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8:20-8:30
Welcome: Keck Center Overview and Conference Overview
Matt Baker and Monte Pettitt

8:30-9:20
Andrej Sali, PhD
Professor
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
University of California San Francisco
From Integrative Structural Biology to Cell Biology

9:20-9:35
Michelle Kameda-Smith, MBChB, PhD
Baylor College of Medicine
Cancer Therapeutics Training Program
Immunologically Targeting U1 Mutant Shh Medulloblastoma

9:35-9:50
Rongbin Li
UTHealth
NLM Training Program in Biomedical Informatics and Data Science
Novel Large Language Model Usage Enables Accurate Gene Set Annotation

9:50-10:50
Poster Session and Coffee Break

10:50-11:40
Alisia Fadini, PhD
Research Associate
Cambridge Institute for Medical Research
University of Cambridge
Teaching OpenFold to Refine Its Predictions with Crystallographic Data

11:40-11:55
Stephenie Rogers
UT Medical Branch at Galveston
Houston Area Molecular Biophysics Training Program
Structural and Functional Investigation of Antiviral Mitochondrial Drug Toxicity

11:55-12:10
Catherine Zhu
Baylor College of Medicine
Training in Precision Environmental Health Sciences Program
Investigation of the Genetic and Environmental Susceptibility to Idiopathic Inflammatory Myopathies

12:10-12:45
Lunch Break

12:45-1:35
Abhishek Singharoy, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Molecular Sciences
Arizona State University
Biophysics Inverted: From Function to Structure

1:35-1:50
Paul Kilgore, PhD
UT Medical Branch at Galveston
Antimicrobial Resistance Training Program in the Texas Medical Center
Non-Antibiotic Based Therapeutics to Combat Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria

1:50-2:05
Samantha Hitt
UTHealth
Molecular Basis of Infectious Diseases Training Program
Switching It On: An Electrostatic Switch Underlies Activation of the Rcs Stress Response

2:05-3:05
Poster Session and Coffee Break

3:05-3:55
Lydia Kavraki, PhD
Noah Harding Professor of Computer Science, Professor of                Bioengineering, Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Director, The Ken Kennedy Institute
Rice University
ML-Driven Analysis of Binding Interactions in Adaptive Immune Response

3:55-4:10
Chase Hutchins
UTHealth
Training Interdisciplinary Pharmacology Scientists Program
Membrane Dynamics and Druggability of Rheb and RhoA

4:10-5:00
Jeremy Smith, PhD
Governor’s Chair and Director
University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory Center for Molecular Biophysics
AI and Modeling in Drug and Vaccine Design

5:00-5:45
Awards,  Closing and Reception
Matt Baker and Monte Pettitt