Second Conference on Biomotors, Virus Assembly, and Nanobiotechnology Applications - The Ohio State University Jul 29

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2^nd Conference on Biomotors, Virus Assembly, and Nanobiotechnology Applications

Organizing Institutes: The Ohio State University
Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine
The Center for RNA Biology
International Society of RNA Nanotechnology & Nanomedicine (ISRNN)
American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy (ASGCT)

Date: 8:00 am Jul 29 - 1:00 pm Jul 31, 2019; Location: Fawcett Center, 2400 Olentangy River Rd, Columbus, OH, USA

We are pleased to announce the Second Conference on Biomotors, Virus Assembly, and Nanobiotechnology Applications to be held on July 29 - 31, 2019 at the Fawcett Center near the campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, OH, USA. We have invited some of the leading scientists and engineers working in the diverse fields of chemistry, biochemistry, biophysics, structural biology, microbiology, cell biology, materials, and nanotechnology to participate.

Due to the great potential in the application of biomotors and viral components in nanotechnology, one motivation of organizing this conference is to promote the participation of more bioscientists into the field of nanobiotechnology. Our cross-disiplinary approach to virus assembly, biomotor, and nanobiotechnology research is designed to foster collaborations among scientists.

Conference Chair
Peixuan Guo

Sylvan G. Frank Endowed Chair in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery;
Director of Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine;
President of International Society of RNA Nanotechnology & Nanomedicine;
Professor of College of Pharmacy and College of Medicine;
Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute (DHLRI);
The Ohio State University, USA

Co-chair
Sarah Woodson

T.C. Jenkins Professor;
Dept. of Biophysics;
Johns Hopkins University,
USA

Co-chair
Gino Cingolani

Professor;
Dept. of Biochemistry and
Molecular Biology;
Thomas Jefferson University,
USA

Co-chair
Bruce A. Shapiro

Senior Investigator;
Center for Cancer Research;
National Cancer Institute,
USA

Co-chair
Kirill Afonin

Associate Professor;
Dept. of Chemistry;
University of North Carolina
– Charlotte, USA

Co-chair
Ian J. Molineux

Professor;
College of Natural Sciences;
University of Texas at Austin,
USA

Organizers and Scientific Program Committees: (listed in no particular order)

Ian J. Molineux

Professor, Editor of Virology journal;
Motors for viral DNA and genome ejection (Science 2013, Nature 2014 & PNAS 2015);
University of Texas at Austin, USA
Ian Grainge

Assoc. Professor;
Mechanism of bacterial DNA translocation motor (Sci Rep. 2016);
The University of Newcastle, Australia
Hiroyuki Noji

Professor;
Single molecule studies on FoF1-ATP biomotors (Science 2011, Nat. Commun. 2014 & Sci Rep. 2015);
University of Tokyo, Japan
Bruce Shapiro

Senior Investigator & Head of RNA Structure and Design Section;
RNA structure and RNA nanobiology (Nano Lett. 2014 & Nature 2014);
NIH/NCI Center for Cancer Research, USA
Zihe Rao

Principal Investigator & Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences;
Crystal or Cryo-EM structures of proteins and pathogens (Nature 2015 & Science 2018);
Tsinghua University, China
Wah Chiu

Professor & Member of National Academy of Sciences;
Cryo-EM structure of viruses and nanomedicine (Nature 2014, Nat. Commun. 2015 & PNAS 2015);
Stanford University, USA
David Lilley

Professor & Fellow of Royal Society;
Nucleic acid structure and activity (Nat Chem Biol. 2017 & Cell Chem Biol. 2017);
University of Dundee, UK
Nils Walter

Professor;
Single molecule studies on RNA motion (Chem Rev. 2018 & Nat Nanotechnol. 2018);
University of Michigan, USA
Sarah Woodson

Professor;
Ribosome assembly, RNA folding and dynamics (PNAS 2014 & PNAS 2016);
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Yuan-Soon Ho

Distinguish Professor & Director, Grad. Institute of Medical Science;
Nicotinic receptor-based cancer therapy (J Natl Cancer Inst. 2010 & Clin Cancer Res. 2011);
Taipei Medical University, Taiwan, China
Anil K. Sood

Professor;
Ovarian and breast cancer research (Nat Rev Cancer 2015);
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Janusz Bujnicki

Professor, Exec. Editor of Nucleic Acids Res. & Scientific advisor to European Commission;
Structure of RNA and RNP complexes (Nat. Commun. 2014 & Nucleic Acids Res. 2016);
International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Poland
Yizhou Dong

Asst. Professor;
Nanobiotechnology (Nanoscale 2017, Cell Res. 2017 & Nat Biomed Eng. 2017);
The Ohio State University, USA
Shi-Jie Chen

Professor;
RNA structure and function (RNA 2017 & PNAS 2016 );
University of Missouri, USA
Kirill Afonin

Associate Professor;
Nucleic acid nanotechnology (Nano Letters 2018 & Nucl. Acids Res. 2017);
University of North Carolina – Charlotte, USA
Neocles Leontis

Professor;
RNA Structural Bioinformatics (Nucl. Acids Res. 2016 & Science 2014);
Bowling Green State University, USA
Ya-ming Hou

Professor;
tRNA post-transcriptional modifications (Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 & RNA 2018);
Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Karin Musier-Forsyth

Professor;
Nucleic Acid-Protein Interactions in HIV (J. Biol. Chem. 2018 & J. Virol. 2018);
The Ohio State University, USA
Gino Cingolani

Professor;
Nucleocytoplasmic transport, virus assembly, architecture of viral genome ejection/packaging motors (Nat Commun. 2017 & Biophysical J 2019);
Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Haichen Wu

Professor;
Biological nanopore for single-molecule sensing (JACS 2011 & Anal Chem. 2016);
Institute of Chemistry, CAS, China
Noah Weisleder

Associate Professor;
Plasma membrane repair
(Mol Ther 2017);
The Ohio State University, USA
Weina Ke

Organizer for Student Session;
RNA nanotechnology and biomedicine (Nucleic Acids Res. 2018);
University of North Carolina in Charlotte, USA

Speakers and Session Chairs (listed in no particular order)

Zihe Rao

Principal Investigator & Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences;
Crystal or Cryo-EM structures of proteins and pathogens (Nature 2015 & Science 2018);
Tsinghua University, China
Lindsay W. Black

Professor;
Pioneer in T4 DNA packaging motor (J Virol. 2016 & Viruses 2018);
University of Maryland, USA
Lela Lackey

Post Doc;
RNA structure and function (RNA 2018 & PLos One 2015);
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
David Lilley

Professor & Fellow of Royal Society;
Nucleic acid structure and activity (Nat Chem Biol. 2017 & Cell Chem Biol. 2017);
University of Dundee, UK
Robin Stanley

Stadtman Investigator;
Mechanisms of ribosome biogenesis (Structure 2017 & RNA 2018);
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA
Yao-Gen Shu

Researcher;
Single molecule biophysic studies of biomolecules (J Phys Conde Matt. 2017);
Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS, China
Carlos Castro

Assoc. Professor;
Nucleic acid nanotechnology and DNA-based devices for biophysics (Nat Commun. 2018 & ACS Nano 2018);
The Ohio State University, USA
Jesse Zalatan

Asst. Professor;
RNA Scaffolds for Metabolic Engineering (Cell 2015 & Nat. Commun. 2018);
University of Washington, USA
Ning Fang

Assoc. Professor;
Single molecule and nanoparticle imaging (Nat Commu. 2017 & Nat Catal. 2018);
Georgia State University, USA
Elena Orlova

Professor;
Bacteriophage assembly (PNAS 2015 & Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2015);
University of London, UK
Nils Walter

Professor;
Single molecule studies on RNA motion (Chem Rev. 2018 & Nat Nanotechnol. 2018);
University of Michigan, USA
Petr Sulc

Asst. Professor;
Nucleic acids modeling (Nat Nanotechnol. 2017 & JACS 2018);
Arizona State University, USA
Hui Wei

Professor;
Nanobiotechnology and functional nanomaterials (Nat. Commun. 2019 & Chem. Soc. Rev. 2019);
Nanjing University, China
Shi-Jie Chen

Professor;
RNA structure and function (RNA 2017 & PNAS 2016 );
University of Missouri, USA
Feng Li

Professor;
Viral nanotechnology and virus-based probes for imging and smart delivery (J. Mater. Chem. B 2018 );
Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, China
Kuo-Hsiang Chuang

Asst. Professor;
T cell engineering for immunotherapy (Sci Rep. 2017 & Sci Rep. 2018);
Taipei Medical University, Taiwan, China
Karin Musier-Forsyth

Professor;
Nucleic Acid-Protein Interactions in HIV (J. Biol. Chem. 2018 & J. Virol. 2018);
The Ohio State University, USA
Jiaquan Liu

Postdoctoral Researcher;
DNA repair and single molecule imaging (Nature 2016 & J Mol Biol. 2018);
The Ohio State University, USA
Ya-ming Hou

Professor;
tRNA post-transcriptional modifications (Nucleic Acids Res. 2018 & RNA 2018);
Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Hai-jun Su

Assoc. Professor;
Robotics and DNA Origami Mechanisms (Nat Commu. 2018 & Nanoscale 2019);
The Ohio State University, USA
Steven Qian

Professor;
Free Radical Biology and Cancer Therapy (BMC Cancer 2018 & Redox Biology 2019);
North Dakota State University, USA
Xiaoting Zhang

Assoc. Professor;
RNA nanotherapeutics (ACS Nano 2017 & Cancer Res. 2018);
University of Cincinnati, USA
Xueyun Gao

Professor;
Cancer diagnosis and therapy (ACS Nano 2018 & ACS Nano 2018);
Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS, China
Tae Jin Lee

Asst. Professor;
RNA-based cancer therapy (Mol Ther. 2017);
UTHealth Medical School, USA
Fengmei Pi

General Manager & Associate Director;
RNA Nanotechnology and drug delivery (Nature Nanotechnology 2018);
ExonanoRNA LLC, USA
Mario Vieweger

Vice President & Director;
Single-molecule RNA spectroscopy & RNA Nanotechnology
(J Biophys. 2015);
ExonanoRNA LLC, USA
Xiaolin Cheng

Assoc. Professor;
Computational molecular biophysics and computer-aided drug discovery (Nature Phys. 2016 & Chem Rev. 2019);
The Ohio State University, USA
Emil Khisamutdinov

Asst. Professor;
Nucleic acid nanotechnology (Nanomaterials 2018);
Ball State University, USA
Ying-Jan Wang

Distinguished Professor;
Toxicological mechanisms of nanoparticles (Biomaterials 2014 & Nanotoxicology 2016);
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, China
Terence Williams

Assoc. Professor;
DNA damage response pathways and novel mechanisms of radiosensitization (Int J Oncol. 2017 & Clin Cancer Res. 2017);
The Ohio State University, USA
Yuri Lyubchenko

Professor;
Strucutural genomics and protein-DNA interactions (J Chem Phys. 2018 & Biochemistry 2018);
University of Nebraska Medical Center, USA
Yuan-Soon Ho

Distinguish Professor & Director, Grad. Institute of Medical Science;
Nicotinic receptor-based cancer therapy (J Natl Cancer Inst. 2010 & Clin Cancer Res. 2011);
Taipei Medical University, Taiwan, China
Jin-Woo Kim

Professor;
Nanomaterials and nanobiotechnology (Biotechnology progress. 2017);
University of Arkansas, USA
Baoquan Ding

Professor;
Nucleic Acid nanotechnology (Adv Mater. 2018 & Adv Drug Deliv Rev. 2018);
National Center for Nanoscience & Technology, China
Gabriel Lander

Assoc. Professor;
Cryo-EM and structural biology (Science 2019 & Nat Commun. 2018);
The Scripps Research Institute, USA
Youdong Mao

Asst. Professor;
Cryo-EM and motor structure (Nature 2019 & Mol. Cell 2017);
Peking University, China
Tracy Nixon

Professor;
Structural biology (Sci. Rep 2016 & PLoS One 2016);
The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Fred Antson

Professor;
Virus structure and Cryo-EM (PNAS 2019);
University of York, UK
Andrew F. Neuwald

Professor;
Protein structure and Computational Biology (PLoS Comput Biol. 2018 & ELife 2018);
University of Maryland, USA
Hiroyuki Noji

Professor;
Single molecule studies on FoF1-ATP biomotors (Science 2011, Nat. Commun. 2014 & Sci Rep. 2015);
University of Tokyo, Japan
Bruce Shapiro

Senior Investigator & Head of RNA Structure and Design Section;
RNA structure and RNA nanobiology (Nano Lett. 2014 & Nature 2014);
NIH/NCI Center for Cancer Research, USA
Peixuan Guo

Professor & Director of Center for RNA Nanobiotechnology and Nanomedicine;
Phi29 DNA packaging motor and RNA nanotechnology (Nat Nano
technol. 2010, Nat Nanotechnol. 2011 & Nat Nanotechnol. 2018);
The Ohio State University, USA
Janusz Bujnicki

Professor, Exec. Editor of Nucleic Acids Res. & Scientific advisor to European Commission;
Structure of RNA and RNP complexes (Nat. Commun. 2014 & Nucleic Acids Res. 2016);
International Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Poland
Gino Cingolani

Professor;
Nucleocytoplasmic transport, virus assembly, architecture of viral genome ejection/packaging motors (Nat Commun. 2017 & Biophysical J 2019);
Thomas Jefferson University, USA
Sarah Woodson

Professor;
Ribosome assembly, RNA folding and dynamics (PNAS 2014 & PNAS 2016);
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Yizhou Dong

Asst. Professor;
Nanobiotechnology (Nanoscale 2017, Cell Res. 2017 & Nat Biomed Eng. 2017);
The Ohio State University, USA
Kirill Afonin

Associate Professor;
Nucleic acid nanotechnology (Nano Letters 2018 & Nucl. Acids Res. 2017);
University of North Carolina – Charlotte, USA
Hirohide Saito

Professor;
Artificial RNA devices and RNA Nanobiotechnology (Nat Commun. 2017);
Kyoto University, Japan
Giovanni Maglia

Assos. Professor;
Nanopore for single-molecule sensing (Nat Commun. 2018 & Nat Commun. 2019);
University of Groningen, Netherlands
Mark P. Foster

Professor;
Viral integration and viroid RNA (PNAS 2017 & Biophysical Journal 2017);
The Ohio State University, USA
Liqun (Andrew) Gu

Assoc. Professor;
Single molecule biosensing and nanobiotechnology (ACS Nano 2017 & Nat Commun. 2017);
University of Missouri, USA
Haichen Wu

Professor;
Biological nanopore for single-molecule sensing (JACS 2011 & Anal Chem. 2016);
Institute of Chemistry, CAS, China
Erik D. Holmstrom

Asst. Professor;
Biophysical studies of RNA-protein interactions (J Mol Biol. 2018);
The University of Kansas, USA
Anu Puri

Staff Scientist;
Lipid-based drug delivery (Nanomedicine 2018);
National Cancer Institute, USA
Jingyuan Li

Professor;
Biophysical study of biomolecules (J. Chem Phys. 2019 & Sci. Adv. 2017);
Zhejiang University, China
Xiangxi Wang

Principal Investigator;
Cryo-EM structure study of viruses(Science 2018 & Nat. Commun. 2018);
CAS, China
Lee Jia

Professor;
Nanobiotechnology and cancer therapy (Curr Cancer Drug Targets 2019 & Mol. Pharm. 2019);
Fuzhou University, China
Lakmal Jayasinghe

Director of nanopore research;
Chemistry and platforms of Oxford Nanopore Technologies (Nat. Nanotechnol. 2009 & BioRxiv 2016);
Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd, UK
Wah Chiu

Professor & Member of National Academy of Sciences;
Cryo-EM structure of viruses and nanomedicine (Nature 2014, Nat. Commun. 2015 & PNAS 2015);
Stanford University, USA
Soma Dhakal

Asst. Professor;
Single-molecule nucleic acid nanotechnology (ACS Sens. 2019 & Biochemistry 2018);
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Xiaoming He

Professor;
Nanobiotechnology in cancer treatment (Nat Nanotechnol. 2019 & Nat Commun. 2018);
University of Maryland, USA
Luc Jaeger

Professor;
RNA Nanotechnology(Nucleic Acids Res. 2019 & Nano Lett 2017);
University of California, Santa Barbara USA
Jianxun Lin

Senior Manager;
Single molecule sequencing and nanobiotechnology(Phys. Rev. Lett. 2010 & Nature Comm. 2015);
BGI-Research, China
Sean Bedingfield

Grad Student;
Smart polymer-based technologies (Biomaterials 2019 & ACS Nano 2019);
Vanderbilt University, USA
Yi Wang

Director of R&D;
Analytical chemistry, biochemistry and mass spectrometry (Toxicol Lett. 2019 & Bioanalysis 2018);
ExonanoRNA Biomedicine (Guangdong) Co. LTD
Kin Fai Au

Assoc Prof;
Statistical methods for analyzing biological data (Genome Res. 2019 & Genome Biology 2018);
The Ohio State University, USA
Ema Cocucci

Assistant Professor;
Mechanism of membrane trafficking (Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2017)
The Ohio State University, USA
Deepak Koirala

Post Doc;
Nucleic acid structure and function (Nucleic Acids Res. 2018)& Nat. Commun. 2018);
University of Chicago, USA
Senny Nordmeier

Scientist;
Cancer and extracelluar vesicle biology;
System Biosciences, USA
Jungshan Chang

Associate Prof;
Leukocyte trafficking and cancer biology (Free Radical Biology and Medicine 2017);
Taipei Medical University, China
Hamza Balci

Assoc. Professor;
Single molecule investigation of G-quadruplex, protein, and small molecule investigation (NAR 2015 & Biosens & Bioelect 2018);
Kent State University, USA
Xue-Feng Bai

Assoc Prof;
Tumor immune microenvironment and immunotherapy (JCI insight 2018 & Immunology 2017);
The Ohio State University, USA
Jianjie Ma

Professor;
Cancer Biology and cell membrane repair (Commun Biol. 2019 & Cell Biosci. 2018);
The Ohio State University, USA
Wen Tang

Assistant Professor;
RNA function in gene expression and genome maintenance (Cell 2016 & Developmental Cell 2018);
The Ohio State University, USA
Qi-En Wang

Assoc. Prof;
DNA damage and cancer (Cancer Research 2019);
The Ohio State University, USA
Keli Hu

Assoc Professor;
Cell signaling and ion channels (Biochem. Biophy. Res. Commun. 2017);
The Ohio State University, USA
Li Wu

Professor;
Molecular and cellular mecahnisms of HIV replication and viral pathogenesis (PNAS 2018 & J. Virol. 2018);
The Ohio State University, USA
Sharyn Baker

Professor and Chair of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Chemistry;
Tyrosine kinase inhibitor resistance in acute leukemias (Nat. Commun 2019 & Clin Transl Sci. 2019);
The Ohio State University, USA
Hua Zhu

Assoc. Professor;
Muscular dystrophy, stem cell protection for treatment of ischemic heart diseases (Acta Pharmacol Sin 2019 & Cell Physiol Biochem 2018);
The Ohio State University, USA
Terence Williams

Assoc. Professor;
DNA damage response pathways and novel mechanisms of radiosensitization (Clin Cancer Res 2019 & Mol Cancer Ther. 2019);
The Ohio State University, USA
Anita Hopper

Professor;
Intracellular trafficking of tRNAs (Genes Dev. 2018);
The Ohio State University, USA
Rajgopal Govindarajan

Assoc. Professor;
Drug transporters and pancreatic cancer (Drug Metab Dispos. 2018 & J Biol Chem. 2017);
The Ohio State University, USA
Gunjan Agarwal

Assoc. Professor;
Biophysical study of protein dynamics (J Mol Biol. 2019 & Nanomedicine 2017);
The Ohio State University, USA
Renzhi Han

Associate Professor;
Muscular dystrophy and cardiomyopathy (Mol Ther. 2019 & Skelet Muscle 2018);
The Ohio State University, USA
Wu Lu

Professor;
Nanofabrication and nanoelectronics (Nanotechnology 2017);
The Ohio State University, USA
Alex Sparreboom

Professor;
Drug transporters and clinical cancer pharmacology (Cancer Res. 2017);
The Ohio State University, USA
Vicki Wysocki

Professor;
Bioanalytical mass spectrometry and peptide sequencing (PNAS 2019 & Anal Chem 2019);
The Ohio State University, USA
Richard Lease

Research Scientist;
RNA and DNA stem-loop structure and activity (ACS 2017);
The Ohio State University, USA
William Carson

Professor;
Nanotechnology for cancer immuntherapy (Clin Cancer Res. 2019 & Cell Immunol. 2019);
The Ohio State University, USA
Daniel Binzel

Research Scientist;
RNA nanoparticle development and discovery (ACS Nano 2019 & Nature Nanotech 2018);
The Ohio State University, USA
Arturo Liñan

Graduate Student;
virotechnology for vaccines;
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)