Guest Lectures and Seminars 2011/2012

April 26, 2012 - Guest lecture
Tao Ban (University of Chicago, USA)
"Mistranslation as a potential, new mechanism of stress response"
Host: Prof. Zoya Ignatova, TP A5
Location: UP, Campus Golm, Institut für Biochemie und Biologie, Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 24-25.
14476 Potsdam, R. 0.01, Haus 12
15 h

April 17, 2012 - 8th Monthly Seminar
Martin Heck - Subproject D1
"The complex role of arrestin in the regeneration module of vision"
Achim Kramer - Subprojects D2
"Modules in the Mammalian Circadian clocks"
Location: Charité, IMPB, Seminarraum, Ziegelstraße 5-9, 10117 Berlin
17h

March 22, 2012 - Guest lecture
Brian Kobilka (Stanford University, CA)
"Structural insights into the dynamic process of G protein coupled receptor activation"
Host: Prof. K.-P. Hofmann, TP D1
Location: HUB, Institut für Biologie, Chausseestr. 117, R. 523, 10117 Berlin
16 h c.t.

March 20, 2012 - 7th Monthly Seminar
Thomas Jentsch - Subproject C5
"News on vesicular ion homeostasis"
Volker Haucke - Subproject C8
"PI4 kinase modules in endosomal membrane traffic: From PIPs to Wnts"
Location: Charité, IMPB, Seminarraum, Ziegelstraße 5-9, 10117 Berlin
17h

February 21, 2012 - 6th Monthly Seminar
Michael Veit - Subproject C3
"Does the amphiphilic helix of M2 mediate scission of influenza virus particles from infected cells?
Experiments at the molecular, submolecular and modular level"
Oliver Daumke - Subproject D7
"Structure and function of dynamin superfamily proteins"
Location: Charité, IMPB, Seminarraum, Ziegelstraße 5-9, 10117 Berlin
17h

January 17, 2012 - 5th Monthly Seminar
Bart van Rossum - Subproject B7
"Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Studies of the Ribosome Nascent Chain"
Udo Heinemann- Subproject C1
"Structural Aspects of Intracellular Protein Trafficking"
Location: Charité, IMPB, Seminarraum, Ziegelstraße 5-9, 10117 Berlin
17h

January 12, 2012
Massimo Olivucci (Università die Siena, Italy)
"Using Trajectories to Investigate the Mechanism of the Ultrafast Photoisomerization of bovine Rhodopsin"
Host: Prof. K.-P. Hofmann, TP D1
Location: IMPB, Seminarraum, Ziegelstraße 5-9, 10117 Berlin

December 9, 2011
Hans Nauwynck (Ghent University)
"Cell entry of porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus (PRRSV)"
Host: Dr. M. Veit, TP C1/C3
Location: Immunology and Molecular Biology, Philippstraße 13, 10115 Berlin, EG, Seminarraum
13:30h

December 8, 2011
 Christiane Schaffitzel (EMBL Grenoble)
"Protein Targeting and Translocation by Cryo-EM""
Host: Prof. M. Wahl TP A4
Location: FU Berlin, Takustraße 6, 14195 Berlin, Seminarraum 003/EG
17h

November 17, 2011
Imre Berger, PhD (EMBL Grenoble)
"Towards Eukaryotic Structural Complexomics"
Host: Prof. M. Wahl, TP A4
Location: FU Berlin, Takustraße 6, 14195 Berlin, Seminarraum 003/EG
17h

November 15, 2011 - 4th Monthly Seminar
Thomas Sommer - Subproject B5
"Recognition of misfolded Proteins by the HRD ubiquitin ligase"
Peter Hildebrand - Subproject B6
Location: Charité, IMPB, Seminarraum, Ziegelstraße 5-9, 10117 Berlin
17h

November 8, 2011
Elmar Bergmann (MPI of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund)
"A New View of an Old Engine - The Actin/Myosin Motor Elucidated by Cryo-Electron Microscopy"
Host: Prof. C. Spahn, TP A3/Z1
Location: Charité, IMPB, Seminarraum, Ziegelstraße 5-9, 10117 Berlin
15h

September 26, 2011
Ralf Jauch (Genome Institute of Singapore)
"Genome regulation by Sox, Pax and Pou"
Host: Prof. M. Wahl, TP A4
Location: FU Berlin, Takustraße 6, 14195 Berlin, Seminarraum 3. OG/R. 330
11h

September 23, 2011
Ron O. Dror (D.E. Shaw Research, New York, USA)
"How drugs bind and control their targets: characterizing GPCR signaling through long-timescale simulation"
Host: P. Hildebrand, TP B6
Location: Charité, IMPB, Seminarraum, Ziegelstraße 5-9, 10117 Berlin
15:30h

September 20, 2011 - 3rd Monthly Seminar
Erich Wanker - Subproject B1
"ASPL meets the molecular chaperone VCP"
Elke Krüger - Subproject B3
"Regulation of degradation capacities of the proteasome in response to changing proteolytic requirements"
Location: Charité, IMPB, Seminarraum, Ziegelstraße 5-9, 10117 Berlin
17h

 

September 19, 2001
Prof. Evelyn Sattlegger (Massay University Aucjkland - New Zealand)
"Newest results on Gcn1-ribosome interaction"
Host: Prof. C.M.T. Spahn, TP A3
Location: Charité, IMPB, Seminarraum, Ziegelstraße 5-9, 10117 Berlin
14h

September 19, 2011
Prof. Scott Blanchard (Cornell University, New York)
"Single molecole FRET studies of ribosomal complexes"
Dr. Karissa Sanbonmatsu (Los Alamos, USA)
"Integrating simulation and experiment to characterize tRNA movement through the ribosome"
Host: Prof. C.M.T. Spahn - TP A3
Location: Charité, IMPB, Seminarraum, Ziegelstraße 5-9, 10117 Berlin
10h

August 25, 2011
Prof. Lukas K. Tamm (University of Virginia)
"Reconstitution of neuronal exocytosis. New insights from NMR and single molecule fluorescence"
Host: Prof. A. Herrmann, TP C3
Location: HU Berlin, Institut für Biologie/Biophysik, Invalidenstraße 42, R. 312, 10115 Berlin
10h

July 5, 2011
Prof. Horst Vogel (EPFL Lausanne)
"Imaging and manipulating cellular biochemical networks:
From single cells to single molecules"
Host: Prof. K.-P. Hofmann, TP D1
Location: Charité, IMPB, Ziegelstraße 5-9, Seminarraum
17h

June 21, 2011 2nd Monthly seminar
Markus Wahl - Subproject A4
"Molecular Mechanism for the Function of Aar2p as an Assembly
Chaperone for U5 snRNP"
Erich Wanker - Subproject B1
"ASPL meets the moleculare chaperone VCP" - cancelled! -
Location: Charité, IMPB, Ziegelstraße 5-9, Seminarraum
17h

May 17, 2011 - 1st Monthly seminar
Christian Spahn - Subproject A3
"Visualizing conformational modes of ribosomal complexes by multi-
particle cryo-EM"
Zoya Ignatova - Subprojekt A4
"Quantitative analysis of translation using ribosome profiling"
Charité, IMPB, Ziegelstraße 5-9, Seminarraum
17h

April 26, 2011
Dr. Mathias Gerl (MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden)
"Viruses select Lipids: Lipidomic analysis of influenza virus particles"
And the apical membrane of epithelial host cell”
Host: PD Dr. Michael Veit, TP  C3
Location: Immunology and Molecular Biology, Philippstraße 13, 10115 Berlin
13h

February 2, 2011
Gerrit Praefcke (Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne)
"Lipid modification in the dynamin-like GBP1"
Aurélien Roux (University of Geneva)
"How membrane curvature regulates dynamin-mediated fission"
Host: Prof. Oliver Daumke, TP C7
MDH, Flachbau SR 0211, Robert-Rössle-Straße 10, 13092 Berlin
11 h

February 18, 2011   
Prof. MarK S.P. Sansom (University of Oxford)
"Multiscale Simulations of Membrane Proteins and their Interactions"
Host: Dr. Peter Hildebrand, TP B6
Location: HU Berlin, Institut für Biologie, Ivalidenstraße 42, R 312, 10115 Berlin
15h