| SATURDAY |
| 2:00 pm | Check-In Begins |
| 3:00 pm - 3:10 pm | Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair |
| 3:10 pm - 4:00 pm | LOOKING FORWARD |
| 3:10 pm - 3:50 pm | Dave Thirumalai (University of Maryland)
"Outstanding Problems in Protein Folding" |
| 3:50 pm - 4:00 pm | Discussion |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session I (last names A-M) |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | ADVANCES IN PROTEIN FOLDING THEORY AND SIMULATION |
| Discussion Leader: Lorna Dougan (University of Leeds) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Vijay Pande (Stanford University)
"Latest Developments in Computational Protein Folding" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:25 pm | Discussion |
| 8:25 pm - 8:40 pm | Katherine A. Ball (UC Berkeley)
"Amyloid-beta monomer and oligomer conformational ensembles" |
| 8:40 pm - 8:45 pm | Discussion |
| 8:45 pm - 9:00 pm | Edward O'Brien (Cambridge University)
"Tertiary structure formation occurs inside the ribosome exit port" |
| 9:00 pm - 9:05 pm | Discussion |
| 9:05 pm - 9:20 pm | Walraj S. Gosal (UT Southwestern Medical Centre)
"Deciphering evolutionary instructions for specifying protein fold and function" |
| 9:20 pm - 9:25 pm | Discussion |
| SUNDAY |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | CURRENT STATE OF EXPERIMENTAL FOLDING AND DYNAMICS |
| Discussion Leader: Susan Marqusee (UC Berkeley) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Sheena Radford (University of Leeds)
"Overview of Current Experiments and Controversies" |
| 9:40 am - 9:55 am | Discussion |
| 9:55 am - 10:10 am | Derek R. Dee (University of Guelph)
"Prosegment-catalyzed folding as a model to study the nature of protein folding barriers" |
| 10:10 am - 10:15 am | Discussion |
| 10:15 am - 10:30 am | Jesse Dill (UC Berkeley)
"Optical Tweezers Study of an Unfolding Intermediate in E. coli RNase H" |
| 10:30 am - 10:35 am | Discussion |
| 10:35 am | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 am - 11:15 am | Candace M. Pfefferkorn (National Institutes of Health, NHLBI)
"Fluorescent probes of a-synuclein-and-membrane interactions: Insights into the role of membranes in aggregation" |
| 11:15 am - 11:20 am | Discussion |
| 11:20 am - 11:35 am | Gareth J. Morgan (University of Leeds)
"Optimizing Protein Stability In Vivo" |
| 11:35 am - 11:50 am | Discussion |
| 11:50 am - 12:05 pm | Steven A. Waldauer (Michigan State University)
"Measuring Intramolecular Diffusion During Protein Folding Using an Ultrarapid Microfluidic Mixer" |
| 12:05 pm - 12:10 pm | Discussion |
| 12:10 pm - 12:25 pm | Alessandro Borgia (University of Zurich)
"Localizing roughness on the free energy surface of protein folding" |
| 12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm | Poster Session II (last names N-Z) |
| 3:30 pm | Gordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm. |