Program

Program and Abstract Book

The program and abstract book for this year's meeting have been posted in PDF format below. The participant list has been removed from the online book to protect the email addresses of attendees.

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Walter Chazin, Vanderbilt University (link)

Dr. Chazin is the Chancellor's Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry and the Ingram Professor of Cancer Research and Vanderbilt University. He also directs the Center for Integrated Structural Biology and the Molecular Biophysics Training program at Vanderbilt. After completing his Ph.D in Chemistry at Concordia University, he performed postdoctoral research with Dr. Kurt Wütrich at E.T.H. in Switzerland and Dr. Peter E. Wright at the Scripps Research Institute. Dr. Chazin has been on faculty at Vanderbilt since 1999.

Additional Speakers

The MRBC program will include approximately 10 student talks selected from submitted abstracts. Additional confirmed faculty speakers are listed below.

Dr. Lee Bidwell, University of Mississippi Medical Center (link)
Dr. Jack Dunkle, University of Alabama (link)
Dr. Joseph Emerson, Mississippi State University (link)
Dr. Xiaohua Huang, University of Memphis (link)
Dr. Margaret Johnson, University of Alabama at Birmingham (link)
Dr. Aaron Lucius, University of Alabama at Birmingham (link)
Dr. Steven Mansoorabadi , Auburn University (link)
Dr. Megan Macnaughtan, Louisiana State University (link)
Dr. Victor Ogungbe, Jackson State University (link)
Dr. Vijay Rangachari, University of Southern Mississippi (link)