Talks from external speakers
Previous Talks
2014
Margitta Dathe
Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP), Berlin, Germany
„Antimicrobial peptides: The secrets of a vicious circle“
14/07/2014
Christoph Müller
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
„Structural insight into RNA polymerase I and III transcription“
30/06/2014
Gert Bange
University Marburg, Germany
"Long seen but understood? Molecular insights into flagellar pattern formation"
19/05/14
Elmar Behrmann
Charité Berlin – Institute of Medical Physics and Biophysics, Germany
„Novel nanotemplates for the visualization of membrane proteins“
14/05/14
Félix M. Goñi
Unidad de Biofísica Bilbao, Spain
„The structure of biological membranes. 40 years after Singer and Nicolson“
06/03/2014
John Seddon
Imperial College, London, UK
„Hydrostatic Pressure Effects on the Structure and Stability of Lipid Membranes and Lyotropic Mesophases“
03/02/2014
Previous Talks
2013
Richard W. Vachet
University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
„Using mass spectrometry to study protein amyloid formation“
09/12/2013
Thomas Gutsmann
Forschungszentrum Borstel, Germany
„Interaction Between Host Defence Peptides and Mycobacteria“
25/11/2013
Eric Beitz
Universität Kiel, Germany
„Aquaporin water and solute selectivity: structure-function relationships suggest physiological roles“
18/11/2013
Petra Fromme
Arizona State University, USA
"Femtosecond nanocrystallography of membrane proteins"
Third Internatiional Meeting Halle 2013
06/11/13
Annika Butterer
University of Antwerp, Belgium
"Probing conformations of very large and dynamic protein complexes by ion mobility mass spectrometry"
Third Internatiional Meeting Halle 2013
06/11/13
Peter Schmidt
University of Leipzig, Germany
"Dynamics of the G protein-coupled neuropeptide Y2 receptor as studied by solid-state NMR spectroscopy"
Third Internatiional Meeting Halle 2013
06/11/13
Stanley J. Opella
UCSD, USA
"Structure, dynamics, and functions of membrane proteins characterized by NMR spectroscopy"
Third Internatiional Meeting Halle 2013
06/11/13
Stephan M. Feller
University of Oxford, UK
"Signal computation in multi-protein complexes assembled on intrinsically disordered large multi-site docking proteins (LMDs) downstream of oncogenic receptor tyrosine kinases"
Third Internatiional Meeting Halle 2013
05/11/13
Michel Steinmetz
PSI Villingen, Switzerland
"Molecular mechanisms of microtubule tip tracking and centriole formation"
Third Internatiional Meeting Halle 2013
05/11/13
David Stuart
University of Oxford, UK
"Conformational transitions in virus capsids – matters of life and death"
Third Internatiional Meeting Halle 2013
05/11/13
Stefan Raunser
MPI Dortmund, Germany
"How to kill a mocking bug – structural insights into Tc toxin complex action"
Third Internatiional Meeting Halle 2013
05/11/13
Susan Buchanan
NIDDKD, Bethesda, USA
"Structural basis for iron piracy by pathogenic Neisseria"
Third Internatiional Meeting Halle 2013
05/11/13
Kornelius Zeth
Basque University, Bilbao, Spain
"Human antimicrobial peptides – from structures to mechanisms"
Third Internatiional Meeting Halle 2013
04/11/13
Maria Hoernke
University of Göteborg, Sweden
"Amyloid aggregation triggers: hydrophobic surfaces, metal ions, intramolecular interactions, lipids"
Third Internatiional Meeting Halle 2013
04/11/13
Sven Brandt
ZIK HIKE, Greifswald, Germany
"Characterization of the conformational changes in Platelet Factor 4 induced by polyanions: Towards in vitro prediction of antigenicity"
Third Internatiional Meeting Halle 2013
04/11/13
Georg Wille
Göthe University, Frankfurt, Germany
"The thiol S–H stretching mode as an infrared probe of conformational change in E. coli pyruvate oxidase"
Third Internatiional Meeting Halle 2013
04/11/13
Jane Dyson
Scripps, San Diego, USA
"Exploring the functional proteome: Unstructured and partly structured proteins"
Third Internatiional Meeting Halle 2013
04/11/13
Thomas Kiefhaber
TU München, Germany
"The mechanism of coupled protein folding and binding reactions: folding before binding or binding before folding?"
Third Internatiional Meeting Halle 2013
04/11/13
Florian Bittner
TU Braunschweig, Germany
„Molybdo-Iron-Flavo Enzymes: Key players in hormone and ROS synthesis, purine degradation and bioactivation of prodrugs“
21/10/2013
Herbert Andres
Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Penzberg, Germany
„Food for thoughts: Was können die Faktoren sein, welche den langfristigen beruflichen Erfolg beeinflussen?“
14/10/13
Rudi Glockshuber
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
„Assembly of adhesive type 1 pili from pathogenic E. coli strains“
30/09/13
Ian J. Molineux
Austin, Texas, USA
"Protein and DNA dynamics at the initiation of phage infection"
19/07/2013
Alexey Rak
Sanofi Aventis, France
"Structure-based drug discovery benefits in modern pharmaceutical R&D processes"
08/07/2013
Wolfgang Zinth
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
„Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Biomolecules – Peptide folding“
24/06/2013
Bonnie Ann Wallace
Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
“Sodium Channels: Structure, Function and Disease”
19/06/2013
René Zahedi
Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften – ISAS – e.V., Dortmund, Germany
„Characterizing protein dynamics using quantitative proteomics: human platelets in health and disease“
06/05/2013
Dieter Oesterhelt
Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany
„Lipid — protein interaction in the purple membrane and conformational changes during the proton transport cycle in Bateriorhodopsin“
08/04/2013
Karsten Melcher
Van Andel Institute, Laboratory of Structural Biology and Biochemistry, Michigan, USA
"Abscisic acid perception and signaling through PYL/RCAR receptors, PP2C phosphatases, and SnRK2 kinases"
18/03/2013
F. Xavier Gomis-Rüth
Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona, Spain
„Structural insight into the inhibitory mechanism of α2-macroglobulin“
18/03/2013
Mikhail Zhukovsky
Department of Biological Experimental Physics Saarland University, Germany
"Putative cholesterol-binding sites in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) coreceptors CXCR4 and CCR5"
05/03/2013
Mario Mörl
Universität Leipzig, Fakultät für Biowissenschaften, Pharmazie und Psychologie, Institut für Biochemie, Germany
„tRNA Nucleotidyltransferases - Reactions, Substrates, and Evolution“
27/02/2013
Anthony J. Wilkinson
The University of York, UK
"Protein Complexes Shaping Adaptation and Fate in Bacillus“
25/02/2013
Frank Sobott
University of Antwerp, Belgium
"Native ion mobility-mass spectrometry of proteins and complexes"
Spring Meeting Meißen
23/02/2013
Sebastian Glatt
European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg, Germany
"Elongator – Transcriptional Elongator or Translational Regulator"
Spring Meeting Meißen
22/02/2013
Birte Höcker
Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology Tübingen, Germany
"Rational design of protein fold and function"
Spring Meeting Meißen
21/02/2013
Ulf Diederichsen
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
"Artificial peptide topologies interacting with lipid bilayers“
21/01/2013
Eckhard Strauch
Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung (BfR) Berlin, Germany
"Wie schützt das Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung den Verbraucher vor pathogenen Mikroorganismen in Lebensmitteln?"
15/01/2013
Previous Talks
2012
Kerstin Blank
Radbound University, Netherlands
„Single molecule enzymology: optical and nanoelectronic approaches“
29/10/2012
Ulrich Brinkmann
Roche Diagnostics GmbH Penzberg, Germany
„Human-protein-derived peptides for intracellular delivery of biomolecules“
22/10/2012
Ingo Heilmann
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
"Fate prearranged at birth - the limited choices of PIP2 in membrane microdomains of polargrowing plant cells"
Fall Meeting Naumburg 2012
03/10/2012
Christian Löw
Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden
"Tricks and gimmicks for integral membrane proteins – Structural insights into nutrient uptake"
Fall Meeting Naumburg 2012
02/10/2012
Hagen Hofmann
Universität Zürich, Switzerland
"Probing polymer physics in chaperone action with single molecule spectroscopy"
Fall Meeting Naumburg 2012
01/10/2012
Oliver Einsle
Universität Freiburg, Germany
„A bifunctional fructose-1,6-bisphosphate aldolase/phosphatase in archaeal gluconeogenesis“
09/07/2012
Perdita Barran
University of Edinburgh, UK
"Resolving solution structures in the absence of solution"
02/07/2012
Nils G. Walter
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, New York, USA
“Single Particle Super-Resolution: Of Intracellular microRNAs and Molecular Nanorobots “
26/06/2012
Hartmut Lücke
University of California at Irvine, USA
"Crystal structure of the urea channel from the human gastric carcinogen Helicobacter pylori"
15/06/2012
Alexander Cameron
University of Nottingham, UK
"Exploring the alternating access mechanism of membrane transport in a bacterial secondary transporter"
11/06/2012
Claudia Steinem
University of Göttingen, Germany
“Planar membranes on solid and porous supports: tools to monitor protein-lipid interactions”
04/06/2012
Sebastian Hiller
University of Basel, Switzerland
"Solution NMR Studies of Bacterial and Mitochondrial Outer Membrane Proteins"
24/05/2012
Karl Lohner
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
„Host defence peptides as novel membrane therapeutics in bacterial infections and cancer disease“
21/05/2012
Wolfram Bode
Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany
"Mechanisms by which proteinases get their substrate specificity"
Minisymposium: “10 Years Physical Biotechnology, 25 Years Protein Crystallography"
15/05/2012
Hartmut Oschkinat
Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Berlin, Germany
"The activation mechanisms of small chaperones studies by NMR and SAXS"
Minisymposium: “10 Years Physical Biotechnology, 25 Years Protein Crystallography"
15/05/2012
Daniel Rauh
Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany
"Chemical oncology - converging structural biology, cancer genetics and
medicinal chemistry"
Minisymposium: “10 Years Physical Biotechnology, 25 Years Protein Crystallography"
15/05/2012
Christoph Parthier
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
"From DltA to TobZ: a guided tour of Milton's protein structure Zoo"
Minisymposium: “10 Years Physical Biotechnology, 25 Years Protein Crystallography"
15/05/2012
Henning Mootz
University of Münster, Department of Biochemistry, Germany
“Protein Splicing by Inteins: Intriguing mechanism and diverse applications in protein chemistry"
14/05/2012
Magnus Wolf-Watz
University of UMEA, Sweden
“Ground- and excited-state stabilities modulate adenylate kinase catalysis”
07/05/2012
Manuel E. Than
Leibniz Institute for Age Research Jena, Germany
"What can the structure of the amyloid precurser protein (APP)about its role in the Alzheimer disease?"
Spring Meeting Eisenach 2012
25/02/2012
Michal Sharon
The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
"The Emerging Role of Mass Spectrometry in Structure Elucidation of Cellular Complexes"
Spring Meeting Eisenach 2012
24/02/2012
Oliver Lange
Technische Universität München, Germany
"Combining NMR data with accurate structural modeling: Conformational selection dynamics of ubiquitin and structure determination with CS-Rosetta"
Spring Meeting Eisenach 2012
24/02/2012
Manajit Hayer-Hartl
Max Plank Institute of Biochemistry Martinsried, Germany
"Proteostasis of Rubisco: Folding, Assembly and Activation Mediated by Chaperones"
Spring Meeting Eisenach 2012
23/02/2012
Glen Ramsey
AVIV Biomedical Inc
„Applications of the fluorescence detection system in analytical ultracentrifugation“
16/02/2012
Ralf Ficner
Göttingen, Germany
“Structural insights into the nucleocytoplasmic transport of spliceosomal UsnRNPs“
10/02/2012
2011
Jens Meiler
Vanderbilt University, USA
"Computational Protein Folding and Design"
19/12/2011
Uwe T. Bornscheuer
Universität Greifswald, Germany
"Protein Engineering on the Move: From Directed Evolution to in Silico Approaches"
08/12/2011
Christoph Herwig
Technische Universität Wien, Austria
"Real-time Transformation of data to Knowledge – preferably using soft sensors?"
06/12/2011
Christian W. Müller
Ruhr Universität Bochum, Germany
"Single-conformation infrared spectra of model α-, α/β-, β- and γ-peptides: Direct tests of electrostatic models for amide I modes"
14/11/2011
Daniel Rauh
Technical University Dortmund, Germany
"Targeting inactive kinase conformations in chemical biology and medicinal chemistry research"
Fall Meeting Leuna 2011
01/10/2011
Dieter Söll
Yale University, USA
"The continued evolution of the Genetic Code"
Fall Meeting Leuna 2011
30/09/2011
Burkhard Bechinger
University of Strasbourg CNRS, France
"Solid-state NMR investigations of membraneassociated polypeptides"
Fall Meeting Leuna 2011
30/09/2011
Markus Zweckstetter
MPI for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen, Germany
"NMR spectroscopy: Insights into disordered proteins and proteins in the membrane"
Fall Meeting Leuna 2011
29/09/2011
Heiko Heerklotz
University of Toronto, Canada
"Nature's own detergents"
30/05/2011
Karl-Peter Hopfner
University of Munich, Germany
"Sensing and signalling of DNA double-strand breaks by the Rad50-Mre11-Nbs1 complex"
Second International Meeting Halle 2011
05/03/2011
Ulrike Krug
University of Leipzig, Germany
"Activation of Toxoplasma gondii NTPDase3 by disulfide cleavage"
Second International Meeting Halle 2011
05/03/2011
Daniel Roderer
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
"Assembly mechanism of the pore forming toxin ClyA from Escherichia coli"
Second International Meeting Halle
05/03/2011
Tom Rapoport
Harvard University, USA
"Mechanisms of protein transport across membranes"
Second International Meeting Halle 2011
05/03/2011
Felix Rey
Institut Pasteur Paris, France
"Icosahedral enveloped viruses and fusogenic activation: insights from structural studies"
Second International Meeting Halle 2011
04/03/2011
Carol Robinson
University of Oxford, UK
"Dehydrated but unharmed? – the mass spectrometry of protein complexes"
Second International Meeting Halle 2011
04/03/2011
Gerhard Wagner
Harvard University, USA
"Regulation of cellular homeostasis in translation initiation"
Second International Meeting Halle 2011
04/03/2011
Thomas Szyperski
SUNY, Buffalo, USA
"Conformational transitions of proteins studied by NMR in supercooled water"
Second International Meeting Halle 2011
04/03/2011
Verena Hirschfeld
University of Lübeck, Germany
"Precise energy transfer measurement at 77 K"
Second International Meeting Halle 2011
04/03/2011
Michael Kozlov
University of Tel Aviv, Israel
"Modeling membrane fission by ESCRT-III proteins"
Second International Meeting Halle 2011
03/03/2011
Tracy Palmer
University of Dundee, UK
"The Tat (twin arginine translocation) protein export pathway"
Second International Meeting Halle 2011
03/03/2011
Jan Löwe
MRC Cambridge, UK
"Actin-like proteins of the bacterial cytoskeleton"
Second International Meeting Halle 2011
03/03/2011
Helen Saibil
Birkbeck London, UK
"Dynamics of a chaperonin machine"
Second International Meeting Halle 2011
03/03/2011
Andreas Plueckthun
University of Zurich, Switzerland
"Sensing and influencing conformational transitions with engineered binding proteins"
Second International Meeting Halle 2011
03/03/2011
Eva Freisinger
University of Zürich, Switzerland
"Understanding the structure of plant metallothioneins"
17/01/2011
Özkan Yildiz
Max-Planck-Institut für Biophysik Frankfurt am Main, Germany
"Structural studies of outer membrane porin OmpG and sodium proton antiporter NhaP"
24/01/2011
Olaf Jahn
Max-Planck-Institut für Experimentelle Medizin Göttingen, Germany
"Characterization of biomolecular interactions by photoaffinity labeling and mass spectrometry"
31/01/2011
Johannes Hermann
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
"Exploring a Terra incognita: The intermenbrane space of mitochondria"
28/03/2011
Bernadette Byrne
Imperial College of London, UK
" N.N. "
04/04/2011
2010
Sandro Keller
Universität Kaiserslautern, Germany
"Functional reconstitution of membrane proteins by isothermal titration calorimetry"
08/11/2010
Dermot Cooper
University of Cambridge, UK
"Organization of signalling microdomains by adenylyl cyclases"
Fall Meeting Blankenburg 2010
02/10/2010
Lucy Forrest
Max Planck Institute for Biophysics Frankfurt, Germany
"Symmetry and the art of transport - A role for inverted-topology structural repeats in neurotransmitter reuptake"
Fall Meeting Blankenburg 2010
01/10/2010
Erich Sackmann
University of Munich, Germany
"Quantal concept of T-cell activation: Adhesion domains as immunological synapses"
Fall Meeting Blankenburg 2010
01/10/2010
Reinhard Sterner
University of Regensburg, Germany
"Experimental reconstruction of enzyme evolution"
Fall Meeting Blankenburg 2010
30/09/2010
Antonio Pierik and Daili Netz
Philipps Universität Marburg, Germany
"Fe-S clusters: novel functions for primordial cofactors"
18/10/2010
Prof. Thomas Kiefhaber
TU München, Germany
"Conformational Fluctuations in Proteins Measured by Fast Triplet Transferpen eyes on open pores- TRP channels under construction and at work"
14/06/2010
Juri Rappsilber
Basic Biomedical ScienceWelcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, Edinburgh, UK
"From stable cores to elusive peripheries - increased vision into protein complexes by cross-linking and mass spectrometry"
10/05/2010
Markus Aebi
ETH Zürich, Switzerland
"N-linked protein glycolysation:concepts and applications"
03/05/2010
Harald Steiner
LMU ,München, Germany
"g-Secretase:apivotal intramembrane-cleaving protease impicated in Alzheimer`s disease pathognesis"
29/03/2010
Werner Kremer
Universität Regensburg, Germany
"High Pressure NMR spectroscopy on proteins"
Spring Meeting Halle 2010
20/03/2010
Ulrich Baumann
Universität Bern, Switzerland
"The Birth and Death of Proteins - Structural Aspects of Translation Initiation and Protein Degradation"
Spring Meeting Halle 2010
19/03/2010
Kathrin Breuker
Universität Innsbruck, Austria
"From solution to gas phase - How protein structure evolves after desolvation"
Spring Meeting Halle 2010
19/03/2010
Johannes Buchner
Technische Universität München, Germany
"Molecular Chaperones – Cellular Machines for Protein Folding"
Spring Meeting Halle 2010
18/03/2010
Walter Brandt
IPB Halle, Germany
"Penylating enzymes-structure, function and new aspects of the catalytic mechanism"
08/02/2010
Mitsu Ikura
Department of Medical Biophysics, Toronto, Canada
"Structural basis for regulation intracellular calcium signals: Amattre of life or death"
11/01/2010
2009
Gabriela Caraveo
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, MIT, Boston, USA
"Using a yeast model system to elucidate the role of Ca2+ signalling pathways in Parkinson´s Disease"
07/12/2009
Michael Schäfer
Universität Leipzig, Germany
"Open eyes on open pores- TRP channels under construction and at work"
30/11/2009
David Drew
Imperial College London, UK
"A green light for membrane proteins"
23/11/2009
Christian Freund
FMP Berlin, Germany
"Folding and peptide recognition of MHC class II molecules"
18/11/2009
Michael Rother
JWG, Universität Frankfurt, Germany
"Mechanism and regulation of the selenoprotein synthesis in archea"
09/11/2009
Ralf Kölling
Institut für Lebensmittelwissenschaften und Biotechnologie, Universität Hohenheim, Germany
" Analysis of the dual function of the ESCRT-III protein Snf7 in endocyttic trafficking an gene expression"
02/11/2009
Rita Bernhardt
Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany
"Protein-protein interactions in cytochrome P450-systems"
Fall Meeting Dessau 2009
03/10/2009
Jan Bieschke
Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
"Redirecting amyloid formation pathways"
Fall Meeting Dessau 2009
02/10/2009
Sophie Zinn-Justin
CEA Sacley, Paris, France
"EM and NMR as tools for the elucidation of bacteriophage SPP1 DNA gating mechanism"
Fall Meeting Dessau 2009
02/10/2009
Jitka Forstová
Charles University Prag, Czech Republic
"Trafficking of polyomavirus particles in cells"
Fall Meeting Dessau 2009
01/10/2009
John Collier
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, USA
"Towards an understanding of toxin translocarion: the anthrax toxin model"
07/07/2009
Winfried Weissenhorn
University of Grenoble, CNRS , France
"Structure of ESCRT-III and its implication in membrane remodeling: From multivesicular bodies to viruses and cytokinesis"
22/06/2009
W. H. Gerlich
Institut für Medizinische Virologie Gießen, Germany
"Okkulte Hepatitis B Viren: Erkennung und Bedeutung"
23/04/2009
Doris Rentsch
Universität Bern, Institut für Botanik, Switzerland
"Peptide transporters in plants: Role in uptake and translocation of organic nitrogen"
23/04/2009
Eckhard Mandelkow
Max-Planck-Arbeitsgruppe für strukturelle Molekularbiologie, Hamburg, Germany
"Tau protein - structure and pathological aggregation in Alzheimer disease"
20/04/2009
Elizabeth Vierling
Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA
"Armed to protect: Investigating the mechanism of small heat shock protein chaperone action"
23/03/2009
Mikio Tanabe
Vanderbilt University, Medical Center, Tennesse, USA
"Neisserial outer membrane protein PorB; from
structure to function"
17/03/2009
Nick Gay
Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK
" From Drosophila development to human immunity: the molecular mechanisms of the Toll receptor signalling pathways "
16/03/2009
Wolfgang Höhne
Institut für Biochemie, Charité, Berlin, Germany
"Structural Basis of Antibody Polyspecifity"l
16/03/2009
Antonio Pierik
Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
"Structural characterisation of intermediates in enzymes by EPR spectroscopy"
Spring Meeting Oppurg 2009
14/03/2009
Jasna Peter-Katalinic
Universitätsklinikum Münster, Germany
"Emerging glycomics: how to encompass carbohydrate diversity by mass spectrometry"
Spring Meeting Oppurg 2009
13/03/2009
Wolf-Dieter Schubert
Helmholtz Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, Braunschweig, Germany
"Re-engineering listerial infections"
Spring Meeting Oppurg 2009
13/03/2009
Heinrich Sticht
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, Germany
"Altered protein dynamics as a cause of disease"
Spring Meeting Oppurg 2009
13/03/2009
Karl Wilhelm Koch
Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
"Conformational transitions of signaling proteins in rod and cone photoreceptor cells"
Spring Meeting Oppurg 2009
12/03/2009
Michael Groll
TU München, Germany
"Diversity of proteasomal missions: fine tuning of the immune response"
09/03/2009
Jean-Luc Ferrer
Institut de Biologie Structurale, CRNS, Grenoble, France
"Automation on beamline FIP-BM30A at the ESFR: how robots can help crystographers"
03/03/2009
Joachim Lingner
ISREC, Lausanne, Switzerland
"Telomeres and telomerase: RNA-dependent machines at the ends of chromosomes"
02/03/2009
2008
David L. Huffman
Department of Chemistry, Western Michigan University, USA
"Insights into Human Copper Metabolism and Wilson Disease from the Study of the Wilson Protein"
23/10/2008
Volker Kiessling
University of Virginia
"Building a protein fusion machinery from scratch: Insights into SNARE mediated membrane fusion supported membrane experiments"
15/10/2008
Elke Deuerling
University of Konstanz, Germany
"Getting proteins into shape: Functions and mechanisms of molecular chaperones"
Fall Meeting Dresden 2008
10/10/2008
Franz Xaver Schmid
University of Bayreuth, Germany
"The gene-3-protein of filamentous phage: how protein unfolding and prolyl cis/trans isomerization is used to activate its function in phage infection"
Fall Meeting Dresden 2008
10/10/2008
Andrei Lupas
MPI for Developmental Biology, Tübingen, Germany
"A mechanism for transmembrane signal transduction"
Fall Meeting Dresden 2008
10/10/2008
Kai Simons
MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
"Lipid rafts as a membrane organizing principle"
Fall Meeting Dresden 2008
09/10/2008
Daniel J. Müller,
Biotechnology Centre, Dresden
"Using single-molecule force spectroscopy to characterize interand intramolecular interactions of membrane proteins"
Fall Meeting Dresden 2008
09/10/2008
David Leys
Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocenter, University of Manchester, UK
"Insight into CprK and the use of FrmR, a tale of two transcriptional regulators"
01/10/2008
Yehuda Tzfati
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
“The telomeric 3' overhang is crucial for telomere function: insights from yeast and from the human disease dyskeratosis congenital“
04/08/2008
Allan D` Arcy
Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
“The Importance of Nucleation and Seeding in Protein Crystallization, Case Studies Using Automated Matrix Seeding“
14/07/2008
Marcus Fändrich
MPI Martinsried, Germany
“Structure of Amyloid Fibrils and Molecular Basis of their Formation“
07/07/2008
Udo Wehmeier
FB Chemical Microbiology, BU Wuppertal, Germany
„Pharmaceutical relevant secondary metabolites from actinomycetes: biochemical analysis, biocombinatorial approaches and modification“
25/06/2008
Uwe Karst
Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany
"Hyphenated techniques in pharmaceutical and biomedical analytics"
24/06/2008
Olaf Stemmann
MPI Martinsried, Germany
“Studying Chromosome Segregation in Vertrebrates: Lessons from Cell-Free Extracts and Transgenic Cell Lines“
16/06/2008
Rüdiger Horstkorte
Medizinische Fakultät, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
“The Neural Cell adhesion Molecule (NCAM): Insights in its unique glycosylation and intracellular signaling“
02/06/2008
Ronald Breslow
Columbia University, NY, USA
“SAHA, an approved cancer medicine with a novel mechanism“
28/05/2008
Rolf Jessberger
TU Dresden
“Mammalien Meiosis, Cohesins, and Aneuploidies“
28/04/2008
Ralf-Peter Jansen
Gene Center
Department Chemie und Biochemie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
"How to move a message: myosin-dependent RNA localization"
09/04/2008
Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz
New York Medical College, USA
„Assessment of DNA damage by exogenous and endogenous genotoxins in relation to cell cycle and induction of apoptosis“
07/04/2008
Wolfgang Baumeister
Martinsried, Germany
"Mapping molecular landscapes inside cells by cryoelectron tomography"
First International Meeting Halle 2008
01/03/2008
Michael G. Rossmann
Purdue, USA
"The maturation pathway of dengue and other flaviviruses"
First International Meeting Halle 2008
01/03/2008
Nobutaka Hirokawa
Tokyo, Japan
"Kinesin Superfamily Proteins: Structure, Dynamics, and Function"
First International Meeting Halle 2008
29/02/2008
Robert Kolodziejczyk
Poznan, Poland
"How is it possible? - a conformational change in hotdog-like fold"
First International Meeting Halle 2008
29/02/2008
Humberto Fernandes
Poznan, Poland
"Conformational changes of plant PR-10 proteins upon hormone binding"
First International Meeting Halle 2008
29/02/2008
Thomas A. Steitz
Yale, USA
"Transcription by RNA polymerases, from initiation to elongation"
First International Meeting Halle 2008
29/02/2008
Klaus Gerwert
Bochum, Germany
"Protein bound waters in catalysis"
First International Meeting Halle 2008
29/02/2008
Matthias Zebisch
Leipzig, Germany
"Structural insight into signal conversion and inactivation by NTPDase2 in purinergic signalling"
First International Meeting Halle 2008
29/02/2008
Hartmut Luecke
Irvine, USA
"Structures of a Cyanobacterial Photoreceptor and its soluble Transducer"
First International Meeting Halle 2008
29/02/2008
André Hoelz
Rockefeller, USA
"Building the nuclear pore complex piece by piece"
First International Meeting Halle 2008
29/02/2008
Sheena E. Radford
Leeds, UK
"Sequence specific effects in protein folding and misfolding landscapes"
First International Meeting Halle 2008
29/02/2008
Carsten Sachse
Halle, Germany
"Electron cryo-microscopy of amyloid fibrils from Alzheimer’s Aβ peptide"
First International Meeting Halle 2008
28/02/2008
John E. Walker
Cambridge, UK
"Structural transitions in the ATP synthase complex"
First International Meeting Halle 2008
28/02/2008
Alan Fersht
Cambridge, UK
"The tumour suppressor p53: structure function – rescue"
First International Meeting Halle 2008
28/02/2008
Agnes Zimmer
Braunschweig, Germany
"Characterization of amyloid fibrils by quenched hydrogen exchange NMR"
First International Meeting Halle 2008
28/02/2008
Fátima Gebauer
Barcelona, Spain
"Sex and translation: regulation of X chromosome dose in Drosophila"
First International Meeting Halle 2008
28/02/2008
Patrick Cramer
Munich, Germany
"Gene transcription and regulation: from molecules to systems"
First International Meeting Halle 2008
28/02/2008
Udo Heinemann
Max Dellbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
"Resculpting proteins and the proteome by AAA+ unfolding machines"
21/02/2008
Yves Muller
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
"Conformational switches as key to protein function: The mechanism of phenotype reversal in TetR and steroid release in CBG"
20/02/2008
Karl-Peter Hopfner
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Gene Center, University of Munich, Germany
"DNA repair at atomic resolution"
18/02/2008
2007
Jens Meiler
Vanderbilt University, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacology, Center for Structural Biology, USA
"Computational Structural Bio-Chemistry: Methods and Application"
17/12/2007
Nicola Gray
MRC Human Genetics Unit, Scotland, UK
"Cytoplasmic gene regulation by two families of RNA -binding proteins that interact"
26/11/2007
Tania A. Baker
MIT Department of Biology, Cambridge, USA
"Resculpting proteins and the proteome by AAA+ unfolding machines"
29/10/2007
Arne Gericke
Kent State University, USA
"Biophysical Endeavours into the world of Phosphoinositide"
01/10/2007
Alfred M. Pingoud
Institut für Biochemie, Giessen, Germany
"Künstliche Enzyme sind die Chirurgen der Zukunft"
24/09/2007
Gilad Haran
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
"Excursions into the structures of denatured proteins using single-molecule spectroscopy"
17/09/2007
Alan Cooper
Department of Chemistry, Glasgow, UK
"Froth,Foam and Bubble: the biophysical chemistry of tropical frog foam nest proteins"
Fall Meeting Wittenberg 2007
08/09/2007
Thilo Stehle
Institut für Biochemie, Tübingen, Germany
"Excursions into the structures of denatured proteins using single-molecule spectroscopy"
Fall Meeting Wittenberg 2007
07/09/2007
Sven Behrens,
Institut für Biotechnologie, Halle, Germany
"(N) FAR OUT: nuclear factors are involved in the hepatitis C virus life cycle"
Fall Meeting Wittenberg 2007
07/09/2007
Mats Paulsson
Institut der Biochemie, University Köln, Germany
"Multi-particle cryo-electron microscopy of functional ribosomal complexes"
Fall Meeting Wittenberg 2007
06/09/2007
Christian Spahn
Institute of Medical Physic and Biophysic, Charité, University Berlin, Germany
"Multi-particle cryo-electron microscopy of functional ribosomal complexes"
14/05/2007
Nenad Ban
ETH Zürich, Swizerland
"Structural basis of iterative acid synthesis catalysed by giantmultienzyme complexes"
07/05/2007
Steve Homans
University of Leeds, UK
"Dynamics and Thermodynamics of Ligand-Protein Interactions"
16/04/2007
Hartmut Kühn
Institute of Biochemistry, Medical Faculty Charité Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany
"Structural basis of lipoxygenase catalysis and of enzyme membrane interaction"
26/03/2007
Elena Conti
EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany
"Structural studies of mRNA decay"
26/02/2007
Robert Tampé
Institute of Biochemistry, Biocenter, Johann-Wolfgang-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
"Present Your “Self” or Die – The Transport Machinery TAP in Cellular Immunity"
05/02/2007
2006
Sven Grüneberg
Science4 Life e.V. Industriepark Höchst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
“Starten Sie mit Science4Life in die Selbstständigkeit”
11/12/2006
Anton Meinhart
Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg, Germany
“Interconnecting RNA Processing with Transcription”
07/12/2006
Arnold Driessen
University of Groningen, NL
“Bacterial preprotein translocase, a remarkable machine”
Fall Meeting Potsdam 2006
06/10/2006
Werner Kühlbrandt
Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysics, Frankfurt, Germany
“Effector- mediated conformational transitions regulating ammonium uptake in prokaryotes”
Fall Meeting Potsdam 2006
05/10/2006
Horst Kessler
Technical University, Munich, Germany
"NMR Studies of p53 and Its Interaction with DNA, HSP 90 and Small Molecules"
Fall Meeting Potsdam 2006
05/10/2006
Wolfgang Buckel
Philipps University Marburg, Germany
“Protein-Protein Interactions involved in the Activation of Radical Enzymes”
Fall Meeting Potsdam 2006
04/10/2006
Volker Dötsch
Institute of Biophysical Chemistry Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany
"Dynamics of peptidyl carrier proteins (PCPs) in non ribosomal synthases (NRPSs)“
12/06/2006
Richard Reece
University of Manchester, UK
“Eucaryotics transcription factors as direct nutrients sensors”
31/05/2006
Michael Sundström
Oxford Structural Genomics Consortium, UK
“Directed Structural Genomics:Focus on Human Protein Families”
22/05/2006
Irmgard Fanning
Biochemie-Zentrum, Heidelberg, Germany
“Conformational transitions in the SRP system”
24/04/2006
Christian Hübner
University of Halle, Germany
“Pushing the limits of single-molecule fluorescence detection”
Spring Meeting Weimar 2006
18/03/2006
Margitta Dathe
Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP), Berlin, Germany
"Cationic Peptides: Their membrane-permeabilizing and membranepenetrating ability"
Spring Meeting Weimar 2006
18/03/2006
Ben Schuler
University of Zurich, Swizerland
"Protein folding, collapse and dynamics from single molecule fluorescence spectroscopy”
Spring Meeting Weimar 2006
18/03/2006
Gerhard Klebe
University of Marburg, Germany
"Flexible Proteins as Notoriously Difficult Targets in Drug Design"
Spring Meeting Weimar 2006
17/03/2006
Knud Nierhaus
Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany
“The highly conserved LepA is a ribosomal elongation factor in all bacteria and mitochondria"
Spring Meeting Weimar 2006
17/03/2006
Wolfgang Garten
Institut für Virologie, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
“The molecular structure of Borna disease virus”
06/02/2006
2005
Henrike Heise
MPI für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany
“Molecular level secondary structure, polymorphism and dynamics of full-length alpha-synclein fibrils studied bysolid-state NMR”
08/12/2005
Stefan Steinbacher
Lehrstuhl für Biotechnologie, Technische Universität München, Germany
"The HFCD family of flavoproteins: Oxidation of terminal cysteine residues in lantibiotics and coenzyme A biosynthesis"
joint EVOMET Workshop
01/12/2005
Stéphane Richard
Structural Biology Laboratory, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, USA
"Modelling enzyme specificity"
joint EVOMET Workshop
01/12/2005
Markus Rudolph
Abteilung für Molekulare Strukturbiologie, Institut für Mikrobiologie und Genetik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
"Non-redox catalysis by flavoproteins: Double bond isomerization in fatty acids"
joint EVOMET Workshop
01/12/2005
Holger Dobbek
Universität Bayreuth, Germany
„Dynamics in protein crystals“
Fall Meeting Wittenberg 2005
03/09/2005
Berta Martins
Universität Bayreuth, Germany
“Active site modulation by Rieske-(2Fe-2S) centre oxidation /reduction”
Fall Meeting Wittenberg 2005
03/09/2005
Michael Sattler
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
"Molecular recognition in RNA interference and spliceosome assembly"
Fall Meeting Wittenberg 2005
03/09/2005
Matthias Görlach
Leibniz-Institut für Altersforschung Jena, Germany
“RNA structure in human disease”
Fall Meeting Wittenberg 2005
02/09/2005
Reinhard Jahn
Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany
“Molecular mechanisms of membrane fusion in the secretory pathway”
Fall Meeting Wittenberg 2005
02/09/2005
Robert Huber
Max-Planck-Institut für Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany
"Protein structures at the interface of chemistry, physics, and biology"
Inauguration, IAMO
10/02/2005
Petra Schwille
Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
"Monitoring protein dynamics in cells and membranes on a single molecule level"
Inauguration, IAMO
10/02/2005
Roger Goody
Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Physiologie, Dortmund, Germany
"Structural and mechanistic aspects of prenylation and cycling of Rab proteins"
Inauguration, IAMO
10/02/2005
Christian Griesinger
Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany
"Structure and dynamics of alpha-synuclein as determined by NMR"
Inauguration, IAMO
10/02/2005
Holger Stark
Max-Planck-Institut für biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany
"Electron cryomicroscopy as a tool to study structure and dynamics of large macromolecular machines"
Inauguration, IAMO
10/02/2005