The 2nd Montagne Ste Geneviève Workshop on NMR of Biological Solids

IBPC, 13 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75005 Paris, France
Friday, September 16, 2011

http://www.ibpc.fr/biosolids/

PROGRAM

8:30 - 9:00 Welcome and morning coffee  
     
9:00 - 9:10

Ruth Stark, RCN,
New-York, USA

Presentation of the RCN network



9:10 - 10:30 Session 1
(chair: Dror Warschawski)
Membranes
9:10 - 9:50
James H. Davis, University of Guelph, ON, Canada Ternary DOPC:DPPC:cholesterol mixtures by solid-state NMR
9:50 - 10:30
Eve-Isabelle Pécheur, IBCP, Lyon, France Characterization of the early steps of HCV entry into hepatocytes and effects of antivirals: confocal microscopy approaches
     
10:30 - 10:50 Coffee Break  
     
10:50 - 12:50 Session 2
(chair: Luminita Duma)
Membrane proteins
     
10:50 - 11:30 Mei Hong, Iowa State University, IA, USA
Influenza M2 proton channel structure and dynamics
11:30 - 12:10 Clemens Glaubitz, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany Time-resolved solid-state NMR to follow enzyme kinetics
12:10 - 12:50
Olivier Lambert, CBMN, Bordeaux, France
Structure of a bacterial drug efflux pump by cryo-electron microscopy
     
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch  
     
14:00 - 15:20 Session 3
(chair: Christina Sizun)
Protein fibrils
     
14:00 - 14:40

Human Rezaei, INRA, Jouy-en-Josas, France

Molecular mechanisms of structural information transference during mammalian prion conversion

14:40 - 15:20

Gemma Comellas, University of Illinois, IL, USA

Structural studies of amyloid fibrils by solid-state NMR: the case of alpha-synuclein fibrils

     
15:20 - 15:40 Coffee Break  
     
15:40 - 17:00 Session 4
(chair: Monique Chan-Huot)
New developments in NMR of biological solids
     
15:40 -  16:20 Philippe Nadaud, Ohio State University, OH, USA Protein fold determined by paramagnetic magic-angle spinning solid-state NMR spectroscopy
16:20 -  17:00 Paul Vasos, Université Paris Descartes, France Dynamic Nuclear Polarisation for NMR: methods and perspectives for biomolecules



17:00 -  17:10 Organising committee 
Concluding remarks

 

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