EMBO-PC: Structural Characterization of Macromolecular Complexes


Detailed Programme



Monday 2 June

Expression Strategies

Chair: Darren Hart Chadwick Amphitheatre


9:00 - 9.10

Welcome

Carlo Petosa


9:10 - 9.55

Expression strategies using bacterial systems
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Barbara Morris

Novagen / EMD Chemicals

Madison WI, USA

9:55 - 10.40

Baculovirus expression strategies for multiprotein complexes
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Imre Berger

EMBL Grenoble


Coffee


11:00 - 11.45

Large-scale expression of proteins (and complexes) in mammalian cells
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Radu Aricescu

University of Oxford, UK

11:45 - 12.30

HTP Methods Great and Small

high throughput at the brownie scale and beyond

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Christian Kambach

Paul Scherrer Institute

Villigen, Switzerland


Lunch


14:00 - 18:00

Practicals  (Meet in ILL 19/20 hall)


18:00 - 19:00

Poster clip presentations (EMBL Seminar Room)


19:00 - 20:00

Dinner (canteen)





Tuesday 3 June

Isolation of Functional Complexes

Chair: Elspeth Gordon Chadwick Amphitheatre

9:00 - 9:45

Strategies for the co-expression of protein complexes in Escherichia coli
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Christophe Romier

IGBMC Illkirch, France

9:45 - 10:30

Strategies for identifying, overproducing and characterizing protein complexes
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Bertrand Séraphin

CGM-CNRS

Gif-sur-Yvette, France


Coffee


11:00 - 11:45

Production of protein complexes
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Song Tan

Penn State University,

University Park, PA, USA

11:45 - 12:30


Preparation of recombinant multi-subunit complexes for crystallization
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Chris Oubridge

MRC-LMB Cambridge, UK


Lunch


14:00 - 18:00

Practicals


18:00 - 19:00

Poster Session 1


19:00 - 20:00

Dinner (canteen)





Wednesday 4 June

Characterization of macromolecular complexes

Chair: Winfried Weissenhorn Chadwick Amphitheatre


9:00 - 9:45

Structure analysis of biomacromolecular

solutions by small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering


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Dmitri Svergun

EMBL Hamburg, Germany

9:45 - 10:30

Analytical ultracentrifugation and isothermal calorimetry in the study of protein complexes
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Vladimir Rybin

EMBL Heidelberg, Germany


Coffee


11:00 - 11:45

Tandem Affinity Purification of protein

complexes: lessons from a genome-wide screen
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Anne-Claude Gavin

EMBL Heidelberg, Germany

11:45 - 12:10

The use of size exclusion chromatography and multi-angle laser light scattering (MALS) to characterize macromolecular complexes
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Marc Jamin

UVHCI Grenoble

12:10 - 12:35

Analysis of the conformational dynamics of a protein
involved in retroviral budding using hydrogen/deuterium exchange and
mass spectrometry
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Ricardo Pires

EMBL Grenoble


Lunch


14:00 - 18:00

Practicals


18:00 - 19:00

Guest Lecture (Chadwick Amphitheatre):

Protein-protein interaction modulating ubiquitin and SUMO conjugation
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Titia Sixma

NKI Amsterdam, Netherlands

19:00 - 20:00

Novagen Dinner (ILL Hall 19/20)





Thursday 5 June

Electron microscopy & NMR

Chair: Guy Schoehn, Chadwick Amphitheatre


9:00 - 9:45

Imaging biological macromolecules with electron microscopes
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Patrick Schultz

IGBMC Illkirch, France

9:45 - 10:30

Structure determination of dynamic macromolecular complexes by single particle cryo-EM
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Holger Stark

MPI Göttingen, Germany


Coffee


11:00 - 11:45

EM interpretation with Situs and Sculptor
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Willy Wriggers,

D.E. Shaw Research,

New York, USA

11:45 - 12:30


Studying macromolecular complexes by NMR
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Michael Sattler

Technische Universität München, Germany


Lunch


14:00 - 18:00

Practicals


18:00 - 19:00

Poster Session II


19:00 - 20:00

Dinner (canteen)





Friday 6 June

Strategies in structural and functional analysis

Chair: Stephen Cusack, Chadwick Amphitheatre


9:00 - 9:45

Crystallization strategies
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Song Tan

Penn State University,

University Park, PA, USA

9:45 - 10:30

Fluorescence microscopy-based methods to study macromolecular complexes in live cells
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Jan Ellenberg

EMBL Heidelberg


Coffee


11:00 - 11:45

Cryo-EM studies of co-translational targeting and translocation
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Christiane Schaffitzel

EMBL Grenoble

11:45 - 12:30


Structural studies on yeast transcription system III
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Carlos Fernández-Tornero

EMBL Heidelberg


Lunch


14:00 - 18:00

Practicals


18:00 - 18:20

Feedback session / EMBO Questionnaire


approx. 18:30

Bus to LeSappey & Banquet




Saturday 7 June

More tips & techniques

Chair: Carlo Petosa, EMBL Seminar Room


9:00 - 9:45

Synchrotrons, beamlines, and all that jazz
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Martin Walsh

MRC France, BM-14

9:45 - 10:30

Mass spectrometry of noncovalent assemblies
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Frank Sobott

University of Oxford, UK

10:30 - 11:15

Crystallizing the enhanceosome
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Daniel Panne

EMBL Grenoble

11:15 - 11:25

Final remarks

Carlo Petosa

EMBL Grenoble