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PDB50: Function Follows Form
07/26 
The 2021 ACA Meeting Transactions Symposium Function Follows Form: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Protein Data Bank celebrates this golden anniversary.
Friday July 30 Speakers (12:00 - 3:00pm ET)
- Cynthia Wolberger - Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD
- Mike Martynowycz - HHMI/UCLA
- John Rubinstein - Sick Kid’s Hospital, Toronto, Canada
- Squire J. Booker - Penn State, State College, PA
- Rafael M. Couñago- SGC/UNICAMP, Brazil
- Erica Ollman Saphire - La Jolla Institute for Immunology, La Jolla, CA
Saturday July 31 Speakers (11:00 - 3:30pm ET)
- Wayne A. Hendrickson - Columbia, New York, NY
- Wladek Minor - University of Virginia
- Chris Sander - Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- Eva Nogales - UC Berkeley/HHMI, Berkeley, CA
- Andrej Sali - RCSB PDB/UCSF, San Francisco, CA
Each day will end with a Panel Discussion: Leaning In – PDB in the Next 50 Years.
Other presentations by RCSB PDB student researchers and biocurators will include
Saturday, July 31 (4:00 - 5:00pm ET): Poster Session 1
- Mickayla Bacorn, Biochemical analysis and review of the active site evolution of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronaviruses
- MaryAgnes Balogun, Understanding the active site of the SARS-CoV-2 papain-like protease (PLPro)
- Amy Wu Wu, Bioinformatics and 3D Structural Analysis of the Coronavirus Main Protease Active Site
Sunday, August 1 (4:00 - 5:00pm ET): Poster Session 2
- Ethan Cartagena, PDB-101 Video Challenge: Creating a Winning Entry
- Justin Flatt, The next generation RCSB.org
- Brian Hudson, RCSB Protein Data Bank: Integrated Searching and Efficient Access to Macromolecular Structure Data from the PDB Archive
- Yuhe Liang, Trends in macromolecular structure data across 50 years of the PDB
- Cassandra Olivas, Using data mining to identify variations within the proteases of Coronaviridae
Tuesday, August 3 (12:00 - 3:00pm ET): Session 2.2.2, Computing & Data Management
- Gregg Crichlow, The Life and Times of the PDB Format - Looking Towards the Future with mmCIF
