MMSB Retreat - 2007
Tuesday, April 10th -- Contact Dr. Setlow (x2607) for further information.

The Retreat will be held at the Winding Trails Recreation Center in Farmington.
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Schedule >> click here* for a print version.*

8:30 - 9:00	Arrival and Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 9:10	Dr. Sandy Weller, Welcoming Remarks

9:10 - 10:00	Setlow Lab: Peter Setlow "A new way to look at dipicolinic acid release in Bacillus spore germination" Venkata Ramana Vepachedu "Role of SpoVA proteins in dipicolinic acid release during Bacillus subtilis spore germination"

10:00 - 10:50	Weller Lab: Sandra Weller "How HSV commandeers host cell chaperone and DNA repair machinery" Soma Chattopadyay "Involvement of UL9, the origin binding protein of HSV-1, in multiple protein-protein interactions" Jacob Nellissery "Intersubunit disulfide linkages in the assembly of HSV-1 portal rings"

10:50 - 11:10	Coffee Break

11:10 - 12:00	King Lab: Steve King & Pantelis Rampolas "Connecting ciliary dysfunction and neurological disease"

12:00 - 1:30	Lunch and Posters

1:30 - 2:20	Gryk Lab: Michael Gryk "Methods in computational structural biology" Susan Fox-Erlich "Discovering motif structural determinants" Jay Vyas "CONNJUR: A software integration environment"

2:20 - 3:10	Hoch Lab: Jeffrey Hoch "Life at 188,000 gauss"

3:10 - 3:30	Coffee Break

3:30 - 4:30	Ton-That Lab: Hung Ton-That et al. "Gram-positive bacterial pili: a tale from the surface"

4:30 - 5:10	Furneaux Lab: Henry Furneaux "News from the RNA world"

5:10 - 7:00	Reception and Posters