International Symposium "Membranes and Modules"
December 10 - 13, 2009 Berlin, Germany

The Collaborative Research Centers
SFB 449 “Structure and Function of Membrane-
Integral Receptors”
and SFB 740 "From Molecules to Modules"
are pleased to host the
International Symposium and look forward
to welcoming you in December 2009 in Berlin.

The main objective of the Symposium is to
present a state-of-art view on the
organizational principles behind
complex biological functions.
The underlying concept is the
functional protein module with a special
emphasis on biological membranes.

The Topics of the Symposium are:

• Functional Modules
• Transporters & Channels
• Macromolecular Machines
• Membrane Deformation, Budding & Fusion
• Signaling
• ER-associated Processes
• Biophysical Approaches

The meeting will promote scientific discussions
and will identify key issues to be addressed in
near-future research.

Booklet of the Symposium MaM2009 (PDF)

Confirmed Speakers

Marc Baldus, MPIBPC Göttingen (Germany)
Nenad Ban, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Roland Beckmann, LMP University of Munich (Germany)
Bernd Bukau, ZMBH Heidelberg (Germany)
Pietro De Camilli, Yale University (USA)
Elena Conti, MPI of Biochemistry Martinsried (Germany)
Patrick Cramer, LMP University of Munich (Germany)
Ivan Dikic, Goethe University Frankfurt (Germany)
Raimund Dutzler, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Hermann Gaub, University of Munich (Germany)
Helmut Grubmüller, MPIBPC Göttingen (Germany)
Matthias Hentze, EMBL Heidelberg (Germany)
Nobutaka Hirokawa, University of Tokyo (Japan)
Barry Honig, Columbia University (USA)
Klaus Peter Hofmann, IMPB Charité Berlin (Germany)
Jonathon Howard, MPI Dresden (Germany)
Wayne Hubbell, UCLA Los Angeles (USA)
Reinhard Jahn, MPIBPC Göttingen (Germany)
Thomas Jentsch, MDC Berlin (Germany)
U. Benjamin Kaupp, CAESAR Bonn (Germany)
Tom Kirchhausen, Harvard Medical School Boston (USA)
Edda Klipp, MPI MOLGEN Berlin (Germany)
Brian Kobilka, Stanford University (USA)
Werner Kühlbrand, MPIBP Frankfurt (Germany)
Kaspar Locher, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)
Reinhard Lührmann, MPIBPC Göttingen (Germany)
Harvey T. McMahon, MRC LMB Cambridge (UK)
Poul Nissen, University of Aarhus (Denmark)
Hartmut Oschkinat, FMP Berlin (Germany)
Britta Qualmann, University of Jena (Germany)
Venki Ramakrishnan, MRC LMB Cambridge (UK)
Marina V. Rodnina, MPIBPC Göttingen (Germany)
Wolfram Saenger, FU Berlin (Germany)
Helen Saibil, BBK University of London (UK)
Benjamin Schuler, University of Zurich (Switzerland)
Thomas Schmidt, Leiden University (The Netherlands)
Thomas U. Schwartz, MIT Cambridge (USA)
Irmgard Sinning, BZH University of Heidelberg (Germany)
Horst Vogel, EPFL-ISIC-LCPPM (Switzerland)
Felix Wieland, BZH University of Heidelberg (Germany)
Alfred Wittinghofer, MPI Dortmund (Germany)
Shigeyuki Yokoyama, University of Tokyo (Japan)