Symposium: Light Microscopy meets Structural Biology

EMBL Heidelberg, Germany, 22 - 23 June 2009

Website and registration: http://www-db.embl.de/jss/EmblGroupsOrg/conf_130

Aims

The symposium aims to bring together structural biologists, cell biologists and light microscopy specialists to explore opportunities and requirements for structural biologists in using different light microscopy techniques and to foster interactions at the interface between structural biology and cell biology.

Topics

Planned sessions include:

Imaging protein-protein interactions

Protein dynamics

Correlative light- electron microscopy

Super-resolution techniques

Invited Speakers

Philippe Bastiaens, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany

Pete Carlton, University of California San Francisco, USA

Stephen Cusack, EMBL, Grenoble, France

Jan Ellenberg, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

Benny Geiger, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Travis Gould, University of Maine, USA

Joe Howard, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany

Stefan Jakobs, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany

Judith Klumperman, University Medical Center Utrecht, Netherlands

Michael Knop, EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany

Abraham Koster, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands

Daniel Lietha, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, USA

Jens Michaelis, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München, Germany

Thomas Mueller-Reichert, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany

Andrea Musacchio, European Institute of Oncology, Italy

Siegfried Musser, The Texas A&M Health Science Center, USA

Marcelo Nollmann, INSERM, CNRS, France

Claus Seidel, Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany