Keynote Speakers:

• Ivet Bahar (University of Pittsburgh)
  Dynamics of Dopamine Transport: Molecular-to-Cellular Simulations
  
  
• Teresa Head-Gordon (University of California, Berkeley)
  Computational Methods and Models for Intrinsically Disordered Peptides
  
  
• Bernard Brooks (National Institues of Health)
  Exploring reaction mechanism and folding pathways using the Action-CSA method
  
  

Invited Speakers:

• Edward P. O'Brien (Penn State University)
  Non-equilibrium physics in nascent protein structure and function
  
  
• Anton Feenstra(Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  Seeing the Trees through the Forest: Sequence-based Homo- and Heteromeric Protein-protein Interaction sites prediction using Random Forest
  
  
• Yiqin Gao (Peking University)
  DNA methylation landscape and modelling of 3D chromatin structure
  
  
• Angel E. Garcia (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
  Molecular Simulations of Cosolvent effects on Protein and RNA Stability
  
  
• Toshiko Ichiye (Georgetown University)
  Extreme Biophysics: Proteins and the Intracellular Environment
  
  
• Andrzej Kloczkowski (Nationwide Children's Hospital)
  Computational Identification and Screening for Deleterious Mutants
  
  
• Raphael Kopan (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
  How can a hypomorphic and a hypermorphic mutation in Notch cause the same cancer?
  
  
• Oliver Lichtarge (Baylor College of Medicine)
  Towards Clinical Applications of AI and Evolutionary Theory
  
  
• Avi Ma'ayan (Mount Sinai)
  Global Analysis and Visualization of Thousands of Expression Signatures for Drug and Target Discovery
  
  
• Karissa Sanbonmatsu (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
  Towards automated fitting of high resolution cryo-EM data
  
  
• Stephan C. Schürer (University of Miami)
  Novel therapeutic combinations and targeted poly-pharmacology in Glioblastoma
  
  
• Harinder Singh (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center)
  Binary cell fate choices as violations of symmetry in biological systems