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EMBO Practical Course

Protein Expression, Purification and Crystallisation

EMBL Hamburg, Germany Monday 23 August - Tuesday 31 August 2010
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Programme

All lectures in Seminar Room 48E

Monday 23rd August

09.30 - 09.45

Welcome

Jochen Müller-Dieckmann

09.45 - 11.00

Heterologous expression in E. coli

Gunter Stier and Arie Geerlof

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee

 

11.30 - 12.30

Mammalian expression systems

David Hacker

12.30 - 13.30

Sandwich Lunch (EMBL)

 

13.30 - 14.30

Co-expression of protein complexes (pro- and eukaryotic)

Imre Berger

14.30 - 15.30

High throughput cloning methodologies and their application to HTP expression screening

Renaud Vincentelli and Jerome Basquin

15.30 - 18:30

Student poster session (Seminar room 48E)

 

19:00 - late

BBQ

 

Tuesday 24th August

09.00 - 12.00

Practical Session 1

 

12.00 - 13.00

Indian Lunch (EMBL)

 

13.00 – 16.00

Practical Session 2

 

16.00 – 16.30

Tea

 

16.30 – 19.30

Practical Session 3

 

20:30

Dinner vouchers

 

Wednesday 25th August

09.00 - 10.00

Purification, characterization and crystal quality optimization of membrane proteins - how to go beyond the 7 A limit

Preben Morth

10.00 - 10.30

Coffee

 

10.30 - 13.30

Practical Session 4

 

13.30 - 14.30

Sandwich lunch (EMBL)

 

14.30 - 17.30

Practical Session 5

 

17.30 - 18.00

Break

 

18.00 - 19.00

Expression, purification and crystallization of membrane proteins

Gebhard Schertler

20.30

Dinner (Schweinske, Luruper Hauptstr. 164)

 

Thursday 26th August

09.00 - 10.00

Library based construct screening for soluble protein expression

Darren Hart

10.00  - 13.00

Practical Session 6

 

13.00  - 14.00

Pizza Lunch (EMBL)

 

14.00 - 15.00

Identification and quantitation of proteins by mass spectrometry

Jeroen Krijgsveld

15.00 - 15.30

Tea break

 

15.30 - 18.30

Practical Session 7

 

18.30 - 19.15

Sample characterization in a HT environment

Joanne Nettleship

19.15 - 20.00

Microcalorimetry of protein-ligand interactions

Heather Lamb

20.00

Speakers Dinner / Dinner vouchers

 

Friday 27th August

09.00 - 09.45

Linking chemical space with the proteome

Anne-Claude Gavin

09.45 - 10.45

Physico-chemical foundations of crystallization

Bernhard Rupp

10.45 - 11.15

Coffee break

 

11.15 - 12.15

Crystal growth

Alex McPherson

12.15 - 13.15

Engineering proteins for enhanced crystallizability

Zygmunt Derewenda

13.15 - 14.15

Sandwich Lunch (EMBL)

 

14.15 - 15.15

Interpretation of the crystallization drop results

Jeroen Mesters

15.15 – 16.00

Tea break

 

16.00 – 19.00

Practical Session 8

 

20.00

Dinner (Don Quixote, Osdorfer Landstr. 162A)

 

Saturday 28th August

10.00 - 13.00

Practical Session 9

 

13.00 - 14.00

Brunch (DESY bistro)

 

14.00

Free afternoon

 

20.00

Dinner vouchers

 

Sunday 29th August

09.00 - 12.00

Practical Session 10

 

12.00 – 12.45

I) The use of additives in optimization
II) Non-detergent approaches in membrane protein studies

Joanne Yeh

12.45 - 13.30

Lunch (DESY bistro)

 

13.30 - 16.30

Practical Session 11

 

16.30 - 19.30

Practical Session 12

 

20.30

Dinner (Einstein, Bahrenfelder Chaussee 45)

 

Monday 30th August

09.00 - 12.00

Practical Session 13

 

12.00 - 12.45

Principles and modern methods of protein purification

Young-Hwa Song

12.45 - 13.30

Localization of proteins in an organism

Paul Tucker

13.30 - 14.30

Sandwich Lunch (EMBL)

 

14.30 - 17.30

Practical Session 14

 

17.30 - 18.15

Protein complex formation with single-molecule fluorescence

Christian Huebner

18.15 – 19.30

Review of Practical sessions

 

20.00

BBQ

 

Tuesday 31st August

09.00 - 12.00

Practical Session 15

 

12.00 - 13.00

Sandwich lunch (EMBL)