Announcing the
2012 Winter Meeting

This is the 66th meeting of the Group.


Wednesday, January 25th, 2012, 9:30 – 5:30

Light refreshments served from 9:00 am


7 World Trade Center
250 Greenwich Street, 40th floor
Manhattan, NY

This all-day meeting will include presentations by local researchers, lunch, a poster session, and post-meeting reception.

There will again be a POSTER COMPETITION with cash prizes for the winners!
You must register your poster in advance by email to nysbdg@nysbc.org . In addition, you must register for the meeting as detailed below.

Confirmed Speakers:


Anthony Armstrong (Lima Lab), MSKCC, Parsing recognition of a SUMO-modified substrate: Recruitment of the anti-recombinogenic helicase Srs2 by SUMO-PCNA

Helen Berman, Rutgers/PDB, The Protein Structure Initiative Knowledge Base

Ken Dill, SUNY Stony Brook, Physical constraints on proteomes and protein evolution

Burçe Ergel (Hunt/ Palmer Labs) Columbia U., Protein dynamics control progression of a multi-step catalytic reaction

Hiro Furukawa, Cold Spring Harbor, Structural dissection of NMDA receptor pharmacology

David Fushman, U Maryland, Playing LEGO with ubiquitin

Tarun Kapoor, Rockefeller University, Examining mechanisms underlying microtubule self-organization

Tali Lavy (Joshua-Tor Lab) Cold Spring Harbor, Structure of the yeast GAL regulon

Chris Sander, MSKCC, Protein 3D Structure from Evolutionary Sequence Variation

David Stokes, NYU, CryoEM Studies of an ATP-dependent Cu pump

Robert Sweet, BNL / NSLS, Update on NSLS-II

Liang Tong, Columbia, Structure of the 750kD MCC holoenzyme: sequence versus structural homology

There is no charge for the scientific program or for refreshments, but
pre-registration is required because of security at NYAS
Go to http://www.nyas.org to register for our meeting.
Be sure to bring photo ID on day of the meeting.
The New York Academy of Sciences is served by subway lines A,C,E,J,M,Z,1,2,3,4,5,PATH
Space may be limited an early registration is encouraged. We cannot guarantee you will be admitted if you are unregistered.


Organized by David Cowburn, David Eliezer , and Ming Zhou.
Site Organizer: Jennifer Henry , NYAS


Current Committed Major Sponsors: FEI, GE Healthcare, GenScipt, JEOL, Rigaku, RCN/NSF. Other: Bruker, Hampton, Nature, Pfizer, Roche, Wyatt.

We are grateful to the New York Academy of Science, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and the New York Structural Biology Center for continuing logistical support. Dr. Ming Wang generously contributes web page support.

Prior Meeting







We are grateful to the New York Academy of Science, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and the New York Structural Biology Center for continuing logistical support. Dr. Ming Wang generously contributes web page support. Deniz Temel provided photographs.





Speakers & Chairs from 2011 Summer Meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
(L->R) David Cowburn, Thomas Schalch, Yinghao Wu, Evripidis Gavathiotis, Alexander Shekhtman, Qing Fan, Gaetano Monterione, Colin Driscoll, Ruth Stark, Wayne Hendrickson, Vivek Patel, Hao Wu, Jikui Song. Missing, Scott Blanchard.


Poster awardees (and their prizes!) : Guozhou Xu, Weill Cornell Medical College; Kotaro Nakanishi, MSKCC; Qiangfeng Cliff Zhang, Columbia Univ.

Special award of NSMB subscription: Jennifer Hackett (Dalton School), Steven Mason (NSMB)

List of participating research groups

Previous Speakers

The summer meeting organized by David Cowburn, Hao Wu & David Eliezer


For further information contact:
Hao Wu, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. T: (212) 746 6451, F: (212) 746-4843
David Cowburn, Albert Einstein College of Medicine gV: 908 913 0495, F: 212 208 2597
David Eliezer, Weill Medical College of Cornell University. T: (212) 746-6557, F: (212) 746-4843
Ming Zhou , Columbia University. T: , F:
Site Organizer: Jennifer Henry , NYAS