RSVP's due to Cecilia Jones by Friday, October 19, 2012

Invited Speakers:

P. Shing Ho, PhD
Professor & Chair of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Colorado State University

George Rose, PhD
Krieger-Eisenhower Professor
Jenkins Department. Biophysics
Johns Hopkins University
“Ken van Holde, Organic Osmolytes, and Protein Folding”

Sanford Leuba, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Cell Biology & Physiology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
“Chromatin, Nucleosomes and Molecular Motors, One-at-a-time”

Raquel Lieberman, PhD
Assistant Professor
Deptartment of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Structural and Biophysical Insights into the Glaucoma-associated Olfactomedin Domain of Myocilin”

Cynthia McMurray, PhD
Senior Scientist
Genome Dynamics
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
“Genetics and Pathophysiology of Huntington's Disease: A Two-state Mechanism”

Barbara Shaw, PhD
William T. Miller Professor of Chemistry
Duke University
“Seminal Discoveries from Ken's lab on Nucleosomes and Their Relevance Today”

Nicholas Hud, PhD
Professor, Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology
“Biophysical Atudies of Nucleic Acid Assembly in Natural and Unnatural Systems”

Jeffrey Hansen, PhD
Professor Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Colorado State University
 “Analytical Ultracentrifugation of Defined Chromatin Model Systems”

Adegboyega Oyelere, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Georgia Institute of Technology,
“Zinc Metalloproteins, Epigenetic Histone Acetylation and mRNA Splicing - Lesson from Small Molecule Probes”

Patrick Varga-Weisz, PhD
Nuclear Dynamics ISP
Babrahim Institute
“Peter Pan, Boys and Girls: Lessons from Chromatin Remodeling”


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