Full Program — Function without Form 2026

Program

Full Schedule

Two days of talks, discussions, and networking. Food is provided for Thursday dinner, Friday breakfast, and Friday lunch.

📍 Syracuse University, Hall of Languages 500

12:00 – 2:00 pm Arrival & Registration Independent lunch
1:50 – 2:00 pm Welcome & Introduction
2:00 – 2:25 pm Priya Banerjee — University at Buffalo “From Sequence to Selectivity: How Disordered Prion-Like Domains Orchestrate Co-Condensation of Transcriptional Regulators”
2:25 – 2:50 pm Alan Moses — University of Toronto “A functional map of the human intrinsically disordered proteome”
2:50 – 3:15 pm Jackie 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 pm Tobin 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 pm Scott 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
10:00 – 10:25 am Eric Dufresne — Cornell University “Thinking Critically About Cellular Phase Separation”
10:25 – 10:50 am Jennifer Hurley — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute “Intrinsic Protein Disorder in the Highly Ordered Circadian Clock”
10:50 – 11:15 am Hyun Kate Lee — University of Toronto “Cellular stress response without form”
11:15 – 11:30 am Coffee Break
11:30 – 11:55 am Seung (Sue) Rhee — Michigan State University “Roles of disordered proteins on desiccation tolerance across kingdoms of life”
11:55 am – 12:20 pm Eugene Serebryany — Stony Brook University “Experimental mapping of conformation-phenotype relationships in IDPs”
12:20 – 12:45 pm Heather Meyer — Syracuse University “Intrinsically disordered proteins as environmental sensors and actuators”
12:45 – 2:00 pm Lunch Covered lunch
2:00 – 3:00 pm Trainee Talks 4 short talks by graduate students and postdocs
3:00 – 3:15 pm Coffee Break
3:15 – 4:00 pm Trainee Talks 3 short talks by graduate students and postdocs
4:00 – 4:15 pm Wrap Up