Neutrons and X-rays meet biology
Tentative Programme
Wednesday 25 February 2009
13.00-13.45 | Welcome and Registration | |
13.45-14.00 | Workshop Opening, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anke Pyzalla, Director of Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin | |
14.00-15.25 | Session 1: Large Scale structure of biomolecules I | |
Chair: Marie-Claire Bellissent-Funel, HZB/LLB | ||
14.00-14.40 | Roland May | |
ILL, France | ||
Studying the Structures of Biological Macromolecules Using Small-Angle Neutron Scattering | ||
14.40-14.55 | Karsten Vogtt | |
HZB, Germany | ||
Beta-Lactoglobulin Dissociation and Aggregation | ||
14.55-15.10 | Stéphane Longeville | |
LLB, France | ||
Influence of macromolecular crowding on protein stability | ||
15.10-15.25 | Mohamed Daoud | |
CEA Saclay, France | ||
From beta casein to synthetic polymers | ||
15.25-15.45 | Coffee break | |
15.45-16.45 | Guided neutron tour | |
16.45-18.10 | Session 2: Large Scale structure of biomolecules II | |
Chair: Roland Steitz, HZB | ||
16.45-17.25 | Tim Salditt | |
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany | ||
Structure and Dynamics of Lipid Membranes: from scattering to imaging | ||
17.25-17.40 | Michael Rappolt | |
Institute of Biophysics and Nanosystems Research, Austrian Academy of Sciences | ||
The Biologically Relevant Lipid Mesophases as "Seen" by X-rays | ||
17.40-17.55 | Stephen Holt | |
ISIS, STFC, UK | ||
Model Membrane Protein Assemblies at Interfaces | ||
17.55-18.10 | Claus Czeslik | |
Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany | ||
Structure and Dynamics of Protein Adsorbates at Polyelectrolyte Films | ||
18.10-19.45 | Poster Session | |
19.45-21.30 | Dinner at HZB restaurant | |
Thursday 26 February 2009
08.30-09.00 | Starter: coffee, croissants, foyer lecture hall | |
09.00-10.00 | Bus transfer to Bessy | |
10.00-11.20 | Session 3: Crystallographic structures of biomolecules I | |
Chair: Uwe Mueller, HZB | ||
10.00-10.40 | Ralf Ficner | |
Universität Göttingen, Germany | ||
Structural basis for the nuclear import of sliceosomal UsnRNPs | ||
10.40-10.55 | Florian Evers | |
Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany | ||
Probing the Structure of Protein Adsorbates and the Kinetics of Protein Adsorption at Solid Surfaces by X-Ray Reflectometry | ||
10.55-11.10 | Bert Nickel | |
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany | ||
Lipid-protein interactions studied by x-ray and neutron reflectometry | ||
11.10-11.25 | Klaus Brandenburg | |
Forschungszentrum Borstel, Germany | ||
SAXS of Bacterial Virulence Factors | ||
11.25-11.45 | Coffee break | |
11.45-13.10 | Session 4: Crystallographic structures of biomolecules II | |
Chair: Andre Mitschler, IGBMC | ||
11.45-12.25 | Alberto Podjarny | |
IGBMC, Illkirch, France | ||
Neutron and subatomic resolution X-ray diffraction studies of fully deuterated human aldose Reductase lead to quantum model of catalysis | ||
12.25-12.40 | Karin Nienhaus | |
Universität Ulm, Germany | ||
Trans-Cis Isomerization is Responsible for the Red-Shifted Fluorescence in Variants of the Red Fluorescent Protein eqFP611 | ||
12.40-12.55 | Sandra Puehringer | |
Universität Salzburg, Austria | ||
Structural studies of the cofactorless oxidase PqqC | ||
12.55-13.10 | Fadel Samatey | |
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan | ||
Structure and mechanism of the flagellar universal joint | ||
13.10-14.00 | Lunch at Bessy | |
Thursday 26 February 2009
14.00-15.25 | Session 5 : Structure and dynamics of biomolecules | |
Chair: Gerd Schneider, HZB | ||
14.00-14.40 | Martina Havenith | |
Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany | ||
The Terahertz (THz) dance of the protein with water | ||
14.40-14.55 | Thomas Hauß | |
HZB, Germany | ||
The dynamics in bacteriorhodopsin M-intermediate by time-resolved QENS | ||
14.55-15.10 | Giovanna D'Angelo | |
Messina University, Italy | ||
Microscopic origin of the very-low energy vibrational dynamics in proteins | ||
15.10-15.25 | Loïc Auvray | |
CNRS, Université d’Évry, France | ||
Complex of oppositely charged polyelectrolytes including DNA | ||
15.25-16.25 | Guided X-ray tour | |
16.25-16.45 | Coffee break | |
16.45-18.10 | Session 6 : Structure and dynamics of biomolecules under extreme conditions | |
Chair: Thomas Hauß, HZB | ||
16.45-17.25 | Roland Winter | |
Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany | ||
The Kinetics and Mechanisms of Pressure-Jump Induced Phase Transitions of Lyotropic Lipid Mesophases and Proteins | ||
17.25-17.40 | Judith Peters | |
ILL, France | ||
Effect of pressure on the dynamics of lysozyme | ||
17.40-17.55 | Heloisa Bordallo | |
HZB, Germany | ||
Hydrogen Bond Instabilities in Amino Acids: High Pressure Studies using Neutron Scattering, X-Rays Synchrotron Diffraction and Raman Scattering | ||
17.55-18.10 | Susan Böhme | |
Universität Ulm, Germany | ||
Structural background of photoinduced transformations of IrisFP | ||
18.10-19.10 | Bus transfer to the restaurant | |
19.30-22.00 | Workshop Dinner | |
Friday 27 February 2009
08.15-08.45 | Starter: coffee, croissants, foyer lecture hall | |
08.45-10.10 | Session 7 : Dynamics of biomolecules | |
Chair: Daoud, Affiliation | ||
08.45-09.25 | Frank Gabel | |
IBS, Grenoble, France | ||
Dynamics of biomacromolecules, water and cells studied by incoherent inelastic neutron scattering | ||
09.25-09.40 | Adrien Lerbret | |
LDSMM, Université de Lille, France | ||
Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Lysozyme in Sugar Aqueous Solutions | ||
09.40-09.55 | Vania Calandrini | |
CBM-CNRS, France | ||
Self-similar Protein Dynamics: MD Simulations and Experiments | ||
09.55-10:10 | Alexandra Buchsteiner | |
HZB, Germany | ||
Water in organic multilayer systems: information about structure and dynamics from neutron scattering and complementary methods | ||
10.10-10.30 | Coffee break | |
10.30-11.55 | Session 8 : Dynamics and modelling of biomolecules | |
Chair: Tim Salditt, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen | ||
10.30-11.10 | Maikel C. Rheinstädter | |
McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada | ||
to be announced | ||
11.10-11.25 | Andrea Orecchini | |
University of Perugia, Italy | ||
Collective Dynamics of RNase Hydration Water by Brillouin Neutron Spectroscopy | ||
11.25-11.40 | Vasile Tripadus | |
National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Romania | ||
Proton and Deuteron Diffusion Motions in Deuterated Sodium Alginate Solutions at Various Hydration Degrees | ||
11.40-11.55 | Helmut Durchschlag | |
Universität Regensburg, Germany | ||
Anhydrous and Hydrated Protein Models Derived from X-ray Crystallography, Small-Angle X-ray Scattering, Electron Microscopy, and Hydrodynamic Techniques | ||
12.00-13.30 | Lunch at Café Jahn | |
13.30-15.00 | Session 9 : Imaging techniques | |
Chair: Nikolay Kardjilov, HZB | ||
13.30-14.00 | Gerd Schneider | |
HZB, Germany | ||
Nano-tomography of biological cells | ||
14.00-14.15 | Heinrich Haas | |
Medigene AG, Germany | ||
Tracking of Gd-loaded liposomes in vivo by Monochromatic Quantitative Computed Tomography | ||
14.15-14.30 | Uzuki Matshushima | |
Iwate University, Japan | ||
Non-destructive evaluation of water movement and water relations in plants using cold neutron radiography with D2O tracer | ||
14.30-14.45 | Alexander Rack | |
ESRF, France | ||
Synchrotron-based Cineradiography using Coherent Hard X-rays for in vivo Studies of Organisms | ||
14.45-15.00 | Markus Kuehbacher | |
HZB, Germany | ||
15.00 | Chemical Imaging of Trace Elements in 2D and 3D with Neutrons and Photons
Closing remarks | |
