Subgroup Chair: Lucia Chemes, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, ARGENTINA

Symposium Time:  8:30 AM – 12:30 PM  PST

Symposium Room:  Room 201/202/203  

Business Meeting:  12:20 - 12:30 PM PST

2026 Program Co-Chairs: Keren Lasker, The Scripps Research Institute, USA, and Jackie Pelham, Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, USA

8:30 AM Opening Remarks

 

8:35 AM Elizabeth Rhoades, University of Pennsylvania, USA
OPENING KEYNOTE: Functional Studies of Dysfunctional Proteins

 

9:10 AM Emma Morrison, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Regulating Dynamic Disorder in Nucleosomes 

 

9:35 AM Thomas Boothby, University of Wyoming, USA
Disordered Proteins Interact with the Chemical Environment to Tune Their Protective Function During Drying 

 

10:00 AM IDP Subgroup Postdoctoral Awardee Talk 1

 

10:12 AM IDP Subgroup Postdoctoral Awardee Talk 2

 

10:25 AM Break

 

10:35 AM Sarah Rauscher, University of Toronto, Canada

Studying the Effects of Perturbations on Disordered Protein Ensembles Using Simulations

 

11:00 AM Student/Postdoc Flash Talks: TBD

 

11:15 AM Pilong Li, Tsingua University, CHINA
Dominant-negative Effects due to Off-DNA Aberrant Condensates (ODACs) of Mutant Transcription Factors in Genetic Diseases

 

11:40 AM Intrinsically Disordered Protein Subgroup Postdoctoral Award: A Retrospective and Tribute to Keith Dunker’s Contributions

 

11:45 AM Richard Kriwacki, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA
CLOSING KEYNOTE: Roles of Biomolecular Condensates in Cancer

 

12:20 PM Closing Remarks and Business Meeting