Thursday 9 July 2020
16:00 Registration opens
17:00 Welcome
17:15 Ingo Greger, MRC-LMB Cambridge, UK. "Structure and functional dynamics of AMPA receptor complexes"
17:45 Radu Aricescu, MRC-LMB Cambridge, UK. "The structural biology of synaptic connectivity"
18:15 Rebecca Howard, Stockholm University, Sweden. "Bridging structure, function, and dynamics of allosteric modulation in pentameric ligand-gated ion channels"
18:45 break
19:30 dinner
21:00 poster session and whisky tasting
Friday 10 July 2020
9:00 Poul Nissen, Aarhus University, Denmark. "Membrane transport proteins in Brain"
9:30 Rob Meijers, EMBL Hamburg, Germany. "Signaling mechanisms across the cell membrane using integrated structural biology techniques"
10:00 Elena Seiradake, University of Oxford, UK." Receptor complexes in cortical migration"
10:30 coffee
11:00 Andrew McCarthy, EMBL Grenoble, France. " Structural and functional biology of Slit and its receptors"
11:30 Bert Janssen, University of Utrecht, Netherlands. "Protein signaling systems that initiate and transduce signals between cells in the central nervous system"
12:00 Alexandra Pacureanu, ESRF Grenoble, France. "X-ray tomography of neurons"
12:30 lunch
14:00 Yvonne Jones, University of Oxford, UK. "Structural Biology of neuronal cell Surface Receptors"
14:30 Neil McDonald, Francis Crick Institute London, UK. "Structures of components controlling the survival, shape and organisation of nerve cells"
15:00 Annalisa Pastore, Kings College London, UK. "Structure and function of proteins linked to neurodegenerative diseases"
15:30 Ruben Fernandez-Busnadiego, MPI of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany. "Toxic protein aggregation in neurons"
16:00 Conclusion of meeting
