Laufer Center Inaugural Symposium

INAUGURAL SYMPOSIUM Friday, September 25, 2009 Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University POSTER SESSION PROGRAM
AM SESSION	PM SESSION
8:30 AM Welcome and Introductory Remarks Arthur P. Grollman, MD Henry Laufer, Ph.D. Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., MD	1:30 PM Nuance in the Double Helix: The Role of DNA Shape in Protein-DNA Recognition Barry Honig, Ph.D., Columbia University
9:00 AM Understanding Protein Function on a Genome-Scale Using Networks Mark Gerstein, Ph.D., Yale University	2:00 PM Goings on at the Cell Membrane: Signaling Machines, Transporters, and BAR Stories Harel Weinstein, D.Sc., Cornell University
9:30 AM The Role of Active- Site Water Molecules in Protein-Ligand Binding Richard Friesner, Ph.D., Columbia University	2:30 PM Poster Session/ Break
10:00 AM Poster Session/ Break	3:30 PM Virtual Screening Methods for Finding Lead Compounds – Comparison of Ligand-Based Approaches Wendy Cornell, Ph.D., Merck Research Laboratories
11:00 AM Role of Biochemical Parameters in the Emergence of Systems-Level Properties in Biological Systems Ravi Iyengar, Ph.D., Mt. Sinai School of Medicine	4:00 PM Molecular and Network Modeling in Synthetic and Systems Biology Bruce Tidor, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
11:30 AM “Coarse-Grained Approaches for Simulating the Chromatin Fiber” Tamar Schlick, Ph.D., New York University	4:30 PM Computational Models of Molecular Evolution Tack Kuntz, Ph.D., UCSF Keynote Speaker
12:00 PM Lunch/Break	5:15 PM Announcement Of Poster Awards
	5:30 PM Closing Remarks Carlos Simmerling, Ph.D.

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Fri, 09/25/2009 (All day)