Session: Protein Engineering II - Techniques (2009 Annual Meeting)

Wednesday, November 11, 2009: 12:30 PM

Bayou D (Gaylord Opryland Hotel)

Description:

The focus of this session is to reflect the latest advances in protein engineering and design. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: (1) Development of high throughput screen/selection for protein engineering; (2)Development of novel protein engineering methods; (3) protein engineering via directed evolution; (4) computational protein engineering and design.

Sponsor:

Bioengineering

Chair:

Patrick C. Cirino
Email: cirino@engr.psu.edu

Co-Chair:

Jeffrey Gray
Email: jgray@jhu.edu

12:30 PM

(427a) Computational Antibody Design by Canonical Structure Identification and Optimal Amino Acid Selection
Robert J. Pantazes and Costas D. Maranas

12:50 PM

(427b) Computational Predictions of Mutant Behavior of AraC
Monica Berrondo, Jeffrey J. Gray and Robert Schleif

1:10 PM

(427c) Computational Design of High Affinity Monomeric Streptavidin
Sheldon Park, Cheng-Kuo Hsu and Kok Hong Lim

1:30 PM

(427d) Engineered Self-Cleaving Purification Tags for Rapid Cloning and Protein Purification
Wan-Yi Wu, Alison R. Gillies, Judy F. Hsii, Lydia Contreras, Seachol Oak, Michael B. Perl and David Wood

1:50 PM

Break

2:00 PM

(427e) Binding of PbDTPA Antigens to Specific Recognition Sequences of Antibody 5B2
Amit S. Jain, Hank Ashbaugh and Steven Rick

2:20 PM

(427f) Accelerating the Design of Split Proteins with a Range of Cooperative Functions
Thomas H. Segall-Shapiro, Peter Q. Nguyen, Justin Judd, Junghae Suh and Johnathan J. Silberg

2:40 PM

(427g) Isolation of Functional Variants of the Lasso Antimicrobial Peptide Microcin J25 by High-Throughput Screening and in Silico Design
Jessica Si-Jia Pan and A. James Link

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