The 28th SCSB Annual Symposium

Each Year, the SCSB hosts a symposium to highlight current research. The invited speakers are world renowned leaders in their fields of research.

The 28th Structural Biology Annual Symposium

Date: Saturday, April 13, 2024
Location: Health Education Center (HEC) Room 1.200

Program (PDF)

Full Abstract Book (PDF)

Registration is still OPEN (Abstract Submission Closed)

Invited Speakers

Yunfeng Chen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX, USA
E-mail: yunfchen@utmb.edu
Title: "Identifying a Hotspot in von Willebrand Factor that Differentially Modulates Platelet Adhesion and Aggregation and a New Strategy to Safely Prevent Arterial Thrombosis"

Peter D. Kwong , Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University
New York, NY
Chief, Structural Biology Section, NIH
Vaccine Research Center, Nationa Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, MD, USA
E-mail: pdkwong@nih.gov
Title: "Structure-Assisted Vaccine Design for HIV and Other Human Pathogens"

Jose N. Onuchic, Ph.D.
Harry C. and Olga K. Wiess Chair of Physics
Professor of Chemistry and BioSciences
Rice University
Houston, TX, USA
E-mail: jose.onuchic@rice.edu
Title: "Modeling the Genome: a View by a Physicist"

Anna Pomes, Ph.D.
Research Director
INDOOR Biotechnologies
Charlottesville, VA, USA
E-mail: apomes@inbio.com
Title: "Structural Basis of Allergenicity"

Tamar Schlick, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Chemistry
New York University
New York, NY, USA
E-mail: Schlick@nyu.edu
Title: "Modeling and Simulating Gene Folding at Nucleosome Resolution"