The inaugural PDB50 event was held virtually in May 2021. Click here to watch the full symposium. To access individual presentations, click on the links below.
Speakers
Eddy Arnold
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Using HIV-1 reverse transcriptase structures to guide anti-AIDS drug discovery Watch Presentation
Helen M. Berman
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
University of Southern California
The evolution of the Protein Data Bank as a community resource Watch Presentation
Thomas L. Blundell
University of Cambridge
A personal history of five decades of structural biology and the PDB: From the X-ray structure of 2-Zinc insulin hexamer in 1970 to Cryo-EM structures of DNA-PK from DNA repair in 2020 Watch Presentation
Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin
Utrecht University
Solving 3D puzzles by integrative modelling using PDB structures Watch Presentation
Stephen K. Burley
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
University of California, San Diego
Impact of structural biologists and fifty years of Protein Data Bank operations on drug discovery and development Watch Presentation
Wah Chiu
Stanford University
Cryo-EM of biomolecules at Ångström resolutions Watch Presentation
Johann Deisenhofer
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
50 years of PDB — from crazy idea to treasure Watch Presentation
Juli Feigon
University of California, Los Angeles
Structural biology of telomerase Watch Presentation
Angela M. Gronenborn
University of Pittsburgh
Integrated BioNMR — getting by with a little help from my friends Watch Presentation
Jennifer L. Martin
University of Wollongong
Science, crystallography, reflections: A journey with the PDB over 35 years Watch Presentation
Stephen L. Mayo
California Institute of Technology
Antibody small molecule conjugates with computationally designed target binding synergy Watch Presentation
Zihe Rao
ShanghaiTech University
Tsinghua University
Structural insight into SARS-CoV-2 replication and transcription complex (RTC) Watch Presentation
Hao Wu
Harvard Medical School
Boston Children's Hospital
"Speck"tacular inflammasomes: structures of supramolecular complexes in innate immunity Watch Presentation
Poster Presentations
~275 posters were presented during the meeting
Abstracts: Tuesday May 4 (PDF) | Wednesday May 5 (PDF)
wwPDB Posters: The Life and Times of the PDB Format - Looking Towards the Future with mmCIF (PDF)
Trends in macromolecular structure data across 50 years of the PDB (PDF)
Poster Prizes
Best in High School:
Nicholas Mamisashvili
Shelter Island High School
Molecular Dynamics Simulation of 6PEY.pdb a Novel Mutation in the Enzyme Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase
Best in Undergraduate:
Ijeoma Okoye
Vassar College
X-ray and Antioxidant Determination of Butein and 2’,4’-dihydroxy-3,4-dimethoxychalcone to Examine their Antimalarial Activity by Binding to Falcipain-2
Best in Graduate:
Daniel Sultanov
New York University
Mining for functional ribosomal variants in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Best in Postdoctoral Scholars:
Seda Kocaman
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Different ATP binding states of the essential AAA (ATPases Associated with various Activities)-ATPase Rix7 facilitate substrate translocation in ribosome biogenesis