Save the date! We are sponsoring the 19th annual Texas Protein Folders Meeting next year and we couldn’t be more excited about it.

Registration deadline March 18th 2011

Keynote Speakers:

Joshua Wand, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

The Wand lab probes the relationships between protein structure, dynamics, and function, often relying on novel NMR methods developed in house, such as high pressure NMR, sparse sampling methods, NMR relaxation methods, and developing approaches to investigate large soluble proteins, unstable proteins, and membrane proteins by liquid NMR methods.

Vijay Pande, Stanford University,

The Pande lab uses physical simulation and Bayesian statistics / machine learning techniques to investigate protein folding at long time scales with the goal of predicting all possible experimental observables. In related projects, the Pande lab uses computational tools to probe the structure and stability of misfolded protein aggregates and small molecule binding / drug efficacy.

The meeting is chaired this year by Dr. Sarah Bondos from Texas A&M University.

If you are in the world of proteins and live in Texas, it is certainly the meeting for you.

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We attended the UNC Postdoc Research Symposium done by Microbiology and Immunology this week. It lasted all day and featured a lot of wonderful speakers. David, our lab manager at the Triangle site, went there to deliver the $100 amazon giftcard for the best presentation.

This is Qian Xu of the Cotter lab

A total of sixteen presentations were broken up into three sessions by lunch and an afternoon coffee and cookie break, both provided by Fisher Scientific. The topics discussed came from all four areas of research in the Department of Microbiology and Immunolgy: immunology, microbial pathogenesis, virology, and molecular/structural/computational biology. Event MC Joshua Hall gave an unofficial award for best title of a presentation to Eton customer Dilan Weerakoon (of the Braunstein Lab) for his “Identification of in vivo exported proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.”

This is Dilan from the Braunstein lab.

At the end of the event a panel of judges picked the two best presentations, with no distinction given for first or second place. VWR sponsored an iPod Nano given as a prize to Jainab Khatun of the Giddings Lab for her “Identifying Protein-Coding DNA Sequences of Human Genome by Proteo-Genomic Mapping”. Eton’s own prize of a $100 Amazon gift certificate went to Chelsea Lane of the Miller Lab for her “Contribution of the YapG Autotransporter to Plague Pathogenesis”.

We would like to thank Eric Weening of the organizing committee for contacting us with the opportunity to help out with this event. It was a pleasure to see some of the end results of our DNA sequencing and we hope to be of more help to the Microbiology and Immunology Postdoc Association in the future.

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