2nd Singapore Structural Biology Symposium 2024
29 February 2024
Duke-NUS Amphitheatre, Level 2
8 College Road, Singapore 169857
The 2nd Singapore Structural Biology Symposium (SSBS) is a vibrant symposium and networking platform to showcase and focus on advanced, cutting-edge research in the field of macromolecular X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) as well as other structural biology techniques. The symposium will feature leading local structural biologists and young, aspiring researchers.
The symposium will be held on the 29th of February 2024, at Duke-NUS Amphitheatre. Registration for participation is open and FREE to all local institution staff and students. The registration period is now open till 19 January 2024. For enquiries, contact us at sg.structure.bio@gmail.com
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Speakers
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Attendees
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1 Day
16 Speakers
SSBS 2024
29/02/2024
Programme
Captivating keynote addresses, insightful panel discussions, and interactive workshops, elucidating the latest advancements in deciphering molecular structures and their implications in drug design, disease mechanisms, and biomolecular interactions.
Plenary Speakers
Richard Gerald Brennan
James B. Duke Distinguished
Professor of Biochemistry
Chair, Department of Biochemistry
Duke University, USA
Filippo Mancia
Professor of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics
Co-Director of Graduate Studies, Department Physiology & Cellular Biophysics
Columbia University, USA
Yifan Cheng
Professor, Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine
HHMI Investigator
University of California San Francisco, USA
Speakers
Alain Ange Marie Filloux
Director, Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE)
Professor
NTU, Singapore
Mok Yu-keung Henry
Associate Professor
Deputy Head of Department
NUS, Singapore
Phan Anh Tuan
Chair, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
Professor
NTU, Singapore
Tristan Bepler
Group Leader
Simons Machine Learning Centre, USA
Co-founder and CEO
NE47, Singapore
Xiao Tianshu
Assistant Professor
NTU, Singapore
Qu Kun
Assistant Professor
NUS, Singapore
Hu Chunyi
Assistant Professor
NUS, Singapore
Igor N Berezovsky
Senior Principal Investigator
A*STAR, Singapore
Lin Zhewang
Assistant Professor
NUS, Singapore
Peter J Bond
Senior Principal Investigator
A*STAR, Singapore
Alexander Ludwig
Assistant Professor
NTU, Singapore
Tan Yaw Sing
Assistant Principal Investigator
A*STAR, Singapore
Yang Zhang
Professor
NUS, Singapore
SCHEDULE
| 8:00 AM | Registration |
| 8:30 AM | Opening address (Yu Hao, NUS) |
| 8:40 AM | Welcome address (Shee-Mei Lok, Duke-NUS) |
| Morning Session | |
| Session Chair | Jayaraman Sivaraman, NUS |
| 8:45 AM | Plenary speaker (Richard Brennan, Duke USA) MtrR on Steroids |
| 9:15 AM | Alain Filloux, NTU Structural insights on loading the T6SS bacterial gun with toxic bullets |
| 9:35 AM | Henry Mok, NUS Scaffold stability of the Kazal-type inhibitor AaTI and how Dengue virus capture human plasmin for infection of mosquito |
| 9:55 AM | Phan Anh Tuan, NTU Structural basis for G-quadruplex recognition by proteins |
| 10:15 AM | Plenary speaker (Filippo Mancia, Columbia University USA) Structural Basis of Lipopolysaccharide maturation by the O-antigen ligase |
| 10:45 AM | Coffee break (20 minutes) |
| Session Chair | Liew Chong Wai, NTU |
| 11:05 AM | Thermo Fisher Scientific |
| 11:20 AM | Cytiva |
| 11:35 AM | GenScript |
| 11:50 AM | Photo taking |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch (1 hour 30 minutes) |
| Afternoon Session | |
| Session Chair | Tan Yong Zi, NUS |
| 1:30 PM | Tristan Bepler, NE47 & SMLC USA Fast and accurate annotation of filaments and membranes in micrographs and tomograms with TARDIS |
| 1:50 PM | Xiao Tianshu, NTU Structure- and function-based antiviral therapeutic development |
| 2:10 PM | Qu Kun, NUS Membrane dynamics during virus maturation and vesicle formation |
| 2:30 PM | Peter Bond, A*STAR Host Recognition of SARS-CoV-2 Spike: A Double-Edged Sword |
| 2:50 PM | Chunyi Hu, NUS Decoding the Activation and Inactivation Mechanisms of Type I-C CRISPR-Cas3 system |
| 3:10pm | Igor Berzovsky, A*STAR Allostery: from molecular mechanisms to biomedical implications |
| 3:30 PM | Tea break (30 minutes) |
| Session Chair | Shee-Mei Lok, Duke-NUS |
| 4:00 PM | Zhewang Lin, NUS Mechanism of Tubulin Autoregulation: Marking the Ribosome for Targeted mRNA Control |
| 4:20 PM | Alexander Ludwig, NTU Native architecture of the human Barr Body studied by correlative light and cryo electron tomography |
| 4:40 PM | Tan Yaw Sing, A*STAR Unveiling the secret pockets of proteins for drug discovery |
| 5:00 PM | Yang Zhang, NUS Towards the solution of the protein structure prediction problem |
| 5:20 PM | Plenary Speaker (Yifan Cheng, UCSF USA) Structures of INO80-hex and -nuc complexes |
| 5:50 PM | Closing address (Liou Yih-Cherng, NUS) |
Location and Date
Address
Duke-NUS Medical School
8 College Rd Singapore 169857
Date
29th February 2024
Organised by
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Organising Committee
LOK, Sheemei | Duke-NUS, Singapore (Chair)
SIVARAMAN, Jayaraman | NUS, Singapore
LESCAR, Julien | NTU, Singapore
LIOU, Yih-Cherng| NUS, Singapore
TAN, Yong Zi | NUS, Singapore
LIEW, Chong Wai | NTU, Singapore