Schedule — Preliminary Program
All talks will take place in the Mellon Institute Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, PA
Thursday, March 26, 2009
1:00-1:15 Opening Remarks: Richard McCullough, VP of Research, Carnegie Mellon University
1:15-2:30 Historic Section
Historic Section Discussion Panel Participants:
- Josef Dadok
- John Delayre
- Chien Ho
- Tony Keller
- John Markley
- Alfred G. Redfield
- Brian Sykes
- John S. Waugh
- Dieter Ziessow
2:30-3:00 Question from the audience
3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-4:30 Video Presentations from Martin Packard and Alexander Pines
Scientific Talks – Chair: Roberto R. Gil
4:30-4:50 James Prestegard, RDCs: Structures of Larger and More Complex Systems
4:50-5:10 Peter van Zijl, Using protein and peptide signals in vivo to study stroke and cancer
5:10-5:30 Alfred G. Redfield, A Phosphatidylinositol-specific Phospolipase-C has a Defined PC Activator Site Spatially Distinct from its Active Site: a Field Cycling High Resolution Study
(with Mingming Pu and Mary F. Roberts, Boston College)
5:30-6:30 Reception, Mellon Institute
7:00-9:00 Dinner Banquet
Dinner will be held at the Pittsburgh Athletic Association, conveniently located next to the Holiday Inn and just down the street from the Mellon Institute. Attire for the dinner is business casual. Price of dinner is $50.
Friday, March 27, 2009
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
Scientific Talks – Chair: Miguel Llinás
9:00-9:25 Ad Bax, A Little Alignment Goes a Long Way in Proteins
9:25-9:50 Christian Griesinger, Alignment Derived Structure and Dynamics of Small and Larger Molecules
9:50-10:15 John Markley, The role of NMR in structural genomics
10:15-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-11:10 Angela Gronenborn, How to find a needle in a haystack … and other uses of Residual Dipolar Couplings
11:10-11:35 Nico Tjandra, Determining Chemical Shift Anisotropy in Solution
11:35-12:00 Brian Sykes, Role of Dynamics in the Regulation of Biological Processes
12:00-12:25 Denis Markiewicz, NMR Magnet Technology from 600 MHz to 1.2 GHz and Beyond: The Influence of Aksel A. Bothner-By and Josef Dadok
Closing Remarks
12:30-12:45
Lunch
12:45-1:45
Mellon Institute Social Room, 3rd Floor, next to the Bellefield Ave. entrance guard desk.
A boxed lunch will be provided for those who attended the Symposium.