Previous ISMB seminars

2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004

2010 [top]

Wednesday 3 March
Prof Roland Beckmann Gene Centre, University of Munich, Germany
'Cryo-EM studies of ribosome nascent chain complexes'

Wednesday 25 February
Prof Johannes Buchner TU Munich, German
'The dynamics and regulation of molecular chaperones'

Wednesday 10 February
Prof Bernd Bukau ZMBH, University of Heidelberg, Germany
'Action of molecular chaperones in protein quality control'

Tuesday 2 February
Prof Hartmut Oschkinat, Department of Biochemistry and Chemistry, University of Berlin
'Structural Investigations on AlphaB Crystallin Oligomers by Solid-State NMR and SAXS'

Wednesday 13 Janaury
Prof Chris Dobson FRS, University of Cambridge
'Life on the Edge: The Nature and Origins of Protein Misfolding Diseases'

2009 [top]

Tuesday 8 December
Prof Dario Alessi, MRC Protein Phosphorylation Unit, University of Dundee
'Disruption on the highways of cell signalling'

Wednesday 25 November
Prof Kim Nasmyth, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford
'How does Cohesin Embrace Chromatin?'

Wednesday 11 November
Prof Peter Schuster, University of Vienna
'RNA evolution in vitro and in silico'

Monday 2 November
Prof Douglas Kell, BBSRC Chief Executive
'The cellular uptake of pharmaceutical drugs: a problem of biophysics or of systems biology?'

Monday 12 October
Prof Neil Hunter FRS, Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, University of Sheffield
'The structure and organization of photosynthetic membranes'

Wednesday 1 July
Prof Art Horwich, Yale University School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
'Chaperone mechanism and involvement in a form of ALS'

Wednesday 27 May
Dr Patrick Forterre, Pasteur Institute, Molecular Biology of Gene in Extremophiles Unit, France
'Archaea: a goldmine for evolutionists and molecular biologists'

Wednesday 20 May
Prof John von der Oost, Wageningen University, the Netherlands
'Small CRISPR RNAs guide immunity in Prokaryotes'

Monday 9 March
Prof Keith Gull, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford
'The microtubule cytoskeleton revealed by Electron Microscope Tomography'

Tuesday 10 February
Prof Sir Tom Blundell FRS, School of Biological Sciences, University of Cambridge
'Genomes, Structural Biology and Drug Discovery'

 
2008 [top]

Wednesday 10 December
Prof Tony Pugsley, Molecular Genetics Unit, Institut Pasteur, France
'Secretin; a really unusual outer membrane protein'

Monday 17 November
Dr Michel Steinmetz, Structural Biology, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland
'Tracking the ends: a dynamic protein network controls the fate of microtubule tips'

Monday 13 October
'Structural analysis of translational GTPases bound to the ribosome by cryo-electron microscopy'
Prof Christian Spahn, Institut für Medizinische Physik und Biophysik Charité - University of Berlin, Germany

ISMB Mini-Symposium: 19, 20 and 21 May

Monday 19 May
‘Electron tomography and image processing of vitreous sections of cells and tissues'
Dr Achilleas Frangakis, EMBL, Heidelberg

Tuesday 20 May
‘Structural basis for the regulated chaperone and protease activity of DegP'
Dr Tim Clausen, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna

Wednesday 21 May
‘Protein Folding in the Cell: The role of molecular chaperones'
Dr Ulrich Hartl, Max Planck Institute, Germany

Wednesday 5 March
‘Extracellular regulation of the Epidermal Growth Factor (EGF) receptor'
Prof Mark Lemmon, Dept of Biochemistry & Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, USA

Wednesday 20 February
'PNA-peptide conjugates as RNA targeting therapeutics’
Prof Mike Gait , LMB, Cambridge

Wednesday 13 February
'The mystery of intracellular developmental programs and timers'
Prof Martin Raff, UCL LMCB, London

Wednesday 9 January
'Getting in and out of mitosis'
Prof Sir Tim Hunt FRS, Cell Cycle Control Laboratory, London Research Institute

2007 [top]

Monday 12 November
'Structural analysis of the nuclear envelope by cryo-electron tomography'
Dr Ohad Medalia, The Ben-Gurion University, Israel

Monday 22 October
'Structure, Function, Rescue of p53'
Professor Sir Alan Fersht, University of Cambridge and MRC Centre for Protein Engineering, Cambridge

Friday 18 May
'Protein interaction domains and biological complexity'
Dr Tony Pawson, Mount Sinai Hospital and University of Toronto

Thursday 8 February
'Carbohydrate export in gram negative bacteria'
Professor Jim Naismith , School of Chemistry, University of St Andrews

2006 [top]

Thursday 8 June
'GroEL-mediated protein folding in vivo and in vitro'
Art Horwich, Yale School of Medicine, Dept. of Genetics, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Monday 10 April
'Highly Functionalized DNA for Biochemical and Nanomaterials Application'
Thomas Carell , Fakultät für Chemie und Pharmazie , Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Monday 27 February
'Molecular mechanisms of mRNA degradation'
Elena Conti, EMBL Heidelberg, Meyerhofstrasse 1, D-69117 Heidelberg, Germany

2005 [top]

Monday 14 November
'Design and Development of Specific and Selective Inhibitors using X-ray Crystallography and Virtual Screening'
Professor Gerhard Klebe, Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany. [CV available here ]

Friday 14 October
'Investigating DNA molecular motors at the single molecule level'
Vincent Croquette, From the department of physics at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris

Friday 24 June
'The role of perforin and granzymes in host immunity against viruses and transformed cells: lessons from the human immunodeficiency, HLH.'
Professor Joseph A Trapani, Peter MacCallum Institute, Melbourne, Australia.

Tuesday 24 May
'Kinetochore-Microtubule Interactions: the role of tubulin depolymerization in chromosome movement'
Professor Richard J. McIntosh, Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.

Monday 25 April
'NMR studies of molecular recognition in RNA interference and spliceosome assembly'
Dr Michael Sattler (EMBL, Structural & Computational Biology Programme, Heidelberg, Germany)

Thursday 14 April
'Ribosome structure and co-translational protein folding and targeting'
Professor Nenad Ban (Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland)

Thursday 17 March
'Dynamics of Bacterial Type IV Secretion'
Dr Peter Christie (Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, UT-Houston Medical School)

Monday 7 February
'Opening mechanism of the acetylcholine-gated channel'
Dr Nigel Unwin (Neurobiology Division, MRC Cambridge)

2004 [top]

Thursday 9 December
'Structural and mechanistic investigations on the regulation of intracellular vesicular transport'
Professor Roger Goody (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology)

Tuesday 22 June
'Amino Acid Sequence Control of beta-Sheet Folding and Misfolding'
Professor Jonathan King ( Department of Biology, MIT)

Monday 5 April
'Peptide mimics. Are conformational constraints really worth the energy?'
Professor Steve Martin (Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Texas at Austin)