Opening Symposium Core Facility for Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin at Max Delbrück Center
With great pleasure we announce the official opening of the Core facility for cryo-electron tomography of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin at the Max Delbück Center on Campus Berlin Buch.
To celebrate this, and the opening of the Isolde-Dietrich-Haus, our dedicated research building, we cordially invite you to a one-day scientific symposium to Berlin.
Register free of charge and join us for a full day of scientific presentations from a panel of excellent speakers, all related to cryo-electron tomography.
Invited Speakers:
Helen Saibil, Birkbeck London (keynote)
Kay Grünewald, CSSB Hamburg
Friedrich Förster, Utrecht University
Ariane Briegel, Leiden University
Jürgen Plitzko, MPI Martinsried
Venue
MDC
Robert-Rössle-Straße 10
Axon
13125 Berlin
Germany
Time
Program
Scientific Symposium – Morning Session(Chair: Michael Kudryashev)
09:00 - 13:00
09:00 |
Welcome Christian Spahn, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
09:15 |
Protein folding, unfolding and disaggregation by Hsp60 and Hsp70 chaperones Helen Saibil, Birkbeck, University of London |
10:00 |
Breaking Borders - implications for cryoEM Tarek Hilal, FU Berlin |
10:20 | Coffee Break |
10:40 |
A viral guide to the cell by integrative structural biology Kay Grünewald, CSSB Hamburg |
11:10 |
Investigation of a mitochondrial intermembrane space protein complex with relevance for bioenergetics and disease David Schwefel, TU Berlin |
11:30 |
Structure and conformational variability of RyR1 in native membrane Vasilii Mikirtumov, Max Delbrück Center, Berlin |
11:50 |
Understanding the molecular mechanisms of Fusobacterium nucleatum attachment to the human colon via the bifunctional adhesin Fap2 Felix Schöpf, FMP, Berlin |
12:10 | Lunch |
Opening of Facility/Naming of Research Building 94.2(Chair: Christoph Diebolder)🇩🇪 Please note this part of the event will be held in German.
13:00 - 14:30
13:00 |
Begrüßung
Christoph Diebolder, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
13:10 |
Dr. I. Dietrich - Physikerin, Stifterin und Mensch |
13:25 | Einrichtung einer State of the Art Facility für in situ kryo-Elektronentomographie Thiemo Sprink, Max Delbrück Center, Berlin |
13:40 | Eröffnung des Isolde-Dietrich-Hauses Holger Gerhardt, Max Delbrück Center, Berlin |
13:45 | Eröffnung der CFcryo-EM Christian Hagemeyer, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
13:50 | Feierliche Eröffnung Holger Gerhardt, Max Delbrück Center Berlin & Christian Hagemeyer, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
14:00 | Facility Tour Metaxia Stavroulaki, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
Scientific Symposium – Afternoon Session(Chair: Daniel Roderer)
14:30 - 19:00
14:30 | Tale of a Tail - Structural Insights into Protein Biogenesis in the ER Friedrich Förster, Utrecht University |
15:00 | Eukaryotic translation visualized in situ Magdalena Schacherl, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
15:20 | Latest updates for Smart EPU and Tomography software: Increasing automation and ease of use for Cryo-EM data acquisition Julio Ortiz, Thermo Fisher Scientific |
15:40 | Coffee Break |
16:00 | Bacteriophages revisited: Zooming in on structurally elusive aspects of phage-host interactions Ariane Briegel, Leiden University |
16:30 | tba Patrick Scheerer, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
16:50 | En route to the molecular anatomy of whole organisms using Cryo-ET Jürgen Plitzko, MPI Martinsried |
17:20 | Closing Oliver Daumke, Max Delbrück Center, Berlin |
17:30 | BBQ, Posters & Facility Tours |
Documents
Organizers
Christian Spahn, Magdalena Schacherl, Christoph Diebolder (Charité)
Misha Kudryashev, Oliver Daumke, Thiemo Sprink (MDC)
Daniel Roderer (FMP)
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