Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Structure and Beyond for Emerging Viruses
Discussion Leader: Thomas Edwardson (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Erica Saphire (The Scripps Research Institute, USA)
"Structure and Beyond for Emerging Viruses"
4:20 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Methods in Virology
Discussion Leader: Yara Abidine (Umeå University, Sweden)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pm
Pedro Buzón (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
"Towards Revealing the Hepatitis B Virus Assembly Mechanism: A Single-Molecule Approach"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pm
Farzaneh Mohajerani (Brandeis University, USA)
"Simulating Hepatitis B Virus Antiviral Agents"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm
Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pm
Serban Ilca (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
"Multiple Liquid Crystalline Geometries of Highly Compacted Nucleic Acid in a dsRNA Virus"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm
Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pm
David Silverio Moreno Gutiérrez (Instituto de Química, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico)
"Intracellular Oligomerization of Structural Viral Proteins in Living Cells"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm
Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pm
Sanaz Panahandeh (University of California, Riverside, USA)
"The Equilibrium Structure of Self-Assembled Protein Nano-Cages"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm
Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pm
Emily Hartman (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Using Systematic Mutagenesis and Functional Selections to Alter VLP Properties"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm
Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Structure-Function Relationships / Virus-Inspired Design
Discussion Leaders: Christopher Schlicksup (Indiana University, USA) and Ekaterina Selivanovitch (Indiana University, USA)
9:00 am - 9:15 am
Roger Castells Graells (John Innes Centre, United Kingdom)
"Viruses in Motion: Studying the Maturation Stages of an Animal Virus"
9:15 am - 9:20 am
Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 am
Jason Schrad (Michigan State University, USA)
"Mimicking Giant Virus Genome Release In Vitro "
9:35 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55 am
Julie Button (Indiana University, USA)
"Replacing the Functions of Cargo with the Capsid Protein During Alphavirus Nucleocapsid Assembly"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 am
Joshua Plank (University of California, Riverside, USA)
"Directed Synthesis of Janus-Like Au/ZnS Photocatalytic Nanomaterials by M13 Bacteriophage Spheroids"
10:15 am - 10:20 am
Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 am
Paul Chariou (University of California, San Diego, USA)
"Delivery of Pesticides to Plant Parasitic Nematodes Using Plant Viral Nanoparticles"
10:35 am - 10:40 am
Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 am
Jing Dai (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Artificial Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Systems Templated By Self-Assembling Viral Capsid Proteins"
10:55 am - 11:00 am
Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Mentorship Component: Career Paths
Discussion Leaders: Stephan Tetter (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) and Lakshmi Nathan (Cornell University, USA)
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel Discussion
Careers in Virology
Jeroen Cornelissen (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Eun-Chung Park (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, USA)
Andrew Rennekamp (Cell, Cell Press, USA)
Erica Saphire (The Scripps Research Institute, USA)
Deirdre Costello (Eli Lilly and Company, USA)
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes