Tuesday Morning, April 17.

08:30 Welcome.

08:50 Presentation of the workshop.

Jean-Luc Popot (CNRS, Paris, France)

09:00 Strategies for studying membrane proteins in vitro.

Jean-Luc Popot (CNRS, Paris, France)
30' + 15' discussion

09:45 Structure and properties of amphipols. Trapping membrane proteins with amphipols. Properties of membrane protein/amphipol complexes.

Manuela Zoonens (CNRS, Paris, France)
30' + 15' discussion

10:30 Coffee break.

11:00 Applications of amphipols to membrane protein studies. An overview.

Jean-Luc Popot (CNRS, Paris, France)
30' + 15' discussion

11:45 Amphipol-assisted membrane protein folding.

Massadite Dahmane (Columbia University, New York, USA)
30' + 15' discussion


Lunch (12:30-13:30)


Tuesday Afternoon, April 17.

14:00 Amphipol-assisted folding of GPCRs and beyond.

Jean-Louis Banères (CNRS, Montpellier, France)
40' + 20' discussion

15:00 Amphipols and electron microscopy.

Werner Kühlbrandt & Thorsten Althoff(MPI, Francfort, Germany)
40' + 20' discussion

16:00 Coffee break.

16:30 Amphipol-mediated immobilization of membrane proteins and perspectives of application to drug screening and diagnostics.

Karen L. Martinez (University of Copenhagen, DK)
30' + 15' discussion

17:15 Amphipols and vaccination.

Melanie J. Cocco (U. of California in Irvine, CA)
30' + 15' discussion

18:00 General discussion.

Dinner (18:30)