Scientists who have accepted (in italics since Fall 2006) an invitation to contribute

For a very preliminary version of the day-by-day programme click

here

Nenad Ban, Zurich;
David Barford, London;
Wolfgang Baumeister, Martinsried;
Terese Bergfors, Uppsala;
Richard Bickerton, Dundee, UK;
Dima Chirgadze, Cambridge, UK;
Elena Conti, Martinsried;
Patrick Cramer, Munich;
David Eisenberg, UCLA, CA;
Paul Emsley, York;
Ermanno Gherardi, Pavia & Cambridge, UK;
Janos Hadju, Uppsala;
Eran Hodis, Rehovot;
Ken Holmes, Heidelberg;
Amnon Horovitz, Rehovot;
Carola Hunte, Leeds;
Louise N. Johnson, Oxford;
Yvonne Jones, Oxford;
Werner Kuhlbrandt, Frankfurt;
John Kuriyan, Berkeley;
*Eva Maria Mandelkov, Hamburg;
*Joao Morais-Cabral, Porto;
Garib Murshudov, York;
Anastassis (Tassos) Perrakis, Amsterdam;
*Michael Rossmann, West Lafayette, IN;
Tim Richmond, Zurich;
Carsten Sachse, Cambridge;
Helen Saibil, London;
Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson, Umea;
Thomas Steitz, New Haven, CT;
Robert Stroud, UCSF, CA;
David Stuart, Oxford;
Joel Sussman, Rehovot;
Dmitri Svergun, Hamburg;
Maya Topf, London, UK;
Michele Vendruscolo, Cambridge, UK;
Nuria Verdaguer, Barcelona;
Jason Vertrees, S. Francisco, CA;
Clemens Vonrhein, Cambridge, UK;
Bill Weis, Stanford, CA;
Ada Yonath, Rehovot;

* withdrawn in late Sept 2009 due to accumulation of scientific commitments
additional speakers are being asked and some others will be chosen according to exciting and innovative results coming up in the literature, alike :
Venki Ramakrishnan, Cambridge, UK with a new "first GTPase structures bound to the ribosome" - 9 Oct 2009
Andreas Hoenger, Boulder, CO - 10 Oct 2009
Eddy Arnold, Rutgers, NJ - 15 Jan 2010

Topics.
Evolving methods; Robotics for protein expression, purification, structure determination and imaging;
CryoEM, single particle analysis and tomography;
Computer modelling bringing together results of individual molecules,
assemblies and cells; RNA and DNA replication and synthesis;
Progress in structural genomics; NMR;
Multicomponent machines involved in protein biosynthesis and processing;
Membrane proteins, pores and transporters;
Transient multiprotein systems involving growth factor receptors, signal transducing assemblies and nucleic acid-protein complexes;
Ribosomes;
Amyloid structure;
Viruses and virulence factors;
Slot open to future hot topics