Twelfth GRASP 2019 Great Plains Regional Annual Symposium on
Protein and Biomolecular NMR
University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS - November 22-23, 2019
Friday, November 22, 2019
All lectures will be held in Lecture Auditorium 1020, KU School of Pharmacy Building.
Posters may be posted beginning at 8:00 a.m. today in the KU School of Pharmacy 2nd Floor Atrium.
| 1:00 – 1:30 | Registration | 2nd Floor Atrium |
| 1:30 – 1:35 | Opening remarks Moriah Beck | Lecture Auditorium 1020 |
| Session 1 Chair: Gabriel Cook | ||
| 1:35 – 2:20 | "Molecular Mechanisms of Prion and Amyloid Propagation Explored by Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy" Christopher P. Jaroniec, Professor and Evans Scholar, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Ohio State University |
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| 2:30 – 3:00 | "Solid-state NMR studies of Kir channel-lipid interactions and the fibrillation of functional amyloids in the epididymis" Benjamin J. Wylie, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Texas Tech University |
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| 3:10 – 3:25 | "A domain of Adenomatous polyposis coli retained by colon tumors is extended yet non-random, and can bind three β-catenin molecules" Aaron J. Rudeen, Graduate Student, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas |
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| 3:30 – 3:45 | "19F-NMR studies of the anthrax protective antigen prepore and pore using site-specific labeling and uniform labeling" James Bann, Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry. Wichita State University |
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| 3:50 – 4:05 | Break | 1st Floor Lobby |
| Session 2 Chair: Moriah Beck | ||
| 4:05–4:35 | "Conformational Disorder in Regulation of Enzymatic Catalysis" Vincenzo Venditti, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University, Ames, IA |
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| 4:45–5:00 | "Congenital Disorders Of Glycosylation: Mechanism Of Oligosaccharyltransfearse Function" Smita Mohanty, Professor, Department of Chemistry, Oklahoma State University |
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| 5:05-5:20 | "Identification of allosteric inhibitors of Enzyme I by NMR-based fragment screening" Trang Nguyen, Graduate Student, Department of Chemistry, Iowa State University |
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| 5:25–5:40 | "A Combined NMR and MS Metabolomics Approach to Study Neurodegenerative Diseases" Robert Powers, Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
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| 5:45 – 8:00 | Dinner and poster session | 2nd Floor Atrium |
| 5:45 – 7:00 | Dinner | |
| 7:00 – 7:30 | Poster session 1 (Odd numbered posters) | |
| 7:30 – 8:00 | Poster session 2 (Even numbered posters) | |
Saturday, November 23, 2019
All lectures will be held in Lecture Auditorium 1020, KU School of Pharmacy Building.
| 7:30 – 8:30 | Coffee and light breakfast | Mortar and Pestle Café, 1st Floor |
| Session 3 Chair: Vincenzo Venditti | Lecture Auditorium 1020 | |
| 8:35 – 9:05 | "NMR Benchmarks for Membrane Biophysics: What are arginine and glutamic acid doing in lipid bilayers?" Roger E. Koeppe II, Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arkansas |
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| 9:15 – 9:30 | "eNOEs and DEER-EPR to Elucidate Allostery and Dynamics in Pin1" Alexandra Born, Graduate Student, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Colorado Denver |
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| 9:35 – 9:50 | "EPR reveals the structural dynamics of an unfolded protein in Yersinia pathogenesis" Pallavi Guha Biswas, Graduate student, Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas |
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| 9:55 –10:15 | Break | 1st Floor Lobby |
| Session 4 Chair: Roberto De Guzman | ||
| 10:15 –10:45 | "Elucidating The Molecular Switches That Control Signaling of Immune Kinases" Amy H. Andreotti, Roy J. Carver Chair and University Professor, Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry Biophysics & Molecular Biology, Iowa State University |
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| 10:55 –11:25 | "Alteration of BI/BII Backbone Conformations in DNA by Mismatches and Single Base Lesions" Gary Meints, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, Missouri State University |
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| 11:35 - 12:05 | "Biomolecular Associations by NMR: i. Automatic Quantification and ii. Novel and Switchable Modes of Membrane Binding" Steven R. Van Doren, Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri |
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| 12:15 | Award Ceremony | Lecture Auditorium 2010 |
| 12:30 | Adjournment | |
| 12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch | Mortar and Pestle Café, 1st Floor |
