Molecular Biophysics

25th ANNUAL RETREAT

WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY MOLECULAR BIOPHYSICS PROGRAM

Wednesday, October 16th, 2024

Beckham Hall, Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT 06457

9:30am           Coffee and Poster Setup

10:00am         Introductory Remarks

10:10am         Dr. Grace McKenzie Smith, Wesleyan Department of Physics
                               Quantifying animal behavior with high precision across scales and contexts

11:00am         Dr. Oriana Fisher, Wesleyan Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
                              A Trp to a Cu binding site

11:50am         Poster Session

12:30pm         Lunch

1:20pm           Poster Session

2:00pm           Dr. Adele Bubnys, Arbor Biotechnologies
                              Building brains in a dish to treat neurodegenerative disease

3:00pm           Dr. David Beveridge, Wesleyan Department of Chemistry
                              A Biophysical Research Primer

3:10pm          Dr. Kelly Thayer, Wesleyan College of Integrative Sciences
                              Remote Control: Molecular Dynamics and Machine Learning for Allosteric Drug Design

4:00pm           Break

4:15pm           Dr. Olga Boudker, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine
                            The dynamics and evolution of glutamate transporters from bacteria to humans

5:30pm           Reception