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 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:

Monroe Hall, 1st floor, Rm. 152

Loyola University
New Orleans, LA
Map to location

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 serve:

E-Mail Everyone in the Intergroup

E-Mail the PIs

PI Member E-mails and Home Pages

Elizabeth Abboud (Home Page)
Dept. Cell and Molecular Biology, Tulane University
Diane Blake (Home Page)
Dept. Biochemistry, Tulane Health Sciences Center
Robert Blake (Home Page)
College of Pharmacy, Xavier University of Louisiana
Nirbhay Kumar (Home Page)
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
Juan C. Pizzaro (Home Page)
Dept. of Tropical Medicine, Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Anne Robinson (Home Page)
Dept.Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Tulane University
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

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
Tulane Computer Science Email List

Upcoming Meetings

Presenter Schedule
DATE	PRESENTER (LABORATORY)	PRESENTATION TOPIC
20-Oct	Dan Moss (Landry lab)	Toxin T-cell tinkering by manifold proteolytic pathways
3-Nov	Diane Blake	Combining Phage and Yeast Display to Select Rare Clones from Recombinant Antibody Libraries
17-Nov
1-Dec	Hee-Won Park	canceled
15-Dec	Barry Hurlburt	Structure and Function of Food and Pollen Panallergens
29-Dec
12-Jan	David Worthylake	The IQGAP1 N-Terminus Forms Dimers and the Dimer Interface is Required for Binding F-actin and Calcium-Bound Calmodulin
26-Jan	Bob Blake	Redundant lifestyles: Six mechanisms of iron-dependent aerobic respiration under acid conditions
9-Feb	Juan Pizarro	The Hsp90 chaperone as a antimalarial drug target
9-Mar
23-Mar	Bill Walkenhorst	Effects of Environmental Factors and Toxic Ions on antimicrobial peptide activity
6-Apr	Hee-Won Park	Pharmacological regulators of LRRK2's GTPase activity as in vivo probes for Parkinson's disease
20-Apr	CRAWFISH BIOL	...at the Landrys' house
8-Jun	Soheila Maleki	Assessing cross reactivity between peanuts and tree nuts