#IBSBM2017, Brno

Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference 2017

The 3rd Instruct Biennial Structural Biology Conference, which will take place in Brno, Czech Republic, from May 24 till May 26, 2017. Brno is the city of Gregor Johann Mendel, a founder of modern genetics and one of the first scientists who applied multidisciplinary approach to explain his observations. Social programme of the meeting will include visit of the Mendel’s Museum and dinner at the Augustinian Abbey, where Gregor Johann Mendel worked and lived.

Instruct is a distributed European Research Infrastructure, which provides scientists with access to all major cutting edge technologies that enable biomacromolecular structure determination at atomic resolution. Access to all of these technologies has been available to European member researchers from February 2012. The inaugural Instruct Structural Biology Meeting at Heidelberg in 2013 successfully showcased integrative structural biology and its impact on biological research and biomedicine. The second Biennial took place in Florence in 2015 continuing the integrative line with an increased focus on innovation. This new edition will include sessions that represent recent structural biology highlights, emerging methods and technologies and results of biomedical importance.

Documents

Programme booklet

Programme Booklet

Abstract booklet

Abstract Booklet

Social Events

Guided tour to city centre (Spilberk Castle, Mendel Museum and Abbey)

24th May 2017

Starts at 16:00 (meet at hotel lobby at 15:50)

More information about the Museum can be found via this link https://mendelmuseum.muni.cz/en/

Tour to the FEI Thermo Fisher Laboratory

24th May 2017

Starts at 15:00 (meet at hotel lobby at 15:00)

Tour should last 120 minutes

Gala Dinner at Augustinian Abbey

24th May 2017

Starts at 19:30

Mendel Square 1a

The shuttles will leave from the hotel at 19:15 sharp.

Return from dinner to hotel is not provided by bus, but can be walked in 20 minutes, or by your own taxi arrangement.

Collaborators

Instruct-ULTRA CORBEL West Life
iNEXT Central European Institute of Technology

Speakers

25th May 2017

Session 1 " Structural biology towards Cellular Biology: Integrating Biology"

Chairs: Dave Stuart and Vladi Sklenar

Venue: Congress Hall A

09:00 - 09:25
Cryo-EM and Mass Spectrometry ticking in parallel by Albert Heck
09:30 - 09:55
Integrative structural biology of telomerase by Juli Feigon
10:00 - 10:25
Dynamic assembly of RNA polymerase II CTD-some by Richard Štefl
10:30 - 11:00
Tea/Coffee
11:00 - 11:25
On Bugs, Revolution and a Very Sweet Solution by Moran Shalev Benami
11:30 - 11:55
The Origin Recognition Complex – where it all begins by Leemor Joshua-Tor
12:00 - 12:25
Ivano Bertini Award Winner: Lucia Banci
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch/FEI Presentation

Session 2 " Structural Biology and Health: Current Challenges"

Chairs: Lucia Banci and Ray Owens

Venue: Congress Hall A

14:00 - 14:25
Towards the molecular structure of muscle Z-disk: By Lego building blocks by Kristina Djinovic-Carugo
14:30 - 14:55
Using structural biology to make novel molecules by James Naismith
15:00 - 15:25
The molecular toolbox for building axoneme by Masahide Kikkawa
15:30 - 16:00
Tea/Coffee
16:00 - 16:25
Identification, characterization and structural analysis of the N-terminal domain of human ryanodine receptor 2 by Vladena Bauerova
16:30 - 16:55
Structural insights into dynein/dynactin transport by Andrew Carter
17:00 - 19:00
Poster session and drinks at Posters Hall/Congress Hall
20:00
Dinner at International Best Western Hotel at Restaurant

26th May 2017

Session 3 "Emerging Technologies in Integrative Structural Biology"

Chairs: John Briggs and Stephen Cusack

Venue: Congress Hall A

09:00 - 09:25
Solving the structures of small molecules with the Volta phase plate by Radostin Danev
09:30 - 09:55
Haploid Genetics to study Pathogen entry and Genetic Interactions by Thijn Brummelkamp
10:00 - 10:25
Decoding protein-RNA recognition in gene regulation by integrated structural biology by Michael Sattler
10:30 - 11:00
Tea/Coffee
11:00 - 11:25
Purification and structural studies of a Tremella fuciformis mushroom lectin by Giulia Glorani
11:30 - 11:55
Molecular chaperones in action by Babis Kalodimos
12:00 - 12:25
Recent improvents in the BioSAXS setup at synchrotron SOLEIL by Aurélien Thureau
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch

Session 4 "New Trends"

Chairs: Anastassis Perrakis

Venue: Congress Hall A

14:00 - 14:25
Biochemical reconstitution of (parts of) chromosome segregation by Andrea Musacchio
14:30 - 14:55
Structure and function of contractile injection systems by Petr Leiman
15:00 - 15:25
Trends in scattering and imaging in Structural Biology by Dave Stuart
15:30 - 16:00
Poster prize presentation and closing

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