Great Plains Regional Annual Symposium on Protein and Biomolecular Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (GRASP NMR)

2020 GRASP NMR Program Schedule

Time		Activity
Session I Chair: Dr. Moriah Beck
2:00 pm	2:30 pm	Dr. Xiao Heng (University of Missouri) "Structural studies of the HIV-1 PBS-segment RNA: insights into virus:host interactions in promoting viral infectivity"
2:30 pm	2:50 pm	Balabhadra Khatiwada (Iowa State University) "Investigating the conformational dynamics in human RNA demethylase FTO"
2:50 pm	3:10 pm	Dr. Thomas Schmidt (National Institutes of Health) "Probing the Maturation of heterodimeric HIV-1 Reverse Transcriptase from its homodimeric precursor by Double Electron‐Electron Resonance EPR Spectroscopy"
3:10 pm	3:20 pm	Break
Session II Chair: Dr. Vincenzo Venditti
3:20 pm	3:50 pm	Dr. Nicholas Reiter (Marquette University) "NMR-based structural biology approaches to understand molecular recognition and conformational dynamics within large protein-nucleic acid systems"
3:50 pm	4:10 pm	Wyel Halimeh (Wichita State University) "Dependence of Proline Isomerization on the Kinetics of Folding of Anthrax Lethal Factor"
4:10 pm	4:30 pm	Thomas Gremminger (University of Missouri) "RNA structure in reverse transcription initiation is important to maintain viral RNA integrity"

Time		Activity
Session III Chair: Dr. Gabriel Cook
10:00 am	10:30 am	Dr. Catherine Eichhorn (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) "Structural basis for Larp7 recognition of the noncoding 7SK RNA: an NMR-guided approach"
10:30 am	10:50 am	Amritangshu Chakravarty (University of Kansas) "Identification and Characterization of the Binding of Novel Small Molecules to Salmonella Tip Protein SipD"
10:50 am	11:10 am	Dr. Tahnee J. Dening (University of Kansas) "Understanding Interactions of a Peptide Drug with Bile Salts under Simulated Gastrointestinal Conditions via NMR Spectroscopy"