Program
Nov 15th
Program Day 1
Opening 9:00 to 9:10 (All times in this program indicate JST)
9:10-9:50am Shelley Copley University of Colorado (USA)
Title: Evolution of novel metabolic pathways
10mins QAs
10:00-10:40am Janine Copp The University of British Columbia (Canada)
Title: Adventures in sequence-function space: unravelling the cryptic connections of large multifunctional enzyme superfamilies
10mins QAs
(10mins break)
11:00-11:15am Short talk Elsie Dunkley Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand)
Title: Enzyme Evolution in the Context of Cellular Metabolism
5mins QAs
11:20-11:35am Short talk Saacnicteh Toledo Patino OIST (Japan)
Title: "Lost and Found". InDels mediating cofactor specificity switch in Rossmann proteins
5mins QAs
(The Second Session)
4:00-4:40pm Nobuyasu Koga Research Center of Integrative Molecular Systems, Institute for Molecular Science (Japan)
Title: Exploration of novel protein structures by de novo design
10mins QAs
4:50-5:30pm Ruchi Anand Department of Chemistry, IIT Bombay (India)
Title: Molecular Tunnels in Enzyme Systems
10mins QAs
5:40-5:55pm Short talk Madhuri Gade OIST (Japan)
Title: Substrate dynamics contribute to enzymatic specificity in human and bacterial methionine adenosyltransferases
5mins QAs
6:00-6:15pm Short talk Rory Crean Uppsala University (Sweden)
Title: Unravelling the Roles of Loop dynamics and Chemistry in Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase catalysis
5mins QAs
Nov 16th
Program Day 2
9:00-9:40am Sergio Peisajovich Illumina (USA)
Title : Protein engineering, the engine behind the genomics revolution
10mins QAs
9:50-10:30am Colin Jackson ANU (Australia)
Title: Structural and dynamic basis for evolutionary bifurcations in enzyme families
10mins QAs
(10mins break)
10:50-11:05am Short talk Joseph Bravo University of Minnesota (USA)
Title: Alteration of the Specificity of a Quorum Quenching Lactonase using Rational Design
5mins QAs
11:10-11:25am Short talk Sota Yagi RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (Japan)
Title: Reconstruction of the core fold of RNA polymerase with seven amino acid types
5mins QAs
(The Second Session)
4:00-4:40pm Tomoaki Matsuura Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
Title: In vitro directed evolution of membrane proteins using ribosome and liposome display
10mins QAs
4:50-5.30pm Klara Hlouchova Charles university (Czech Republic)
Title: Proteins from early alphabets: how could they do it?
10mins QAs
5:40-5:55pm Short talk Adèle Dramé-Maigné Université PSL (France)
Title: Molecular programs and droplet compartmentalization as self-selection tools for directed evolution of enzymes
5mins QAs
6:00-6:15pm Short talk Pratik Vyas Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)
Title: On the evolutionary origins of P-loop NTPases
5mins QAs
Nov 17th
Program Day 3
4:00-4:40pm Birte Hoecker Bayreuth University (Germany)
Title: Evolution of proteins from subdomain-sized fragments
10mins QAs
4:50-5:30pm Vikram Alva MPI for Developmental Biology (Germany)
Title: Repetition as a key force in the emergence of novel proteins
10mins QAs
5:40-5:55pm short talk Franziska Sendker MPI for Terrestrial Microbiology(Germany)
Title: Discovery of a naturally evolved fractal-like protein complex
5mins QAs
6.00pm Closing remarks
