Sunday, June 25
7:30 PM |
Protein dynamics in the cell cycle |
| Discussion Leader: |
Piet de Boer (Case Western) |
| Speakers: |
- Piet de Boer (Case Western) - Positioning the division apparatus in E. coli
- Jeff Errington (Oxford) - Dynamic behavior of Soj protein of B. subtilis: function and regulation
- Christine Jacobs (Stanford) - Spatial control of cell cycle progression in Caulobacter
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Monday, June 26
8:45 AM |
Protein trafficking |
| Discussion Leader: |
Harris Bernstein (NIH) |
| Speakers: |
- Jon Beckwith (Harvard) - A new old approach to the genetics of membrane protein insertion
- Harris Bernstein (NIH) - Protein targeting to the cytoplasmic membrane
- Horeaki Ito (Kyoto University) - Role of SecY in cotranslational protein export and translation arrest
- Bauke Oudega (Amsterdam) - YidC, the E. coli homologue of mitochondrial Oxa1p, a new component of the Sec translocase
- Ross Dalbey (Ohio State U.) - YidC mediates membrane protein insertion in bacteria
- Ben Berks (East Anglia) - The Tat protein transport pathway
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Monday, June 26
7:30 PM |
Peptidolglycan assembly |
| Discussion Leader: |
Joachim Holtje (Max-Planck-Institut) |
| Speakers: |
- Martine Nguyen-Disteche - Multimodular penicillin-binding proteins in cell morphogenesis
- Joachim Holtje (Max-Planck-Institut) - Cutting the septum or how to control a risky enterprise
- Miguel de Pedro (Madrid) - Long-lived topological domains on the surface of E. coli
- Ry Young (Texas A&M) - Host lysis by phage-encoded cell wall antibiotics
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Tuesday, June 27
8:45 AM |
Assembly of inner membrane complexes |
| Discussion Leader: |
Beth Traxler (U of Washington) |
| Speakers: |
- Peter Christie (UT Houston) - Cytoplasmic membrane protein interactions mediating Type IV secretion in Agrobacterium
- Fevzi Daldal (U of Penn) - Prosthetic group incorporation into membrane associated cytochromes and cytochrome complexes
- Mark Krebs (University of Wisconsin Medical School) - Biogenesis of an archael rhodopsin
- Jim Bowie (UCLA) - Stabilization and folding of E. coli diacylglycerol kinase
- Beth Traxler (U of Washington) - Assembly of the maltose transporter
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Tuesday, June 27
7:30 PM |
Transport ATPases |
| Discussion Leader: |
Barry Rosen (Wayne State) |
| Speakers: |
- John Hunt (Columbia) - Crystallographic and mechanistic studies of the LivF ATP-binding cassette from M. jannaschii
- Barry Rosen (Wayne State) - Crystal structure of the E. coli ArsA ATPase
- Wil Konings (Groningen) - Structure and catalytic mechanism of the multidrug ABC transporter LmrA
- Bharati Mitra (Wayne State) - ZntA and CopA, the soft metal P-type ATPases of E. coli
- Hajime Tokuda (University of Tokyo) - A novel ABC transporter mediating the de-anchoring of lipid-modified proteins from the membrane
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Wednesday, June 28
8:45 AM |
Outer membrane proteins |
| Discussion Leader: |
Colin Kleanthous (East Anglia) |
| Speakers: |
- Colin Kleanthous (East Anglia) - Import of enzymatic colicins into E. coli
- Bill Cramer (Purdue) - Utilization of the BtuB open channel for import of colicin E3
- Jeremy Lakey (Newcastle) - Protein-protein recognition during colicin N import
- Susan Buchanan (Birbeck College) - Crystal structure of the ferric enterobactin receptor from E. coli
- James Coulton (McGill U) - A conserved structural motif for lipopolysaccharide recognition by procaryotic and eucaryotic proteins
- Vasilis Koronakis (Oxford U) - Type I export- the TolC-dependent efflux mechanism
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Wednesday, June 28
7:30 PM |
Type IV pili |
| Discussion Leader: |
Dale Kaiser (Stanford) |
| Speakers: |
- Dale Kaiser (Stanford) - Cell polarity and type IV pili
- Mike Koomey (Oslo) - Pilin-like molecules and their roles in Tfp biogenesis, structure and function
- Tony Pugsley (Institut Pasteur) - Type II secretion and type IV piliation
- Devaki Bhaya (Carnegie Institution of Washington) - Type IV Pilus biogenesis and motility in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis
- Alex Merz (Dartmouth) - Retraction of type IV pili powers twitching motility
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Thursday, June 29
8:45 AM |
Flagella and Type III secretion organelles |
| Discussion Leader: |
Robert McNab (Yale) |
| Speakers: |
- David Blair (Utah) - The flagellar motor/switch - structure and mechanism
- David DeRosier (Brandeis) - Structure of the flagellum of Salmonella
- Bob McNab (Yale) - Export and assembly of the flagellar proteins by a Type III pathway
- Colin Hughes (Cambridge) - Action of substrate-specific chaperones in flagellar assembly
- Tomoko Kubori (Yale) - Characterization of the needle complex of the Type III virulence export pathway of Salmonella
- Sheng Yang He (Michigan State) - Hrp pili, a novel family of appendages assembled by plant pathogenic bacteria using a type III secretion system
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Thursday, June 29
7:30 PM |
Bacteria - host interaction |
| Discussion Leader: |
Scott Hultgren (Washington) |
| Speakers: |
- Scott Hultgren (Washington) - Pathogenic Fiber Formation in Bacteria: Structure, Function and Role in
Diseases of the Urinary Tract
- Tom Silhavy (Princeton) - Sensing and responding to envelope stress
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