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