Evolution of Biomolecular Structure

A Symposium on current topics at the interface of molecular and computational biology and bioinformatics

Vienna, 25-27 May 2006

 

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Symposium Schedule

 

Wednesday, 24 May


16.00  Registration and merger

Thursday, 25 May


08.30  Registration  
 
09.00  Welcome


Session A (Thursday morning)


09.15  Invited lecture I01:
Josef Penninger (IMBA Vienna, Austria)
Evolutionary conservation of gene functions – animal models for human disease
 
10.05  Invited lecture I02:
Rudolf Rigler (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
The fluctuating enzyme
 
10.55  Coffee break
 
11.25  Invited lecture I03:
Robert Giegerich (Universität Bielefeld, Germany)
The magic of abstract shape analysis


 
12.15  Lunch break

Session B (Thursday afternoon)


14.00   Invited lecture I04:
Manfred Eigen (Max-Planck Institut für Biophysikalische Chemie, Göttingen, Germany)
It from bit or bit from it?
 
14.50  Invited lecture I05:
Klaus Schulten (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
What is Life? An Answer Sought from Photosynthetic Bacteria


 
15.40  Coffee break
 

16.10  Keynote Lecture K01
Klaus Scherrer (Institut Jacques Monod, CNRS Paris, France)
Primary transcripts serve as the scaffold of the RNA-dependent nuclear matrix


16.45  Contributed papers C01-C03: Burbano, Bauer, Steigele
17.45  Evening break


Session C (Thursday evening)


19.30  Posters

Friday, 26 May


Session D (Friday morning)


09.00   Invited lecture I06:
Martin Vingron
(Max-Planck Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Berlin, Germany)
Family specific rates of protein evolution
 
09.50   Invited lecture I07:
Andreas Schwienhorst (Universität Göttingen, Germany)
Selective perturbation of protein function - from biochemical tools to drug candidates
 
10.40  Coffee break
 
11.10  Contributed papers C04-C06: Gesell, Marashi, Schwarzinger
 
12.15  Lunch break

Session E (Friday afternoon)


14.00  Invited lecture I08:
Renée Schroeder (Max F. Perutz Laboratories, Vienna, Austria)
Stability of RNA loop-loop kissing complexes
 
14.35  Keynote Lecture K02:
Gunter Wagner (Yale University, New Haven, USA)
Evolution of hox protein function


15.25  Contributed papers C07-C08: Larionov, Lisewski


16.05  Coffee break and end of Session


Peter Schuster birthday session (Friday evening)


17.00  Academic ceremony  Senatssaal, University of Vienna


19.30  Heurigen birthday party  Das Schreiberhaus, Neustift am Wald, 1190 Wien


Saturday, 27 May


Session F (Saturday morning)


09.00  Invited lecture I09:
Eric Westhof (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France)
The evolution of RNA self-assembly motifs
 
09.50   Invited lecture I10:
Alexander Hüttenhofer (Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Austria)
Transcriptome analysis of small non-coding RNAs in model organisms: RNomics
 
10.40  Coffee break
 
11.10   Invited lecture I11:
Walter Fontana (Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA)
The topology of the possible
 
12.00   Summary and Concluding Remarks:
Peter Schuster (Universität Wien, Austria)

Evolution of Biomolecular Structure 2006 and in the years to come

 
12.30  Farewell

 

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