Workshop on Evolution and Control of Complexity:
Key Experiments Using Sources of Hard X-rays

Program: Focus Panel 4 - Controlling Biological Functions

Chair: Sol Gruner (Cornell)
Co-Chair: Ian McNulty (Argonne National Laboratory)

Oct 11, 2010, Monday, Room B3100
16:40 -17:10 Focus Panel Introductions and Statement of Goals
17:10 – 17:40

Chris Jacobsen,  Argonne Nat'l Lab and Northwestern University
X-ray microscopy: freezing complex biological processes  (Bio, Abstract, Talk)

Oct 12, 2010, Tuesday, Room B3100
08:00 – 08:30 Coffee and Refreshments
Future Vision for Biology
08:30 – 09:00

Sol M. Gruner, Cornell University            
Some Grand Challenges in Synthetic Biology (Bio, Abstract, Talk)

09:00 – 09:30

Ilme Schlichting, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg
FELs - emerging opportunities in structural biology
(Bio, Abstract, Talk)

09:30 – 10:00

John C.H. Spence, Arizona State University
Femtosecond nanodiffraction using a hard x-ray laser
(Bio, Abstract, Talk)

10:00 – 10:30

Recap, Discussions and Draft Summaries

10:30 – 11:00

Break

11:00 – 11:30

Marius Schmidt, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee                            
Energetics of Biological Macromolecules from Five-Dimensional Crystallographic Data (Bio, Abstract, Talk)

11:30 – 12:00

Peter Schwander , University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Structure and its Variations from Random Low-Signal Snapshots
(Bio, Abstract, Talk)

12:00 – 12:30

Recap, Discussions and Draft Summaries

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
Protein Dynamics and Folding
14:00 – 14:30

Soichi Wakatsuki , Photon Factory, Structural Biology Research Center
Biological nanomachines and their control
(Bio, Abstract, Talk)

14:30 – 15:00

Sebastian Doniach, Stanford University                
Use of correlated x­ray scattering (CXS) to track protein motions during enzyme catalysis by means of an x­ray free­electron laser
(Bio, Abstract, Talk)

15:00 – 15:30

Andrew H. Marcus, University of Oregon, Eugene                           
Controlling Structure and Energy Transfer in Liposome Ordered Porphyrin Aggregates by Fluorescence-Detected 2D Electronic Spectroscopy (Bio, Abstract, Talk)

15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 16:30

Karl F. Freed, University of Chicago                                         
Protein Folding: Predicting Structure from Sequence
(Bio, Abstract, Talk)

16:30 – 17:00

A.C. McIntosh, ERRI, SPEME, University of Leeds
Suggestions for experimental work concerning the protein folding  (Bio, Abstract, Talk)

17:00 – 18:00

Recap, Discussions and Draft Summaries, Writing Assignments

18:00 No-host Dinner, Argonne Guest House
Oct 13, 2010, Wednesday, Room B3100
08:00 – 08:30 Coffee and Refreshments
Towards Organismal Biology
08:30 – 09:00

Lee Makowski, Northeastern University, Boston                             
Probing Protein Ensembles and Functional Intermediates with X-ray Solution Scattering (Bio, Abstract, Talk)

09:00 – 09:30

Keith C. Cheng, Penn State Hershey College of Medicine, Hershey 
Defining the Phenomic Landscape for Genes, Chemicals, and Diseases (Bio, Abstract, Talk)

09:30 – 10:00

Focus Panels: Summary Preparation and Editing Assignments

10:00 – 10:30

Break

10:30 – 12:00

Focus Panels: Summary Presentation Preparation
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
Oct 13, 2010, Wednesday, Plenary Session, 401 Auditorium
13:30 – 15:15 Summary Presentations from Focus Panels (15 minutes each)
15:15 – 15:30 Workshop Summary
15:30 Adjourn

Deadlines

Workshop Registration
Closed

Abstract Submission
September 10, 2010

Argonne Guest House Room Reservation
September 30, 2010

Workshop Reception (Argonne Guest House)

Sunday - October 10, 2010, 17:00 – 18:30

Local Contact

Anne Owens, Workshop Coordinator

Chairs

Uwe Bergmann (SLAC)
Gopal Shenoy (ANL)
Edgar Weckert (DESY)

Sponsors

Argonne National Laboratory DESY SLAC