Scientific Program (As of September 6)

Thursday, September 30
 
14:00 - 18:00 Arrival and Registration  
18:00 - 19:00 Dinner  
19:00 - 19:10  Opening remarks Yves Muller & Udo Heinemann,
MDC-Berlin
19:10 - 19:30  A method to detect non-proline cis peptide bonds in proteins Manfred Weiss, IMB-Jena
19:30 - 19:50 Practical cryo-crystallography - some new techniques Santosh Panjikar, IMB-Jena
19:50 - 20:40 Invited talk:
'The ARP / WARP method' 
Victor Lamzin, EMBL - Hamburg
20:40- ........ Bar (sponsored)  

Friday, October 1
 
08:00 - 09:00  Breakfast  
09:00 - 09:20 Preliminary crystallographic study of 
gD crystallin obtained from patient's eye
Jiri Brynda, IMG-Prague
09:20 - 09:40 Alliinase from garlic - the first steps towards a structure Bartholomeus Kuettner, IMB-Jena
09:40 - 10:00 Crystal structure of a papain - inhibitor complex at 1.6 Å resolution Robert Janowski, 
CBB - Poznan
10:00- 10:20 Crystal structure of the complex adrenodoxin - adrenodoxin reductase Jürgen Müller, MDC-Berlin
10:00- 10:40 Crystal structure of pathogenesis-related protein from lupine Jacek Biesiadka, CBB-Poznan
     
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break  
     
11:10 - 11:30 Crystallisation of pyruvate decarboxylase from peas, an enzyme with an extraordinary quaternary structure Stephanie Oehlmann, MLU-Halle
11:30 - 11:50 Crystallographic studies on the yeast cap binding complex Erik Werner, MDC-Berlin
11:50 - 12:10  Anti-HIV proteinase monoclonal antibody F11.2.32 that inhibits enzyme activity Renata Stouracova, IMG-Prague
12:10 - 12:30 Mutations in the fireman's grip of HIV-1 protease Jeroen Mesters, IMB-Jena
     
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch  
13:30 - 17:00 Leisure Time, Rafting  

 
 
17:00 - 17:20  MAR-Research products Claudio Klein
17:20 - 17:40 NONIUS products Martin Adam
17:40 - 18:00 Oxford Instruments products Gerhard Jockwich
     
18:00 - 19:00  Dinner  
19:00 - 19:20 Solubilisation of a membrane-associated protein by site-directed mutagenesis Matthias Machner, GBF-Braunschweig
19:20 - 19:40 Crystallographic studies on tissue factor, the cofactor of FVIIa Katja Fälber, MDC-Berlin
19:40 - 20:00 Atomic resolution structure of a new crystal form of BPTI  Honorata Czapinska, CBB-Poznan
20:00 - 20:20 Cycloamylose with 26 glucose residues; structure, hydration and inclusion complexes Olaf Nimz, FU-Berlin
20:20 - 20:40 Crystal structure of amylomaltase from Thermus aquaticus, a glycosyltransferase catalysing the production of large cyclic glucans Ingo Przylas, FU-Berlin
20:40 - 21:00  Cross-reactivity explained with a TAB2-peptide complex Michael Hahn, HU-Berlin
21:00 - ........ Bar  

Saturday, October 2
 
08:00 - 09:00  Breakfast  
09:00 - 09:20 Crystallisation of internalins from Listeria

monocytogenes

Wolf-Dieter Schubert, 

GBF-Braunschweig

09:20 - 09:40 Metal binding in blood coagulation factor XIII Tom Sicker, IMB-Jena
09:40 - 10.00 Active-site gorge and buried water molecules in crystal structures of
acetylcholinesterases from Torpedo californica
Gertraud Koellner, FU-Berlin
10:00 - 10:20 HIV protease - inhibitor complexes Jindrich Hasek, IMC-Prague
10:20 - 10:40 Crystallogaphic study of scFv fragment of an anti-HIV proteinase antibody Jan Ondracek, IMG-Prague
     
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break  
     
11:10 - 11:30 The joint IMB - U-Hamburg beamline  Christian Betzel, U-Hamburg 
11:30 - 11:50 Structural background of substrate activation in the pyruvate decarboxylase family Stephan König, MLU-Halle
11:50 - 12:10  A 95° domain rotation in E. coli 
5' - nucleotidase
Thomas Knöfel, FU-Berlin
12:10 - 12:30 NMR goes X-Ray Martin Wahl, FMP-Berlin
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch and Departure