Announcing the
2012 Summer Meeting

This is the 67th meeting of the Group.


Thursday , August 9th, 2012, 9:30-5:50

Weill Cornell University Medical College, Uris Auditorium
69th St and York Avenue, NY, NY

This all-day meeting will include presentations by local researchers, lunch, a poster session, and post-meeting reception. Coffee and refreshments served from 900 am.

There will again be a POSTER COMPETITION with cash prizes for the winners!
You must register your poster in advance by clicking here. Because of space limitations, there will be selection of posters to provide representation of labs, institutions, and research areas.

Invited Speakers:


in process

Confirmed Speakers:


Prof. David Fushman, Dept. of Chemistry, U. Maryland TBA

Prof. David Jeruzalmi, Dept. of Chemistry, CCNY and Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
"Inner workings of the UvrA-UvrB DNA damage sensor"

Prof. Wayne Hendrickson, Columbia University
"Multi-crystal native SAD structures routinely from light-atom anomalous diffraction"

Dr. Nathan Karpowich, NYU (Wang lab)
"Structure and Assembly of an ECF Transporter for Riboflavin"

Prof. Themis Lazaridis, CCNY, CUNY
Modeling protein-membrane interactions

Prof. Michael Rout, Rockefeller University , TBA

Dr. Yibing Shan, D.E. Shaw Research, TBA

Kate Stafford, Columbia U (Palmer lab)
"Exploring the conformational dynamics of ribonuclease H by integration of molecular dynamics simulations and NMR spectroscopy"

Prof. Iban Ubarretxena-Belandia, Mount Sinai School of Medicine TBA

Prof. Hao Wu, Immune Disease Institute, Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston and Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School
"Oligomeric signalosomes in TLR and TNFR pathways - a new concept in signaling?"


There is no charge for the scientific program or for refreshments, but individual pre registration is recommended so that we can estimate attendance. Please click here to indicate likely attendance. We suggest you arrive early -- we cannot guarantee admission. Please wear your institutional ID to assist Cornell security.


Organized by David Cowburn, David Eliezer , and Ming Zhou.


Previous 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









Speakers & Chairs from 2012 Summer Meeting at New York Academy of Science (L->R) Wolfgang Peti, Anthony Armstrong, Robert Sweet, Burce Ergel, Liang Tong, Tali Lavy, David Stokes, Ken Dill, David Eliezer, Ming Zhou, David Cowburn (not shown, Tarun Kapoor, Helen Berman, Hiro Furikawa, Chris Sander)






Poster awardees (and one of their prizes!) : Sozanne R. Solmaz (Rockefeller U.), Paul Robustelli (Columbia U.), Breann C. Brown (Brown U.). Poster awards from Nature Structural and Molecular Biology.

List of participating research groups

Previous Speakers

The winter meeting organized by David Cowburn, David Eliezer, and Ming Zhou


For further information contact:
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: