15th SEC program!
The program outline for the 15th Annual Southeast Enzyme Conference
Below is the program outline for the 15th SEC!
April 26, 2025
Location: GSU Student Center East Ballroom
All Talks include 5 min of Q&A
Program Schedule (Time: EDT)
7:30-8:30: Registration and Coffee Mixer
8:30-8:40: Opening Remarks – Jack Dunkle (The University of Alabama)
Session 1
Discussion Leader: Melanie A. Higgins (University of Alabama)
8:40-9:00: Kendra Ireland (Emory University)
“Bond Formation Regioselectivity and Convergent Evolution: X-ray Crystallography Offers Unique Insights into Antioxidant-Biosynthetic Sulfoxide/Selenoxide Synthases”
9:00-9:20: Sarah Spigelmyer (Wake Forest University)
“Probing Cysteine Desulfurase Interactions to Identify New Metabolic Targets for Antibiotic Development”
9:20 – 9:40: Wen Zhu (Florida State University)
“Conformational Dynamics Regulate the Accessibility of Ammonia in Human Asparagine Synthetase”
9:40-11:30: Poster Session 1
Session 2
Discussion Leader: Katherine W. Rush (Auburn University)
11:30 – 11:50: Bingnan Li (University of Georgia)
“Elucidating ligand interactions and small-molecule activation in the pyrrolnitrin biosynthetic enzyme PrnB”
11:50 – 12:10: Jessica Kugblenu (Georgia State University)
“On the Relevance of His421 in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 D-2-Hydroxyglutarate Dehydrogenase”
12:10 – 12:30: Yi-Chien (Tiffany) Tang (Georgia Tech)
“Elucidating the metabolism of lapidated serotonin by cytochrome P450 2U1 (CYP2U1) in nanodiscs”
12:30-1:30: Lunch Break
1:30-1:40: Group Photo
Session 3
Discussion Leader: Michael J. Reddish (Appalachian State University)
1:40 – 2:00: Matthew K. Thompson (University of Alabama)
“Combating Fosfomycin Resistance in Gram-positive Pathogens”
2:00 – 2:20: Nirmal Saha (Georgia Tech)
“Genome mining for the discovery of peptide halogenases and their biochemical characterization”
2:20 – 2:40: Daniel Tehrani (University of Georgia)
“Mechanistic And Structural Basis of Chondroitin Sulfate Backbone Polymer Synthesis”
2:40-4:30: Poster Session 2
Session 4
Discussion Leader:Jack Dunkle (The University of Alabama)
4:30 – 5:30: James Fraser (UCSF)
“How to inhibit the SARS CoV 2 Macrodomain using protein structure and dynamics”
5:30 – 5:40: Concluding remarks and poster awards –Jack Dunkle
5:40-7:00: Social Networking mixer (On-Site)
PDF versions of previous Southeast Enzyme Conference Abstract Books can be viewed by clicking here.