New Orleans Protein Folding Intergroup

The New Orleans Protein Folding Intergroup (NOProFIG), founded in January 1999, is composed of New Orleans area academic research laboratories from Tulane University, Xavier University, Loyola University, LSU 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 scientific literature.

Meetings held on every the other Thursday from 5-7 pm

(show up no later than 5:15PM, presentation starts no later than 5:30PM)
GO TO PRESENTER SCHEDULE

Meeting location:

Rm. 157 Monroe Science Bldg.
Loyola University
New Orleans, LA
Map to location

There is an entrance between the Arts (CM) building and our building (MO). There is another entrance on the side by the business building (MI). Room 157 is on the north side of the building, down a short passage way. See a zoomable campus map.

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.

E-mail list serves:

E-Mail The Group

E-Mail The PIs In The Group

PI Member E-mails and Home Pages

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
Richard Cole (Home Page)
Dept. Chemistry, University of New Orleans
Nirbhay Kumar (HomePage)
Dept. of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Sam Landry (Home Page)
Dept. Biochemistry, Tulane Health Sciences Center
Soheila Maleki (Home Page)
Food Allergy Research, United States Department of agriculture-Agricultural Research Service-Southern Regional Research Center
Kimberlee S. Mix (Home Page)
Dept. Biological Sciences, Loyola University New Orleans
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
Jai Shanata (Home Page)
Dept. Chemistry, Loyola 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:
Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede (Home Page)
Dept. Chemistry, Rice University

Seminar Schedules

Links

ExPASy Proteomics 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 Puzzles for Science	Mississippi Biophysical Consortium
American Society For Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	American Chemical Society
PepDraw	Freeman-Wimley ß-Barrel Analysis
Folding@Home	Transmembrane β-Barrel Database

Upcoming Meetings

Presenter Schedule
DATE	PRESENTER (LABORATORY)	PRESENTATION TOPIC
January 27, 2011	Valeriy Kasyanenko and Zhiwei Lin (Igor Rubtsov)	Advances in two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy -mid-IR T-jump measurements
February 10, 2011	Kumar Nirbhay	Malaria transmission blocking vaccines aimed at gradual elimination
February 24, 2011	Zachary Pursell	Structure-Function Studies of the Non-Catalytic Subunits of a Human DNA Polymerase
March 10, 2011	David Worthylake	Structural studies of Klp61F
March 24, 2011	Rajib Mukherjee (Tom Bishop)	A Preliminary Report on Computational Study of Nucleosome Positioning
April 7, 2011	No Meeting	Health Sciences Research Day at Tulane
April 21, 2011	Tingfeng Li (Sam Landry)	Influences of HIV1 gp120 three-dimensional structure and adjuvants on cytokine phenotypes of T helper cells
May 5, 2011	Jazzfest Thursday	No Meeting
May 19, 2011	Canceled	Postponed
June 2, 2011	Canceled	Postponed
June 16, 2011	Jing He (Bill Wimley)	Does improving the pore-forming potency of antimicrobial peptides make them better antibiotics?
June 30, 2011	Bill Walkenhorst	Environmental Effects on Antimicrobial Peptide Activity
July 14, 2011	Diane Blake	Antibody screening and selection by flow cytometry: Trials by fire at Los Alamos
July 28, 2011	Chris Summa	Molecular Modeling Studies of the HIV GP160 Complex-Pandora's Box Opens
August 11, 2011	Bob Blake	NCI and its cancer-related monoclonal antibodies – how accurate are their binding data?
August 25, 2011	Jai Shanata	Single-Molecule Studies of Ion Channel Kinetics and Physical Organic Chemistry of Lipid Bilayer Modulators: Binding and Allosteric Activation of Brain Receptors, Gramicidin Channel Kinetics, and Partition Coefficients of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
September 8, 2011	Nirbhay Kumar and Anusha Gopalakrishnan	Investigating Proteins Components of the Recombination Machinery in Plasmodium falciparum
September 22, 2011	Zachary Pursell	Human DNA Polymerase Epsilon, Non-standard Nucleotides and Genome Instability
October 6, 2011	David Worthlake	Proton Tunneling and Eg5 Kinesin
October 20, 2011	Nam Nguyen (Sam Landry)	The CD4+ Helper T Cell Response to Gp120 is Influenced by Disulfide-Bond Deletions and Its Ability to Form a Dimer
November 3, 2011	Hussain Badani (Bill Wimley)	Mechanism of Action of A Peptide Inhibitor of Influenza Virus Infection
November 17, 2011	Bill Walkenhorst	Peptidoglycan Composition Can Reverse the pH Dependence of AMP Activity Profiles
December 1, 2011	Rebecca Foster(Diane Blake)	Brevetoxin monitioring: Selection of monoclonal and recombinant antibodies
December 15, 2011	Chris Summa	Molecular Modeling Studies of Ubiquitin Transfer Enzymes
December 29, 2011	New Year Holiday	No Meeting