“Force-responsive Materials Utilizing Cryptic Crosslinking Sites“Adrian Lorenzana (Peyton Lab) “Establishing Adhesive Responses of Uropathogenic E. coli to Gels with Various Stiffnesses“Brandon Barajas (Schiffman Lab) “Metabolic Labeling as a Discovery Tool for Cell Wall Recycling“Rebecca Gordon (Siegrist Lab) “Chemical labeling of Mycobacteria for growth monitoring and detection“Kiserian Jackson (Siegrist Lab) Please see our full dates for…

“Direct Cytosolic Delivery of GFP and the Awesome Power of Nuclear Fluorescence“David Luther (Rotello Lab) “Development of a Multiplex OmpG Biosensor“Josh Foster (M. Chen Lab) “Studying the conformational dynamics of Abl kinase in real time with a nanopore tweezer“Fanjun Li (M. Chen Lab) Please see our full dates for Fall 2020-Spring 2o21 and presenting labs…

“Polyprenol biosynthesis in the maintenance and regulation of mycobacterial membrane domain“Student Speaker -Malavika Prithviraj (Yasu Lab ) “Understanding the selectivity of the UGGTs, key quality control sensors and gatekeepers of the mammalian secretory pathway“Student Speaker – Kevin Guay (Hebert Lab) “The identification and characterization of a putative ER adapter protein TTC17“Student Speaker – Nathan Canniff…

“Investigating E. coli CheA Activation by Chemoreceptors using Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectrometry”Student Speaker – Thomas Tran (Thompson Lab) “DNA-Mediated Assembly of Functional Chemoreceptors: Using Structural DNA Nanotechnology to Advance Biophysical Research” Student Speaker – Tiernan Kenneday (Thompson Lab) “Membrane Protein Structure and Binding Interactions Studied by Mass Spectrometry” Student Speaker – Xiao Pan (Vachet…

“Estimating Subclonal Populations from Structured DNA Sequencing Data“Student Speaker – Shai He (Flaherty Lab) “Antibody – Nanoparticle Conjugates for Targeted Delivery of Chemotherapeutics“Student Speaker – Khushboo Singh (Thayumanavan Lab)

“A Cryptic Site on the  Proteasome-Associated Deubiquitinase UCH37/UCHL5 is Required for Chain Editing and Degradation“Student Speaker – Jiale Du (Strieter Lab) “Real-time Monitoring of Transient Lipid-Lipid Interactions in Live Cell Membranes using a DNA Prob“Student Speaker – Yousef Bagheri Zarringhabae (You Lab) “Multiplex Imaging in Living Cells with Fluorogenic RNAs“Student Speaker – Ru Zheng (You…

“Studying allosteric sites on caspase-6 to aid the development of substrate-specific inhibitors“Student Speaker: Irina Sagarbarria and Andrew J. Smith (Hardy Lab) “Investigating alpha-synuclein aggregation using novel models of strain competition“Student Speaker: Sarah Holec (Woerman Lab)

“Physical Origins of DnaK-substrate binding revealed through Physics-based modeling“Erik Nordquist (J. Chen Lab) Targeting Tau “The spread and aggregation of the protein tau has been linked to a variety of neurodegenerative diseases, known as tauopathies. Mounting evidence suggests that the spread of tau aggregates may underlie disease phenotype, however the mechanism for this toxicity is…

Great talks and discussions with 78 attending this first-ever Zoom Chalk Talk! Andrew Smith (Hardy lab) “Studying protein interactions to identify caspase exosites” Nathan Canniff (Hebert lab) “Characterization of Putative ER Adaptors/Co-Chaperones TTC13 and TTC17” Heather Bisbee (Strieter lab) “The Proteasomal Deubiquitinase UCH37 Promotes Degradation In Cellulo” Katie Wahlbeck (Thompson lab) “Investigation of CheA Protein…

Sarthak Saha (Perry Lab) “Protein Crystallography using X-ray compatible Microfluidic Devices” Mengfei Huang (Schiffman Lab)“High-Performance Coatings Featuring Methylene Malonate Derivatives”

Sujeewa S. Lellupitiyage Don (Farkas Lab) “Tracking and Modulating Circadian Rhythms in Cell Culture Models of Breast Cancer” Hanling Guo (Heuk Lab) “Searching for inhibitors of Type III secretion translocon assembly”

Teal Brechtel (Serio Lab) “Chaperone Titration as a Mechanism of Amyloid Appearance” Aman Sharma (Jerry Lab) Estrogen-mediated R-loop formation associated with DNA damage may indicate individual vulnerability to breast cancer”

Can Özden (Stratton Lab) “CaMKII role in Long-Term Memory” Elvan Cavaç and Kithmie MalagodaPathiranage (Martin Lab) “RNA for Next Generation Everything”

Carey Dougan (Peyton lab) “The Role of Cavitation in Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)” Christine Battle and Tommy Tashjian (Chien lab) “How to Get Away with Murder – Protein Destruction by Energy Dependent Proteases”

Minsoo Kim (Vierling Lab) “Breathing and Communication are Key to Life” Weiyue Xin (Santore Lab) “Biological Membranes in the Materials World: How Curvature and Tension Influence the Assembly of Biomolecules”

Efecan Aral (Garman Lab) “Identifying effects of Fabry disease mutations to enable personalized medicine”

Rigumula Wu (You Lab) “Fluorogenic RNA-based Sensors for Quantitative Imaging in Living Cells” Bin Zhao (You Lab) “Push It, Pull It: Critical Roles of Mechanical forces in biological processes” Wenli Meng (Gierasch Lab) “Hsp 70 as hub of cellular proteostasis network”

Ben Adams (Hebert Lab) “The Interplay of quality control pathways of the endoplasmic reticulum.” Jiale Du (Strieter Lab) “Interrogating the Selectivity of Proteasome Associated Deubiquitinase UCH37.”

Sandor Babik (Streiter Lab) “Interrogating Branched Ubiquitin Chains by NMR Spectroscopy and Computational Methods” Samar Mahmoud (Chien Lab) “Exploring Lon-related pathways using a Non-Essential Phenotypic Suppressor Screen” Javier Mas (Farkas Lab) “Understanding Macrophage Polarization and Re-Education in the Context of Cancer” Weiyue Xin (Santore Lab) “The impact of curvature and solid mechanics on domain patterns…