Program

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June 10 (Mon)

Morning

8:00-8:50 Registration, Breakfast 

8:50-9:00 Opening remark (Doochul Kim, KIAS President)

9:00-9:40 Fyl Pincus (UC Santa Barbara) 

The Viscosity of Salty Water

9:40-10:20 Mahn Won Kim (Changwon Univ.)

Application of Optical Tweezers on the Rheological Study of Lipid film-Absorbed Polymer Complex

10:20-10:40 coffee break

10:40-11:20 Masaki Sasai (Nagoya Univ.)

Fluctuating dynamics of 3D genome organization

11:20-12:00 Young-Joon Kim (Yonsei Univ.)

Epigenetic regulation of intragenic CpG islands by Hepatitis B virus protein X induces liver cancer 

12:00-2:00 Lunch  

Afternoon

2:00-2:40 Jie Yan (Natl. Univ. of Singapore)

Tuning DNA-protein and protein-protein interactions by force at a single-molecule level

2:40-3:00 coffee break

3:00-3:40 Nam-Kyung Lee (Sejong Univ.)

Kinetics of the Triplex-Duplex Transitions in DNA

3:40-4:20 Doseok Kim (Sogang Univ.)

Single molecule spectroscopy and Correlation analysis on the filament dynamics of RecA

4:20-6:20 poster session 

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July 11 (Tue)

Morning

8:00-9:00 Breakfast 

9:00-9:40 Hashim Al-Hashimi (Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor)

Re-writing the DNA double Helix: How Common are Hoogsteen Base-Pairs?

9:40-10:20 Jong Bum Lee (Univ. of Seoul)

Self-assembled nucleic acid microstructures for biomedical applications

10:20-10:40 coffee break

10:40-11:20 Erel Levine (Harvard Univ.)

Many are called but few are chosen: the targets of small RNAs

11:20-12:00 Blake Wiedenheft (Montana State Univ.) 

RNA-guided Adaptive Immune Systems in Bacteria

Afternoon

12:00-2:00 Lunch 

2:00-2:40 Ji-Joon Song (KAIST)

Structural basis of protein complex formation and reconfiguration by polyglutamine neurodegenerative disease protein ATAXIN-1 and Capicua

2:40-3:20 Michael Q. Zhang (Univ. Texas, Dallas)

Modeling population dynamics of cancer cells

3:20-3:40 coffee break

3:40-4:20 Kwang-Hyun Cho (KAIST)

Critical molecular circuits for cell fate determination

4:20-5:00 Michael Lin (Stanford Univ.)

6:00 - Banquet

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June 12 (Wed)

Morning

8:00-9:00 Breakfast 

9:00-9:40 Dave Thirumalai (Univ. Maryland, College Park)

Describing stepping kinetics of molecular motors

9:40-10:20 Michio Tomishige (Tokyo Univ.)

How kinesin coordinates two motor domains to walk along.

10:20-10:40 coffee break

10:40-11:20 Steven Gross (UC Irvine)

Force adaptation, and the non-stochastic nature of transport

11:20-12:00 Stefan Diez (MPI)

Force Generation by Microtubule Motors and Diffusible Crosslinkers: From Cellular Function to Nanotechnological Applications

Afternoon

12:00-2:00 Lunch 

2:00-2:40 Thomas Surrey (London Research Instit.)

Local functionality of structurally distinct parts of the microtubule cytoskeleton

2:40-3:00 coffee break

3:00-3:40 Hyungsuk Lee (Yonsei Univ.)

Measurement of Molecular Interaction between Actin Filament and Actin Binding Protein using Optical Tweezers

3:40-4:20 Françios Nédélec (EMBL, Heidelberg)

Design Principles of Yeast Spindles

Closing remark 

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