Schedule for: 17w5032 - The Geometry and Topology of Knotting and Entanglement in Proteins
Beginning on Sunday, November 5 and ending Friday November 10, 2017
All times in Oaxaca, Mexico time, CST (UTC-6).
| Sunday, November 5 | |
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| 14:00 - 23:59 | Check-in begins (Front desk at your assigned hotel) |
| 19:30 - 22:00 | Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| Monday, November 6 | |
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| 07:30 - 08:45 | Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel) |
| 08:45 - 09:00 | Introduction and Welcome (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Lynn Zechiedrich: Using DNA supercoiling to control DNA minicircle shape (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Eric Rawdon: Knotting in open subarcs of closed knots (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Agnese Barbensi: Applications of R-graphs to DNA modeling (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Yuanan Diao: A Diagrammatic Approach for Determining the Braid Index of Alternating Links, Part I (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:45 - 12:30 | Claus Ernst: The geometry of confined random polygons (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 12:30 - 13:15 | Sophie Jackson: Protein Knots: Experimental Studies on Stability, Folding, Degradation and Design (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 13:20 - 13:30 | Group Photo (Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| 13:30 - 14:45 | Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| 14:45 - 15:30 | Free Time (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Kate Hake: Geometry of Polygonal Knot Space (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 16:00 - 16:30 | Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Laura Plunkett: An exploration of the effects of excluded volume on knotting, size and scaling in self avoiding random walks in 3-space. (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 17:15 - 17:45 | Harrison Chapman: Slipknotting in random knot diagrams (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| Tuesday, November 7 | |
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| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel) |
| 09:30 - 09:45 | Presentation of Nancy Scherich's 2017 award winning Dance your PhD video (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Piotr Szymczak: Periodic motion of sedimenting elastic knots (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:00 - 11:45 | Tetsuo Deguchi: Additivity of topological balance lengths for composite knots and a slow growth in the effective scaling exponent of knotted random polygons (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Eleni Panagiotou: Topological Methods for Polymeric Materials: Characterizing the Relationship Between Polymer Entanglement and Viscoelasticity (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Clayton Shonkwiler: A Natural Map from Random Walks to Equilateral Polygons in Any Dimension (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Marek Cieplak: Structural entanglements in proteins and their complexes (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 13:45 - 15:00 | Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Jose Onuchic: Developing models for chromatin folding (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 15:45 - 16:30 | Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Tom Needham: Comparing Metrics on Spaces of Curves (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Wanda Niemyska: Lassos in Proteins caught by Gaussian Linking Number (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| Wednesday, November 8 | |
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| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel) |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Joanna Sulkowska: New type of entanglement in protein structures – lassos and links (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 09:45 - 10:15 | Pengyu Liu: A Diagrammatic Approach for Determining the Braid Index of Alternating Links, Part II (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:15 - 10:45 | Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:45 - 11:30 | Dorothy Buck: Topology of DNA Replication (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:30 - 12:15 | Kenneth Millett: Knotting and Linking in Macromolecules (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 12:15 - 13:30 | Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| 13:30 - 17:30 | Free Afternoon (Oaxaca) |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| Thursday, November 9 | |
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| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel) |
| 09:00 - 09:45 | Javier Arsuaga: Topological Analysis of Chromosome Conformation Capture Data (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 09:45 - 10:30 | Peter Virnau: Knots in DNA, Chromosomes and Polymer melts (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Pawel Dabrowski-Tumanski: The complex lasso proteins – an approach to the function of the lasso motif (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:30 - 12:30 | Mario Eudave-Muñoz: Knotted handlebodies and Möbius bands (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 12:30 - 15:00 | Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Gelasio Salazar: On the number of unknot diagrams (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Kyle Chapman: Sampling Finite Sets: From Partitions to Orthoschemes (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 16:15 - 17:00 | Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 17:00 - 17:30 | Ellinor Haglund: Uncovering the Molecular Details Behind Disease-Associated Leptin Mutations and the Role of the Pierced Lasso Topology (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 17:30 - 18:15 | Claudia Benitez-Cardoza: From Protein Folding to Drug Design (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 18:15 - 19:00 | De Witt Sumners: Entanglement in Biology (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 19:00 - 21:00 | Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
| Friday, November 10 | |
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| 07:30 - 09:00 | Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel) |
| 09:00 - 10:30 | Open Discussion (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | Open Discussion (Conference Room San Felipe) |
| 12:00 - 14:00 | Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles) |
