22nd ANNUAL RETREAT
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS PROGRAM
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Wadsworth Mansion – Long Hill Estate
421 Wadsworth Street, Middletown, CT 06457
9:00 am Breakfast and Poster setup
10:00 am Introductory remarks
Janice Naegele, Dean of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
10:10 am Dr. Bethany Kormos
Associate Research Fellow, Computational Chemistry, Pfizer
Driving Drug Design Using Computational Chemistry
11:00 am Poster session
11:40 am Dr. Benjamin Elling
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Wesleyan University
Reassessing the Role of Mechanism in Covalent Adaptable Networks
12:30 pm Lunch
1:20 pm Dr. Joseph Coolon,
Assistant Professor, Biology, Wesleyan University
Information flow through regulatory networks: using transcription factor titration
to understand the rules of regulator-target relationships
2:10 pm Poster session
3:15 pm Teresita Padilla-Benavides
Assistant Professor,Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University
Differential roles of the SWI/SNF complex in the growth and differentiation
of cultured myoblasts
4:00 pm Keynote Speaker – Dr. Ann McDermott
Esther Breslow Professor of Biological Chemistry, Columbia University
Signaling in Ion channels and other systems—Insights from NMR
5:30 pm Reception
Sponsors: Molecular Biophysics Training Program, Biology Department, Chemistry Department, MB&B Department, and Physics Department
Please contact adane@wesleyan.edu with any questions.
