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The New Orleans Protein Folding Intergroup, founded in January 1999, is composed of New Orleans area academic research laboratories from Tulane, Xavier, Loyola, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, and the University of New Orleans, whose members share a common interest in protein structure and folding. Our year-round, biweekly meetings are dedicated primarily to the discussion of current research in member laboratories and to the dissemination of important research news from conferences and from the scientific literature.

What to bring: The presenter is responsible for bringing in snacks and drinks, traditonally pizza and soft drinks or beer. Bring your powerpoint file on a flash drive.

Meeting on
Thursdays

Rm. 127 Monroe Science Bldg.
Loyola University, New Orleans, LA

5-7 pm (show up no later than 5:15PM, presentation starts no later than 5:30PM)

Get A Map!!

There is an entrance between the Arts (CM)
building and our building and one on the other side by the business
building. We will hold NOProFIG in Monroe 127 which is on the SE side
of building down a short passage way. Below is a zoomable campus map.

http://www.loyno.edu/neworleans/maps/maps-campus.php

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DATE	PRESENTER (or LABORATORY)	TOPIC
January 14th, 2010	Tom Bishop	The Other Helices
January 28th, 2010	Jing He (Bill Wimley)	Design and Study of Novel Antimicrobial Peptide with Proline Substitutions
February 11th, 2010	postponed
February 25th, 2010	Christopher Keating (Igor Rubtsov)	Delocalization of sulfoxide modes in two dimensional infrared spectroscopy
March 11th, 2010	David Mobley
March 25th, 2010	Bob Blake	Update on kinetic rates and measurement of molecular interactions with a cavity calorimeter
April 8th, 2010	Chris Summa
April 17th, 2010 (saturday)	CRAWFISH BOIL	At Chris Summa's castle
April 22nd, 2010	David Worthylake	(postponed)
May 6th, 2010 (5PM)	Scott Melton (Diane Blake)	Immunoassays for the Detection of Low Molecular Weight Environmental Contaminants
May 20th, 2010	Zachary Pursell	Mutator alleles of human DNA Polymerase
June 3rd, 2010	Hoyt Meyer
June 17th, 2010	Bill Walkenhorst	The Protean Nature of a Class of Antimicrobial Peptides: The Effect of pH, Ionic Strength, and Surface on Antimicrobial Activity
July 1st, 2010	David Worthylake	The Use of X-ray Structures and FTIR Towards Understanding Allosteric Inhibition of Kinesin-5
July 15th, 2010	Sam Landry	Antigen 3D structure determines CD4 epitope dominance
July 29th, 2010	Summer Break	No Meeting
August 12th, 2010	Summer Break	No Meeting
August 26th, 2010	Summer Break	No Meeting
September 9th, 2010	Tom Bishop	Re-scheduled
September 23rd, 2010	Bill Wimley	Making the membrane disappear with cell penetrating peptides
October 7th, 2010	Tom Bishop	Simulating Positioned Nucleosomes: The New and Improved Presentation
October 21st, 2010	Bill Walkenhorst	Assessing the Versatility of the Ram Family of Antimicrobial Peptides Under a Wide Variety of Environmental Conditions
November 4th, 2010	Bob Blake	Integrating Cavity Absorption Meters: Preparing to Study Intact Bacteria
November 18th, 2010	Chris Summa	Protein Secondary Structure Element Prediction Using Known Structure Database
December 2nd, 2010	Special speaker: Dr. Paulo Almeida (UNC Wilmington)	A simple Thermdynamic Model of the Liquid-ordered Stete and the Interaction between Phospholipids and Cholesterol
December 16th, 2010	Diane Blake	Single-chain Varieable Fragment Antibodies Optimized for Environmental Analysis
December 30th, 2010	New Year Holiday	No Meeting

	Hank Ashbaugh (Home Page) Dept. Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University
	Tom Bishop (Home Page) Center for Computational Sciences, Tulane Health Sciences Center
	Diane Blake (Home Page) Dept. Biochemistry, Tulane Health Sciences Center
	Robert Blake (Home Page) College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of Louisiana
	Thang Chiu (Home Page) Dept. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, LSU Health Sciences Center
	Richard Cole (Home Page) Dept. Chemistry, University of New Orleans
	Sam Landry (Home Page) Dept. Biochemistry, Tulane Health Sciences Center
	Hoyt Meyer (Home Page) Dept. Chemistry, Loyola University New Orleans
	Kimberlee S. Mix (Home Page) Dept. Biological Sciences, Loyola University New Orleans
	Kumar Nirbhay (Home Page) Dept. of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
	Zachary Pursell (Home Page) Dept. Biochemistry, Tulane Health Sciences Center
	Steve Rick (Home Page) Dept. Chemistry, University of New Orleans
	Igor Rubtsov (Home Page) Dept. Chemistry, Tulane University
	Chris Summa (Home Page) Dept. Computer Science, University of New Orleans
	Bill Walkenhorst (Home Page) Dept. Chemistry, Loyola University
	Bill Wimley (Home Page) Dept. Biochemistry, Tulane Health Sciences Center
	David Worthylake (Home Page) Dept. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, LSU Health Sciences Center
	Emeritus Member and Co-founder: PernillaWittung-Stafshede (Home Page) Dept. Chemistry, Rice University

ExPASy Proteiomics Server	PubMed
PIR BLAST Protein Similarity Search	Protein Data Bank
ClustalW Multiple Sequence Alignment	NIST Chemistry WebBook
PSIPRED Protein Structure Prediction Server	Dali Search
MAMMOTH-Multiple Protein Structure Alignment Server	Cambridge Crystallographic Date Center
Fold it: Solve Puzles for Science	Mississippi Biophysical Consortium
American Society For Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	American Chemical Society

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