SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
Saturday, February 9, 20:00 Informal gathering of invited speakers and chairs in the Hotel
Sunday, February 10, 2008
08:30-9:30 Registration and Distribution of Meeting Material
09:30-9:40 Opening Remarks: Abdussalam Azem
Session I
STRUCTURE, BIOGENESIS AND FUNCTION OF MEMBRANE PROTEINS
(Chairman – Eitan Bibi (Weizmann Institute
09:40-10:20 Nathan Nelson (Tel Aviv University) Molecular evolution of perfection and imperfection
10:20-11:00 Ronald Kaback (University of California, Los Angeles) How to stop worrying and learn to love the permease.
11:00-11:40 Gunnar von Heijne (Stockholm University) The membrane protein world: looking for the simple answers.
11:40- 12:20 Coffee break
12:20- 13:20 Wolfgang Junge (Osnabrück University) From Light to ATP: the Beauty of Simplicity
13:20- 14:00 Etana Padan (Hebrew University) NhaA: structure driven studies of function and regulation of a Na+/H+ antiporter
14:00-16:00 Lunch & Posters
Session I: Continued
Chairman- Shimon Schuldiner (Hebrew University)
16:00-16:40 Susan G. Amara (Pittsburgh University) The ins and outs of neurotransmitter transporters.
16:40-17:20 Ernest M. Wright (University of California Los Angeles) Imaging glucose transporters in mice and men. 17:20-18:00 Coffee break
18:00-19:00 Keynote Lecture Sir John E. Walker (MRC; Nobel laureate) Oxygen, energy and life.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Session II
UNRAVELING COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS BY GENETICS AND STRUCTURAL STUDIES
Chairman- Andrea Melandri (University of Bologna)
09:00-09:40 Andreas Engel (Biozentrum, Basel) Observing membrane proteins in ice and water.
09:40-10:20 Satoshi Murakami (Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University) Multidrug recognition and pumping by bacterial multidrug efflux transporter - A structural view
10:20-11:00 Reinhold Herrmann (University of Munich) Organelle Biology and Eukaryotism
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
Chairman- Chanoch Carmeli (Tel Aviv University)
11:30-12:10 Jean-David Rochaix (University of Geneva) To be announced
12:10-12:50 Sabeeha Merchant (University of California Los Angeles) Inorganic building blocks of the photosynthetic apparatus.
12:50- 13:30 Charles F. Yocum (University of Michigan) Photosynthetic oxygen evolution: organization and reactivity of the active site.
13:30-15:30 Lunch & Posters
Session II: Continued
Chairman- Guenther Hauska (University of Regensburg)
15:30-16:10 James Barber (Imperial College) The Big Bang of evolution and the engine of life.
16:10-16:50 Shuguang Zhang ( MIT) Designer lipid-like peptide surfactants for studying membrane proteins.
16:50-17:30 William F. Martin (Düsseldorf University) Some thoughts on early evolution and the role of hydrogen.
17:30-18:00 Coffee break
18:00-19:00 Keynote Lecture Hartmut Michel (MPI Frankfurt; Nobel laureate) To be anounced
19:30 Wine and Cheese evening – All the registered participants are invited
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Session III
CELLULAR DYNAMICS
Chairman- Ophry Pines (Hebrew University)
09:00-09:40 Randy W. Schekman (University of California Berkeley) Protein sorting and disease.
09:40-10:20 Howard Riezman (University of Geneva) The intimate relationship between sterols and sphingolipids
10:20-11:00 Steve Karlish (Weizmann institute) P-type cation pumps- structure and mechanism
11:00-11:30 Coffee break
11:30-12:10 Walter Neupert (University of Munich) Putting together a complex organelle that comes in many shapes: the mitochondrion
12:10-12:50 Ada E. Yonath ( Weizmann Institute) The amazing ribosome.
12:50-15:00 Lunch & Posters Session III: Continued
Chairman- Maciej Nalecz (UNESCO and Nencki Institute)
15:00-15:40 Joseph Schlessinger (Yale University) Cell signaling by receptor tyrosine kinases: From bench to bedside.
15:40-16:20 Yossi Shiloh (Tel Aviv University) ATM as a crossroad of the complexity of the DNA damage response – A blessing in disguise.
16:20-16:50 Coffee break.
16:50-17:50 Keynote lecture Avram Hershko (Technion Haifa; Nobel laureate) The ubiquitin system for protein degradation and its roles in cell cycle control
17:50 Concluding remarks: Gottfried Schatz