1. Retreat

The student/post-doc organized SFB 740 Barbecue and Methods Poster Session will take place this Friday (4. September 2009) starting at 14:00.

Location: Invalidenstraße 42, Mittelbau & Hof.  In the case of nice weather, the posters will be presented outside in the courtyard.  In the case of rain and cold, posters will be presented in a seminar room in the Biophysik building (please see attached map).

Poster Presentations: Posters will be presented in two groups.  If you want to see a poster which is in your same group, don't worry - there will be plenty of time to talk to everyone!

Group 1 (14:00 - 14:55)
1)  Fluorescence Microscopy - Bastian Thaa & Susann Kummer
2)  Crystallography / protein modeling - Patrick Scheerer
3)  Protein spin-labeling, EPR and ELDOR techniques - Anne Botev & Ringo Wenzel
4)  Circadian Bioluminescence Recordings - Rupert Öllinger & Thomas Wallach
5)  RNAi-Mediated Gene Silencing using Lentiviral Transduction - Rupert Öllinger & Thomas Wallach
6)  Protein-protein interactions, high-through put analysis - Anup Arumughan
7)  Cryo-Electron Microscopy - AG Spahn

Group 2 (15:00 - 15:55)
8)  In vitro fluorescence methods to monitor protein interactions - Martha Sommer & Julia Walter
9)  Protein Crystallography - Chengcheng Wang, Claudia Haas & Harald Striegl
10)  Multi-angle light scattering measurement of nanodiscs - Takefumi Morizumi
11)  Chromatographic methods - Dr. Kwan Yu Chan-Schaminet
12)  Electron microscopy - Bilal Qureshi
13)  Jan Geißendörfer and Wienke Lange

Barbecue (16:00 - ???)
We will have lots of food (including vegetarian options) and drinks (beer, wine, juice, water, coffee).
Posters can remain on display, so there is plenty of time for discussion.

cheers,

the SFB740 Organizational Committee

Anne Botev
Marianne Collier
Susann Kummer
Ronny Piechnick
Martha Sommer
Thomas Wallach