Program and Schedule

Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2005

Time Program
18:00 – 21:00 Registration and informal get-together (conference centre, snacks and drinks)

Thursday, Sept. 15, 2005

Time Program and Speaker Title of presentation
from 8:00 Registration
9:00 Opening of meeting
9:05 – 12:40 Session I: Protein-Protein Interactions (Chair: W. Kühlbrandt)
9:05 – 9:40 M. Wilmanns (Hamburg) Protein translocation into peroxisomes
9:40 – 10:00 E. Sundberg (Watertown) Structural basis of affinity maturation and intramolecular cooperativity in a protein-protein interaction
10:00 – 10:35 J. Hurley (NIH Bethesda) The ESCRT system: structure and mechanism of a membrane-associated network of trafficking proteins
10:35 – 10:55 M. G. Bertero (München) The membrane-bound respiratory complex NarGHI from Escherichia coli
10:55 – 11:25 coffee break
11:25 – 11:45 E. De Genst (Brüssel) Molecular recognition and maturation of camelid heavy chain antibodies
11:45 – 12:05 S. Grzesiek (Basel) NMR as a quantitative tool to study structure, dynamics and function of interacting biomacromolecules
12:05 – 12:25 A. Meinhart (Heidelberg) Recognition of RNA polymerase II carboxy-terminal domain by 3'-RNA-processing factors
12:40 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 17:30 Session II: Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions (Chair: P. Cramer)
14:30 – 15:05 A. Pingoud (Gießen) Engineering of meganucleases
15:05 – 15:25 K. Armache (München) Macromolecular machines for gene transcription
15:25 – 15:45 A. Deaconescu (New York) Structural basis for bacterial transcription-coupled DNA repair
15:45 – 16:15 coffee break
16:15 – 16:50 T. Steitz (Yale) Motion in macromolecular machines
16:50 – 17:10 L.-O. Essen (Marburg) Structural aspects of blue light receptors involved in DNA repair and signaling
17:10 – 17:30 E. Lorentzen (Heidelberg) Structural basis for the 3-end recognition of single-stranded RNAs by the archaeal exosome core
17:45 – 18:15 Meeting of the GBM study group "Structural Biology"
18:00 – 22:00 Poster Session (with warm and cold buffet)

Friday, Sept. 16, 2005

Time Program and Speaker Title of presentation
9:00 – 12:35 Session III: Prediction and Design of Molecular Interactions (Chair: Y. Muller)
9:00 – 9:35 A. Plückthun (Zürich) Designed repeat proteins
9:35 – 9:55 R. van Montfort (Cambridge) The molecular pharmacology of tubulin dynamics
9:55 – 10:30 T. Kortemme (San Francisco) Prediction and design of specificity in molecular recognition
10:30 – 10:50 M.-H. Le Du (Gif-sur-Yvette) Structure-function studies of tumour markers: evolution of diagnosis markers into therapeutic targets
10:50 – 11:20 coffee break
11:20 – 11:55 R. Russell (Heidelberg) Identifying structural details for protein-protein interactions
11:55 – 12:15 T. Wollert (Braunschweig) Structure-based re-engeneering of internalin - the intestinal invasin of Listeria monocytogenes
12:15 – 12:35 D. Röser (Göttingen) Molecular basis for multiple sulfatase deficiency and catalytic mechanism for formylglycine generation of the human formylglycine generating enzyme
12:35 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 – 18:00 Session IV: Dynamcis and Transient Interactions (Chair: M. Sattler)
14:30 – 15:05 J. Ellis (Warwick) Macromolecular crowding and protein aggregation
15:05 – 15:25 A. Schmidt (Hamburg) Exacting dynamic properties from crystal protein structures
15:25 – 15:45 F. Allain (Zürich) Structural insight into splicing regulation with the solution structure of PTB and FOX-1 in complex with RNA
15:45 – 16:15 coffee break
16:15 – 16:50 H. Schwalbe (Frankfurt) NMR of RNA and of Kinases
16:50 – 17:10 M. Görlach (Jena) Structure-function relationship in RNA tetraloops: an old chap in new garb
17:10 – 17:30 H. Bartunik (Hamburg) Transient protein-ligand interactions during enzyme catalysis by EPSP synthase from M. tuberculosis
from 19:00 Conference Dinner (in Griesbräu brewery)

Saturday, Sept. 17, 2005

Time Program and Speaker Title of presentation
9:00 – 12:55 Session V: Large Macromolecular Assemblies (Chair: M. Grütter)
9:00 – 9:35 H. Stark (Göttingen) 3D structures of snRNPs and spliceosomes by electron cryomicroscopy
9:35 – 9:55 K. Model (Cambridge) Structural principles of cooperative protein translocators in outer and inner membranes of mitochondria revealed by electron microscopy
9:55 – 10:30 N. Ban (Zürich) Structural aspects of co-translational protein folding and translocation
10:30 – 10:50 E. Pyetan (Rehovot) Revealing the first steps in chaperone activity: Structure and dynamics of trigger factor in complex with eubacterial ribosome
10:50 – 11:20 coffee break
11:20 – 11:40 B. Rockel (Martinsried) Molecular architecture and assembly mechanism of tripeptidyl peptidase II
11:40 – 12:00 M. Wahl (Göttingen Stalking the stalk
12:00 – 12:20 I. Berger (Zürich) MultiBac: New Baculovirus expression tools for multiprotein applications
12:20 – 12:55 M. Rossmann (Purdue) How tailed bacteriophages package and later eject their dsDNA genomes
12:55 – 13:00 Concluding remarks
13:00 End of meeting
from 14:30 Sightseeing tour (Castle Neuschwanstein)