Joint Research Group Macromolecular Crystallography
Second Joint Berlin MX-day
Dendrit II/III, MDC.C, Robert‐Rössle‐Str. 10, 13125 Berlin
17 August 2011
Meeting Agenda
| 09:00 ‐ 10:40 | Welcome, group presentation and RNA‐binding proteins (Chair: Udo Heinemann, MDC) |
| 09:00 ‐ 09:05 | Udo Heinemann (MDC) Welcome |
| 09:05 ‐ 09:15 | Thomas Sommer (MDC) Welcome by the MDC directorate |
| 09:15 ‐ 09:25 | Manfred Weiss (HZB / BESSY) The Joint Berlin MX Laboratory |
| 09:25 ‐ 09:50 | Andreas Möglich (HU) Group presentation |
| 09:50 ‐ 10:10 | Gert Weber (FU) Human U1 snRNP |
| 10:10 ‐ 10:30 | Florian Mayr (MDC) Structural insight into Lin28‐mediated miRNA maturation |
| 10:30 ‐ 11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 ‐ 12:40 | Bacterial proteins (Chair: Holger Dobbek, HU) |
| 11:00 ‐ 11:20 | Sandra Hennig (HU) RaCo ‐ the ATP‐dependent reductive activator of CoFeSP |
| 11:20 ‐ 11:40 | Sebastian Götzl (HU) The methyltransferase system operating in the reductive acetyl‐CoA pathway |
| 11:40 ‐ 12:00 | Marcel Jurk (FMP) The switch that does not flip ‐ A biophysical view of YtvA from Bacillus subtilis |
| 12:00 ‐ 12:20 | Michele Lunelli (MPI for Infection Biology) Crystal structure of PrgI‐SipD: Open state of the type III secretion system needle tip |
| 12:20 ‐ 12:40 | Philipp Selenko (FMP) Think outside the box ‐ think inside the cell! |
| 12:40 ‐ 14:00 | Lunch Break |
| 14:00 ‐ 15:20 | Ligand binding and optimization (Chair: Markus Wahl, FU) |
| 14:00 ‐ 14:20 | Yvette Roske (MDC) Structure‐based design of inhibitors binding to the PDZ domains of Shank3 and Dishevelled |
| 14:20 ‐ 14:40 | Haydar Bulut (FU) Pitstops |
| 14:40 ‐ 15:00 | Jabobo Martinez Font (FU) Structures of N‐acetylmannosamine kinase in complex with ADP/ATP for drug design |
| 15:00 ‐ 15:20 | Bernhard Loll (FU) Inducible, conformational flexibility of peptides presented by HLA B*27 |
| 15:20 ‐ 15:50 | Coffee Break |
| 15:50 ‐ 17:50 | Membrane processes and X‐ray methods (Chair: Uwe Mueller or Manfred S. Weiss) |
| 15:50 ‐ 16:10 | Barth van Rossum (FMP) De novo structure of the Yad A membrane protein by solid‐state MAS NMR |
| 16:10 ‐ 16:30 | Katja Fälber (MDC) Crystal structure of nucleotide‐free dynamin |
| 16:30 ‐ 16:50 | David Schwefel (MDC) Structural studies of GIMAPs |
| 16:50 ‐ 17:10 | Song Gao (MDC) Structure determination of MxA using DEN refinement |
| 17:10 ‐ 17:30 | Martin Bommer (HZB / BESSY) S‐ und Cd‐SAD structure determination of E. coli 3‐phosphoglycerol binding protein UgpB |
| 17:30 ‐ 17:50 | Uwe Mueller (HZB / BESSY) Current developments at BESSY |
| 18:00 | BBQ |