Quality Control – From Molecules to Organelles
B. Bukau, J. Diffley, M. Hentze
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Wednesday 19 September - Saturday 22 September 2012

Preliminary Programme
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15:00 - 17:00 |
Arrival & Registration |
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17:00 - 17:30 |
Welcome and Opening Remarks |
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17:30 - 20:00 |
Keynote Lectures Elisa Izaurralde, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany - "Quality Control of Eukaryotic mRNA" Stefan Jentsch, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany - "DNA Double-Strand Break Repair: Mechanisms and Regulation" Jonathan Weissman, University of California, USA - "Quality Control in the Endoplasmic Reticulum" |
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20:00 - 23:00 |
Dinner, followed by drinks in the ATC Roof Top Lounge until 23:00 |
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09:00 - 12:00 |
Session 1: Quality control of genomic information Tony Carr, CanceGenome Damage and Stability Centre, University of Sussex, United Kingdom - "Error Prone Replication Restart Following Fork Collapse" Andrea Musacchio, Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Germany - "Homeostatic Control of Cell Division" Angelika B. Amon, Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, HHMI, MIT, USA - "Effects of Aneuploidy on Protein Homeostasis" Thomas Sommer, MDC Berlin, Germany - "Preliminary title to be announced" Don W. Cleveland, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, USA -"Guarding the genome, the mitotic checkpoint, aneuploidy and tumorigenesis " Short talks will be selected from abstracts |
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12:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 - 18:00 |
Session 2: Quality control of transcription and RNA Andrés Aguilera, Andalusian Molecular Biology and Regenerative Medicine Centre, Spain - "Transcription-dependent and -independent Mechanisms of Recombination-mediated Genome Instability" Elena Conti, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany - "The nonsense-mediated mRNA decay quality control pathway" Patrick Cramer, University of Munich, Germany - "Mechanisms of mRNA Transcription Fidelity and Proofreading" Andreas Kulozik, University of Heidelberg, Germany - "Stress Induced Regulation of 3' end mRNA Processing" Jesper Svejstrup, Cancer Research UK, United Kingdom - "Quality Control During Transcription" Short talks will be selected from abstracts |
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18:00 - 20:00 |
Poster Session 1 |
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20:00 - 23:00 |
Dinner, followed by drinks in the ATC Roof Top Lounge until 23:00 |
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09:00 - 12:00 |
Session 3: Quality control of RNA and protein biogenesis Paul Anderson, Harvard University, USA - "How tRNA Inhibits Protein Synthesis During Stress" Rachel Green, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, USA - "Preliminary title to be announced" Cecília M. Arraiano, ITQB-Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal - "Preliminary title to be announced" Anne Bertolotti, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, United Kingdom - "Protein misfolding stress and translational control" Short talks will be selected from abstracts |
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12:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch |
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14:00 - 18:00 |
Session 4: Quality control of Proteins Judith Frydman, Stanford University, USA - "Protein folding and Quality Control in the Eukaryotic Cytosol" Ulrich Hartl, Max-Planck-Institut of Biochemistry, Germany - "Chaperone Mechanisms in Protein Folding and Proteostasis" Rick Morimoto, Northwestern University, USA - "Protein Homeostasis - Regulating the Stability of the Protein in Aging and Disease" Kaz Nagata, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan - "ER Homeostasis" Lea Sistonen, Åbo Akademi University, Finland - "Stress-Inducible Post-Translational Modifications Regulating the Activity and Expression of Heat Shock Factors" Short talks will be selected from abstracts |
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18:00 - 20:00 |
Poster Session 2 |
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20:00 - 00:00 |
Gala Dinner |
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09:00 - 11:00 |
Session 5: Quality control of organelles and organisms Andy Dillin, Salk Institute, USA - "Programming Proteostasis from a Distance; Metazoan Control of Protein Quality Control" Jennifer Lippincott-Schwartz, NICHD, USA - "Preliminary title to be announced" Short talks will be selected from abstracts |
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11:00 - 13:00 |
Session 5: Degradation pathways & Ubiquitin Ivan Dikic, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany - "Ubiquitin Signaling in Quality Control" Michael Rape, University of California, USA - "Novel Roles for Ubiquitin in Controlling Cell Division" Short talks will be selected from abstracts |
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13:00 - 13:30 |
Closing remarks and lunch |
