Theoretical Part

  • Monday Morning, March 8.
  • Monday Afternoon, March 8.
  • Tuesday Morning, March 9.

08:30 Welcome


08:50 Presentation of the workshop

Jean-Luc Popot (CNRS, Paris, France)


09:00 Membrane protein structure & stability

Donald M. Engelman (Yale University, CT, USA)

45' + 15' discussion


10:00 Membrane protein stability in aqueous solutions; destabilization by detergents

Jean-Luc Popot (CNRS, Paris, France)

20' + 10' discussion


10:30 Coffee break


11:00 Structure & properties of amphipols; functionalized amphipols

Jean-Luc Popot (CNRS, Paris, France)

20' + 10' discussion


11:30 Trapping membrane proteins with amphipols; structure and properties of membrane protein/amphipol complexes

Manuela Zoonens (Cambridge University, UK)

45' + 15' discussion


12:30-14:30 Lunch


14:30 Amphipol-assisted membrane protein folding

Jean-Louis Banères (CNRS, Montpellier, France)

45' + 15' discussion


15:30 The use of amphipols for membrane protein cell-free synthesis

Emmanuelle Billon-Denis (CNRS, Paris, France)

45' + 15' discussion


16:30 Coffee break


17:00 Amphipols & 2D gel analyses of membrane proteins

Paola Bazzacco (CNRS, Paris, France)

20' + 10' discussion


17:30 Amphipols and mass spectrometry

Gérard Bolbach  (CNRS, Paris, France)

20' + 10' discussion

18:00 General Discussion


19:30 Festive Dinner


09:00 Amphipol-mediated immobilization of membrane proteins and application to drug screening and diagnostics

Karen L. Martinez (University of Copenhagen, DK)

45' + 15' discussion


10:00 NMR studies of amphipol-trapped membrane proteins and their ligands

Laurent J. Catoire (CNRS, Paris, France)

45' + 15' discussion


11:00 Coffee break


11:30 General discussion

60' discussion


12:30-13:30 Lunch