CBSD Annual CoBRE Research Retreats
The Center for Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics is committed to fostering a community for biophysically informed research throughout the University of Montana (UM) research community. We do this in a number of ways, including hosting an annual research retreat. This provides us an opportunity to come together as a research community to discuss the latest research in our laboratories supported by CBSD. The retreat includes keynote seminars by outside speakers, lectures by Project Leaders who are supported by the CBSD NIH CoBRE grant, and a selection of short talks by pilot project leaders and graduate students. We especially encourage both graduate and undergraduate students to participate in a poster session. We also have presentations from our Computational, NMR, X-ray and BioSpectroscopy Core Facilities so attendees can learn more about how these facilities can help take their research projects in new directions.
Registering for the Annual CBSD Research Retreat:
REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED. See you next year!
Past Research Retreats:
September 7-9, 2012
The first Annual CBSD Research Retreat was held at the Double Arrow Resort in Seeley Lake, MT.
| David Case | Bridging the Divide-All Atom Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Biomolecular Crystals |
| Stephen Sprang | Introduction to CBSD & CoBRE Grant |
| Klara Briknarova | Structural Studies of the Envelope Glycoprotein from Junin arenavirus |
| Erica Woodahl | Structural and Functional Analysis of Genetic Polymorphisms in the P-glycoprotein (ABCB1) Drug Transporter |
| Xi Chu | Computational Study of the Catalytic MEchanism in Adenylyl Cyclase |
| Valeriy Smirnov | Approaching the Mechanism of Idoleamine Dioxygenase (IDO-1) |
| Orion Berryman | Catalysis with Non-covalent Interactions |
| Katya Voronina | A Role for P Granules in Promoting mRNA Silencing in Germline Stem Cells |
| Tung Chung Mou & Stephen Sprang | Macromolecular X-Ray Diffraction Core Facility |
| Earle Adams & Edward Rosenberg | Macromolecular NMR Spectroscopy Core Facility |
| Sandy Ross | BioSpectroscopy Core Facility |
| Michael Braden & John Gerdes | Molecular Computation Core Facility |
| Andrea Stierle & Donald Stierle | Symbiotic Bacteria of the Human Gut Micorbiome as a Source of Anti-Inflammatory and Anti-Cancer Agents |
| Katie Hailer & Brooke Martin | Examining the Function of the Nei Operon- Finding the Function of "Unknown" Proteins |
| Walter Hill | The Ribsome Jig-Time-Resolved Probing of Ribosomal Functions |
| Brian Bothner | Did you see that? It moved. I swear that protein just moved. |
| Bruce Bowler | Encoding Topological Bias in teh Denatured State of a Protein |
| Lara Taubner | Structural and Physiologic Consequences of Native Post-Translational Modifications of the Prion |
| Richard Bridges & Sarj Patel | Linking Structure and Molecular Pharmacology of the Glutamate/Cystine Antiporter |
| Mark Grimes | Wrangling Phosphoproteomic Data to Elucidate Cancer Signaling Pathways |
| Celestine Thomas | Characterization of Liposome Fusion by a Fusion-Active Arenavirus Envelope Glycoprotein |
| Brent Ryckman | Structure-function Analysis of a Cytomegalovirus CC Chemokine |
| Stephen Lodmell | Mechanism of Inhibitors of Rift Valley Fever Virus Nucleocapsid-RNA Interactions |
| Michael Kavanaugh | Glutamate Transporters- Molecular Mechanisms and Synaptic Roles |
| Labe A. Black | Conformational Changes and Dynamics Involved in G Proteins During Receptor Independent Cell Signaling |
| Amanda Brinkworth | Biophysical Characterization of the Virulence Factor BB0577 from Borrelia burgdorferi |
| Travis Danielson | Loop Formation of Cytochrome c' in the Denatured State: Effect of Residual α-Helical Structure |
| David Hahn | Mechanism for Catalysis in Mammalian Adenylyl Cyclase |
| Rebecca Hendrix | Structure-function Analysis of a Cytomegalovirus CC Chemokine |
| Alexandra Heyneman | Minimal Amino Acid Sequence Essential to Establish a Gross Fold within a Protein |
| Levi McClelland | Lower Protein Stability Does Not Necessarily Increase Local Dynamics |
| Casey Schlenker |
Using Cysteine Mutant Disulfide Cross-Linking to Investigate the Structure of a Dynamic Complex Between Anastellin and the Third Type III Domain from Fibronectin |
| Yizhi Sun | Characterization of the Interaction Between RIZ1 and RB Protein |
| Jose R. Tusell | DFT Study of the Catalytic Core of Mammalian Aenylyl Cyclase |
| Baisen Zeng | Biochemical Study of the AAA+ ATPase Domain in Human Soluble Adenylate Cyclase |
| Baisen Zeng | A Structural Study of the Peptide-bound Inhibitory G-Protein Alpha Subunit |
| Domnita-Valeria Rusnac | Interaction of Anastellin with β-strands ABC, ABCD and ABCDE from the Third Type III Domain of Fibronectin |
| Jessica Glicken | Characterizing the Anastellin: 3FN3 Complex Using NMR Spectroscopy |
