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CEF-Seminars

Kaspar Locher
Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, ETH Zurich
Title to be announced

David Cowburn
Structural Biology Center, New York, USA
Title to be announced

Christian Haass
Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
“Cellular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration” 

Joint CEF/SFB Seminar with Barry Honig
Columbia University, New York, USA 
Title to be announced

Richard Henderson
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, Great Britain
"Electron cryo-microscopy in structural biology: achievements and potential" [Poster]

Joint CEF/SFB Seminar with Dirk Slotboom
University of Groningen, Netherlands
"Bacterial ABC importers with and without soluble binding domains" [Poster]

Natalia Jura
University of California, Berkeley, USA
"The Mechanism for Receptor Activation in the EGFR Family-A Unique Case Among Receptor Tyrosine Kinases" [Poster]

Karl-Peter Hopfner
University of Munich
"Repair and signaling of DNA double-strand breaks" [Poster]

Valentina Perissi
University of California San Diego, USA
"The many faces ofthe NCoR corepressor complex" [Poster]

Claire Wyart
University of California, Berkeley, USA
"In vivo exploration of the role of GABAergic neurons: activation during
sensory processing & manipulation with light" [Poster]

Tassos Economou
University of Crete 
"Protein secretion: the system-nanomachine cross-talk" [Poster]

Joint CEF/MPI Seminar with Robert Singer
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, New York, USA
"Following single mRNA Molecules in Living Cells from Birth to Death" [Poster]

Joint CEF/SFB Seminar with Miriam Goodman
Department of Molecular & Cellular Physiology, School of Medicine, Stanford University, USA
"Using C. elegans to Deconstruct Neurosensory Mechanotransduction" [Poster]

Utz Fischer
University of Würzburg
"Molecular bodybuilding: how cells assemble RNA-protein complexes" [Poster]

Joint CEF/SFB seminar
Bob Sauer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
"Allosteric protein machines: back to the future" [Poster]

Katrin Rittinger
National Institute for Medical Research, London, UK
"Structural basis of signalling in immunity" [Poster]

Claudio Gualerzi
University of Camerino, Italy
"Dynamic and mechanistic aspects of mRNA translation initation site selection in bacteria" [Poster]

Martin Grininger
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried
"The Chemistry and Biology of Megasynthases" [Poster]

Bojan Zagrovic
Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences, Split, Croatia
"Studying protein-protein interactions using computer simulations: from specific effects to protein ecology". [Poster] 

Volker Hagen
Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, Berlin
"Design, Photochemistry, and Application of Caged Compounds" [Poster]

Arieh Warshel
University of South California, USA
"How do enzymes really work and how do they not work: what has been
learnt from Computer simulation studies?" [Poster]

Antoine van Oijen
Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
"Under the hood: single-molecule studies of multi-protein machines”  [Poster]

Martin Grininger
Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry Martinsried (joined MPI und CEF Seminar)
"Tracing the assembly of the 2.6 MDa fungal fatty acid synthase" [Poster]

David Tollervey
University of Edinburgh, Scotland
"Some Cracking Results with RNA" [Poster]

Jean-Louis Bessereau
Biology Department of the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
"Unraveling a novel architecture at cholinergic synapses using C. elegans genetics " [Poster]

Carol Robinson
University of Cambridge, England
"From micelles to masses" [Poster]

Andreas Marx
University of Constance
"Chemical Biology of DNA Replication" [Poster]

Ronald Kaback
University of California, Los Angeles/USA
"Lactose permease: crystals ain´t everything" [Poster] 

Walter Schubert
University of Magdeburg
"Human toponome project" [Poster]

Vishva Dixit
Genentech San Francisco
"Ubiquitin editing and apoptosis" [Poster]

Eva Wolf
MPI for Molecular Physiology, Dortmund
"Structure-function analysis of circadian clock proteins of Drosophila melanogaster and the mouse" [Poster]

3rd CEF Symposium and Assembly
[Poster]

Markus Bohnsack
Institute of Molecular Biological Science, Frankfurt University
"Biogenesis and nuclear export of the translation machinery"

Jens Bredenbeck
Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt University
"Multidimensional IR spectroscopy: Biomolecular dynamics, interactions and 
signal propagation in realtime"

Alexander Gottschalk
Institute of Biochemistry, Frankfurt University
"Macromolecular assemblies atthe synapse - optogenetics and beyond"

Metello Innocenti
Institute of Biochemistry II, University Hospital, Frankfurt 
"Actin dynamics in membrane protrusion and invagination"

Thomas Meier
Max-Planck-Institute of Biophyics, Frankfurt
"Switching the gears in ATP synthase rotor research"

Rainer Heintzmann
King´s College, London
"Quo vadis? - Recent Developments in Microscopy" [Poster] [Abstract]

Thomas Langer
University of Cologne
"Proteolytic control of mitochondrial membrane dynamics" [Poster]

Alessandro Esposito
University of Cambridge
"Imaging biochemical pathways in the living cell" [Poster]

Thomas Euler
Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research, Heidelberg
"Cellular mechanisms of signal processing in the retina" [Poster]

Thomas Oertner
Friedrich Miescher Institute, Basel
"Synapses: Caught in the act!" [Poster]

Ernst Stelzer
European Molecular Biology Laboratory Heidelberg
"Light sheet based fluorescence microscopes (LSFM, SPIM, DSLM) reduce phototoxic effects by several orders of magnitude" [Poster] [Abstract]

John Ladbury
University College, London
" Specificity in Intracellular Signalling is Complex and Time Consuming" [Poster]

Andreas Zumbusch
University of Konstanz
"Ultrasensitive microscopy in live cells" [Poster]

Ivo Tews
University of Heidelberg
"Vitamine B6 Biosynthesis: 3D structure of a 650 kDa protein complex" [Poster]

Stefan Jakobs
Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
"Diffraction-unlimited fluorescence microscopy: Tools to study mitochondrial architecture" [Poster]

Petra Schwille
Technical University of Dresden
" From single molecules to artificial cells" [Poster] 

Andrew Woolley
University of Toronto
"Photo-switches for peptides and proteins" [Poster]

Thomas Surrey
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg
"Dynamic protein complexes of the mictrotubule cytoskeleton: from
single molecules to collective behavior" [Poster]

John Hunt
Columbia University
"The ABC´s of structure-based function elucidation" [Poster]

Thomas Sommer
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicin, Berlin
"The HRD Ubiquitin Ligase and Protein Quality Control in the Secretory Pathway" [Poster]

Dirk Schiller
University of Wisconsin, Madison
"Synthetic defects reveal dynamic interactions of the mitochondrial protein import motor with the translocase" [Poster]

Achilleas Frangakis
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg
"Image processing of cryo-electron tomograms of vitreous sections" [Poster]

Ulrich Nienhaus
Ulm University
"Single-molecule FRET Studies of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics" [Poster]

Edward Lemke
Scripps Research Institute" La Jolla, California
"Genetically Encoded and Single Molecule Tools to Study Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics" [Poster]

Matthias Kneussel
Center of Molecular Neurobiology, University Hamburg
"Neuronal Live Cell Imgaging to study protein dynamics underlying synaptic plasticity" [Poster]  

Muhammad Zaman
University of Texas
"Quantitative analysis of cell-matrix interactions in regulating tumor invasion and metastasis" [Poster]

2nd CEF Symposium and Assembly
[Poster]

Horst Vogel
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
(Scientific Advisory Board, CEF)
"Investigating cellular signaling by micro- and nanotechnologies"

Clemens Glaubitz
Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, Frankfurt University
"Biophysical Insight into Receptors and Multidrug Efflux Pumps"

José Faraldo-Gómez
Max Planck Institute of Biophysics, Frankfurt
"Conformational variability and self-organiziation of modular scaffolding proteins"

Jürgen Klingauf
Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen
"Molecular events druing synaptic vesicle recycling" [Poster]

Thomas Misgeld
Technical University Munich
"Studying axons in vivo" [Poster]

Martin Pos
University of Zürich
"The AcrB Efflux Pump: Conformational Cycling and Peristalsis lead to Multidrug Resistance" [Poster]

Victor Sourjik
Zentrum für Molekulare Biologie, Heidelberg
"Antennas and switches: Signal processing by macromolecular complexes in bacterial chemotaxis" [Poster]

David Komander
Institute of Cancer Research, London, UK
"Deubiquitination in cytokine signalling" [Poster]

Paola Fucini
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics, Berlin
"Nascent chain ribosomal complexes studied by X-ray crystallography and NMR" [Poster]

Seminars by candidates for the CEF Professorship in:
Associate Professorship in Large Synaptic Complexes
[Poster]

Seminars by candidates for the following CEF Professorships:
Full Professorship in Molecular Membrane Biology
Full Professorship in Electron Cryo-Microscopy of Large Macromolecular Complexes [Poster]

Seminars by candidates for the following CEF Professorships:
Associate Professorship in Developmental Biology
Associate Professorship in Quantitative Biology of Signalosomes
[Poster]

Seminars by candidates for the following CEF Professorships:
Full Professorship in Advanced Light Microscopy
Associate Professorship in Research in Mitochondrial Biology
[Poster]

Seminars by candidates for the following CEF Professorships:
Associate Professorship in Single Molecule Spectroscopy
Assistant Professorship in Research on Nuclear Complexes
[Poster]

Seminars by candidates for the following CEF Professorships:
Associate Professorship in Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry
Assistant Professorship in Research on Nuclear Complexes
Assistant Professorhsip in Mass Spectrometry
[Poster]

Hemmo Meyer
Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
"Role of the ubiquitin-dependent chaperone p97 during nuclear envelope biogenesis" [Poster]