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Programme
Tentative Program (order of speakers subject to change)
Location:Treudelberg Hotel, Hamburg

Thursday September 4
  14:00  
Matthias Wilmanns, EMBL Hamburg, Germany
Welcome and Introduction  
Session 1: Complementary methods in Structural Biology
Chairs: Dmitri Svergun, Peter Timmins
  14:15  
Peter Timmins, ILL, Grenoble, France
Small-angle scattering: the complementarity of X-rays and Neutrons  
  14:45  
Jan Skov Pedersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Laboratory Solution SAXS on Protein and Protein-RNA Structures Complexes as an Indispesable Complementary Tool to Crystallographic Methods  
  15.15  
Olwyn Byron, University of Glasgow, UK
AUC - Analytical UltraCentrifugation And Universally Complementary  
  15:45  
Joe Zaccai, ILL, France
Neutron scattering to measure molecular dynamics in cells  
  16:15    Coffee break  
  16:45  
Martin Weik, IBS/LBM, France
Structural protein dynamics by crystallography and complementary methods  
  17:15  
Gilad Haran, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
What single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy teaches us about denatured proteins and their folding  
  17:45  
Lev Weiner, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Application of modern ESR/EPR in study of proteins folding and structure  
  18:30  
Informal discussion  
  19:30    Dinner  
 

Friday September 5
Session 2: Intrinsically Unfolded Proteins in Structural Biology
Chairs: Joel Sussman, Peter Tompa
  08:30  
Peter Tompa, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary
TBA  
  09:00  
Martin Blackledge, IBS/LBM, France
TBA  
  09:30  
David Jones, University College London, UK
Disordered proteins in the human genome: regulation, modularity and function  
  10:00  
Guy Lippens, University of Lille, France
The neuronal Tau protein : function without an obvious structure  
  10:30    Coffee break  
  11:00  
Laurence Barron, University of Glasgow, UK
Structure and Behaviour of Unfolded Proteins from Raman Optical Activity  
  11:30  
Frans Mulder University of Groningen, Netherlands
NMR techniques detect local structure in the disordered domain of autism-associated protein neuroligin-3  
  12:00  
Lucia Bianci, University of Florence, Italy
NMR and other techniques to characterize unstructured proteins  
  12:30    Lunch break  
 

Session 3: Applications in Structural Biology
Chairs: Matthias Wilmanns, Israel Silman
  14:00  
Joel Sussman, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
TBA  
  14:30  
Alan Fersht, University of Cambridge, UK
Structural Biology of the Tumour Suppressor p53  
  15.00  
Kristina Djinovic, University of Vienna, Austria
Towards a structural picture of muscle Z-disk: an integrative approach  
  15:30  
Rob Russell (TBC), EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
TBA  
  16:00    Coffee break  
  16:30  
Dmitri Svergun, EMBL Hamburg, Germany
TBA  
  17:00  
Eckhard Mandelkow (TBC), DESY, Hamburg, Germany
Structural studies on Tau - a natively unfolded protein involved in Alzheimer disease.  
  17:30  
Round table discussion