Ueli Aebi Farewell Symposium
Thursday, 26. January, 2012
Pharmazentrum Lecture Hall 1, Klingelbergstrasse 50/70, University of Basel
| 08:20-08:30 | Opening Address Erich Nigg, Director, Biozentrum, University of Basel |
| 08:30-08:40 | Welcome Address Ed Constable, Vice-Rector for Research, University of Basel |
SESSION I: The Early Basel Years (Chair: Jacques Dubochet)
| 08:40-09:00 | Packing DNA - from P22 to Humans Bill Earnshaw, Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology, University of Edinburgh |
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| 09:00-09:20 | TBA Ross Smith, NYU School of Medicine |
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| 09:20-09:40 | The Triple Helix Joerg Kistler, University of Auckland |
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| 09:40-10:00 | Fabulous Fab Labeling Alasdair Steven, National Institutes of Health |
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| 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break |
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SESSION II: The US Years (Chair: Yosef Gruenbaum)
| 10:30-10:50 | Molecular design of nature's largest and most versatile transport channel anchored in the nuclear pore Günter Blobel, Rockefeller University |
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| 10:50-11:10 | Endoplasmic reticulum nanodomains involved in regulation of cholesterol biosynthesis Larry Gerace, The Scripps Research Institute |
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| 11:10-11:30 | Actin filament dynamics from atomic resolution to living cells Tom Pollard, Yale University |
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| 11:30-11:50 | Recent insights into the regulation and functions of intermediate filaments Robert Goldman, Northwestern University |
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| 11:50-12:10 | The 26S proteasome revisited Wolfgang Baumeister, Max Plank Institute of Biochemistry |
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| 12:10-13:30 | Lunch |
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SESSION III: The Maurice E. Mueller Years (Chair: Ellen Heitlinger)
| 13:30-13:50 | Looking Back at the MIH: History and Perspective Andreas Engel, Case Western University |
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| 13:50-14:10 | How viruses access the gate much traveled: transport of viruses into the nucleus Nelly Pante, University of British Columbia |
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| 14:10-14:30 | Slowly, but definitely: towards disclosing the mystery of the nuclear basket Birthe Fahrenkrog, Université Libre de Bruxelles |
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| 14:30-14:50 | The actin lower dimer steps into the limelight Cora-Ann Schoenenberger, Biozentrum, University of Basel |
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| 14:50-15:10 | Intermediate filaments: Mechanical integrators of cellular space and more Harald Herrmann, German Cancer Research Center |
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| 15:10-15:40 | Coffee Break |
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SESSION IV: The Maurice E. Mueller Years and Beyond (Chair: Sergei Strelkov)
| 15:40-16:00 | Physics, Bio and Nano Hans-Joachim Güntherodt, Swiss Nanoscience Institute, University of Basel |
| 16:00-16:20 | Repetitive Antigen Display From Early Concepts to First Vaccine Candidates Peter Burkhard, University of Connecticut |
| 16:20-16:40 | Structural analysis of integrin-mediated cell adhesion Ohad Medalia, University of Zurich |
| 16:40-17:00 | The nanomechanical signature of breast cancer Marija Plodinec, Biozentrum, University of Basel |
| 17:00-17:10 | Tracing the roots of electron microscopy at the Biozentrum and of its support by the FMEM Werner Arber, Biozentrum, University of Basel |
Farewell Lecture (Chair: Werner Arber)
| 17:10-17:40 | TBA Ueli Aebi, M.E. Mueller Institute for Structural Biology, Biozentrum, University of Basel |
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| 17:40-18:00 | Group Photos and Announcements |
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| 18:00-19:00 | Apero |
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| 19:00-late | Dinner @Wenkenhof in Riehen with invited guests |
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