MBSB Symposium 2021
The eighth annual MBSB research symposium will be held this spring -- check back for dates and details. Speakers will include MBSB faculty, current MBSB graduate students, and an MBSB alumnus. Scroll down to see the schedule of events!
Keynote Speaker:
TBA
Registration Information
MBSB Symposium 2021 registration form and abstract submissions are not yet open. Check back soon.
Completed forms should be emailed to Janet Zambotti at zambotti@pitt.edu
Registration Form: Click HERE to register
Abstract Template: Click HERE to download
Program Details - MBSB Symposium 2021
9:00 am Program Welcome
Morning Session 1
Chaired by: TBA
9:10 am Faculty Speaker 1
9:35 am Faculty Speaker 2
10:00 Career Development Talk
Morning Session 2
Chaired by: TBA
11:00 Student Speaker 1
11:20 Alumni Speaker
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch Break
Afternoon Sessions
Chaired by: TBA
1:00 Student Speaker 2
1:20 Faculty Speaker 3
1:45 Student Speaker 3
2:10 - 3:15. Poster Session
3:20 - 4:20 Keynote Speaker
# MBSB Training Faculty
* MBSB Student
** MBSB Alumni
MBSB Spotlight
MBSB Symposium 2019
The seventh annual MBSB research symposium will be held on Monday, May 13th, in the Frick Fine Arts Building from 9:00am to 7:00pm. The 2019 symposium will feature Dr. Georgios Skiniotis as the keynote speaker. Other speakers will include MBSB faculty, current MBSB graduate students, and an MBSB alumnus. Scroll down to see the schedule of events!
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Georgios Skiniotis, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology, Stanford University
"Cryo-EM Insights into G Protein Couples Receptor Activation and Signaling"
Registration Information
MBSB Symposium 2019 registration form and abstract submissions should be completed no later than April 15th, 2019
Completed forms should be emailed to Janet Zambotti at zambotti@pitt.edu
Registration Form: Click HERE to download
Abstract Template: Click HERE to download
Program Details - MBSB Symposium 2019
9:00 am Registration and breakfast
9:45 am Welcome – Andy Hinck
Morning Session
Chaired by: Sara Whitlock
10:00 am New Methods—and Old Methods Applied in New Ways—to Find Human Cancer Viruses
Patrick Moore
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Univ of Pittsburgh, MBSB Training Faculty
10:35 am Structural Mechanisms of Parathyroid Hormone Receptor (PTHR) Signaling Through Gs
Lisa Clark
Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, Univ of Pittsburgh. MBSB student
10:55 am Break
11:30 am Heterogeneous-Backbone Mimics of Disulfide-Rich Peptide Scaffolds
Chino Cabalteja
Chemistry, Univ of Pittsburgh. MBSB student
11:50 am Investigating the Role of Oxidative Stress in Telomere Maintenance
Patricia Opresko
Environmental and Occupational Health, Univ of Pittsburgh, MBSB Training Faculty
Lunch
12:25 pm – 1:25 pm
Afternoon Session
Chaired by: Stephen White
1:30 pm A Highly Ordered ENE Motif Within the MALAT1 Triple Helix lcRNA Reveals a Distinct Inhibitory Structure for
Small Molecule Therapeutic Intervention.
Mike Yonkunas
Chemistry & Biochemistry, Univ of the Sciences in Philadelphia. MBSB alumnus.
2:05 pm Optical Control of Cre Recombinase in Zebrafish Embryos
Wesley Brown
Chemistry, Univ of Pittsburgh. MBSB student
2:25 pm PROTACs: Lessons from HIV
Jinwoo Ahn
Structural Biology, Univ of Pittsburgh, MBSB Training Faculty
Poster Session
3:00 pm – 4:10 pm
Keynote Address
Chaired by: Kirill Lavrenyuk
4:15 pm Cryo-EM Insights into G Protein Coupled Receptor Activation and Signaling
Georgios Skiniotis
Molecular & Cellular Physiology, Structural Biology, Stanford Univ
Reception
5:30 pm
Brittani Schnable
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MBSB Symposium 2020
Covid-19 Update: The 2020 MBSB Symposium has been postponed until further notice.
The information below will be updated when new information is available.
The eighth annual MBSB research symposium will be held on Friday, May 8th, in the Frick Fine Arts Building from 9:00am to 7:00pm. The 2020 symposium will feature Dr. Gregory Petsko as the keynote speaker. Other speakers will include MBSB faculty, current MBSB graduate students, and an MBSB alumnus. Scroll down to see the schedule of events!
Keynote Speaker:
Dr. Gregory Petsko
Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital
"How Parkinson's disease Starts - And How It Might Be Stopped"
Registration Information
MBSB Symposium 2019 registration form and abstract submissions should be completed no later than April 15th, 2020
Completed forms should be emailed to Janet Zambotti at zambotti@pitt.edu
Registration Form: Click HERE to register
Abstract Template: Click HERE to download
Program Details - MBSB Symposium 2020
9:00 am Registration and breakfast
9:45 am Welcome – Andrew Hinck
Morning Session
Chaired by: Ananya Mukundan
10:00 am "Peeking and Poking at Cells: Optical Control of Biological Processes"
Alex Deiters#
Department of Chemistry, University of Pittsburgh
10:35 am "Multi-modal imaging reveals force transmission in cell monolayers"
Kirill Lavrenyuk
Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
10:55 am Break
11:30 am "Activation of Tev family kinase Btk by HIV Nef"
Manish Aryal*
Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh
11:50 am "Mechanism of the AMPA type Glutamate Receptor Allosteric Activation by an Agonist from Molecular Dynamics Simulations"
Maria Kurnikova#
Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University
Lunch
12:25 pm – 1:25 pm
Afternoon Session
Chaired by: Wesley Brown
1:30 pm "Revealing XLF's Role in NHEJ"
Sean Carney**
Harvard Medical School
2:05 pm "Sub-Pocket Explorer (SubPEx): Leveraging weighted ensemble simulations to enhance the conformational search
of binding-pocket conformations"
Erich Hellmann Holguin*
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh
2:25 pm "Title Pending"
Marijn Ford#
Department of Cell Biology, University of Pittsburgh
Poster Session
3:00 pm – 4:10 pm
Keynote Address
Chaired by: Stephen White
4:15 pm "How Parkinson's Disease Starts - And how It Might Be Stopped"
Gregory Petsko
Ann Romney Center for Neurologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Bringham & Women's Hospital
Reception
5:30 pm
# MBSB Training Faculty
* MBSB Student
** MBSB Alumni
