2:00 – 2:25 pmPriya Banerjee— University at Buffalo“From Sequence to Selectivity: How Disordered Prion-Like Domains Orchestrate Co-Condensation of Transcriptional Regulators”
2:25 – 2:50 pmAlan Moses— University of Toronto“A functional map of the human intrinsically disordered proteome”
2:50 – 3:15 pmJackie Pelham— Smith College“The Long and Short of it: disordered isoforms and temperature in the circadian clock”
3:15 – 3:30 pm
Coffee Break
3:30 – 3:55 pmTobin Sosnick— University of Chicago“IDRs, bungee cords, and alternative binding modes studied using HDX/MS”
3:55 – 4:20 pm
Y. Hoang
— SUNY-Upstate Medical University“Intrinsic Disorder Tunes Condensate Material State and Spatial Organization”
4:20 – 4:45 pmScott Showalter— Penn State University“IDP Phosphorylation in Promoter Proximal Pausing Mechanisms”
4:45 – 5:00 pm
Wrap Up — Day 1
5:00 – 8:00 pm
Dinner, Drinks & Poster Session
Covered — Life Science Complex Atrium; poster titles collected at registration
8:00 pm
Retire to Craftsman Inn
📍 Craftsman Inn, Syracuse
8:00 – 9:50 am
PI Working Breakfast
Covered — Research center discussions & grant planning
9:00 – 9:50 am
Breakfast
Covered — fuel up for a full day of science
9:50 – 10:00 am
Introduction Day 2 & Poster Awards
10:25 – 10:50 amJennifer Hurley— Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute“Intrinsic Protein Disorder in the Highly Ordered Circadian Clock”
10:50 – 11:15 amHyun Kate Lee— University of Toronto“Cellular stress response without form”
11:15 – 11:30 am
Coffee Break
11:30 – 11:55 amSeung (Sue) Rhee— Michigan State University“Roles of disordered proteins on desiccation tolerance across kingdoms of life”
11:55 am – 12:20 pmEugene Serebryany— Stony Brook University“Experimental mapping of conformation-phenotype relationships in IDPs”
12:20 – 12:45 pmHeather Meyer— Syracuse University“Intrinsically disordered proteins as environmental sensors and actuators”
12:45 – 2:00 pm
Lunch
Covered lunch
2:00 – 2:15 pm
Lance Denes
— Lionnet and Holt labs, New York University“Generative design of functional IDRs in a developmental transcription factor”
2:15 – 2:30 pm
Ananya Chakravarti
— Joseph lab, Princeton University“Elucidating and Engineering Thermoresponsive Phase Separation”
2:30 – 2:45 pm
Takumi Matsuzawa
— Dufresne lab, Cornell University“Susceptibility and regulation of biomolecular condensates by solutes”
2:45 – 3:00 pm
Laura Haney
— Henty-Ridilla lab, SUNY-Upstate Medical University“TDP-43 Directly Regulates Microtubule Dynamics”
3:00 – 3:15 pm
Coffee Break
3:15 – 3:30 pm
Jessica Niblo
— Sukenik lab, Syracuse University“Sequence determinants of environmental sensitivity in stress-response transcription factors”
3:30 – 3:45 pm
Misty Zaczyk
— Hurley lab, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute“Alterations in conformational flexibility of FREQUENCY-Interacting RNA Helicase drive changes in functional output in Neurospora crassa”
3:45 – 4:00 pm
Mahmudul Hasan
— Lo lab, Syracuse University“Inhibition of Tau Aggregation by a BBB-Penetrating Peptide to Mitigate Neurotoxicity in Cellular and Mouse Models of Tauopathies”