Program

PDI2020 Program

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Tuesday, October 18

Time Session/Lecture info
08:30-09:15
Registration & Coffee
 
09:15-09:30
Welcome and opening remarks
 
09:30-11:00
Protein-DNA binding: A protein perspective
 
09:30-10:00
Peter Wolynes, Rice University, USA
The NfKB-IkB Network and other stories at the nexus of Systems Biology and Physical Chemistry
10:00-10:30
Barry Stoddard, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA
Self or non-self: structural and mechanistic studies of multifunctional phage restriction endonuclease
10:30-11:00
Yael Mandel-Guterfreund, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IL
A novel role for a lncRNA-Transcription Factor Interaction in human
11:00-11:30
Coffee Break
 
11:30-13:00
Protein-DNA: Affinity
 
11:30-12:00
Junji Iwahara, University of Texas at Galveston, USA
Electrostatics of proteins and DNA by NMR spectroscopy
12:00-12:30
Aseem Ansari, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA
Unveiling masked recognition modes of natural and synthetic DNA binders
12:30-13:00
Raluca Gordan, Duke University, USA
The mutagenic consequences of transcription factor binding to DNA
13:00-14:00
Lunch
 
14:00-15:30
Protein-DNA binding: A DNA perspective
 
14:00-14:30
Polly Fordyce, Stanford University, USA
Short tandem repeats bind transcription factors to tune eukaryotic gene expression
14:30-15:00
David Lukatsky, Ben Gurion University, IL
Repetitive DNA Sequence Elements Regulate Gene Expression in Embryonic Stem Cells 
15:00-15:15
Sudipta Kumar Sinha, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, IN
The Functional Responses of Protein-DNA Interactions
15:15-15:30
Flash Talks: I
15:30-16:00
Coffee Break
 
16:00-17:15
Protein-DNA binding: A DNA perspective
 
16:00-16:30
Hagen Hofmann, Weizmann Institute of Science, IL
Allostery in DNA drives phenotype switching
16:30-17:00
Remo Rohs, University of Southern California, USA
Deep learning reveals mechanisms of protein-DNA binding
17:00-17:15
Flash Talks: II
17:15-19:00
Poster Session
 

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Registration

Deadline for poster presentation and flash talk

September 20, 2022

Organizers

  • Yaakov (Koby) Levy
    Department of Chemical and Structural Biology
  • Ariel Afek
    Department of Chemical and Structural Biology

Sponsors

  • The Chorafas Institute for Scientific Exchange
  • The Israel Science Foundation
  • The Aharon Katzir Center
  • Department of Chemical and Structural Biology
  • Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly
  • The Clore Center for Biological Physics
  • Moross
    Integrated Cancer Center (MICC)

Coordinator

Lior Drori
Lior.drori@weizmann.ac.il
+972 (8)9343957