2017 Vanderbilt Symposium on Modeling Immunity

Register by April 7 to guarantee lunch! 
Reception and poster presentation to follow in MRB III lobby.

Schedule of Events:

12:40pm |          Registration Opens
                       **Lunch Available outside 1220 MRB III**

1:00-1:10pm |     Introduction by Jens Meiler, Ph.D.

1:10-1:40pm |     Sarel Fleishman, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Department of Biomolecular Sciences; Martha S. Sagon Career Development Chair, Weizmann Institute of Science
"Atomic design of new antibodies guided by structure and sequence information from natural antibodies"

1:45-2:15pm |      Andrew Ward, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps University
"CryoEM as a tool to evaluate immune responses to vaccine candidates"

2:20-2:40pm |      Break
                           **Coffee and tea provided**                         

2:40-3:10pm |      Frank DiMaio, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington
“Protein structure determination to atomic accuracy from cryoEM density using Rosetta” 

3:15-3:45pm |       Steven Kleinstein, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine
“Analysis of B cell antibody repertoires from next-generation sequencing”

3:50-4:20pm |        Jens Meiler, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University
“Structure Prediction and Computational Design of Antibody/Antigen Interactions” 

4:30-5:30pm |        Reception/Poster Presentation
                           5th Floor Atrium - MRB III
                           **Wine, Beer, and Light snacks provided**