Telluride Science Research Center

Workshop on Protein Dynamics

August 1-5, 2005

Program of the Workshop (click here for a PDF version)
(click on titles for abstracts; for a complete set of abstracts, click here)

Monday, August 1, morning
8:15 am-8:30 am	Doug Tobias	Welcome and opening remarks
8:30 am-9:20 am	Paul Champion	Experimental studies of structure, function, and coherent oscillations in biomolecules
9:20 am-10:10 am	Tim Sage	Vibrational dynamics of iron in biological molecules
10:10 am-11:00 am	John Straub	Vibrational energy relaxation in proteins
11:00 am-11:15 am	Break
11:15 am-12:05 pm	Ralph Jimenez	Resonant four wave mixing femtosecond spectroscopy as a probe of protein dynamics
12:05 pm-12:55 pm	Dongping Zhong	Ultrafast protein dynamics with biological mutation

Monday, August 1, evening
7:30 pm-8:20 pm	Yasuhisa Mizutani	Protein dynamics of hemoglobin and myoglobin: time-resolved resonance Raman study
8:20 pm-9:10 pm	Phil Anfinrud	Unveiling functional protein motions with picosecond x-ray crystallography and molecular dynamics simulations
9:10 pm-10:00 pm	Markus Meuwly	The effect of dynamics on protein-ligand interactions

Tuesday, August 2, morning
8:30 am-9:20 am	Charlie Brooks	The role of environment on conformational transitions in peptides and proteins
9:20 am-10:10 am	Jessica Swanson	Insights into protein-protein and protein-ligand association from end-point free energy calculations
10:10 am-11:00 am	Paolo Carloni	Enzymatic dynamics and function investigated by molecular simulation
11:00 am-11:15 am	Break
11:15 am-12:05 pm	Janos Lanyi	Mechanism of proton transport from crystallographic structures of the nine states of the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle
12:05 pm-12:55 pm	Dwayne Miller	Coherent control of retinal isomerization in bacteriorhodopsin

Tuesday, August 2, evening
Pinhead Town Talk Extravaganza! Conference Center in Mountain Village 7:30 pm
John Straub	A lively tour of the periodic table
Carl Lineberger	Lasers: the light fantastic

Wednesday, August 3, morning
8:30 am-9:20 am	Burkhard Bechinger	Investigations of polypeptide topology and rotational diffusion in aligned membranes by ^2H and ^15N solid-state NMR spectroscopy
9:20 am-10:10 am	Gianluigi Veglia	Toward the elucidation of structure and dynamics of membrane protein complexes by NMR
10:10 am-11:00 am	Ichio Shimada	NMR strategy for membrane proteins-ligands interactions
11:00 am-11:15 am	Break
11:15 am-12:05 pm	Steve White	How membranes shape protein structure, and vice versa
12:05 pm-12:55 pm	Alfredo Freites	Two stories of membrane protein stability and dynamics: the S4 voltage-sensor and the SecY translocation channel

Wednesday, August 3, evening
7:30 pm-8:20 pm	Art Palmer	Protein motions in catalysis, binding, and folding
8:20 pm-9:10 pm	Martin Stone	From NMR measurements of protein dynamics to thermodynamics: recent advances and future challenges
9:10 pm-10:00 pm	Masatsune Kainosho	Optimal isotope labeling for protein structure determination by NMR: the SAIL method

Thursday, August 4, morning
8:30 am-9:20 am	Kevin Plaxco	Unraveling the unfolded state
9:20 am-10:10 am	Joan-Emma Shea	Oligomerization of the (25-35) fragment of the Alzheimer Ab peptide
10:10 am-10:25 am	Break
10:25 am-11:15 am	Nobuhiro Go	Consistency for folding and inconsistency for function: switch mechanism of bacterial flagellar supercoiling as an example
11:15 am-12:05 pm	Andrea Markelz	Terahertz dielectric sensitivity to protein dynamics

Thursday, August 4, evening
6:00 pm	BBQ! on lawn near river adjacent to Mountainside Inn

Friday, August 5, morning
8:30 am-9:20 am	Paul Fenimore	Protein energy landscapes, solvent a-slaving and hydration b-coupling
9:20 am-10:10 am	Robert Young	Solvent, hydration, and protein - interactions and motions
	Break
10:25 am-11:15 am	Martin Weik	The relation between protein and solvent dynamics as studied by neutron scattering and temperature-controlled x-ray crystallography
11:15 am-	Doug Tobias	Closing remarks, including some research results

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