Noon – 2:00 pm Lunch Buffet/Registration

2:00 – 2:10 pm  Welcoming Remarks

Session 1

2:10 – 3:00 pm   Jack Johnson (Scripps)

“Mousetraps and Motors: the Remarkable Dynamics of Virus Particle Maturation”

3:00 – 3:50 pm   Avinoam Ben-Shaul (Hebrew University)

 "The Compactness of ssRNA Viral Genomes"

3:50 – 4:00 pm  Two 5-minute poster presentations

4:00 – 4:30 pm   Coffee Break

4:30 – 5:20 pm   Mavis Agbandje-McKenna (University of Florida)

“Step-by-Step: A 3D walk through the life cycle of icosahedral ssDNA viruses”

5:20 – 6:10 pm   Steve Harvey (Georgia Tech)

“Coarse-Grained Modeling Studies on Viral Assembly”

6:10 – 6:20 pm   Two 5-minute poster presentations

6:20 – 8:00 pm   Welcoming Dinner Reception and Poster Session I

Friday, May 8^th, 2008

8:30 – 9:00 am   Breakfast

Session 3

9:00 – 9:50 am  Benes Trus (NIH)

“Progressive Partial Binding of a Heterodimeric Protein to Herpes Simplex Virus Capsids in Response to DNA Packaging”

9:50 – 10:40 am Murugappan Muthukumar (UMass Amherst)

“Menagerie of Viruses: Diverse Chemical Sequences or Simple Electrostatics?“

10:40 – 10:50 am Two 5-minute poster presentations

10:50 – 11:20 am  Coffee Break

11:20 – 12:10 am  Alan Rein (NIH)

“The Building Blocks of Retrovirus Particles”

12:10 – 1:00 pm Paul van der Schoot (Eindhoven)

“Influence of the Topology of Real and Ersatz Genomes on their Encapsulation by Viral Coat Proteins of ssRNA Viruses”

1:00 – 1:10 pm  Two 5-minute poster presentations

1:10 – 2:10 pm  Lunch Buffet and Poster Session II

Session 5

2:10 – 3:00 pm   Terje Dokland (University of Alabama)

“Scaffolding-mediated capsid size determination in bacteriophages”

3:00 – 3:50 pm   Charlie Brooks (Michigan)

"A periodic table for virus capsids: physical constraints on assembly, structure and dynamics of viral capsids"

3:50 – 4:00 pm  Two 5-minute poster presentations

4:00 – 4:30 pm   Coffee Break

4:30 – 5:20 pm Paul Ahlquist (Wisconsin)

"Structure and Assembly of Viral RNA Replication Complexes: Parallels with Virions"

5:20 – 6:10 pm  General Discussion

6:30 – 8:00 pm  Dinner at Faculty Center

Saturday, May 9^th, 2008

8:30 – 9:00 am  Breakfast

Session 7

9:00 – 9:50 am  Richard Kuhn (Purdue) 

“Structural and functional studies probing alphavirus assembly” 

9:50 – 10:40 am  Adam Zlotnick (Indiana University)

“Allostery and assembly of hepatitis B virus”

10:40 – 11:00  Wrap-up discussion

OUTREACH PROGRAM

11:15 – 12:00 pm  Public Lecture

12:15 – 2:00 pm Lunch and Round Table Discussion with Local High School Teachers

2:00 – 3:00 pm  Tour of Labs