Program

Program Information

A. Symposium

Day 1:  Monday, August 19, 2019

  UW-Milwaukee, Kenwood IRC (KIRC), 3135 North Maryland Ave., Milwaukee,WI

08:15 – 08:45

REGISTRATION  (KIRC Atrium)

and  BREAKFAST

Food served in KIRC Atrium 1140

Seating in KIRC 1130 & 1150

 
08:45 – 09:15

OPENING & Welcome  (KIRC 1150)

Brian Thompson (UWM Research

Foundation, and Lubar Entrepreneurship   Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

 

                SESSION 1   (KIRC Room 1150) 

                Chair: Anne Kenworthy (University of Virginia School of Medicine)

09:15 – 09:45

Keynote 1 

Kalina Hristova

(Johns Hopkins University)

 

EphA2 Receptors: dimerization and structure

09:45 – 10:00       Keynote  1  Q & A  
10:00 – 10:30

Keynote 2 

Vali Raicu

(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

2D Forster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET) and Fluorescence Intensity Fluctuation (FIF) spectrometries
10:30 – 10:45       Keynote  2  Q & A  
10:45 – 11:15

Coffee-fueled Discussion

Led by: Paul Park (Case Western) and

            Graeme Milligan (Glasgow)

 Know the strengths and weaknesses of

your fluorescence-based technique for

studying receptor oligomerization.

                SESSION 2   (KIRC Room 1150) 

                Chair: Graeme Milligan (University of Glasgow)

11:15 – 11:45

Keynote 3 

Paul Park

(Case Western Reserve University)

 

Probing the structure of rhodopsin by atomic force microscopy

11:45 – 12:00           Keynote  3  Q & A  
12:00 – 12:15

Short  Talk 1 

Patrick Byrne

(University of Texas – Austin)

Ligand-independent EGFR/ERbB1      oligomers do not rely on the asymmetric kinase dimer interface
12:15 – 12:25           Short Talk 1  Q & A  

 

12:30 – 13:30

LUNCH  (Served in KIRC 1140)

Seating in KIRC 1130 and 1150

 

 

Symposium, Day 1:  Monday, August 19, 2019 (continued)

UW-Milwaukee, Kenwood IRC (KIRC), 3135 North Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI

                SESSION 3  (KIRC 1150)

              Chair: Paul Park (Case Western Reserve University)

13:30 – 14:00

Keynote 4

Anne Kenworthy

(University of Virginia Medical School)

High content imaging to identify novel modulators of membrane rafts
14:00 – 14:15           Keynote  4   Q & A  
14:15 – 14:30

Short Talk 2 

Maxim Prigozhin

(Stanford University)

 

Multicolor electron microscopy

14:30 – 14:40           Short Talk 2 Q & A  
14:45 – 15:45

COFFEE and POSTER VIEWING

   KIRC Atrium and Rooms 1130&1140

 

              SESSION 4   (KIRC  1150)

                Chair: Claudiu Gradinaru (University of Toronto at Mississauga)

15:45 – 16:15

Keynote 5

Yinglong Miao

(University of Kansas)

Enhanced sampling of G-protein-coupled receptor-G protein interactions
16:15 – 16:30           Keynote 5  Q & A  
16:30 – 16:45

Short Talk 3 

Taras Pogorelov

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Fast pressure jump reveals site-specific protein dehydration-folding dynamics using multiprobes
16:45 – 16:55           Short Talk 3  Q & A  

 

16:55 – 17:15

 

PICK-UP  FOR  TRANSPORTION  TO  DINNER

Location:  Gather under the pedestrian bridge over North Maryland Ave; same as drop-off point from the morning.

 

 

Shuttle  WILL depart at 17:15

18:00 – 22:00

SYMPOSIUM  RECEPTION  and  DINNER

Location:   Best Place at the

                    Historic Pabst Brewery

 

Optional Tour Included

 

    Symposium, Day 2: Tuesday, August 20, 2019

 UW-Milwaukee, Kenwood IRC (KIRC), 3135 North Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI

 

08:15 – 08:45

BREAKFAST   (Served in KIRC 1140)

Seating in KIRC 1130 and 1150

 

                 SESSION  5  (KIRC Room 1150)

Chair:  Ionel Popa (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

08:45 – 09:15

Keynote 6

Graeme Milligan

(University of Glasgow)

 

Assessing the dynamics of GPCR oligomerization: From in vitro to in vivo

09:15-09:30           Keynote 6  Q & A  
09:30-10:00

Keynote 7

Claudiu Gradinaru

(University of Toronto at Mississauga)

Multi-Scale Ligand-induced Dynamics in the A2A Adenosine Receptor
  10:00 – 10:15           Keynote 7  Q & A  
10:15 – 10:30

Short Talk 4 

Michael Stoneman

(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

 

An Advanced Optical Micro-Spectroscope for Quantifying Protein Interactions

10:30 10:40           Short Talk 4 Q & A  
10:45 – 11:15

Coffee-fueled Discussion

Led by:   Claudiu Gradinaru (Toronto) and Kalina Hristova (J. Hopkins)

 

GPCRs: How do different types of ligands (full/partial agonist, inverse agonist) modulate different structural substates?

                 SESSION  6  (KIRC Room 1150)

Chair:  Yinglong Miao (University of Kansas)

11:15 – 11:45

Keynote 8

Leggy A. Arnold

(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

 

Development of a new therapy for asthmas that specifically targets GABAA receptors in the lung

11:45 – 12:00           Keynote 8  Q & A  
12:00 – 12:15

Short Talk 5

Chris King

(HHMI, Janelia Research Campus)

 

Direct measurements of VEGF:VEGFR2 binding affinities on the plasma membrane

12:15 12:25           Short Talk 5  Q & A  
12:25 12:30  SYMPOSIUM  CLOSING  

 

12:30 – 13:30

 LUNCH

(Food served in KIRC 1140)

Seating in KIRC 1130 and 1150

 

 

 

 

 

B. RIIO Alliance  2nd General Assembly Meeting

 Tuesday, August 20, 2019

 UW-Milwaukee, Kenwood IRC (KIRC), 3135 North Maryland Ave., Milwaukee, WI

 

 

                                            RIIO  GENERAL  ASSEMBLY MEETING

KIRC Room  1150

 

                            Chair:  Vali Raicu (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee)

 

13:30 13:50

 

RIIOA Director Report

Vali Raicu

(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

 

Updates on Alliance membership, structure, etc.; introducing workgroups

 

13:50 14:45

 

Member Updates

Various

 

Successful grant applications, high impact papers, moves, new instruments built/planned, etc.

(One to two slides per institution)

 

14:45 15:15

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

 

15:15 15:45

 

 

   Tour of the UWM Biophysical Microspectroscopy Facility  (KIRC 2060)

   guided by Vali Raicu (UW-Milwaukee)

 

15:45 16:45

 

Discussion  (KIRC 1150)

Led by: Anne Kenworthy

                      (University of Virginia)

Yinglong Miao

(University of Kansas) and

 

 

Action items, next steps,

working groups formation

 

 

16:5517:00

 

CLOSING

 

 

 

17:00

 

Gather for PICK-UP for RETURN to HOTEL

(Scenic Tour via “City Tours MKE”)

 

Location:  Gather under the pedestrian bridge over North Maryland Ave.

 

Shuttle WILL depart at 17:15

For last year’s program information, please see the 2017 website