All events will be held on the second floor of the Student Center West, University of Illinois at Chicago, 828 South Wolcott Avenue, Chicago.
8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:40 am Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Program Chair: Neil Marsh, University of Michigan
8:50 am First session
Session Chair: Amy Stockert, Ohio Northern University
8:50 am Gerd Prehna, University of Illinois at Chicago
Pheromone recognition and selectivity in the regulation of natural competence among Streptococcus species
9:20 am Matthew Wohlever, University of Chicago
Quality control of mitochondrial tail-anchored proteins
9:50 am Romila Mascarenhas, Loyola University, Chicago
Elucidating the mechanism of inactivation of PLP dependent drug targets ornithine and GABA aminotransferase and comparison with a non-drug target aspartate aminotransferase
10:20 am Coffee Break
10:50 am Second session
Session Chair: Elizabeth Trimmer, Grinnell College
10:50 am Edwin Anthony, Marquette University, Milwaukee
Why does nitrogenase have two catalytic halves?
11:20 am Chang Cui, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne
A designed metalloenzyme achieving the catalytic rate of a native enzyme
11:50 pm Zahidul Islam University of Iowa
Mechanistic studies of drug-resistant cancerous thymidylate synthase
12:20 pm Lunch: on your own.
1:50 pm Third session
Session Chair: Kevin Walker, Michigan State University
1:50 pm Heather Mayes, University of Michigan
Cellulases, why pucker sugar?
2:20 pm Trung Nguyen, University of Notre Dame
The beneficial and detrimental MMPs in diabetic wound healing
2:50 pm Kenneth Clevenger, Northwestern University
Biosynthetic dissection of the orphan benzodiazepine benzomalvin A using a fungal heterologous expression system
3:20 pm Judith Burstyn, University of Wisconsin
Homocystinuria-associated variants of cystathionine beta-synthase
3:50 pm Closing remarks
Local Arrangements Chair: Bernie Santarsiero, University of Illinois, Chicago
4:00 pm Poster session with graduate student and postdoc poster competitions
4:15 pm Poster judging begins
6:30 pm Poster prizes awarded
6:45 pm Conference closes