Frontiers in Polymer and Biomolecular Chemistry
Dates: March 2-4, 2015
Location: Tel Aviv University Campus,
Melamed Hall, Shenker building,
Raymod and Beverly Faculty of Exact Sciences
Organizers: Tamar Schlick: schlick@nyu.edu (054-996-7471)
Gil Markovich: gilmar@post.tau.ac.il (050-849-0225)
Program
~~~~~~ Monday, March 2 ~~~~~~
9:30 - 10:00 Gathering and Refreshments
10:00 - 10:15 Welcome: Yoav Henis, TAU Vice President for Research & Development, and Ra'anan Rein, TAU Vice President
Special Guest Lecture
10:20 -10:45 Charles Cantor, Retrotope. Site Specifically Deuterated Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids: A New Approach to Treat Diseases Caused or Exacerbated by Oxidative Stress
10:45 -10:50 Discussion
Session I: Nanoconstructs (Talks 1-3)
Chair: Gil Markovich and Tamar Schlick
10:50 - 11:15 Ned Seeman, NYU. DNA: Not Merely the Secret of Life
11:15 - 11:20 Discussion
11:20 - 11:40 Coffee Break
11:40 - 12:05 Roey Amir, TAU. Smart polymeric amphiphiles
12:05 - 12:10 Discussion
12:10 - 12:35 Yuval Ebenstein, TAU. Tricking Enzymes to Highlight Genomic Information
12:35 - 12:40 Discussion
12:40 - 12:50 Open Discussion (meeting goals, etc.)
Lunch
Session II: Bio-organic and Medicinal Chemistry (Talks 4-6)
Chair: Michael Gozin, TAU
14:30 - 14:55 Daniella Buccella, NYU. Fluorescent Probes for Biologically Relevant Metal Ions: Shedding Light on Magnesium Homeostasis
14:55 - 15:00 Discussion
15:00 - 15:25 Micha Fridman, TAU. Membranes as Drug Targets
15:25 - 15:30 Discussion
15:30 - 15:50 Coffee Break
15:50 - 16:15 Bobby Arora, NYU. Protein Domain Mimics as Modulators of Protein-Protein Interactions
16:15 - 16:20 Discussion
Session III: Biophysics and Biopolymer Experimentation
Chair: Yael Roichman, TAU
16:20 - 16:45 Roy Beck-Barkai, TAU. Order and Disorder in Biomacromolecular Complexes
16:45 - 16:50 Discussion
16:50 - 17:15 Kent Kirshenbaum, NYU. Crafting Sequence-Structure-Function Relationships for Biomimetic Polymers
17:15 - 17:20 Discussion
Evening on your own to relax and enjoy beautiful Tel Aviv
~~~~~~ Tuesday, March 3 ~~~~~~
Session IV: Computation and Design (Talks 9-12)
Chair: Oded Hod, TAU Oded Hod, TAU
10:00 - 10:25 Tamar Schlick, NYU and TAU GRI: Multiscale modeling of the chromatin fiber
10:25 - 10:30 Discussion
10:30 - 10:55 Doron Shabat, TAU. Quinone-Methide Species - A Gateway to Functional Molecular Systems
10:55 - 11:00 Discussion
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 11:45 John Zhang, NYU and NYU-Shanghai: Structure, Dynamics and Function of Proteins from Computer Simulation
11:45 - 11:50 Discussion
11:50 - 12:15 Nir Ben Tal, TAU. Energetic and Structural Determinants of Ion Selectivity in Human Copper Transporter 1
12:15 - 12:20 Discussion
Return to hotel, departure for excursion to Caesaria (around 14:00), followed
by dinner at a seaside restaurant
~~~~~~ Wednesday, March 4 ~~~~~~
Session V: NMR and Applications (Talks 13-16)
Chair:
10:00 - 10:25 Alexej Jerschow, NYU. MRI of Batteries
10:25 - 10:30 Discussion
10:30 - 10:55 Amir Goldbourt, TAU. The atomic resolution model of M13 bacteriophage virus, derived from magic-angle spinning NMR and Rosetta modeling, reveals a quadrupled hydrophobic binding epitope in its capsid
10:55 - 11:00 Discussion
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 - 11:55 Nate Traaseth, NYU. Probing the Ion-Coupled Transport Mechanism of Multidrug Efflux Pumps Using NMR Spectroscopy
11:55 - 12:00 Discussion
12:00 - 12:25 Gil Navon, TAU. Molecular Imaging of Tumors Using Chemical Exchange Saturation Transfer MRI
12:25 - 12:30 Discussion
12:30 - 13:00 Concluding discussion
Adjourn