Protein-Protein complexes: from predictions to experiment

8-9 january 2007, Lecture Hall - Curie Institute, Bat. 110, Orsay - France

Monday, January 8th

Welcome address
9h15 - 10h00 J. Cherfils (Gif-sur-Yvette) and M. Jacquet (Orsay)
Morning session
10h00-10h30 M. Knossow (Gif-sur-Yvette): "The regulation of microtubule assembly: a structural view"
10h30-11h00 S. Wodak (Toronto): "Identifying functional modules in the yeast Interactome"
Coffee break
11h15-11h45 R. Fourme (St Aubin): “Thirty years of macromolecular crystallography with synchrotron radiation: from infancy to maturity”
12h15-12h45 L. Letellier (Orsay): "The new age of phages : where physics meet biology"
Lunch break (buffet)
Afternoon session
14h00-14h30 C. Chothia (Cambridge): “Protein Family Expansions and Biological Complexity”
14h30-15h00 M. Véron (Paris) : “NEMO, a crucial protein regulating the IKK complex of the NF-kB pathway”
15h00-15h30 B. Seraphin (Gif sur Yvette): Structural and functional analysis of protein complexes"
Coffee break
16h00-16h30 F. Rey (Paris) : "Protein-protein and protein-lipid interactions of viral envelope proteins to induce membrane fusion"
16h30-17h00 S. Morera (Gif-sur-Yvette) : “NDP kinase”

Tuesday, January 9th

9h30-10h00 G. Schreiber (Rehovot): “Protein-protein association in aquas and crowded environments”
10h00-10h30 A. Pluckthün (Zürich): “Combinatorial and evolutionary protein engineering”
10h30-11h00 A. Ducruix (Paris): "Assembly of efflux pumps“
Coffee break
11h15-11h45 H. van Tilbeurgh (Orsay): “The yeast structural genomics program: past and future”
11h45-12h30 J. Janin (Orsay): “A propensity to interact”
Lunch break (buffet)

Registration is free but has to be requested by sending an e-mail to Catherine Drouet : catherine.drouet@igmors.u-psud.fr (confirming your lunch)

Organizing committee

Herman van Tilbeurgh IBBMC Université de Paris Sud Bat 430 91405 Orsay Herman.Van-Tilbeurgh@ibbmc.u-psud.fr Tel. : 33-1-69 15 31 55 Jacqueline Cherfils LEBS CNRS Bat 34 91190 Gif sur Yvette jacqueline.cherfils@lebs.cnrs-gif.fr Jean Pierre Rousset IGM Université de Paris Sud Bat 400 91405 Orsay jean-pierre.rousset@igmors.u-psud.fr