Calendar
Day 1, Friday, 29 May 2009
08:30-8:50 AM Opening Ceremony
Mr. Athanasios Kousathanas-Megas, Mayor of Mykonos
Bengt Nordén, Andreas Mershin & Shuguang Zhang
Introductory remarks. information about the hotel, Mykonos and Delos.
Protein production & moment (Chair, Anders Liljas)
8:50-9:30 Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute
From the ribosome to the ER membrane
9:30-10:10 Eva Pebay-Peyroula, Institute of Biological Structure, Grenoble
Structural approaches of mitochondrial carriers
10:10-10:40 Gunnar von Heijne, Stockholm University
Membrane protein topology
10:40-11:10 Coffee Break
New technology for working on membrane proteins (Chair, Andrew Marshall)
11:10-11:50 Horst Vogel, EPFL, Switzerland
GPCR signaling by micro- and nanotechnologies
11:50-12:30 Yael Maguire, MIT & Thing Magic
Miniature NMR microslot waveguide probe
12:30-13:10 David Kong, MIT-Center for Bits & Atoms
Microfluidic production of membrane proteins
13:10-18:00 Small group self-assemblies
Aspects of structural biology (Chair, Anders Liljas)
18:00-10:40Maria Garber, Russian Academy of Science, Pushchino, Russia
Crystallization and the crystal structure of the heterotrimeric archaeal complexes
18:40-19:20 Stephan White, University of California, Irvine
Making sense of ion channel voltage sensors
19:20-20:00 Michael Graetzel, EPFL – Dye Sensitized Solar Cells (By exception due to scheduling problems)
Day 2, Saturday, 30 May 2009
08:30-13:00 Guided Tour to Ancient City of Delos
By registration. Cost (€59) includes bus ride to harbor, boat ride to Delos Island (about 20mins, expect some turbulence), English-language guided tour and return to Royal by same route.
Membrane dynamics (Chair, Astrid Gräslund)
14:30-15:10 Bengt Nordén, Chalmers University of Technology
Significance & mechanisms of slow processes in bio-molecular contexts
15:10-15:50 Astrid Gräslund, Stockholm University
The amyloid beta peptide: structure & aggregation in membrane mimetic media.
15:50-16:30 Alan Fersht, MRC-Protein Engineering Center, Cambridge, UK
Tumor suppressor p53: Structure and drug targeting
16:30-17:00 Coffee Break
Membrane protein transport (Chair, Eva Pebay-Peyroula)
17:00-17:40 Marten Vos, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
Mechanisms of fast charge transfer in membrane proteins
17:40-18:20 Satoshi Murakami, Osaka University
Multidrug Efflux Transporter - The Pumping Mechanism
18:20-19:00 Robert Stroud, UCSF
Approach to effective expression of human and eukaryotic membrane proteins
The Jack & Florence Aviv Foundation Banquet
By registration. Cost (€98) includes set-menu dinner (Greek cuisine and wine)
19:00-23:00 IMPERIAL A LA CARTE Level -1
Day 3, Sunday, 31 May 2009
Solar energy molecular machines (Chair, Nathan Nelson)
8:30-9:10 James Barbar, Imperial College
The big bang of evolution and engine of life
9:10-9:50 Wolfram Saenger, Freie University, Berlin
New insights on the structure of cyanobacterial photosystem II at 2.9Å resolution
9:50-10:30 Nathan Nelson, Tel Aviv University
Plant photosystem I: from single photon detection to hydrogen production
10:30-11:00 Break
Nanobiotechnology & solar energy (Chair, Bengt Nordén)
11:00-11:40 Uwe Sleytr, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Nanobiotechnology with monomolecular protein lattices (S-layers) (by exceptions due to scheduling problems)
11:40-12:10 Joel Schnur, George Mason University, USA
Photo-induced electron transfer at bio-inorganic interfaces
12:20-12:50 Andreas Mershin, MIT
Using Nature’s templates and materials for nano-bio-technology
12:50-1:20 Giovanni Giacometti, University of Padova, Italy
Artificial photosynthesis: will it be possible?
13:40-18:00 PM Small group self-assemblies
Unexpected Synergies (Chair, Andreas Mershin)
18:00-18:40 Katerina Aifantis, Aristoteleion University of Thessaloniki
Nanomechanics in biology
18:40-19:20 Stavros Hamodrakas, University of Athens
Computational analysis of GPCRs, G-proteins, effectors & their interactions
19:20-20:00 Makis Skoulakis, Alexander Fleming Institute, Greece
Olfactory Discrimination of odorant isotopes by Drosophila
Day 4, Monday, June 1st 2009
Membrane protein structure & function (Chair, Poul Nissen)
8:30-9:10 Richard Neutze, Göteborg University
Aquaporins: structure, function & regulation
9:10-9:50 Margarida Archer, ITQB, Portugal
Structure of cytochrome C quinol dehydrogenase NrfH
9:50-10:30 Poul Nissen
The formation of gradients and potentials by Na+, K+-ATPase and related pumps
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
Membrane biology, tools and trends (Chair, Charlotte Hauser)
11:10-11:40 Andrew Marshall, Nature Biotechnology
Trends in membrane protein biotechnology
11:40-12:20 Christian Riekel, ESRF
Microfocus beamline and its recent advances at ESRF
12:20-1:00 Bonnie Wallace, Birkbeck College, UK
Circular dichroism & synchrotron radiation CD for the study of membrane proteins
13:00-13:30 Jan Kubicek, Qiagen, Germany
High throughput methods for membrane protein crystallizations
Simple methods, tools and materials (Chair, Shuguang Zhang)
15:00-15:30 Brian Cook, MIT
Large scale productions of functional human olfactory receptors
15:30-16:00 Liselotte Kaiser, Attana Sensor Technology
Attana A200, new technology for determine protein-protein interactions
416:00-16:30 Hanna Eriksson, Stockholm University
Production of membrane proteins in E.coli
16:30-17:00 Joanke Graveland-Bikker, University of Leiden
Production of membrane protein in yeast pichia
17:00-17:30 Yechiel Shai, Weizmann Institute
Peptide-peptide interaction in the membrane: design modulators of membrane proteins
17:30-18:00 Shuguang Zhang
Designer lipid-like peptide detergents
English-Language Portion of Workshop Adjourns
