Second Joint Berlin MX-day

Dendrit II/III, MDC.C, Robert‐Rössle‐Str. 10, 13125 Berlin

17 August 2011


Participants of the 2. Joint Berlin MX-Day


Meeting Agenda

09:00 ‐ 10:40

Welcome, group presentation and RNA‐binding proteins
(Chair: Udo Heinemann, MDC)

09:00 ‐ 09:05

Udo Heinemann (MDC)
Welcome

09:05 ‐ 09:15

Thomas Sommer (MDC)
Welcome by the MDC directorate

09:15 ‐ 09:25

Manfred Weiss (HZB / BESSY)
The Joint Berlin MX Laboratory

09:25 ‐ 09:50

Andreas Möglich (HU)
Group presentation

09:50 ‐ 10:10

Gert Weber (FU)
Human U1 snRNP

10:10 ‐ 10:30

Florian Mayr (MDC)
Structural insight into Lin28‐mediated miRNA maturation

10:30 ‐ 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 ‐ 12:40

Bacterial proteins
(Chair: Holger Dobbek, HU)

11:00 ‐ 11:20

Sandra Hennig (HU)
RaCo ‐ the ATP‐dependent reductive activator of CoFeSP

11:20 ‐ 11:40

Sebastian Götzl (HU)
The methyltransferase system operating in the reductive acetyl‐CoA
pathway

11:40 ‐ 12:00

Marcel Jurk (FMP)
The switch that does not flip ‐ A biophysical view of YtvA from Bacillus
subtilis

12:00 ‐ 12:20

Michele Lunelli (MPI for Infection Biology)
Crystal structure of PrgI‐SipD: Open state of the type III secretion system
needle tip

12:20 ‐ 12:40

Philipp Selenko (FMP)
Think outside the box ‐ think inside the cell!

12:40 ‐ 14:00

Lunch Break

14:00 ‐ 15:20

Ligand binding and optimization
(Chair: Markus Wahl, FU)

14:00 ‐ 14:20

Yvette Roske (MDC)
Structure‐based design of inhibitors binding to the PDZ domains of Shank3
and Dishevelled

14:20 ‐ 14:40

Haydar Bulut (FU)
Pitstops

14:40 ‐ 15:00

Jabobo Martinez Font (FU)
Structures of N‐acetylmannosamine kinase in complex with ADP/ATP for
drug design

15:00 ‐ 15:20

Bernhard Loll (FU)
Inducible, conformational flexibility of peptides presented by HLA B*27

15:20 ‐ 15:50

Coffee Break

15:50 ‐ 17:50

Membrane processes and X‐ray methods
(Chair: Uwe Mueller or Manfred S. Weiss)

15:50 ‐ 16:10

Barth van Rossum (FMP)
De novo structure of the Yad A membrane protein by solid‐state MAS NMR

16:10 ‐ 16:30

Katja Fälber (MDC)
Crystal structure of nucleotide‐free dynamin

16:30 ‐ 16:50

David Schwefel (MDC)
Structural studies of GIMAPs

16:50 ‐ 17:10

Song Gao (MDC)
Structure determination of MxA using DEN refinement

17:10 ‐ 17:30

Martin Bommer (HZB / BESSY)
S‐ und Cd‐SAD structure determination of E. coli 3‐phosphoglycerol binding
protein UgpB

17:30 ‐ 17:50

Uwe Mueller (HZB / BESSY)
Current developments at BESSY

18:00

BBQ