8:00     Breakfast and Poster Setup

9:00     Welcome

Session 1: Cellular Biophysics
Convener: Irina Serysheva, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center Houston

9:05     Progress and Potential of Cryo-electron Tomography
Grant Jensen, Cal Tech University

9:45     Electron Cryo-Tomography Reveal Axons Present a Barrier to            Mitochondrial Transport
Neal Waxham, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center Houston

10:05   Structural Study of Bacterial Multidrug Efflux Pumps
Zhao Wang, Baylor College of Medicine

10:25   Channelrhodopsin Structure/Function and Optogenetics
John Spudich, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center Houston

10:45   Break

Session 2: Trainees

Convener:  George Phillips, Rice Univ.

11:00   Selected Abstracts

11:40   Flash Poster Data Blitz

12:00   Lunch and Poster Session (Posters 12:45-1:45)

Session 3: Enzyme and Computational Biophysics
Convener:  Ming Zhou, Baylor College of Medicine

1:45     Pressure-sensing WNK Kinases
Elizabeth Goldsmith – Univ. of Texas Southwestern

2:25     Replication Mechanisms of a Small dsRNA Virus
Jane Tao, Rice Univ.

2:45     Physics of Memory and Learning – From the Perspective of Interacting Biomolecules

Margaret Cheung, Univ. of Houston

3:05     Hydrophobicity and Solubility
Monte Pettitt, Univ. of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston

3:25     Break

Session 4: Molecular Biophysics
Convener:  Xiaodong Cheng, MD Anderson Cancer Center

3:40     Allosteric Control of Hsp70 Chaperone Activity

Wayne Hendrickson, Columbia Univ.

4:20     Defining Dynamic DNA Repair Responses
             John Tainer, MD Anderson Cancer Center

4:40     Cryo-EM Structures of Transcriptional Mediator Complexes
Kuang-Lei Tsai, Univ. of Texas Health Science Center Houston

5:00     What is THE Structure of a Protein When it has More than One? Time to Move Beyond Static Snapshots
George Philips, Rice Univ.

5:20     Reception