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Workshop IV: Molecular Machines

May 24 - 28, 2004

IPAM Building
Room 1200

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Monday, May 24, 2004

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:20 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:20 - 9:30 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30 - 10:30

David Bensimon (Ecole Normale Supérieure, France)

"DNA/protein interactions at the single molecule level"

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Sunney Xie (Harvard University)

"Single Molecule Enzymology: From In vitro to In vivo Studies"

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Yi-der Chen (National Institute of Health)

"Chemical-Mechano Free-Energy Transduction: From Muscles to Protein Motors and Brownian Ratchets"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 4:00

Michelle Wang (Cornell University)

"Sequence-Dependent Kinetic Model for Transcription Elongation by RNA Polymerase"

4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30

Saveez Saffarian (Washington University/School of Medicine)

"Interstitial Collagenase is an ATP-independent Molecular Motor Driven by Proteolysis of Collagen"

5:30 - 7:00 Wine Reception (Hosted by IPAM)
7:00 - 8:00

George Oster (University of California, Berkeley) - Keynote Speaker

"Rotary Protein Motors"


Tuesday, May 25, 2004

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

Tom Chou (UCLA)

"Clustered bottlenecks in mRNA translation and protein synthesis"
Presentation (PDF File)

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Jacques Prost (Institut Curie, France)

 

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Edward Pate (Washington State University)

"Conformational Changes at the Nucleotide-Binding Site of Kinesin-Family Motors"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 4:00

Qiang Cui (University of Wisconsin)

"Preliminary insights into mechanochemical couplings in myosin with molecular simulations "
Presentation (PDF File)

4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30

Brian Walton (Washington State University)

"Hidden Markov model analysis of motor protein data"
Presentation (PDF File)


Wednesday, May 26, 2004

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

Matthias Rief (University of Munich)

"Single Molecule Mechanics of Proteins – Forces and Energy Landscapes"

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Frank Julicher (Max Planck Institute)

"Cellular oscillations powered by motor proteins"

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Ron Fox (Georgia Institute of Technology)

"Rectified Brownian Motion in Subcellular Biology"

3:00 - 4:00

Dean Astumian (Maine)

"Physics of Brownian Motors and Pumps: Swimming in Molasses and Walking in a Hurricane "
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30

Giovanni Cappello (Institut Curie, France)

"Kinesin step without external force takes less than 70 microseconds"


Thursday, May 27, 2004

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

Anatoly Kolomeisky (Rice University)

"Understanding Mechanochemical Coupling in Kinesins Using First-Passage Times"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Christian Maes (University of Leuven)

"Recent results in nonequilibrium statistical mechanics"
Presentation (PDF File)

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Scot Kuo (Johns Hopkins University)

"Actin-based motility of Listeria monocytogenes"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 4:00

Reinhard Lipowsky (Max Planck Institute)

"Stochastic Movements of Molecular Motors"
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

4:00 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30

Meredith Betterton (University of Colorado)

"Interaction of motor proteins with obstacles: Helicase unwinding of DNA"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)
Additional Presentation Files (Zip Archive)


Friday, May 28, 2004

Morning Session

8:30 - 9:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30

Josh Baker (University of Vermont)

"Talking heads: Myosin motors and the mechanical signals they send and receive "

10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00

Michael Sheetz (Columbia University)

"Modeling of Cell Spreading Through Phases and Cytoskeletal Transport of Signals"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Jerome Percus (New York University)

"A Format for Molecular Motor Analysis"
Presentation (PDF File)

2:30 - 3:30

Ronald Rock (University of Chicago)

"The Large Step Size of Myosin VI Requires Flexibility in the Proximal Tail Region"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:30 Conclusion
3:30

David Colquhoun (University College London)cancelled at the last moment, and has provided these slides of his talk

"Single ion channels: theory and practice of the analysis of a single molecule"
Presentation (PDF File)

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