2021 ISMB Symposium, 7-8 January
We are delighted to announce the 2021 ISMB Symposium, held in honour of its founding director, Professor Gabriel Waksman.
The Symposium will take place online via Microsoft Teams on Thursday 7th and Friday 8th January 2021.
All are welcome – the Symposium is accessed via a Teams Meeting link.
Please find the link included in promotional emails, or email ‘ismb-admin@ismb.lon.ac.uk‘ to be sent it.
Programme
Day 1, Thursday 7th January 2021, 10:00-16:30 (GMT)
Session 1, 10:00-12:00 (120 minutes). Chair: Jerome Gouge
10:00 Welcome by Finn Werner and Introduction by David Latchman
10:20-10:40 Remi Fronzes, IECB, France
‘A structural biology tale of bacterial swords and shields’
10:45-11:05 Sebastian Geibel, University of Würzburg, Germany
‘Structural biology of type VII secretion systems’
11:10-11:30 Anthony Roberts, ISMB, UK
‘Building the cilium with ATP-driven molecular motors’
11:35-11:55 Carolyn Moores, ISMB, UK
‘Switching kinesin motors on and off’
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
Session 2, 13:00-14:45 (105 minutes). Chair: Kostas Thalassinos
13:00-13:20 Jim Naismith, Rosalind Franklin Institute, UK
‘Insights from structural biology into infectious diseases, Covid19 and bacteria’
13:25-13:45 Han Remaut, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
‘Curli – structure, function and application of a bacterial amyloid pathway’
13:50-14:10 Giulia Zanetti, ISMB, UK
‘A complex COPII network revealed by cryo-electron tomography’
14:15-14:35 John Christodoulou, ISMB, UK
‘Protein Folding on the Ribosome’
14:40-15:10 Coffee break
Session 3, 15:10-16:25 (100 minutes). Chair: Snezana Djordjevic
15:10-15:40 Jorge Galan, Yale School of Medicine, US
‘The Salmonella type III secretion machine’
15:50-16:20 John Kuriyan, Berkeley College of Chemistry, US
‘Deep Mutagenesis of a DNA Polymerase Clamp Loader System’
16:30 Close of day 1
Day 2, Friday, 8th January, 2021, 10:00-15:00 (GMT)
Session 4, 10:00-12:00 (90 minutes). Chair: Phil Robinson
10:00-10:20 Harry Low, Imperial College London, UK
‘Bacterial Vipp1 and PspA are members of the ancient ESCRT-III membrane remodelling superfamily’
10:25-10:45 Amandine Marechal, ISMB, UK
‘Mitochondrial respiratory super-complexes’
10:50-11:10 Anastasia Mylona, ISMB, UK
‘A temporal phosphorylation code controls the function of c-Jun/JNK signaling in transcription and cancer’
11:15-11:35 Stefan Howorka, ISMB, UK
‘Biomimetic membrane pores made from DNA’
12:00-13:00 Lunch break
Session 5, 13:00-14:30 (90 minutes). Chair: Andres Ramos
13:00-13:30 Ann Stock, Centre for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, USA [-5hrs]
‘Transcription factors as antimicrobial drug targets: exploring the sensitivity of two-component system output to response regulator sufficiency’
13:35-13:55 Finn Werner, ISMB, UK
‘A paradigm shift in archaeal transcription regulation’
14:00-14:30 Helen Saibil, ISMB, UK
‘The evolution of structural biology at the ISMB’
14:30 Closure and concluding remarks by Frances Brodsky
Previous ISMB Symposia
Since 2004, the biennial ISMB Symposium has taken place in Bloomsbury on even years, with talks from eminent speakers in the five ISMB core areas of Structural Biology, Chemical Biology, Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Proteomics, and Biochemistry and Cell Biology. Reports on some of these Symposia can be read below.
8th Symposium, 18-19 June 2018
6th Symposium, 17-18 June 2014
5th Symposium, 20-21 June 2012