PM Crocker Dining Hall
[All talks to be held in Chapel Hall]
SESSION 1. KEYNOTE (Prof. Robert Stroud) plus Short talk session on related topic (7:10 – 9:20 PM), Chair, Roger Castells Graells, UCLA
Reception: 9:30 – 11:00 PM Drinks and Snacks. Fred Farr Forum.
Monday
Breakfast 7:30 – 9:00 AM Crocker Dining Hall
SESSION 2. Short talk session (9 – 10:15 AM), Chair, Yuntao Liu, UCLA
10:15 – 10:45 AM Break & Sponsor Expos
SESSION 3. Short talk session (10:45 AM – noon), Chair, Yuntao Liu, UCLA
Lunch 12:00 – 1:00 PM Crocker Dining Hall
Flash talks & Workshop I 1:30 – 4:00 PM, Chair, Maria Flores, UCLA
Poster Session 1 4:00 – 6:00 PM Fred Farr Forum.
Dinner 6:00 – 7:00 PM Crocker Dining Hall
SESSION 4. KEYNOTE (Prof. Juli Feigon) plus Short talk session on related topic (7:15 – 9 PM), Chair, Maria Flores, UCLA
Reception 9:00 – 11:00 PM Drinks and Snacks. Fred Farr Forum.
Tuesday
Breakfast 7:30 – 9:00 AM Crocker Dining Hall
SESSION 5. Short talk session (9 – 10:15 AM), Chair, Dorothee Liebschner, LBNL
10:15 – 10:45 AM Break & Sponsor Expos
SESSION 6. Short talk session (10:45 AM – noon), Chair, Dorothee Liebschner, LBNL
Lunch 12:00 – 1:00 PM Crocker Dining Hall
Flash talks & Workshop II 1:30 – 4:00 PM, Chair, Rebecca Warmack, Caltech
Poster Session 2 4:00 – 6:00 PM Fred Farr Forum.
Dinner 6:00 – 7:00 PM Crocker Dining Hall
SESSION 7. Short talk session on related topic (7:15 – 9 PM), Chair, Rebecca Warmack, Caltech
Reception 9:00 – 11:00 PM Drinks and Snacks. Fred Farr Forum.
Wednesday
Breakfast 7:30 – 9:00 AM Crocker Dining Hall
SESSION 8. Short talk session (9 – 10:15 AM), Chair, Roger Castells Graells, UCLA
10:15 – 10:45 AM Break & Sponsor Expos
SESSION 9. Short talk session (10:45 AM – noon), Chair, Roger Castells Graells, UCLA
Concluding Remarks and Lunch
12:00 – 1:00 PM Boxed Lunches
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
Prof. Robert Stroud (UCSF) – ‘Caught in the act! Building the wall, .. – again!’
Prof. Juli Feigon (UCLA) – ‘Structural Biology of Regulatory RNPs: telomerase and 7SK’
SCIENTIFIC SESSIONS
● Membrane structure and function – understanding transport, signaling, and membrane remodeling
● Nucleic acids – mechanisms of information processing and novel cellular roles for RNA and DNA
● Serial X-ray diffraction – prospects for resolving structural ensembles and kinetic processes
● Micro electron diffraction – new methodologies and challenges for determining novel structures
● New EM methods and instruments – breaking barriers in resolution, size, and speed
● Hybrid method structure determination – sourcing structural data from machine learning and other methods; applications of protein structure prediction to structure determination
● Structure automation – fitting, refinement and assessment of quality/resolution
● Cool structures – new revelations for form and function
● In situ structure – tomography and cellular functions
WORKSHOPS
● Advancing cryoEM data collection and structure determination by Thermo Fisher Scientific
● Introduction to writing your own neural networks by Pythia Labs