British and Swedish Biophysics Societies - Joint Meeting

'Molecular Recognition and Signalling'

University of Bath, UK

19-21 December 1995

Organisers: Professor A R Rees (University of Bath)
Professor J Thornton (University College, London)
Dr L Nilsson (Karolinska Institute, Stockholm)

Final Programme

Tuesday 19 December (half day)

Session 1 Specific and non-specific recognition

2.00 - 2.40 Cyrus Chothia (Cambridge) Protein interfaces/induced fit
2.40 - 3.20 Sherry Mowbray (Uppsala) Protein-protein interactions
3.20 - 4.00 Bengt Norden (Gothenburg) Protein-nucleic acid interactions

4.00 - 4.20 TEA

4.20 - 5.00 Gideon Davies (York) Protein-carbohydrate interactions
5.00 - 5.40 Sheena Radford (Leeds) Folding within chaperonins
5.40 - 6.20 Torleif Härd (Stockholm) Receptor-DNA interactions

7.00 Depart for Roman Baths and Civic Reception

Wednesday December 20

Session 2 Molecular docking and design

9.00 - 9.40 Jus Singh (Biogen) Empirical potentials in design
9.40 - 10.20 Rod Hubbard (York) Probing macromolecular binding sites

10.20 - 10.40 COFFEE

10.40 - 11.20 Mike Sternberg (ICRF) Molecular docking

Session 3 Recognition in the immune system

11.20 - 12.00 Yvonne Jones (Oxford) Interactions in the Ig superfamily
12.00 - 12.40 Barry Fields (CARB) Antibodies and molecular mimicry

12.45 - 2.00 LUNCH and POSTERS and EXHIBITORS

2.00 - 2.40 Graham Bentley (Pasteur) T-cell receptor structure
2.40 - 3.00 Kate Smith (Oxford) MHC Class 1 structure
3.00 - 3.40 Ian Wilson (Scripps) MHC-peptide recognition

3.40 - 4.00 TEA

4.30 - 7.30 POSTER and EXHIBITOR SESSION

(Cocktails from 6.00)

Thursday 21 December

Session 4 Recognition during Signalling

8.00 - 8.40 Andre Musaccio (EMBL) SH3-proline peptide interactions
8.40 - 9.20 Paul Driscoll (UCL) PH and kinase domain interactions
9.20 - 10.00 Ian Campbell (Oxford) SH2 and related domains

10.00 - 10.25 COFFEE

10.25 - 11.05 Phil Jeffrey (Sloan-Kettering) p53 structure
11.05 - 11.45 Steve Burley (New York) Transcription factors
11.45 - 12.15 Laurence Pearl (UCL) Transcription control

12.15 - 1.30 LUNCH

Session 5 Signalling across membranes

1.30 - 2.10 Gunnar von Heijne (Stockholm) Membrane proteins - overview
2.10 - 2.50 John Walker (Cambridge) F1-F0 ATPase
2.50 - 3.30 Mike Parker (Victoria) Colicin/aerolysin complexes

3.30 - 3.50 TEA

3.50 - 4.30 Robert Beroukhim (Cambridge) Acetylocholine receptor
4.30 - 5.10 Horst Vogel (Lausanne) Channels and biosensors
5.10 - 5.40 H Luecke (SSRL) Annexin Structure