ICA Meeting | June 16, 2016 | Tel Aviv University
The Israel Crystallography Association Meeting 2016
Thursday June 16, 09:00-17:00
Sherman building - 03, Life Sciences Faculty, TAU.
Registration (deadline May 28):
Please register even if you do not plan to present
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Sherman building is about 20 minutes walk from the train station.
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Buses from the train station: #7, #45 or #289.
Orgenizers:
Gali Prag, Yoni Haitin and Joel Hirsch
Program
08:45 Registration
09:20 Raz Zarivach (BGU, ICA presidnt) Opening remarks
Chair person - Michal Harel (WIS)
09:30 Osnat Herzberg (UMD) Genome Wide Association Studies and Structural Biology
10:10 Moshe Dessau (BIU) Entry, Assembly and Neutralization Implications from the Crystal Structure to
Hantavirus Glycoprotein C
10:45 Coffee break
Chair person - Meytal Landau
11:10 Yarden Opatowsky (BIU) Structure of SRGAP2 and Implications to Human Evolution
11:35 Zohar Eyal (WIS) Structural insights into species-specific features of the ribosome from the
pathogen Staphylococcus aureus
11:55 Miri Krupkin (WIS) The structure of avilamycin bound to the large ribosomal subunit
12:15 Akram Alian (Technion) Molecular and Structural Basis of Protein Evolution During Viral Adaptation
12:40 Lunch + Posters
14:00 ICA business meeting
Chair person - Yarden Opatowsky
14:15 Meytal Landau (Technion) Atomistic View into the Unique Architectures of Microbial Functional Amyloids
14:40 Hadas Cohen-Dvashi (WIS) LAMP1 binding and pH sensing mechanism by the Lassa virus spike complex
15:00 Bharat K Tripuramallu (TAU) Targeting MOFs of Tetrakis[meso-(3,5-biscarboxyphenyl)]-Metalloporphyrins
with Polynuclear Metallic
15:20 Shifra Lansky (HIJI) Structural and conformational analysis of an extracellular arabinanase suggests
a unique "harpoon" mechanism of action
15:40 Coffee break
Chair person - Joel Hirsch (TAU)
16:00 Yael Pazy Benhar (Technion) Structural biology services at the Technion Center for Structural Biology
16:15 Nathan Nelson (TAU) Structure-based photosynthesis research for sustainability
16:55 Poster winner announcement and closing remarks