9^th International Conference on Structural Biology September 18-20, 2017 Zurich, Switzerland

Molecular biophysics and biochemistry

Irena Roterman-Konieczna has completed his PhD at the age of 35 years from Nicolaus Copernicus Medical Academy Krakow, Poland - postdoctoral studies from Cornell University Ithaca NY USA – Harold Scheraga Group. She is the director of Department of Bioinformatics and Telemedicine at Jagiellonian University – Medical College. She has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute. The field of interst is the protein structure and folding simulatioan as well as systems biology. General model for protein folding simulation is published by Woodhead Publishing (currently Elsevier). The model for proteome construction is presented in the book published by Springer. She is the Chief Editor of the journal Bio-Algorithms and Med-Systems (de Gruyter).

Protein structure and folding simulation; Systems biology

Jiang obtained his PhD from Yale University and did his postdoctoral training at Rockefeller University. He is currently an Associate Professor in UF and serves as the Faculty Director of Electron Microscopy (EM) at the UF Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechology Research, where EM is used for revealing the structural basis of biological machineries. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals. His lab focuses on structural and functional studies of intracellular RNA-binding complexes and ion channels invovled in membrane excitability and regulated secretion, and has been developing new methods for cryoEM imaging of single molecules.

cryo-EM

Vesa P Hytonen is a head of the Protein Dynamics research group at the University of Tampere. After graduating as a PhD from the University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland at 2005, he conducted postdoctoral training at ETH Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland 2005-2007. He then continued as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Tampere and established independent research group at 2010. His research interests are mechanobiology, protein engineering and vaccine research, and he has authored more than 90 scientific articles.

Mechanobiology, Protein Engineering and Vaccine Research

Yuri L. Lyubchenko is Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA. His research focuses on understanding fundamental mechanisms underlying health and disease, which are key to developing new and more effective diagnostics and medications. This primarily basic research allows him not only identify new drug targets for small molecule drugs, it also leads to development of the nanotools and methods to discover novel approaches for diagnostic, treatment and disease prevention and to more rapidly determine their efficacy at the molecular level

Drug discovery, single molecule biophysics and structural biology

The Buck laboratory studies two receptor families responsible for cell guidance and positional maintenance (Plexins and Ephrins), both with key involvement in cardiovascular and neuronal development and disease, esp. cancer. We use a wide range of structural biology (solution NMR / x-ray crystallography) and protein biophysical tools (CD, fluorescence spectroscopy, ITC and SPR) in a problem oriented approach. Part of the laboratory also pursues computational modeling and molecular dynamics to provide additional perspective on the problems, provide new insights into the experimental data and to suggest further studies. Small GTPases and their interaction with the plexin receptor cytoplasmic domains has been a major focus of the laboratory and recently we have become very interested in protein-membrane interactions; both the transmembrane regions of the receptors as well as the transient interactions of receptor and GTPase domains with membranes

Biophysics, Molecular modeling and dynamics

Murray Junop received B.Sc. from Ryerson University in 1991, and Ph.D. from Western University in 1997. In 1997, he joined the LMB/NIDDK, at the National Institutes of Health as a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Wei Yang (National Academy of Science Member, 2013). Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Structural Biology at Western University. He has received several awards for outstanding teaching at the Undergraduate Level. He has pioneered structural studies of mammalian DNA double strand break repair proteins involved in the non-homologous end-joining pathway, solving and characterizing structures and complexes of XRCC4, XLF and DNA LigaseIV. His current research interests are in understanding the molecular mechanisms that govern repair of several DNA lesions; in particular, DNA intrastrand-crosslinks and both single and double strand breaks. Additional work is focused on developing new anticancer agents that target DNA repair pathways. His research has been funded by federal agencies, including CIHR, CFI, CCS and NSERC

Biochemistry and Structural Biology

Shuanghong Huo received her Ph.D. in Computational Chemistry from Boston University. She had postdoctoral training at UC-San Francisco. She is a Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Clark University, Worcester, USA. Her research interest is protein folding, misfolding, and aggregation. Recently her group is developing dimensionality reduction methods and graph representations of protein free energy landscapes.

Protein folding, misfolding, and aggregation

Tzu-Ching has completed his PhD from University of Nebraska Medical Center in 1999 and postdoctoral studies from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 2003. Since then, he has been working at Academia Sinica, the premier government-funded institution in Taiwan. He is now a Research Fellow with professorship jointly appointed by National Taiwan University. He has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an advisory board member of competitive journals.

Protein Science

Tran Tien-Dzung is the Head of the Department of Software Engineering, Faculty of Information Technology, Hanoi University of Industry. He has done his Masters and PhD in Information Technology.

Systems Biology & Complex Network, Soft computing, Software Engineering