NMR in Molecular Biology 2005, ESF Conference

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ESF Research Conference on NMR in Molecular Biology, 2005

EuroConference on Structural Genomics:
Structure, Dynamics and Interactions of Biomolecules

Backagården, Höör (near Malmö), Sweden, 20-25 August 2005

NMR has become an important tool in molecular and structural biology. From the new
information obtained in the total genomic sequences of a number of organisms, it is clear
that structural biology has to deal with not only the three-dimensional structures of
isolated proteins, but also how these vary or are induced by interactions with functional
partners. This EuroConference focuses on new developments in methodology as well as
in applications of NMR in molecular biology. Some major themes among the lectures are:
improved techniques for determining solution structures and dynamics of proteins and
nucleic acids by NMR, new methods to study molecular interactions, applications of solid
state NMR in structure biology, and possibilities to study partly structured or misfolded
proteins. Posters dealing with all topics of NMR in molecular biology are welcome.

• Invited speakers will include:
• Mikael Akke (S, Lund University, S)
  Protein dynamics in allosteric transitions and enzyme catalysis
  
• Arto Annila (FIN, University of Helsinki, FIN)
  Examining polypeptide conformational ensembles by residue dipolar couplings
  
• Oleg Antzutkin (S, Luleå Technical University, S)
  Binding of Al(III)-citrate complexes to Alzheimer's Abeta(1-40) peptides: AFM and
  solid state 13C and 27Al NMR studies
  
• Cheryl Arrowsmith (US, Structural Genomics Consortium, Toronto, CA)
  Structural proteomics
  
• Lucia Banci (I, University of Florence, I)
  NMR in structural proteomics of metalloproteins
  
• Ad Bax (NL, NIH, Bethesda, US)
  New frontiers in weak alignment NMR
  
• Muriel Delepierre (F, Institut Pasteur, Paris, F)
  The HasAsm bacterial hemophore
  
• Chris Dobson (UK, University of Cambridge, UK)
  NMR spectroscopy in studies of protein folding and misfolding
  
• Jane Dyson (US, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, US)
  New NMR studies of apomyoglobin folding
  
• Julie Feigon (US, University of California at LA, US)
  Structural and functional studies of human telomerase RNA and yeast RNase III
  
• Peter Güntert (CH, RIKEN Genomic Sciences Centre, Yokohama, J)
  Automated NMR structure calculation with Cyana
  
• Andrew Lane (UK, University of Louisville, US)
  Isotopomer analysis in cancer cell metabolomics
  
• Sara Linse (S, Lund University, S)
  NMR studies of biomolecular interactions
  
• Beat Meier (CH, ETH Zürich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH)
  High-resolution solid-state NMR of amyloids and microcrystalline proteins
  
• Pierre Mutzenhardt (F, Université Henri Poincaré, Nancy, F)
  The concept of effective correlation times for describinb motions in proteins
  
• Akira Naito (J, Yokohama National University, J)
  Structure and dynamics of membrane-associated peptides and proteins as studied by solid-state NMR
  
• Hartmut Oschkinat (D, Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie, Berlin, D)
  Protein structure determination by magic angle spinning solid-state NMR
  
• Arthur G. Palmer (US, Columbia University, New York, US)
  Protein motions in folding, binding, and catalysis
  
• Konstantin V. Pervushin (CH, ETH Zürich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, CH)
  Protein/protein and protein/ligand interactions in large and dynamically disordered
  systems studies by NMR in solution)
  
• Flemming Poulsen (DK, University of Copenhagen, DK)
  The unfolded states of a protein and their relevance for the protein folding process
  
• Ago Samoson (EE, National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics (NICPB), Tallinn, EE)
  Advances in experimental technique of high resolution solid state NMR
  
• Harald Schwalbe (D, University of Frankfurt, D)
  NMR to study structure and dynamics of RNA
  
• Anne S. Uirich (D, University of Karlsruhe, D)
  Re-alignment and self-assembly of peptides in membranes
  
• Gerhard Wagner (CH, Harvard Medical School, Boston, US)
  Title to be confirmed
  
• Peter E. Wright (US, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, US)
  Zinc fingers, NMR, and the regulation of gene expression
  
• Kurt Wüthrich (CH, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, CH)
  Recent advances with NMR spectroscopy of soluble proteins and membrane proteins