Genome Integrity & Structural Biology Laboratory
When & Where
March 22nd – 23rd, 2017
EPA, Conference Room C111
RTP, North Carolina
Agenda
Wednesday, March 22
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. | Arrival and Poster set-up |
| 9:00 - 9:15 a.m. | Opening Remarks – Bill Copeland, Laboratory Chief |
| 9:15 - 10:15 a.m. | Invited Speaker Dr. Carl Bortner, NIEHS "Technical Advances in Flow Cytometry and the Reprogramming of Cell Death" |
| 10:15 - 10:45 a.m. | Coffee Break (coffee and treats next to the welcome table outside C111) |
| Session 1 ‐ Tom Stanley, Session Chair | |
| 10:45 - 11:00 a.m. | Monica Pillon, Stanley Lab, "Grc3 Programs the Essential Endoribonuclease Las1 for Specific RNA Cleavage" |
| 11:00 - 11:15 a.m. | Jungki Min, Pedersen Lab, "Structural Analysis of Glucocorticoid Receptor β Ligand Binding Domain Complexed with Glucocorticoid Antagonist RU-486: Implication of Helix 12 in Antagonism" |
| 11:15 - 11:45 a.m. | David Shock, Wilson Lab, "Modulating the DNA Polymerase Chemical Equilibrium Through Chemical Biology" |
| 11:45 - 1:15 p.m. | Lunch (Join the speakers in the EPA Lakeside cafe) |
| Session 2 ‐ Jungki Min and Katie Glenn, Session Chairs | |
| 1:15 - 2:00 p.m. | Poster Flash |
| 2:00 - 2:15 p.m. | Explain Photo and Cookie Contest |
| 2:15 - 2:30 p.m. | Retreat Photo |
| 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. | Poster Session and Cookie Contest (coffee and tea by the welcome table) 2:30 – 3:15 p.m. Odd numbered posters 3:15 – 4:00 p.m. Even numbered posters |
| 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. | Invited Speaker Dr. Stephen Bell, Indiana University "Life in boiling acid" |
Thursday, March 23
| Time | Event |
|---|---|
| 8:30 - 9:00 a.m. | Arrival |
| 9:00 - 10:00 a.m. | Invited Speaker Dr. Edward Egelman, University of Virginia "The Current Revolution in Cryo-EM Yields New Insights into the Evolutionary Divergence of Helical Polymers" |
| 10:00 – 10:15 a.m. | Coffee Break (next to the welcome table outside C111) |
| Session 3 ‐ Monica Pillon, Session Chair | |
| 10:15 – 10:30 a.m. | Mike Howard, Wilson Lab, "DNA Polymerase β uses its lyase domain in a processive search for DNA damage" |
| 10:30 - 10:45 a.m. | Natalie Saini, Gordenin Lab, "Preferred targeting of non-transcribed strand of yeast tRNA genes by APOBEC3B cytidine deaminase is counteracted by increased repair efficiency" |
| 10:45 - 11:15 a.m. | Janine Santos, Woychik Lab, "Mitochondrial Regulation of the Epigenome and Transcriptome" |
| 11:15 - 1:15 a.m. | Lunch |
| Session 4 – Katie Glenn, Session Chair | |
| 1:15 - 1:45 p.m. | GISBL Administrative Staff: Gezell Jones and Tim Hinton |
| 1:45 - 2:00 p.m. | Oswaldo Lozoya, Woychik Lab, "Studying the role of mitochondrial function in epigenetic remodeling of the nuclear transcriptome" |
| 2:00 - 2:15 p.m. | Marta Garbacz, Kunkel Lab, "In vivo consequences of DNA polymerase epsilon deficiency in Saccharomyces cerevisiae" |
| 2:15 - 3:15 p.m. | Invited Speaker Dr. Hong Wang, North Carolina State University "Our journey on the DNA information highway with Twin proteins: New insight into genome instability from single-molecule studies" |
| 3:15 - 3:30 p.m. | Coffee Break (next to the welcome table outside C111) |
| 3:30 - 4:45 p.m. | Alumni Session, Moderator: Thuy-Ai Nguyen Dr. Raj Gosavi (KBI Biopharma), Dr. Misty Thomas (NC A&T State University), Dr. Bret Wallace (Symberix Inc), Dr. Kelly Daughtry Broccio (BioResource International Inc.) |
| 4:45 - 5:00 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
| 5:30 - ? | Social at The Hickory Tavern (1156 Parkside Main St, Cary, NC 27519) |