19TH ANNUAL RETREAT
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS PROGRAM
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Wadsworth Mansion – Long Hill Estate
421 Wadsworth Street, Middletown, CT 06457
9:15 am Breakfast and Poster setup
10:00 am Joyce Jacobsen, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Wesleyan University Introductory remarks
10:15 am Carlos Jiménez-Hoyos, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Wesleyan University
Insights into the chemistry of Iron-Sulfur Proteins from Electronic Structure Calculations
11:00 am Jane Withka, PhD ‘91, Pfizer
Pushing the Boundaries of Structural Biology and Biophysics in Pharmaceutical Industry
11:45 am Poster session
12:15 pm LUNCH
1:15 pm Alison L. O’Neil, Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Wesleyan University
Investigating the toxicity of SOD1 aggregates in a stem cell-derived model of ALS
2:15 pm Poster session
3:15 pm Kelly Thayer, PhD ‘04, Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Wesleyan University
Ensemble Networks for Allosteric Design
4:15 pm 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
5:30 pm Reception
Sponsors: Molecular Biophysics Training Program, Chemistry Department, and MB&B Department
Please contact adane@wesleyan.edu with any questions.