Workshop Day 1: Structural and Biophysical Methods in Biomolecular Research

X-Ray Crystallography, Scattering and Biomolecular Interactions Core Facilities

Day One Schedule

Zoom:

9:00 a.m. - Keynote: High Resolution Snapshots of Metalloenzyme Catalysis Using Crystallography and Cryo-EM; Olga Esakova, staff scientist, Sethera Therapeutics, Salt Lake City, UT

9:45 a.m. - The physical basis of bitter taste: Biophysical approaches to studying bitterant-protein interactions; Yashmita Grover, grad student, Coupland & Hayes Labs, Dept. of Food Science

10:00 a.m. - Structural basis for enhanced rare earth element selectivity in Lanmodulin; Wonseok Choi, grad student. Cotruvo Lab, Dept. of Chemistry

10:15 a.m. - The principles and applications of Lumics C-Trap optical tweezers with florescence confocal microscopy; Tae-Hee Lee, professor, Scientific director C-Trap, Dept. of Chemistry

8 Althouse Lab:

1:30 p.m. - Introduction to data collection with the C-trap; Tae-Hee Lee, professor, Scientific director C-Trap, Dept. of Chemistry