Suddath Symposium --- April 01-02, 2011

FRIDAY
APRIL 01

Keynote Speaker: Ada E. Yonath, PhD
Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2009, Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
A Vestige of an RNA Apparatus with Ribozyme Capabilities Embedded and Functions within the Modern Ribosome
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  Loren Williams, Georgia Institute of Technology
Toward an Ancestral Ribosome
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  Jamie Williamson, The Scripps Research Institute
Dynamics of Ribosome Assembly In Vitro and in Cells
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Jody Puglisi, Stanford University School of Medicine
Direct Observation of Translational Dynamics
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Ruben Gonzalez, Columbia University
The Structural Dynamics of Translation Initiation
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Mike Yarus, University of Colorado at Boulder
The Meaning of a Miniscule Ribozyme
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Steve Harvey, Georgia Institute of Technology
Probing the Magnesium Binding Sites of the Ancestral Ribosomal RNA
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Roger Wartell, Georgia Institute of Technology
Folding and Footprinting of a Model Ancestral rRNA
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  Nicholas Hud, Georgia Institute of Technology
Chemical Probing of Mg2+- Specific Folds in RNA
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  Suddath Awards
 

 

SATURDAY,
APRIL 02

Joachim Frank, Columbia University
The Tedious Business of Going from A to B: Translocation Intermediates Visualized by Cryo-EM
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Olke Uhlenbeck, Northwestern University
tRNA Tuning
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Alexander Mankin, University of Illinois
Nascent Peptide-controlled Arrest of Translation: Putting a Wrench in the Works of an RNA Machine
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Christine M. Dunham, Emory University School of Medicine
Molecular Characterization of Translation Regulation
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  George Fox, University of Houston
Timing Events Provide Insight to Ribosome Evolution
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  Eric Gaucher, Georgia Institute of Technology
Molecular Evolution as a Guide to Engineer Protein Synthesis
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Graeme L. Conn, Emory University
Molecular mechanisms of target selection by aminoglycoside-resistance rRNA methyltransferases
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Yomi Oyelere, Georgia Institute of Technology
Peptolides - Molecular Probes for Nascent Peptide Passage through the Ribosome Exit Tunnel
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  Symposium Conclusion