Virginia Tech Structural Biology Symposium
Friday March 28, 2008

Registration is FREE for academics and corporate sponsors. Pre-registration
is not required to attend the lectures or poster session,
but will be required for the luncheon and reception so
PLEASE REGISTER !

REGISTRATION ENDS MARCH 14
List of Registered Attendees

Speakers

• Dr. Brian J. Sutton (King's College, London)
  
  KEYNOTE AND MCBB SPEAKER
  
  IgE-Receptor Interactions as a Target for Intervention in Allergic Disease
  
  Dr. Sutton studies the structures of IgE antibody-receptor complexes involved in allergic diseases such as asthma and the autoantibody-antigen structures that cause autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.
  
  

• Dr. Jessica Bell (Virginia Commonwealth University)
  
  Toll-Like Receptor 3: Insights into Host Pathogen Interactions
  
  Dr. Bell investigates the Toll-like receptors that detect pathogens and the protein-protein interactions in the resulting signalling cascade that causes the immediate inflammatory response.
  
  

• Dr. Thomas Hollis (Wake Forest)
  
  Death and Trexes: The Role of Exonucleases During Cell Death
  
  Dr. Hollis works to determine the structures and functional mechanisms of proteins that recognize and repair DNA structural damage.
  
  
  
• Virginia Tech Faculty
  
  

  Featured Speaker	Department	Topic
  Dr. David Kingston	Chemistry	Anti-cancer taxols
  Dr. Pablo Sobrado	Biochemistry	Enzyme function and regulation
  Dr. Amadeu Sum	Chemical Engineering	Membrane modelling
  Dr. Dharmendar Rathore	VBI	Combating Malaria

Poster Session

Poster submissions on any aspect of structural biology and related topics are encouraged from faculty and students. Please indicate your intention to present a poster on the registration form.

Poster Prize: Oxford Diffraction is sponsoring a prize for the best poster.

Information for Poster Presenters

Commercial Exhibition During the Poster Session

Companies wishing to exhibit should contact rangel@vt.edu for further details.

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Tours

Tours of the Virginia Tech CAVE, a virtual-reality system for displaying structure in three-dimensions
and the Virginia Tech X-ray Facility will be available during the poster session.

The Virginia Tech Structural Biology Symposium