National Center for Macromolecular Imaging
Agenda
Workshop Home
Participants
Registration
Presentations
International Symposium on Structural & Computational Biomedical Informatics and Workshop on Cryo-EM

Agenda

Symposium agenda
Feb. 25th, 2008
Session Chairman: Prof. Jingqiang Zhang (Professor, Zhongshan University)
1, 8:30－8:40
welcome
Speaker: Anlong Xu, Professor, Dean of School of life sciences,
2, 8 : 40－9 : 10
Topic: Protein-protein interaction studied by NMR
Yunyu Shi (Academician, Professor, University of Science and technology of China)
3, 9 : 10 －9 : 40
Topic: CryoEM and Tomography Studies of Tumor Herpesvirus
Z.H. Zhou (Professor, University of California at Los Angeles)
Break time 9:50 —10：30
4, 10：30 — 11：00
Topic: Evolution: a Bridge from Systems Biology to Protein Engineering
Olivier Lichtarge (Professor, Baylor College of Medicine)
5, 11：00 — 11：30
Topic: Modular Protein Domains in DNA Damage Signaling
Songyang Zhou (Professor, Baylor College of Medicine)

Lunch time：12：00 －2：00
Session Chairman: Prof. Changcheng Yin (Professor, Peking University)
6, 2：00 －2：30
Topic: The molecular mechanism of DNA melting: Simulation and theory
Monte Pettitt (Professor, University of Houston)
7, 2：30 －3：00
Topic: CryoEM of Biological Nanomachine
Wah Chiu (Professor and Director, Baylor College of Medicine)
Break time 3:00－3：30
8，3：30 －4：00
Topic: Towards Predictive Personalized Medicine: Opportunities for Bioinformatics
Ching C. Lau (Professor, Baylor College of Medicine)
9，4：00－4：30
Topic: Translational Informatics
Jack W Smith (Dean and Professor, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston)
Dinner time: 7:00 －8：30

Workshop agenda
Feb. 26th, 2008
1， 8:30 － 10:15
Wah Chiu (National Center of Macromolecular Image; Baylor College of Medicine)
Topic 1: overview of cryoEM for biological and nano structure research
Topic 2: Image contrast theory
Break and question time:15mins
2, 10:30 — 11：50
Z.H. Zhou (University of California at Los Angeles)
Topic: Image Processing for High-resolution CryoEM Reconstruction
Break and question time:10mins

Lunch time: 12:00 －2:00
3，2：30——5：30
Cryo-EM Group Practice
Feb. 27th
1， 8:30 － 9：45
Masa Kawasaki （JEOL Ltd.）
Topic: Electron Optics of Electron Microscope
2， 10：00 — 10：45
Linda Melanson (Gatan Inc.)
Topic: Sample Freezing— cryoEM specimen preparation
3， 11：00 — 11：45
Htet Khant (National Center of Macromolecular Image; Baylor College of Medicine)
Topic: Low dose imaging for single particle and tomography

Lunch time: 12:00 －2:00
4， 2：30——5：30
Cryo-EM Group Practice

Feb. 28th
8：30 — 11：30
General discussion
Lunch time: 12:00 －2:00
2：30——5：30
Cryo-EM Group Practice