23rd ANNUAL RETREAT
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS PROGRAM
Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Wadsworth Mansion – Long Hill Estate
421 Wadsworth Street, Middletown, CT 06457
9:00 am Breakfast and Poster setup
10:00 am Introductory remarks
10:10 am Dr. Jennifer Mitchel
Assistant Professor, Biology, Wesleyan University
11:00 am Dr. Colin Smith
Assistant Professor, Chemistry, Wesleyan University
Characterizing aberrant energy landscapes in computationally designed and naturally occurring proteins
11:50 am Poster session
12:30 pm Lunch
1:20 pm Dr. Rachel Leicher '15
Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research - NIBR
Single-stranded nucleic acid binding and coacervation by linker histone H1
2:10 pm Poster session
3:15 pm Dr. Rich Olson
Associate Professor, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Wesleyan University
4:15 pm 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
5:30 pm Reception
Sponsors: Molecular Biophysics Training Program, Biology Department, Chemistry Department, MB&B Department, and Physics Department
Students are encourage to attend! We are also hosting a more informal gathering with Dr. Clemoms at The Resource Center Thursday morning, September 15, 2022, 10:00-11:00am.