Structural Biology: the Molecular Fabric of Life
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האקדמיה הלאומית הישראלית למדעים והחברה המלכותית הבריטית מתכבדות להזמינכם לכינוס משותף בנושא The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Royal Society cordially invite you to a Joint Conference on Structural Biology: The Molecular Fabric of Life שני-שלישי, כ״ט-ל׳ בשבט תש״ף Monday-Tuesday, February 24-25, 2020 Steering Committee: Richard Henderson, Nathan Nelson, Venki Ramakrishnan, Joel Sussman Program Monday, February 24, 2020 Tuesday, February 25, 2020 Chairperson: Nathan Nelson, Tel Aviv University Chairperson: Joel L. Sussman, Weizmann Institute of Science 0830 Gathering 0830 Gathering 0900 Welcome SESSION IV Nili Cohen, President, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities Biology as a Data Science and Its Impact on Venki Ramakrishnan, President, The Royal Society Protein Evolution H.E. Ambassador Neil Wigan OBE, British Ambassador to Israel 0900 M. Madan Babu, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Data Science Approaches to Biological Systems 0915 Keynote Lecture Ada Yonath, Weizmann Institute of Science 0945 Dan Tawfik, Weizmann Institute of Science Origin of Life, Next Generation Eco Friendly Antibiotics, and a Protein Evolution – From So Simple a Beginning Connection between Pathogenicity & Evolution 1030 Sarel Fleishman, Weizmann Institute of Science Evolution-Guided Atomistic Design of New and Improved SESSION I Protein Activities Protein Machines on the Membrane 1115 Break 1000 Gabriel Waksman, Birkbeck, University of London SESSION V Mechanism of a Protein Polymerisation Machine at the Mechanism and Regulation in Biological Systems Bacterial Membrane 1145 Gideon Davies, University of York 1045 Break Mechanistic and Cellular Insight into Medically-Relevant SESSION II Glycosidases: Conformations, Itineraries and Destinations From Protein Fibrils to Debilitating Diseases 1230 Xiaodong Zhang, Imperial College London Mechanisms of Bacterial Transcription Initiation and Regulation 1115 Sheena Radford, University of Leeds Seeing Amyloid: Beautiful Structures, Toxic Mechanisms 1315 Lunch 1200 Meytal Landau, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology Chairperson: Venki Ramakrishnan, President, The Royal Society Protein Fibrils in Infectious and Aggregation Diseases SESSION VI 1245 Yarden Opatowsky, Bar-Ilan University Lipids, Membranes and Replication They Repel and Degrade: Novel Structural Insights in 1415 Peter Rosenthal, Francis Crick Institute Neuronal Degeneration Imaging Lipid-Enveloped Virus Assembly and Entry 1330 Lunch 1500 Etana Padan, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Chairperson: Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of The Nanomachine, NhaA Na+/H+ Antiporter Molecular Biology 1545 David Barford, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge Molecular Basis for Regulation of the Anaphase-Promoting SESSION III Complex by the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint Biomacromolecular Assemblies 1630 Break 1445 Carol Robinson, University of Oxford Macromolecular Assemblies in the Gas Phase SESSION VII From 3D Structure to Coating of the Intestine 1530 Michal Sharon, Weizmann Institute of Science Insights into a New Regulatory Family of the Core Proteasome 1700 Deborah Fass, Weizmann Institute of Science Gut Reaction: Disulfide Bonding in the Protective Mucin Coating 1615 Ehud Gazit, Tel Aviv University of the Intestine Peptide and Metabolite Self-Assembly: Physiology, Pathology, and Nanotechnology 1745 Keynote Lecture Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology 1700 Break Future Prospects for Cryo EM 1730 Keynote Lecture 1830 Closing Remarks Roger Kornberg, Stanford University Venki Ramakrishnan, President, The Royal Society The Molecular Basis of Eukaryotic Gene Transcription Nathan Nelson, Tel Aviv University הכינוס יתקיים The conference will take place at באקדמיה הלאומית הישראלית למדעים, הרשמה ,The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities כיכר אלברט איינשטיין, רחוב ז׳בוטינסקי Albert Einstein Square, 43 Jabotinsky St., Registration ,43 ירושלים Jerusalem ההרצאות תתקיימנה בשפה האנגלית | The lectures will be in English הכניסה ללא תשלום על בסיס מקום פנוי | מספר המקומות מוגבל, הכניסה בהרשמה מראש | חניה ציבורית ברחובות הסמוכים לאקדמיה. Places are limited. Please register in advance | Admission is free of charge | Paid public parking is available in the streets adjacent to the Academy..