Agenda
Thursday, March 21, 2024
Len Freedman, Chief Scientific Officer, FNLCR
Dwight Nissley, Director, Cancer Research Technology Program, FNLCR
Dominic Esposito, Director, Protein Expression Laboratory, FNLCR
Avinash Gill, Sr. Principal Scientific Manager, Biomolecular Resources, Genentech
“Efficient high-throughput workflows meet the protein needs of drug discovery campaigns”
Phil Bourne, Director, COBRE Protein Production Core, University of Oklahoma
“Managing a smaller facility: the OU COBRE protein production and characterization core”
Matt McKenna, Senior Field Applications Scientist, Thermo Fisher Scientific
“Optimizing transient protein production”
Ruth Saxl, Senior Manager, MAPP, The Jackson Laboratory
“Developing an antibody validation pipeline”
Simona Colantonio, Director, CPTAC Antibody Characterization Laboratory, FNLCR
“Antibody characterization at the Frederick National Lab: challenges and opportunities”
Oleg Brodsky, Senior Principal Scientist, Pfizer
“Production of human KAT6A acetyltransferase quaternary complex in insect cells”
Kinlin Lee Chao, IBBR, University of Maryland
“Production of 2H/13C/15N labeled NIST-Fab fragment in Komagataella phaffii for NMR studies"
Robert D’Ippolito, Scientist II, RAS Mass Spectrometry, FNLCR
“Using mass spectrometry to characterize neurofibromin”
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Friday, March 22, 2024
Angela Gronenborn, Rosalind Franklin Professor and Chair,
Department of Structural Biology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
“The awesome power of fluorine NMR—from drugs to cells”
Rachel Harding, Principal Investigator, Structural Genomics Consortium
“Target 2035: the quest to develop a pharmacological modulator for every human protein”
Jana Ognjenovic, Group Leader, Advanced Cryo-EM Technology Group, FNLCR
“Cold hard truths: navigating sample prep challenges in CryoEM”
Bill Gillette, Principal Scientist, Protein Expression Laboratory, FNLCR
“Vibrio natriegens the need for speed and more”
Carter Mitchell, Chief Scientific Officer, Kemp Proteins
“ProtFAUNA: fast annotation of uncharacterized nucleic acids to gain insights into the hypothetical
global proteome”
James Kostas, Senior Scientist, Merck
“Validation of LabChip GXII for structural enablement construct triage”
Austin Graves, Senior Field Applications Specialist, Refeyn Inc.
“Understanding biomolecular behavior with mass photometry”