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03 - 05 Sept 2017 Cambridge, UK

 

Sunday 3rd September 2017

McGrath Centre, St Catharine's College 

Opening Plenary Session

15:30 - 16:00  Registration

16:00 - 16:05  Jane Clarke, University of Cambridge - Opening Remarks

16:05 - 16:45  Carol Robinson, University of Oxford, UK - Opening Plenary Lecture

16:45 - 17:10  Peter Wolynes, Rice University, USA

17:10 - 17:35  Andreas Matouschek, University of Texas at Austin, USA

17:35 - 18:00  Amnon Horovitz – Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 

18:00 - 20:00  Drinks Reception


Monday 4th September 2017

McGrath Centre, St Catharine's College

Session 1: Fundamentals of Folding

09:00 - 09:25  Bertrand Garcia-Moreno, Johns Hopkins University, USA

09:25 - 09:50  Valerie Daggett, University of Washington, USA 

09:50 - 10:15  Thomas Kiefhaber, Martin Luther University of Halle- Wittenberg, Germany 

10:15 - 10:40  Charles Brooks III, University of Michigan, USA 

10:40 - 11:10  Coffee Break

Session 1: Fundamentals of Folding (cont.)

11:10 - 11:35  Elizabeth Meiering, University of Waterloo, Canada 

11:35 - 12:00  Sophie Jackson, University of Cambridge, UK 

12:00 - 12:25  David Thirumalai, University of Texas at Austin, USA 

12:25 - 12:50  Laura Itzhaki, University of Cambridge, UK

12:50 - 13:15  Doug Barrick – Johns Hopkins University, USA

13:15 - 14:30  Lunch Break 

Session 2: IDPs 

14:30 - 14:55  Philipp Selenko, FMP Berlin, Germany  

14:55 - 15:20  Sarah Shammas, University of Oxford, UK

15:20 - 15:45  Jacqui Matthews, University of Sydney, Australia 

15:45 - 16:15  Coffee Break 

Session 3: Interactions and Dynamics

16:15 - 16:40  Gideon Schreiber, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 

16:40 - 17:05  ​Vic Arcus, University of Waikato, New Zealand

17:05 - 17:30  Mark Bycroft, MRC LMB Cambridge, UK

17:30 - 17:55  ​Colin Kleanthous – University of Oxford, UK

18:00 - 20:00  Poster Session


Tuesday 5th September 2017

McGrath Centre, St Catharine's College

Session 4: Single Molecules

09:00 - 09:25  Susan Marqusee, University of California, Berkeley, USA 

09:25 - 09:50  Robert Best, National Institutes of Health, USA 

09:50 - 10:15  Ben Schuler, University of Zurich, Switzerland 

10:15 - 10:40  Emanuele Paci, University of Leeds, UK 

10:40 - 11:10  Coffee Break

Session 5: Aberrant Assembly

11:10 - 11:35  Sheena Radford, University of Leeds, UK 

11:35 - 12:00  Daniel Raleigh, Stony Brook University, USA 

12:00 - 12:25  Andrew Miranker, Yale University, USA 

12:25 - 12:50  William Eaton, National Institutes of Health, USA  

12:50 - 14:15  Lunch Break

Session 6: Evolution

14:15 - 14:40  Daniel Tawfik, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel 

14:40 - 15:05  Sarah Teichmann, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK 

15:05 - 15:30  Eugene Shaknovich, Harvard University, USA

15:30 - 16:00  Coffee Break

Closing Plenary Session

16:00 - 16:45  Alan Fersht, University of Cambridge, UK - Closing Plenary Lecture

16:45 - 17:10  José Onuchic, Rice University, USA 

17:10 - 17:40  Jane Clarke, University of Cambridge, UK