Program
(prelim/ 05.02.2010)

The Cologne Spring Meeting has been established in the early sixties. Since then, outstanding speakers have always attracted a large international audience to this annual meeting. It is organized by members of the Institute for Genetics in Cologne and is in each year dedicated to a different specific topic in the field of Genetics. In addition to talks given by invited speakers there is ample opportunity for scientific discussions.

In 2010, the Cologne Spring Meeting is at the same time the International Meeting of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB 635) on Posttranslational Control of Protein Function. The topic of the 2010 meeting will be

"Protein homeostasis: make it, guide it and break it".

The aim is to bring together scientists who investigate the control of mRNA translation, as well as the folding, targeting and degradation of proteins. Coverage of these topics will provide a comprehensive overview on recent advances and novel direction in the studies of the control of protein homeostasis and its aberrations. This topic should be of interest to many students and researchers in various areas of the life science because of the importance of the relevant mechanisms for a wide range of cellular functions, as well as their links to numerous human diseases.

Speakers
The following speakers have been confirmed:

Wolfgang Baumeister, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Bernd Bukau, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
Ivan Dikic, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Xinnian Dong, Duke University, Durham, USA
Scott Emr, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Judith Frydman, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Rachel Green, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA
Ulrich Hartl, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany
Jenny E. Hinshaw, The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases,Bethesda, USA
Mark Hochstrasser, Yale University, New Haven, USA
Thorsten Hoppe, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Jörg Höhfeld, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Catherine Jackson, Centre National de la Recherche, Scientifique, Gif sur Yvette, France
Ron Kopito, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA
Harvey McMahon, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Jodi Nunnari, University of California, Davis, USA
Suzanne Pfeffer, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, USA
Gerrit Praefcke, Institute for Genetics & CMMC, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany
Helen Saibil, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Bob Sauer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Luca Scorrano, Universite de Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Katharina Strub, Universite de Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Jan-Michael Peters, Research Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna, Austria
Peter Walter, University of California, San Francisco, USA

General Information
The meeting is open and no registration or attendance fee is required.
Accommodation may be arranged through the Cologne Tourist Office, Unter Fettenhennen 19, 50667 Köln, Germany

Venue - for more information please click here
Institute of Physics
Gebäude 321
University of Cologne
Zülpicher Straße 77
50937 Cologne