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
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.