SUNDAY |
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:15 pm | Welcome |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Protein Misfolding and Amyloid Formation |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Chair: Mike Bowers, UCSB |
7:45 pm - 8:20 pm | David Teplow, UCLA |
8:20 pm - 8:55 pm | Alison Ashcroft, U of Leeds Probing beta2-microglobulin amyloid structure by mass spectrometry |
8:55 pm - 9:30 pm | Andrea Sinz, Leipzig Mapping Protein Interfaces by Chemical Cross-Linking and FTICR Mass Spectrometry |
9:45 pm | Welcome Reception |
MONDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Folding and Conformation |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Chair: David Pratt, U of Pittsburgh |
9:15 am - 9:55 am | Joan-Emma Shea, UCSB Simulation of the self-assembly of the Alzheimer Amyloid-beta Protein |
9:55 am | Photo / Coffee Break |
10:35 am - 10:55 am | Hot Topic 1: Haydee Valdes, Prague
Structure and IR Spectrum of Phenylalanyl-Glycyl-Glycine Tripetide in the Gas-Phase: IR-UV Experiments, ab initio Quantum Chemical Calculations and Molecular Dynamic Simulations |
10:55 am - 11:35 am | Sven Hovmoller, Stockholm U Conformations of amino acids in proteins - detailed and revised Ramachandran plots and their use in protein structure description and prediction |
11:35 am - 11:55 am | Hot Topic 2 |
11:55 am - 12:25 pm | Poster Introductions 1-3 |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Single Molecule |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Chair: Renato Zenobi, ETH |
7:45 pm - 8:20 pm | Gilad Haran, Weizmann Institute Protein folding and association: Single molecules and more |
8:20 pm - 8:55 pm | X. Sunney Xie, Harvard The Ever Fluctuating Single Enzyme Molecule |
8:55 pm - 9:30 pm | Sander Woutersen, FOM-Amolf Nonlinear infrared spectroscopy of nucleic-acid structures |
9:30 pm | Poster Session I |
TUESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Spectroscopy |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Chair: Tim Zwier, Purdue |
9:15 am - 9:55 am | Pierre Carcabal, Oxford Competition between intra- and intermolecular hydrogen bonding in carbohydrate structural stabilisation |
9:55 am - 10:15 am | Hot Topic 3: Gert von Helden, Max Planck, Berlin
Charge-state resolved mid-infrared spectroscopy of a gas-phase protein |
10:15 am | Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 11:20 am | Michel Mons, Saclay Secondary structures of short peptide chains in the gas phase |
11:20 am - 12:00 pm | Isabelle Compagnon, FOM Rijnhuizen Vibrational spectroscopy of gas phase peptides: a model for understanding the secondary structure of proteins |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Hot Topic 4 |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Poster Introduction 4 |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Spectroscopy (continued) |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Chair: Karl Kleinnermans, Düsseldorf |
7:45 pm - 8:20 pm | Anne Zehnacker-Rentien, Paris Chiral recognition in jet-cooled complexes: the role of multiple hydrogen bonds |
8:20 pm - 8:55 pm | Wei Kong, Oregon Electronic spectroscopy from the gas phase to the solution: case studies of substituted bases and their analogues |
8:55 pm - 9:30 pm | Andrzej L. Sobolewski, Warsaw Theoretical study on the mechanism of photostability of biomolecular systems |
9:30 pm | Poster Session I |
WEDNESDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Spectroscopy of DNA |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Chair: Thomas Rizzo, Lausanne |
9:15 am - 9:55 am | Bern Kohler, Ohio State Interbase interactions and DNA excited states: Base stacking vs. base pairing |
9:55 am - 10:15 am | Hot Topic 5: Sven Lammers, U Basel
Reactive molecular dynamics simulations of proton transfer processes |
10:15 am - 10:40 am | Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 11:20 am | Glake Hill, Jackson State Computational Insight into Evolutionary Choices in Nucleic Acids |
11:20 am - 12:00 pm | Seong Keun Kim, Seoul National U Frequency- and Time-domain Spectroscopy of DNA Bases and Amino Acids |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Hot Topic 6: Thomas Schultz, Max Born Inst.
DNA base pairs: Connecting structure and dynamics |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time / Optional Field Trip |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Top Down Approaches to Protein Structure |
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm | Chair: Evan Williams, Berkeley |
7:45 pm - 8:20 pm | Christoph Borchers, UNC Comprehensive proteomics by top-down combined with bottom-up approaches reveal a
stoichiometrically-phosphorylated site in stem-loop binding proteins that is necessary for high-affinity binding |
8:20 pm - 8:55 pm | Scott McLuckey, Purdue Toward an Understanding of the Dynamics of Proton Transfer, Electron Transfer, Multiple Proton Transfer, and Metal Ion Transfer in Gas Phase Ion/Ion Reactions of Peptide and Protein Ions |
8:55 pm - 9:30 pm | Kathryn Breuker, U of Innsbruk The thermal unfolding of native Cytochrome c in the transition from solution to gas phase probed by native electron capture dissociation |
9:30 pm | Poster Session II |
THURSDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Top Down Approaches to Protein Structure (continued) |
9:00 am - 9:15 am | Chair: Albert Heck, Utrecht U. |
9:15 am - 9:55 am | Neil Kelleher, U of Illinois On the stability of phospho-modified protein cations toward threshold dissociations in ESI / FT ICR MS |
9:55 am - 10:15 am | Hot Topic 7: Valerie Gabelica, U of liege
Characterization of DNA folding motifs using ion mobility mass spectrometry |
10:15 am | Coffee Break |
10:40 am - 11:20 am | Ron Heeren, FOM-AMOLF Amsterdam Gas-phase dissociation energetics of biomolecules and their complexes |
11:20 am - 12:00 pm | Don Hunt, Virginia U Characterization of Posttranslationally Modified Proteins by Ion-Ion Reactions in the Gas Phase: Applications in Studies on Cell Migration, Chromatin Biology and Cancer Vaccine Development |
12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Hot Topic 8: Joel Parks , Harvard
Protein conformational change probed by fluorescence |
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm | Poster Introduction 5 |
12:30 pm | Lunch |
1:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Free Time |
6:00 pm | Dinner |
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Feature Lecture |
7:30 pm | Introduction |
7:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Fred McLafferty, Cornell University |
9:30 pm | Poster Session II |
FRIDAY |
7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
9:00 am | Depart |