Same meeting, new name

After 20 years of explaining that it's not just for protein folding, we've decided to change the name of the meeting to the Texas Folding and Function Meeting. The 21st meeting will be on March 22-24, 2013. Save the dates!

21st Annual Texas Protein Folding and Function Meeting

Save the date! 

21st Annual Texas Protein Folding and Function Meeting 

March 22-24, 2013

Keynote Speakers: 

Keith Dunker, Indiana University School of Medicine
Dr. Keith Dunker and his collaborators first recognized intrinsically disordered proteins as a distinct protein class with important biological functions. His research includes improving disorder prediction algorithms, correlating different types of disordered proteins with protein function, understanding the role of disorder in protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions, and discovering the role of disorder in the evolution of the original proteins on earth.

Vijay Pande, Stanford University
The Pande lab uses physical simulation and Bayesian statistics / machine learning techniques to investigate protein folding at long time scales with the goal of predicting all possible experimental observables. In related projects, the Pande lab uses computational tools to probe the structure and stability of misfolded protein aggregates and small molecule binding / drug efficacy.