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Time: 09.30-17.30 on Thursday 19 and 10.30-17.00 on Friday 20 June
Venue: Christopher Ingold Auditorium , Christopher Ingold Building, UCL Department of Chemistry, Gordon Street, London
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PLEASE NOTE that all lectures will take place in the Christopher Ingold Auditorium, UCL Chemistry.
Lunch is not included in the Symposium arrangements but there are many sandwich shops, cafes and restaurants nearby.
Places for the Symposium are limited - Registration deadline: 12 June 2008
There is no charge to attend this event but it is necessary to register in advance. To register please send an email to the ISMB administrator at ismb-admin@ismb.lon.ac.uk
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| - Day 1 - Thursday 19 June |
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| 09.30 - 09.35 |
Opening comments and welcome
Gabriel Waksman, Director of the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology (ISMB)
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| Chemical Biology Programme |
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| 09.35 - 10.20 |
Peter Seeberger, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
‘Synthetic chemistry as key tool for glycomics: Understanding fundamental aspects of Malaria and Prion disease’ |
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| 10.20 - 11.05 |
Stefan Howorka, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, UK
'Chemical tools for the sensing of individual DNA strands' |
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| 11.05 - 11.30 |
Tea and coffee break |
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| 11.30 - 12.15 |
Tom Muir, The Rockefeller University, USA
'Testing the 'Histone Code' hypothesis using synthesis' |
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| 12.15 - 14.00 |
Lunch break |
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| 14.00 - 14.05 |
Afternoon session – opening comments
David Latchman, Master of Birkbeck |
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| Structural Biology Programme |
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| 14.05 - 14.50 |
Stephen Harrison, Harvard University, USA
'Molecular machineries for organizing and reorganizing membranes' |
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| 14.50 - 15.35 |
Neil McDonald, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, UK
'Structural biology of the atypical receptor tyrosine kinase RET - in sickness and in health' |
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| 15.35 - 16.00 |
Tea and coffee break |
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| 16.00 - 16.45 |
Marc Baldus, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany
'Molecular inhibition and activation studied in a membrane setting using solid-state NMR' |
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| Biophysics / Proteomics Programme - Part 1 |
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| 16.45 - 17.30 |
Ruedi Aebersold, Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
'Quantitative Proteomics and Systems Biology' |
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| - Day 2 - Friday 20 June |
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| Biophysics / Proteomics Programme - Part 2 |
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| 10.30 - 10.35 |
Opening comments
Peter Mobbs, Executive Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences, UCL |
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| 10.35 - 11.20 |
Carlos Bustamante, University of California, Berkeley, USA
'Grabbing the cat by the tail: Studies of DNA packaging by single phi29 bacteriophage particles using optical tweezers' |
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| 11.20 - 12.05 |
Peter Rich, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, UK
'Vibrational infrared spectroscopy: applications to biological electron and proton transfer ' |
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| 12.05 - 14.00 |
Lunch break |
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| Bioinformatics Programme |
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| 14.00 - 14.45 |
Peer Bork, EMBL, Germany
'Predicting biological function at different spatial scales' |
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| 14.45 - 15.30 |
Irilenia Nobeli, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, UK
'Small molecules for protein function identification' |
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| 15.30 - 16.00 |
Tea and coffee break |
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| 16.00 - 16.45 |
Michael Sternberg, Imperial College, UK
'Modelling protein structure, function and interactions' |
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| 16.45 - 16.50 |
Concluding remarks |
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