Subgroup Co-Chairs: Nils Walter, University of Michigan, USA and Neva Caliskan, Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infecttion Research, Germany

Symposium Time:  8:30 AM - 12:30 PM EST

Symposium Room:  202AB

Business Meeting:  12:10 - 12:30 AM EST

Speakers:

8:40 AM Keynote Speaker: Carlos Bustamante, University of California, Berkeley, USA
FACT Promotes Efficient Pol II Transcription by Modulating the Topographic Features of the Nucleosomal Barrier

 

9:15 AM Dina Grohman, University of Regensburg, Germany
DNA Origami-Based Single-Molecule Force Spectroscopy Advances the Molecular Understanding of Transcription Initiation

 

9:35 AM Yuri Lyubchenko, University of Nebraska, USA

Imaging of the Amyloid Self-Assembly at Physiologically Relevant Conditionschange

 

9:55 AM Jie Xiao, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Enzyme Action Movies by Single-Molecule Tracking in Live Cells

 

10:35 AM Fredrik Westerlund, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden

Nanofluidics for Analysing DNA-Protein Interactions on the Single DNA Molecule Level

 

10:55 AM Jinyi Fei, University of Chicago, USA

Context-Dependent RNA Location to Nuclear Speckles

 

11:15 AM Mark Williams, Northeastern University, USA

DNA Condensation by HIV-1 Nucleocapsid Protein Regulates Capsid Uncoating and Viral Replication

 

11:35 AM Katarzyna Tych, University of Groningen, Netherlands

Single-Molecule Enzymology Using the Optical Tweezers