International Conference on Intrinsically Disordered Proteins:
Forms, Functions and Diseases (IDP 2017)
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali
December 9-12, 2017
Organizers: Samrat Mukhopadhyay and Elizabeth Komives
December 9, 2017 (Saturday)
9:00 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks by the Organizers
Session 1: Keynote Session
Chair: P. Balaram (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
9:15 am
EMBO Keynote Lecture
Christopher Dobson (University of Cambridge, UK)
The Amyloid State of Proteins and its Significance in Biology and Medicine
Session 2: Disorders, Functions and Dysfunctions
Chair: Elizabeth Komives (University of California San Diego, USA)
10:00 am
10:30 am
11:00 am
11:30 am
Jane Dyson (Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA)
Disorder Rules: How Cells and Viruses use Disordered Proteins
Richard Kriwacki (St. Jude Children's Hospital, Memphis, USA)
Exploring the Diverse Conformations and Biological Functions of IDPs
Vladimir Uversky (University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA)
Unusual Biophysics and Strange Biology of Intrinsic Disorder
Group Photo and Coffee
Session 3: Phase Separation and Membrane-less Organelles
Chair: Peter Wright (Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA)
12:00 am
12:30 pm
1:00 pm
2:00 pm
Rohit Pappu (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
Sequence Determinants of Phase Behavior in Multivalent Proteins
Peter Tompa (VIB Structural Biology Research Center, Brussels, Belgium)
Structural Disorder Promotes Phase Separation of C9orf72 Dipeptide Repeats in ALS
Lunch
Poster and Tea
Session 4: Amyloids in Disease and Function
Chair: Christopher Dobson (University of Cambridge, UK)
4:00 pm
4:30 pm
5:00 pm
Jayant Udgaonkar (NCBS Bangalore and IISER Pune, India)
Mechanism of Prion-like Conformational Change by the Tau Protein
Matthew Chapman (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
Discouraging Amyloid Formation with Beta-Rich Proteins
Daniel Otzen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Self-Organizing Amyloid in Bacteria
Session 5: Special Evening Session
Chair: Jayant Udgaonkar (NCBS Bangalore and IISER Pune, India)
5:45 pm
6:30 pm
P. Balaram (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India)
G. N. Ramachandran and the Origins of the Field of Polypeptide and Protein Conformations
Dinner
December 10, 2017 (Sunday)
December 11, 2017 (Monday)
December 12, 2017 (Tuesday)