Program
Max Planck Symposium on the Future of Structural Biology 2012
May 23
9.00 -10.00
Opening Plenary Talk: The future is bright – a structure biologist’s dreams
Ilme Schlichting
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
(45 min talk plus 15 discussion)
10.00 - 10.45
Toward Rational Crystallization for Structure-Function Studies of Membrane Proteins
Martin Caffrey
Trinity College Dublin
(35 min plus 10 discussion)
10.45 - 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 - 11.45
Structure studies on G-protein coupled receptors using X-ray microbeam
So Iwata
Imperial College London
(35 min plus 10 discussion)
11.45 - 12.30
Brilliant Photon Sources for Structural Studies in Hamburg
Edgar Weckert
HASYLAB/DESY
(35 min plus 10 discussion)
12.30 - 14.45 Lunch break
14.45 - 15.30
The impact of synchrotron radiation on molecular biology
Ken Holmes
Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
(35 min plus 10 discussion)
15.30 - 15.45 Coffee break
15.45 - 16.30
Linear ubiquitin chain formation and recognition: towards integrated structural biology with SR and future light sources Soichi Wakatsuki
Institute of Materials Structure Science, KEK
(35 min plus 10 discussion)
16.30 - 17.15
Electrodynamical processes in biomolecules during diffractive imaging experiments using XFEL sources
Harry Quiney
ARC /The University of Melbourne
(35 min plus 10 discussion)
May 24
9.00 - 9.45
Functional motions in proteins and their assemblies: fast, rare, and masked by disorder
Gerhard Hummer
NIDDK, National Institutes of Health
(35 min talk plus 10 discussion)
9.45 - 10.30
Molecules in Motion: From Water to the Ribosome
Helmut Grubmüller
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry
(35 min plus 10 discussion)
10.30 - 10.45 Coffee break
10.45 - 11.30
Hybrid methods in the structural analysis of multiprotein complexes
Karl-Peter Hopfner
Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
(35 min plus 10 discussion)
11.30 - 12.15
Macromolecular strcture and dynamics through x-ray scattering and complimentary techniques
Brian Crane
Cornell University
(35 min plus 10 discussion)
12.15 -13.45 Lunch break
13.45 -14.30
Visualizing cellular processes at the molecular level by cryo-electron tomography
Ohad Medalia
University of Zurich
(35 min plus 10 discussion)
14.30 - 15.15
Principles of membrane protein structure determination by electron crystallography of 2D crystals: Achievements and bottlenecks, and analogies to free electron laser experiments
Henning Stahlberg
Biozentrum University of Basel at the Department
for Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE)
(35 min plus 10 discussion)
15.15 - 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 - 16.15
3D Imaging of Cells, Cellular Organelles and Large Protein Complexes with X-rays and Electrons
John Miao
UCLA Coherent Imaging
(35 min plus 10 discussion)
16:15 - 17:00
Imaging macromolecules using intense X-ray pulses
Henry Chapman
CFEL/DESY
(35 min plus 10 discussion)
17.00 - 18.15
Final concluding remarks
Dwayne Miller
CFEL/MPSD,Univ.-Hamburg
(45 min plus 15 discussion)
