Annual Retreat

Current and Past Biophysics Retreats
	25th Annual Biophysics Retreat Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Olga Boudker Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Weill Cornell Medicine Physiology & Biophysics The dynamics and evolution of glutamate transporters from bacteria to humans SCHEDULE \| SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES \| PHOTOS
	24th Annual Biophysics Retreat Wednesday, October 11th, 2023 Dr. Sua Myong Boston Children’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School Built-in pop-up switches that modulate gene expression and Dr. Kylie Walters Center for Structural Biology of the National Cancer Institute Mechanisms of protein degradation: from structures to PROTACs SCHEDULE \| SPEAKER BIOS \| PHOTOS
	23rd Annual Biophysics Retreat Wednesday, September 14, 2022 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Bil Clemons Professor of Biochemistry, California Institute of Technology A mechanistic look at tail-anchored membrane protein targeting - the catalytic cycle of the targeting factor Get3 SCHEDULE \| PRESS
	22nd Annual Biophysics Retreat Wednesday, October 13, 2021 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Ann McDermott Esther Breslow Professor of Biological Chemistry, Columbia University *Signaling in Ion channels and other systems—Insights from NMR* SCHEDULE
	21st Annual Biophysics Retreat Virtual Monday, September 28, 2020 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Thomas R. Broker, '66 Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine HPV-Host Cell Interactions and Anti-Viral Drug Discovery in 3D-Tissue Systems SCHEDULE \| PRESS \| RECORDING OF PUBLIC ADDRESS
	20th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 26, 2019 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Lila Gierasch Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst Hsp70s: Allosteric machines that perform a multitude of cellular functions SCHEDULE \| PRESS
	19th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 27, 2018 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Angel E. Garcia Director of the Center for NonLinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory *Uncovering the dynamics of a Molecular Switch: Atomistic Simulations of the interaction of KRas with membranes* SCHEDULE \| PRESS
	18th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 28, 2017 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Arthur G. Palmer, III Vice Chair, Columbia University Medical Center Conformational dynamics in molecular recognition and catalysis: Lessons from ribonuclease H, AlkB, and GCN4 SCHEDULE \| PRESS
	17th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 29, 2016 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Anna Marie Pyle Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, Departments of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry, Yale University *Structural and mechanistic insights into RNA splicing* SCHEDULE \| PRESS
	16th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, October 22, 2015 Keynote Speaker – Dr. John Kuriyan Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, Departments of Molecular & Cell Biology and Chemistry University of California, Berkeley *Structural Mechanisms in Protein Kinase Regulation* SCHEDULE \| PRESS
	15th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 18, 2014 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Jay Levy, '60 Professor of Medicine and Research Associate, Cancer Research Institute at the University of California, School of Medicine at San Francisco (UCSF) *HIV Discovery to Research Achievements and Future Challenges* SCHEDULE \| PRESS
	14th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 25, 2013 Keynote Speaker – Dr. James Williamson Professor, Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif Dynamics of Ribosome Assembly in Cells PRESS
	13th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 27, 2012 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Bertrand García-Moreno Professor and Chair, Department of Biophysics, John Hopkins University Molecular Determinants of Electrostatic Effects in Proteins SCHEDULE
	12th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 22, 2011 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Vern Schramm Professor and Ruth Merns Chair in Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University Drug Design from Transition State Analysis
	11th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 23, 2010 *Computational Biology: Linking Theory and Practice (Honoring Prof. David Beveridge)* Dr. William L. Jorgensen, Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University Dr. Richard Lavery, Director, Institute of Molecular Biostructures, Lyon, France Dr. Steve Harvey, Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology at Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Anne M. Baranger, Associate Head and Associate Professor of the Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Max Diem, Professor, Northeastern University
	10th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 24, 2009 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Wilma Olson Mary I. Bunting Professor of Chemistry, Rutgers University DNA Mechanics and Regulation
	9th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 18, 2008 Keynote Speaker –Dr. Taekjip Ha Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Shedding Light on Helicase Mechanisms One Molecule at a Time

2007- Dr. Stephen J. Benkovic, Evan Pugh Professor and Eberly Chair in Chemistry at Penn State Univeristy

2006- Dr. Jacqueline K. Barton, Arthur and Marian Hanisch Memorial Professor of Chemistry at California Institute of Technology

2005- Dr. Brian T. Chait, Camille and Henry Dreyfus Professor at The Rockefeller University, New York, NY, and the Director of the National NIH Resource for Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Biological Macromolecules

2004- Dr. Joshua Boger, Chairman and CEO of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.

2003- Dr. David Lilley, University of Dundee

2002- Dr. Helen Berman, Distinguished Professor, Board of Governors Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University

2001- Dr. Linda Jen-Jacobson, University of Pittsburgh

	25th Annual Biophysics Retreat Wednesday, October 16th, 2024 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Olga Boudker Professor of Physiology and Biophysics and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Weill Cornell Medicine Physiology & Biophysics The dynamics and evolution of glutamate transporters from bacteria to humans SCHEDULE \| SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES \| PHOTOS
	24th Annual Biophysics Retreat Wednesday, October 11th, 2023 Dr. Sua Myong Boston Children’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School Built-in pop-up switches that modulate gene expression and Dr. Kylie Walters Center for Structural Biology of the National Cancer Institute Mechanisms of protein degradation: from structures to PROTACs SCHEDULE \| SPEAKER BIOS \| PHOTOS
	23rd Annual Biophysics Retreat Wednesday, September 14, 2022 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Bil Clemons Professor of Biochemistry, California Institute of Technology A mechanistic look at tail-anchored membrane protein targeting - the catalytic cycle of the targeting factor Get3 SCHEDULE \| PRESS
	22nd Annual Biophysics Retreat Wednesday, October 13, 2021 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Ann McDermott Esther Breslow Professor of Biological Chemistry, Columbia University *Signaling in Ion channels and other systems—Insights from NMR* SCHEDULE
	21st Annual Biophysics Retreat Virtual Monday, September 28, 2020 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Thomas R. Broker, '66 Emeritus Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine HPV-Host Cell Interactions and Anti-Viral Drug Discovery in 3D-Tissue Systems SCHEDULE \| PRESS \| RECORDING OF PUBLIC ADDRESS
	20th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 26, 2019 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Lila Gierasch Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology and Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Amherst Hsp70s: Allosteric machines that perform a multitude of cellular functions SCHEDULE \| PRESS
	19th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 27, 2018 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Angel E. Garcia Director of the Center for NonLinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory *Uncovering the dynamics of a Molecular Switch: Atomistic Simulations of the interaction of KRas with membranes* SCHEDULE \| PRESS
	18th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 28, 2017 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Arthur G. Palmer, III Vice Chair, Columbia University Medical Center Conformational dynamics in molecular recognition and catalysis: Lessons from ribonuclease H, AlkB, and GCN4 SCHEDULE \| PRESS
	17th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 29, 2016 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Anna Marie Pyle Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, Departments of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry, Yale University *Structural and mechanistic insights into RNA splicing* SCHEDULE \| PRESS
	16th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, October 22, 2015 Keynote Speaker – Dr. John Kuriyan Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, Departments of Molecular & Cell Biology and Chemistry University of California, Berkeley *Structural Mechanisms in Protein Kinase Regulation* SCHEDULE \| PRESS
	15th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 18, 2014 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Jay Levy, '60 Professor of Medicine and Research Associate, Cancer Research Institute at the University of California, School of Medicine at San Francisco (UCSF) *HIV Discovery to Research Achievements and Future Challenges* SCHEDULE \| PRESS
	14th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 25, 2013 Keynote Speaker – Dr. James Williamson Professor, Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif Dynamics of Ribosome Assembly in Cells PRESS
	13th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 27, 2012 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Bertrand García-Moreno Professor and Chair, Department of Biophysics, John Hopkins University Molecular Determinants of Electrostatic Effects in Proteins SCHEDULE
	12th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 22, 2011 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Vern Schramm Professor and Ruth Merns Chair in Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University Drug Design from Transition State Analysis
	11th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 23, 2010 *Computational Biology: Linking Theory and Practice (Honoring Prof. David Beveridge)* Dr. William L. Jorgensen, Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University Dr. Richard Lavery, Director, Institute of Molecular Biostructures, Lyon, France Dr. Steve Harvey, Professor and Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar in Structural Biology at Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Anne M. Baranger, Associate Head and Associate Professor of the Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Dr. Max Diem, Professor, Northeastern University
	10th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 24, 2009 Keynote Speaker – Dr. Wilma Olson Mary I. Bunting Professor of Chemistry, Rutgers University DNA Mechanics and Regulation
	9th Annual Biophysics Retreat Thursday, September 18, 2008 Keynote Speaker –Dr. Taekjip Ha Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Shedding Light on Helicase Mechanisms One Molecule at a Time

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