Cologne Spring Meeting 2000

to be held at the 
Institute of Physics, Zülpicherstr. 77
Cologne

 

 


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organized by Maria Leptin, Christine Kocks, Klaus Reiners 
 Institute of Genetics
Weyertal 121, D-50931 Köln 

for information contact: 
email: springmeeting@genetik.uni-koeln.de
fax +49-221-4705264

 

Preliminary Programme:

Wednesday, March 8, 2000

14:15 - 14:30         Opening

1. Signalling complexes, rafts and the actin cytoskeleton        Chair: M. Leptin
14:30 - 15:10   Kai Simons,
Heidelberg
  Lipid rafts in membrane traffic and signalling
15:10 - 15:50   Laura Machesky,
Birmingham 
  Signalling to the Actin Cytoskeleton via the WASP-Family Proteins and the Arp2/3 Complex
15:50 - 16:20       Coffee Break
16:20 - 17:00   Marie-France Carlier, Gif-sur-Yvette   Reconstitution of actin-based motility from pure proteins
17:00 - 17:40   Tom Pollard,
San Diego
  Regulation of actin filament dynamics at the leading edge of motile cells
17:40 - 18:20   Richard Treisman,
London
  Rho GTPases, the cytoskeleton, and regulation of the SRF transcription factor
         
Thursday, March 9, 2000
2. Protein folding and degradation                               Chair: A.Tarakhovsky
  9:15 -   9:55   Bernd Bukau,
Freiburg
  Role of chaperones in folding of cytosolic proteins
  9:55 - 10:35   Peter Walter,
San Francisco
  Intracellular signaling through the unfolded protein response
10:35 - 11:05       Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:45   Jürgen Dohmen,
Köln
  Role of a conserved maturation factor in proteasome assembly and activation
11:45 - 12:25   Wolfgang Baumeister, Martinsried   The 20S proteasome and its regulatory complexes
12:25 - 14:30       Lunch Break
3. Chromosome dynamics                                              Chair: K. Rajewsky
14:30 - 15:10   Susan Gasser,
Lausanne
  A chromatin response to DNA damage in yeast
15:10 - 15:50   Tony Hyman,
Heidelberg
  Control of microtubule dynamics during anaphase
15:50 - 16:20       Coffee Break
16:20 - 17:00   Kim Nasmyth,
Wien
  The parting of sister chromatids is mediated by proteolytic cleavage of cohesins
17:00 - 17:40   Jeremy Thorner,
Berkeley
  A novel checkpoint control linking cell cycle progression to assembly of the cytokinesis apparatus
4. Protein and RNA transport and translation
17:40 - 18:20   Iain Mattaj,
Heidelberg
  Ran in nuclear export of RNA and spindle assembly
         
Friday, March 10, 2000
4. Protein and RNA transport and translation (continued)        Chair: J. Howard
  9:15 -   9:55   Harry Noller,
Santa Cruz
  X-ray Structures of Functional Complexes of the 70S Ribosome
  9:55 - 10:35   Günter Blobel,
New York
  Protein translocation across membranes
10:35 - 11:05       Coffee Break
11:05 - 11:45   Alfred Wittinghofer,
Dortmund
  Structural studies on signalling across the nuclear pore
5. Motors targetting polarity                                              Chair: A. Noegel
11:45 - 12:25   Nils Johnsson,
Köln
  Probing the molecular environment of membrane proteins in vivo
12:25 - 14:30       Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:10   Rob Cross,
Oxted
  Directional stepping by kinesins
15:10 - 15:50   Wolfgang Junge,
Osnabrück
  Rotary mechanics of the ATP synthase
15:50 - 16:20       Coffee Break
16:20 - 17:00   Walter Witke,
Monterotondo
  Profilin complexes - complex lessons for actin based processes
17:00 - 17:40   Peter Novick,
New Haven
  Spatial Regulation of Exocytosis
17:40 - 18:00       Summing up
        End of the Meeting

 Last updated March 3, 2000