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2004 Spring Eastern Section Meeting
Lawrenceville, NJ, April 17-18, 2004
Meeting #997

Associate secretaries:
Lesley M Sibner, AMS lsibner@duke.poly.edu

Special Session on Geometry of Protein Modelling

  • Saturday April 17, 2004, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Geometry of Protein Modelling, I

    Room 102, Science and Technology Center
    Organizers:
    Ileana Streinu, Smith College streinu@cs.smith.edu
    Jack Snoeyink, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill snoeyink@cs.unc.edu

    • 8:00 a.m.
      Exploring Protein Flexibility through Bond Networks.
      Leslie A. Kuhn*, Michigan State University
      (997-92-263)
    • 8:30 a.m.
      Network Rigidity at Finite Temperatures and Free Energy Landscapes.
      Donald J Jacobs*, California State University, Northridge
      (997-82-237)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      Perspectives on Protein (un)Folding from Rigidity.
      A. J. Rader*, University of Pittsburgh
      (997-74-175)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Sampling Protein Conformations and Pathways by a Coarse Graining Algorithm.
      Ming Lei*, Brandeis University
      Maria I. Zavodszky, Michigan State University
      Leslie A. Kuhn, Michigan State University
      M. F. Thorpe, Arizona State University
      (997-92-213)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      An Automated Protocol for Designing Functionally Orthogonal Protein Interfaces.
      Brian Kuhlman*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Deanne Sammond, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Ziad Eletr, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      (997-92-245)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      Disulfide connectivity prediction using secondary structure information.
      Fabrizio Ferre, Boston College
      Peter G Clote*, Boston College
      (997-92-244)
  • Saturday April 17, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Geometry of Protein Modelling, II

    Room 102, Science and Technology Center
    Organizers:
    Ileana Streinu, Smith College streinu@cs.smith.edu
    Jack Snoeyink, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill snoeyink@cs.unc.edu

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Are there Graphical Solutions to Protein structure Prediction Bottlenecks?
      John Moult*, CARB
      (997-92-217)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Extreme Elevation on a 2-Manifold.
      Pankaj K Agarwal*, Duke University
      (997-51-214)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Functional annotation by identification of protein local surface similarities: a novel tool for structural genomics.
      Fabrizio Ferre*, Boston College
      (997-92-242)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Algorithms for Curvature Quantification using Least Sum of Squares Fitting of Spheres.
      Michael A. Burr, Tufts University
      Alan C. Cheng, Pfizer Discovery Technology Center
      Ryan G. Coleman*, Tufts University/Pfizer DTC
      Diane L. Souvaine, Tufts University
      (997-68-129)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Computational Methods Towards Predicting Aspects of Protein Structure and Interactions.
      Mona Singh*, Princeton University
      (997-92-178)
  • Sunday April 18, 2004, 8:30 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
    Special Session on Geometry of Protein Modelling, III

    Room 102, Science and Technology Center
    Organizers:
    Ileana Streinu, Smith College streinu@cs.smith.edu
    Jack Snoeyink, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill snoeyink@cs.unc.edu

    • 8:30 a.m.
      Reconstructing evasive protein states using NMR and molecular modeling: the Focal Adhesion Kinase story.
      Nikolay V Dokholyan*, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Richard Dixon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Yiwen Chen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Feng Ding, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Sagar D Khare, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Kirk Prutzman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Michelle King, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Michael D Schaller, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      Sharon Campbell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
      (997-92-115)
    • 9:00 a.m.
      Bayesian Restraint Potentials for Consistent Inference of Biomolecular Structure from NMR Data.
      Jeffrey C. Hoch*, University of Connecticut Health Center
      Alan S. Stern, Rowland Institute at Harvard
      (997-92-74)
    • 9:30 a.m.
      Protein Geometry and its Role in Structural Molecular Biology and Proteomics.
      Bruce R. Donald*, Dartmouth College
      (997-51-112)
    • 10:00 a.m.
      Some Geometric Problems in NMR Structural Biology: Using Residual Dipolar Couplings to Identify Protein-Protein Interfaces and for Resonance Assignments.
      Ramgopal R. Mettu*, Dartmouth College
      (997-51-135)
    • 10:30 a.m.
      An Atomistic Model of Emergent Protein Homochirality.
      Vikas Nanda*, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
      William F DeGrado, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
      (997-92-201)
  • Sunday April 18, 2004, 2:30 p.m.-4:50 p.m.
    Special Session on Geometry of Protein Modelling, IV

    Room 102, Science and Technology Center
    Organizers:
    Ileana Streinu, Smith College streinu@cs.smith.edu
    Jack Snoeyink, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill snoeyink@cs.unc.edu

    • 2:30 p.m.
      Computational Proteomics.
      Mark Gerstein*, Yale University
      (997-92-230)
    • 3:00 p.m.
      Protein Evolution within a Structural Space.
      Eric J Deeds*, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
      Nikolay V Dokholyan, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of North Carolina School of Medicine
      Eugene I Shakhnocich, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Harvard University
      (997-92-224)
    • 3:30 p.m.
      Using Motion Planning to Approximate Protein Folding Landscapes.
      Nancy M. Amato*, Texas A&M University
      (997-92-208)
    • 4:00 p.m.
      Global Search in High-dimensional Conformation Spaces.
      Oliver Brock*, Univeristy of Massachusetts Amherst
      TJ Brunette, University of Massachusettes Amherst
      (997-92-190)
    • 4:30 p.m.
      Atomic Details of DNA Polymerase $\beta$ Conformational Transition Pathway Revealed by Novel Simulation Methods.
      Karunesh Arora*, New York University
      Tamar Schlick, Department of Chemistry and Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
      (997-92-134)
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