The Protein Society Annual Symposium 2024 (PS38)

July 23 - 26, 2024 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | Westin Bayshore Vancouver

The 38th Annual Symposium will take place on July 23 - 26, 2024 in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia, in the Westin Bayshore Vancouver. Our Program Planning Committee is chaired this year by Angela M. Gronenborn, University of Pittsburgh and co-chair Mazdak Khajehpour, University of Manitoba. Fellow committee members include Jean Baum, Rutgers University; Gil Privé, University of Toronto. The PPC has assembled a program that spans the broad range of protein science, combining critical underpinnings of the field, the latest developments and a vision into the future with career development and technical workshops as well as ample networking opportunities. This year’s Symposium continues our commitment to open participation, with each session featuring contributed talks and speakers from across a broad range of topics.

Preliminary Sessions and Speakers

Special Plenary Speakers
David Eisenberg  University of California, Los Angeles The Amyloid State of Proteins: Structure, Polymorphs, Pathogenesis, and Disassembly		Polly Fordyce Stanford University 2023 Protein Science Young Investigator Award Winner
The Sharpest New Tools in the Box
Aina Cohen Stanford University New Opportunities to Study Protein Structure and Dynamics		Daniella Goldfarb Weizmann Institute of Science Exploring Proteins’ Conformations Inside the Cell by EPR Spectroscopy		Kallol Gupta Yale School of Medicine Nanoscale Spatially Resolved Molecular Cartography of the Cellular Membranes
Tatyana Polenova University of Delaware Peering into Biological Assemblies with Atomic Resolution: Magnetic Resonance & Integrative Structural Biology		Sriram Subramanian University of British Columbia AI, Cryo-EM & Drug Discovery: Emerging Intersections		Ellen Zhong Princeton University Machine Learning for reconstructing biomolecular landscapes in situ with cryoDRGN
Enlarging the Box: Using Protein Science to Tackle Grand Challenges
Jennifer Cochran Stanford University Structural and Functional Insights Into the LAG-3 Immune Checkpoint Receptor		Jennifer DuBois Montana State		Michael Hecht Princeton University  Novel Proteins for Novel Functions
Jean-Phillippe Julien University of Toronto  Avidity & Multi-specificity Combined to Combat Viral Diversity		Natalie Strydnadka University of British Columbia  Structural Characterization of the Master Controller of Broad-spectrum β-lactam Antibiotic Resistance in Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Superbug Strains		Huimin Zhao University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Crowding Inside and Outside the Cell
Felipe G. Quiroz Emory University & Georgia Institute of Technology  High-fidelity in vivo Probing of Phase Separation Dynamics Driven by Disordered Proteins		Jerelle Joseph Princeton University Computational Approaches for Understanding & Engineering Biomolecular Condensates		Evan Spruijit Radboud University, Nijmegen Phase Separation & Condensate Characteristics in Crowded Environments
Integration of Structural Methodologies: More Than the Sum of the Parts
Sheena Radford University of Leeds Building a Wall: Molecular Insights Into How Bacteria Do It		Andrej Sali University of California, San Francisco From Integrative Structural Biology to Cell Biology		Hao Wu Harvard University How Many Ways Can Proteins Damage Cell Membranes
Dancing With Shape-Shifting Partners
Lewis Kay University of Toronto Structural Biology: Understanding Function Requires Understanding Dynamics		Lauren Porter NIH Exploring Unknown Regions of Protein Fold Space		Andela Saric Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Game Changers in Imaging: Looking in 3D, Multi-color and In-life Cells
Francisco Balzarotti Research Institute of Molecular Pathology Accessing the Nanoscale with Light		Aleksandra Radenovic EPFL		Simon Scheuring Weill Cornell Institute of Medicine High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy for Dynamic Single Molecule Structural Biology
Nature-inspired Design: Enzymes, Transport Proteins and Others in Their Ilk
Steve Mayo California Institute of Technology Protein Design and Engineering for Translational Applications		Pumtiwitt McCarthy Morgan State University Towards Engineering New Substrate Specificities into a Meningococcal Capsule Polymerase		Scott Prosser University of Toronto Exploring Unknown Regions of Protein Fold Space
Messages and Messengers Across the Membrane
Denise Okafor Penn State University Ligand-driven Allostery and Interdomain Communication in Nuclear Receptors		Heather Pinkett Northwestern University Mechanistic Studies of ABC Importers		Rebecca Voorhees California Institute of Technology Membrane Protein Biogenesis & Quality Control
Pre- and Post-translational Modification: Creating a Myriad of Proteins Out of One
James Galligan University of Arizona Quantifying the PTM Landscape Across the Proteome		Elizabeth Rhoades University of Pennsylvania Functional Mechanisms of Dysfunctional Proteins		Evan Worden Van Andel Research Institute Asymmetries in Trans-histone Crosstalk
Ubiquitin in Action: From Structure to Cell Biology
Catherine Day University of Otago Regulation of RING E3 Ligases by Zinc Fingers and Ubiquitin		Mark Hochstrasser Yale University Unexpected Roles for Ubiquitin in Cell Homeostasis & Endosymbiont Interactions		Gary Shaw Western University Identifying Mechanisms of Ubiquitination by the E3 Ligase Parkin