Program

Program Information

A. Milwaukee Symposium

Day 1:  Monday, August 25, 2022

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

07:45 – 08:45 REGISTRATION  (KIRC Atrium)

and  BREAKFAST

Food served in KIRC Atrium 1140

Seating in KIRC 1130 & 1150

08:45 – 09:00 OPENING & Welcome  (KIRC 1150)
                SESSION 1   (KIRC Room 1150) 

                Chair: Graeme Milligan (University of Glasgow)

09:00 – 09:30 Keynote 1 

Catherine Royer

(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

 

Mechanisms controlling Start in budding yeast revealed by fluctuation microscopy

09:30 – 09:40       Keynote  1  Q & A
09:40 – 10:10 Keynote 2 

Kai Zhang

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Finetune receptor tyrosine kinase activity with light
10:10 – 10:20       Keynote  2  Q & A
10:20 – 11:20 Coffee Break and First Poster Viewing Session  
                SESSION 2   (KIRC Room 1150) 

                Chair: Ionel Popa (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

11:20 – 11:50 Keynote 3 

Suzanne Scarlata

(Worcester Polytechnic Institute)

 

Using fluorescence imaging to uncover novel G protein / phospholiphase C6 signaling pathways

11:50 – 12:00           Keynote  3  Q & A
12:00 – 12:30 Selected Poster Talks (SPTs)

(5-minute talks & questions)

David Frick (UW-Milwaukee)

Tyler Camp (UI @ Urbana-Champaign)

Monica Gonzalez-Magaldi (UT @ Austin)

Madison Rennie (Worcester)

Ece Ozdemir (Johns Hopkins)

 

 

 

The SARS-CoV-2 Nsp3 Mac1 domain . . .

Single-molecule orientation . . . 

Receptors for Insulin . . . 

Changes in stress granule formation . . .

A quantitative microscopy method . . . 

 

 

12:30 – 13:30

LUNCH  (Served in KIRC 1140)

Seating in KIRC 1130 and 1160

 

Symposium, Day 1:  Thursday, 25 August 2022 (continued)

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

                SESSION 3  (KIRC 1150)

              Chair: Claudiu Gradinaru (University of Toronto at Mississauga)

13:30 – 14:00 Keynote 4

Kalina Hristova

(Johns Hopkins University)

Quantification of ligand-induced lipid and protein microdomains with distinct signaling properties
14:00 – 14:10           Keynote  4   Q & A
14:10 – 14:40 Keynote 5  

Ionel Popa

(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

 

A live image processing algorithm to measure fluctuations of single molecules and maintain sample focus with nanometer resolution over hour-long recordings

14:40 – 14:50           Keynote 5 Q & A
14:50 – 15:40 General Discussion

Instigated by: Kalina Hristova (Johns Hopkins)

Graeme Milligan (Glasgow)

What kind of microscopies do we have that people are not aware of? What kind of microscopy are we missing and what (realistic) features should it present?
15:40 – 16:40 Coffee Break and Second Poster Viewing Session
              SESSION 4   (KIRC  1150)

                Chair: Vali Raicu (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

16:40 – 17:10 Keynote 6

Anne Kenworthy

(University of Virginia School of Medicine)

High-content imaging platform to discover chemical modulators of plasma membrane rafts
17:10 – 17:20           Keynote 6  Q & A
17:20 – 17:30 Selected Poster Talks (SPTs)  

(5-minute talks & questions)

Sabita Sarma (UW-Milwaukee)

Dammar Badu (UW-Milwaukee

 

 

Talin R8 domain … response to force …

Refinement of FRET spectrometry

17:30           Recombobulating and walking to Reception
 

18:00 – 21:15

 

SYMPOSIUM RECEPTION and DINNER

Location:  The Zelazo Center for the Performing Arts

 

 

 

 

21:30

 

Limousine shuttle departs for Hyatt Place

 

 

 

    Symposium, Day 2: Friday, August 26, 2022

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

 

 

07:45 – 08:30

 

BREAKFAST 

                 SESSION  5  (KIRC Room 1150)

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

08:30 – 09:00 Keynote 7

Graeme Milligan

(University of Glasgow)

 

The in-situ quaternary organisation of M1 muscarinic receptors

09:00-09:10           Keynote 7  Q & A
09:10-09:40 Keynote 8

Michael Stoneman

(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

Combination of FRET spectrometry and molecular dynamics simulations to probe receptor quaternary structure
09:40 – 09:50           Keynote 8  Q & A
 

09:50 – 10:30

 

Coffee Break and Third Poster Viewing Session

10:30 11:10 General Discussion

Instigated by: Catherine Royer (Rensselaer)

Vali Raicu (UW-Milwaukee)

A. What kind of errors do we encounter in fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopies?

B. What are some less-known errors in FRET?

                 SESSION  6  (KIRC Room 1150)

Chair:  Kalina Hristova (Johns Hopkins University)

11:10 – 11:40 Keynote 9

Claudiu Gradinaru

(University of Toronto at Mississauga)

 

Ligand-Base Conformations of the A2A Adenosine Receptor Revealed by Single-Molecule Fluorescence

11:40 – 11:50           Keynote 9  Q & A
11:50 – 12:20 Keynote 10

Taras Pogorelov

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign))

 

Signaling through cellular membrane: capturing dynamic interactions of RTKs

12:20 – 12:30           Keynote 10  Q & A
 

12:30 – 13:30

 LUNCH

(Food served in KIRC 1140)

Seating in KIRC 1130 and 1160

 

 

 

 

B. RIIO Alliance  3rd General Assembly Meeting (Guests are welcome!)

 Friday, August 26, 2022

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

 

 

                                            RIIO  ASSEMBLY Meeting of Members and Guests

KIRC Room  1150

 

                            Chair:  Graeme Milligan (University of Glasgow)

 

13:30 14:00

 

RIIOA Director Report

Vali Raicu

(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)

 

Scientific and technology report

14:00 14:10 Q & A/Discussion
 

14:10 – 14:40

 

Updates by Alliance Members

Everyone is invited to bring a couple of slides with news to share

Successful grant applications, high impact papers, new instruments planned, new methods, etc.
 

14:40 – 15:00

 

Oral Presentation

Alexander Arnold (UW-Milwaukee)

Drug Discovery in Milwaukee (MIDD)

15:00 – 15:30

Tour of the UWM Biophysical Microspectroscopy Facility  (KIRC 2060)
 

15:30 – 16:20

 

COFFEE and Planning/Brainstorming Session

 

 

 

 16:20 –16:35  

Closing Remarks 

For the previous program information, please see the 2019 website