Program
6th Annual SoCal CryoEM Symposium
| 9:00 AM - 9:05 AM | Introduction | |
| 9:05 AM - 10:05AM | CryoEM Technological Advancements | Talks (10 + 3 min Q&A) |
| 9:05 - 9:20 | Geoffrey Woollard (University of British Columbia) | Why cryoEM practitioners should learn more math and theory, and how to do it. |
| 9:20 - 9:35 | Maxwell James Bachochin (UCSD) | To 2D, or not to 2D (classify), that is the question |
| 9:35 - 9:50 | Aleksandar Antanasijevic (Scripps) | From Structure to Sequence: Antibody discovery using cryoEM |
| 9:50 - 10:05 | Sara Weaver (UCLA) | Ab initio phasing macromolecular structures using electron-counted MicroED data |
| 10:05 AM - 10:15 AM | Nicole Poweleit from NanoImaging Services | Vendor Talk: Industry applications of Cryo EM at NanoImaging Services |
| 10:15 AM - 11:15 AM | Tomography and Cellular Studies | Talks (10 + 3 min Q&A) |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Wei Zhao (Caltech) | In situ architecture of human kinetochore-microtubule interface visualized by cryo-electron tomography |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Mohammed Kaplan (Caltech) | Novel transient cytoplasmic rings stabilize assembling bacterial flagellar motors |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Ben Barad (Scripps) | Modeling the complex geometry of organelle membranes in cells with cryo-electron tomography |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Shervin Nia (UCLA) | Charting alkaline dissolution of cell-grown insecticidal pro-toxin cry11b crystals by time-series cryo-electron tomography |
| 11:15 AM - 11:25 AM | Blanca Carbajal Gonzalez from Thermo Fisher Scientific | Vendor Talk: Inspection & Verification of Fluorescent Targets using the Aquilos 2 Cryo DualBeam |
| 11:25 AM - 12:40 PM | Posters and Lunch | |
| 12:40 PM - 2:10 PM | Single-Particle & MicroED Applications | Talks (10 + 3 min Q&A) |
| 12:40 - 12:55 | Yao He (UCLA) | Structures of telomerase at several steps of telomere repeat synthesis |
| 12:55 - 1:10 | Mariusz Matyszewski (UCSD) | A Tale of Two Filaments: Binding Mechanism of a Right-Handed LRRK2 Filament to a Left-Handed Microtubule |
| 1:10 - 1:25 | Karen Orta (Caltech) | Structural insights behind phage single-gene lysis protein E |
| 1:25 - 1:40 | Maria Flores (UCLA) | CryoEM structure of human CPEB3's reversible prion-like domain |
| 1:40 - 1:55 | Yi Xiao (Sean) Jiang (UCLA) | Amyloid fibrils in frontotemporal lobar degeneration with TDP-43 inclusions (FTLD-TDP) are composed of TMEM106B, rather than TDP-43 |
| 1:55 - 2:10 | Randy Watson (Scripps) | Conformational Control of Cereblon |
| 2:10 PM - 2:20 PM | Michael Spilman from Direct Electron | Vendor Talk: Apollo - a new event-based detector for ultrafast CryoEM |
| 2:20 PM - 3:05 PM | SoCal Workshop | Figure preparation techniques in Adobe Illustrator/Photoshop for structural biologists with Hailee Perrett |
| 3:05 PM - 3:15 PM | Joyce Frank from Mitegen | Vendor Talk: Technologies and Developments in Cryo-EM |
| 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM | Keynote Session | The Future of CryoEM: Protein structural biology in the era of high-accuracy structure prediction. Presenter: Benjamin Basanta Panelists: Mark Herzik, Jose Rodriguez and Elizabeth Villa |
| 4:15 PM - 4:25 PM | Closing Remarks, Poster & Art Prizes | |
| 4:25 PM - 4:55 PM | Virtual Vendor Booths | |
| 4:55 PM - 5:30 PM | Networking Event | |
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