Program
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July 25 th (Mon)
DYNAMICS OF MOLECULAR MACHINES
Morning
8:20-8:50 Registration
8:50-9:00 Opening remark from KIAS President (Doochul Kim)
9:00-9:40 José N. Onuchic (UC San Diego)
Exploring the landscape for protein folding: from function to molecular machines.
9:40-10:20 Masaki Sasai (Nagoya Univ.)
Statistical mechanical perspective of allosteric transition of proteins
10:20-10:40 (coffee break)
10:40-11:20 Matthias Rief (Technischen Universitat Munchen)
Mechanics and Dynamics of Cytoskeletal Protein Molecules
11:20-12:00 Seok-Cheol Hong (Korea Univ.)
Single-molecule studies on DNA-related biological Problems
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Afternoon
2:00-2:40 Dave Thirumalai (Univ. Maryland)
Transcriptional regulation by Riboswitches
2:40-3:00 (coffee break)
3:00-3:40 Wokyung Sung (Postech)
Stochastic Resonance in a Stretched Biopolymer
3:40-4:20 Wonmuk Hwang (Texas A&M Univ.)
Atomistic basis for the directionality and cooperativity of the Ncd motor
4:20-6:20 poster session
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July 26 th (Tue)
MOLECULAR MOTORS 1
Morning
9:00-9:40 Michael Hinczewski (Univ. Maryland)
Understanding the Stepping Dynamics of Myosin V using Polymer Models
9:40-10:20 Etsuko Muto (RIKEN BSI)
Interface between Kinesin and Microtubule
10:20-10:40 (coffee break)
10:40-11:20 Michael Vershinin (U. Utah)
Limitations of tug-of-war modeling of bi-directional transport
11:20-12:00 Stefan Klumpp (Max Planck Instit.)
Mechanisms and economy of molecular machines
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MOLECULAR MOTORS 2
Afternoon
2:00-2:40 Paul Whitford (LANL)
Probing the Energy Landscape of Ribosome Function Through Simulation
2:40-3:20 Jong Bong Lee (Postech)
Molecular Mechanisms of DNA Mismatch Repair at the Single-molecule Level
3:20-3:40 (coffee break)
3:40-4:20 Matthew Lang (Vanderbilt Univ.)
Single-molecule Studies of ClpXP Machinery Fully Loaded
4:20-5:00 Nam Ki Lee (Postech)
Single Vesicle Docking and Fusion Studied by Alternating-Laser Excitation in Solution
6:00 - banquet
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July 27 th (Wed)
CYTOSKELETAL SYSTEM & CELL MOTILITY
Morning
9:00-9:40 Roger Kamm (MIT)
A Computational, Brownian Dynamics Simulation of Cytoskeletal Mechanics
9:40-10:20 Marileen Dogterom (AMOLF)
Centering of microtubule asters by pushing and pulling forces
10:20-10:40 (coffee break)
10:40-11:20 Alex Mogilner (UC Davis)
Mechanics of cell crawling
11:20-12:00 Kyoung Jin Lee (Korea Univ.)
Memory in crawling cells
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Afternoon
Free time, Discussion
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July 28 th (Thu)
CELLULAR DYNAMICS
Morning
9:00-9:40 Dennis Discher (Univ. Penn)
How deeply cells feel: from soft marices of controlled thickness to nuclear readouts
9:40-10:20 Tae Young Yoon (KAIST)
Visualizing Single-molecule Protein-protein Interactions in Native Proteome
10:20-10:40 (coffee break)
10:40-11:20
Shin'ichi Ishiwata (Waseda Univ.)
Mechanochemistry of Biomotile Systems: From Single Molecules to Supramolecular Assemblies
11:20-12:00 Toshio Yanagida (Osaka Univ.)
Single Molecule Imaging and Nanoscience: Fluctuation and the Function of Life
