Training Program in Protein Folding

ICTP Meeting on Structure and Dynamics in Soft
Matter and Biomolecules: From Single Molecules to Ensembles

June 4-8, 2007, Trieste, Italy

CIHR Post-doc Travel Awardee , Artem Badasyan, presents his poster entitled
" Which Factors may affect these Scenarios of Folding?"

Biophysical Society 51st Annual Meeting

March 3-7, 2007, Baltimore, Maryland

Program Student Trainee, Soyoung Lee, presents her poster entitled" Partial Molar Volumes and
Adiabatic Compressibilities of Fully Unfolded Protein States"

Canadian Society of Chemistry 89th Annual Meeting May 27- 31, 2006, Halifax, Nova Scotia
CIHR Travel Awardee Lei Chi presents her poster entitled "A blue-green absorbing cross-linker for rapid photo-switching of peptide helix content"	"Design of photo-switchable SH3 domain proteins" was the poster topic of CIHR Travel Awardee Fuzhong Zhang"

2nd CIHR Strategic Training Program International Symposium on Protein Folding: Principles and Diseases Toronto, May 25th and 26th, 2006

M.Sc. Student Sarah Mansour Investigating the molecular basis for the aggregation and elastomeric properties of elastin.	PDF Dmitry Korzhnev Probing the ensembles of transition and intermediate states of a protein folding reaction by pressure dependent NMR relaxation	M.Sc. Student Usheer Kanjee Function of RavA chaperone and its interaction with lysine decarboxylase: X-ray structure of Ldc1


	PDF Tanja Mittag Compactness of disordered Sic1 is important for its switch-like interaction with Cdc4		Ph.D. Student Gamal Rayan Effect of osmolytes on the hydration of myoglobin

Workshop at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (http://www.ictp.it) on "Biopolymers: Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Mechanics of DNA, RNA and Proteins" May 30 - June 3, 2005, Miramare - Trieste, Italy
CIHR Travel Awardee Stefan Wallin presents his poster entitled "A Critical Assessment of the Topomer Search Model of Protein Folding"	Stefan gives an oral presentation at a "Poster Highlights" session of the workshop

Can. Soc. Biochem. Molec. Cell. Biology 48th Annual Meeting Cellular Dynamics March 16 - 20, 2005, Banff, Alberta
CIHR Travel Awardee Johnny Tkach presents his poster entitled "Hsp 104p Nucleocytoplasmic Trafficking Depends on Active Nuclear Import and Nuclear Retention Systems"	CIHR Travel Awardee Yinan Zhang presents his poster entitled "The Function of ERp57 in Folding and Assembly of MHC I Molecules"
Congratulations to both Johnny and Yinan whose posters were honoured with awards at the meeting!

CIHR Strategic Training Program International Symposium on Proteins: Structure, Folding and Disease Toronto, June 3rd and 4th, 2004

PDF Ahmed El Zoeiby Structure & Function of an endotoxin-modifying enzyme	PhD Student Peter Hwang Integral membrane protein PagP alternates between two dynamically distinct states	PDF Hania Wehbi NMR investigation of a transmembrane helical hairpin segment from CFTR


PhD Student Sean Reichheld Mech. of interdomain collaboration in drug-binding activity of tetracycline repressor		PhD Student Yulia Tsitrin Structural aspects of the ClpX chaperone functional cycle		PDF Minghua Wang G-protein coupled metabotropic glutamate receptors as targets for drug design