Annual Report 2011 - Center for Advanced Biotechnology and ...

12:30 PM Lunch and Break
Kamana Misra – Molecular Neurodevelopment Lab (Meng Xiang)
“To be or not to be" A neuron's perspective
2:15 PM Posters and Coffee
4:30 PM Close
Session III – Understanding Disease at the Molecular Level as a Basis for Developing
Novel Therapies
Chair: Kamana Misra – Molecular Neurodevelopment Lab (Meng Xiang)
Mary Fitzgerald Ho – Biomolecular Crystallography Lab (Eddy Arnold)
“GE23077: A novel bacterial RNA polymerase inhibitor”
Joseph Marcotrigiano – Structural Virology Lab (Joe Marcotrigiano)
“The Structure of a Precursor from the Alphavirus Replication Complex sheds light on
pathogenesis and mechanisms of polyprotein processing”
Rongjin Guan – Structural Bioinformatics and Proteomics Lab (Guy Montelione)
“Structural Basis for the Sequence-Specific Recognition of Human ISG15 by the NS1 Protein
of Influenza B Virus”
Yu Meng – Protein Targeting Lab (Peter Lobel)
“Intravenous enzyme replacement therapy for late-infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis
(LINCL)”
Fang Liu – Growth and Differential Lab (Fang Liu)
“Pin1 promotes TGF-beta-induced migration and invasion”
Na Yang – Tumor Virology Lab (Céline Gélinas)
“Understanding and targeting Bfl-1 turnover to overcome chemoresistance”
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