Opening keynote Presentation
Membrane Proteins in the Service of Human Health
Robert Stroud, Ph.D., Professor, Biochemistry & Biophysics; Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California, San Francisco
Using the Nanodisc to Study Membrane Protein Structure and Dynamics: Three Case Studies
Franck Duong, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Biochemistry, The University of British Columbia
Structural Study of a Membrane Protein in a Lipid Membrane by Cryo-EM
Liguo Wang, Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist, Yale School of Medicine
Tryptophan-Lipid Interactions in Membrane Protein Folding
Judy Kim, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego
Structural Dynamics of Active Transporters
Robert Nakamoto, Ph.D., Professor, Molecular Physiology & Biological Physics, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center
In vitro Assembly of Multi-Component Drug Efflux Transporters in Real-Time
Helen Zgurskaya, Ph.D., Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma
Probing Receptor Activation using Genetically Encoded Non-Natural Amino Acid Mutagenesis
Thomas P. Sakmar, M.D., Professor, Laboratory of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rockefeller University
Membrane Interactions of Cyclotides
David Craik, Ph.D., Professor, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland
Establishing a Structure Based Drug Design Loop for the CGRP Receptor, a Class B GPCR
Ernst ter Haar, Ph.D., Research Fellow, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Detergents in the Purification, Stabilization, and Refolding of Membrane Proteins
Dirk Linke, Ph.D., Professor, Protein Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology
Preparation of Stable Isotope-Labeled GPCR by Bacterial Fermentation
Alexei Yeliseev, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, Laboratory of Membrane Biochemistry and Biophysics, NIH/NIAAA
Scale-Up and Process Development of a Suite of Membrane Bound Proteins (CYP450s) in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Prabuddha Kundu, Ph.D., Vice President, Manufacturing, Premas Biotech Pvt., Ltd.