Physics of Proteins II: Structure, Dynamics, & Evolution

Presentations

• Dynamics of mechanism of a dual function of DNA repair and signal transduction by CraCRY protein  

  Invited-In-person · Invited

  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Publication: L. Yan, X. Cao, L. Wang, J. Chen, A. Sancar and D. Zhong, PNAS 121, e2417633121 (2024). Dynamics and mechanism of DNA repair by a bifunctional cryptochrome.

  Presenters

  • Dongping Zhong

    • Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ

  Authors

  • Dongping Zhong

    • Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ

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• The Characterization of Evolved mMaple3 Fluorescent Proteins

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Miles Powell

    • Stony Brook University

  Authors

  • Miles Powell

    • Stony Brook University

  • Alison Tebo

  • Ryan Woloschuk

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• The Picosecond Dance of a Single Water Molecule at the Protein's Surface

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Publication: 1. Juan Zhao, Pengyun Yu, Tiantian Dong, Yanzhou Wu, Fan Yang, and Jianping Wang, Commun. Chem. 2024, 7, 82.

  Presenters

  • Jianping Wang

    • Chinese Academy of Sciences

  Authors

  • Jianping Wang

    • Chinese Academy of Sciences

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• Toward a chemically transferable coarse-grained model of protein-based materials learned from tripeptide fragments

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Tariq Shereef

    • Colorado School of Mines

  Authors

  • Tariq Shereef

    • Colorado School of Mines

  • Alexander Pak

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• Brownian translocation and protein conformational dynamics of a mitochondrial RNA polymerase along DNA

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Publication: Shannon J. McElhenney, and Jin Yu. Collective Variables and Facilitated Conformational Opening during Translocation of Human Mitochondrial RNA Polymerase (POLRMT) from Atomic Simulations. J. Chem. Theory Comput. 2025, 21, 9, 4815–4829

  Presenters

  • Jin Yu

    • University of California, Irvine

  Authors

  • Shannon McElhenney

    • University of California, Irvine

  • Jin Yu

    • University of California, Irvine

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• Using resurrected ancestral proteins to map function along diverging evolutionary pathways

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Wouter Hoff

    • Oklahoma State University-Stillwater

  Authors

  • Rosalie Dohmen

  • Gunnar Hoogerwerf

  • Aihua Xie

    • Oklahoma State University-Stillwater

  • Wouter Hoff

    • Oklahoma State University-Stillwater

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• Nucleotide-dependent dynamics of KIF-14 conserved structural domains in kinesin

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Saul Hernandez

    • New Mexico State University

  Authors

  • Saul Hernandez

    • New Mexico State University

  • Susan Atlas

    • University of New Mexico

  • Aung Htut

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• Influence of Hydrophobic Mismatch on pHILIP Insertion Dynamics

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Ganga Sharma

    • Fairmont State University

  Authors

  • Ganga Sharma

    • Fairmont State University

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• Understanding structure-function relationships in allosteric systems beyond the linear regime

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Stephen Thornton

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  Authors

  • Stephen Thornton

    • University of California, Los Angeles

  • Felipe Martins

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Marcelo Guzmán

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Andrea Liu

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Shenshen Wang

    • University of California, Los Angeles

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• Uncovering Key Springs in Elastic Networks: Insights from Global Epistasis and from Hessian Analyses

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Farshid Mohammad-Rafiee

    • Department of Physics & Astronomy

  Authors

  • Farshid Mohammad-Rafiee

    • Department of Physics & Astronomy

  • Felipe Martins

    • University of Pennsylvania

  • Joshua Plotkin

  • Andrea Liu

    • University of Pennsylvania

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