2010-2011

Harel Weinstein, Ph.D., Weill Cornell Medical College
“Functional mechanisms of Transporters and GPCRs”

Melissa S. Jurica, Ph.D., UC Santa Cruz
“Views of the dynamic human spliceosome”
Sol M. Gruner, Ph.D., Cornell University
“Pressure as Probe to Understand Protein Function”

Joseph Barycki, Ph.D., University of Nebraska
“Complexities of glutathione homeostasis”

Leslie Kuhn, Ph.D., Michigan State University
“Gaining Insights on Ligand Binding and Specificity by Screening Binding Sites for Similarity”

Zbigniew Dauter, Ph.D., NCI, CCR, Argonne National Laboratory
“Billiards played by a crystallographer: The fascinating world of packed spheres”

David Agard, Ph.D., UCSF, HHMI
“The Structure and Mechanism of the Hsp90 Molecular Chaperone: A Ubiquitous Facilitator of Cellular Signaling”

John Spence, Ph.D., Arizona State University
“Femtosecond protein nanodiffraction with an X-ray laser”

Robert Stroud, Ph.D., UCSF
“To and Through the Biological Membrane”

2009-2010

Jack Johnson, Ph.D., The Scripps Institute
“Biophysical Studies of Virus Particles and their Maturation: Insights intoElegantly Programmed Nanomachines”

Gregory Beaucage, Ph.D., University of Cincinnati
“Biomolecular Structure Using Small Angle Scattering”

Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D., UC San Diego
”Using Protein Structure to Study Network Pharmacology.”

Paul Adams, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and UC Berkeley
”Automated Structure Solution with Phenix”

Angel Garcia, Ph.D., Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
”Microsecond simulations of the detailed folding/unfolding thermodynamics of small proteins”

C.S. Raman, Ph.D., University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
“Atomic Insights into Lipid Mediator Biosynthesis”

Steve Almo, Ph.D., Albert Einstein College of Medicine
“Sequence, Structure, Function Immunity: Structural Genomics of Costimulation”

Abraham Lenhoff, Ph.D., University of Delaware
“Crystallization and Other Adventures on the Protein Phase Diagram”

Karen Allen, Ph.D., Boston University
“Control of Microenvironments in Enzyme-Catalyzed Reactions

Kenneth Dill, Ph.D., UCSF
“Small-numbers dynamics in biological systems and the principle of Maximum Caliber.”

2008-2009

Ivan Rayment, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
“The Structure and Function of Kar3/Vik1: When is a molecular motor not a motor.”

David Richardson, Ph.D., Duke University
“Checking on your Mol's Probity: MolProbity Evaluation for StructureRefinement and Bioinformatics.”

Neil Kelleher, Ph.D., University of Illinois-UC
”The Biosynthesis of Polyketide and Peptide Natural Products Viewed Through the Lens of High Performance Mass Spectrometry.”

Walid A. Houry, Ph.D., University of Toronto
”The Multiple Cellular Roles of the Hsp90 Molecular Chaperone.”

Robert L. Jernigan, Ph.D., Iowa State University
”The mechanics of protein functional motions.”

George N. Phillips, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Protein Crystallography at the Fringes: Limits of the usual Bragg and Debye-Waller approximations."

James Holton, Ph.D., Advanced Light Source, Berkeley
"The threshold of “solvability” in protein crystallography."

John A. Tainer, Ph.D., The Scripps Institute
"Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) combined with crystallography and computation: defining accurate macromolecular structures in solution."

Ian A. Wilson, D.Phil., D.Sc., The Scripps Institute
"Influenza and HIV-1: receptor binding, neutralization and vaccine design."

Rachel Klevit, Ph.D., University of Washington
"Diversity & specificity in protein ubiquitination: the BRCA1/BARD1 paradigm."

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