Interacting with Proteins : A structural view
NVK Structural Biology Symposium 2019
The VU Amsterdam and the Dutch Crystallographic Society (NVK) will host a 1-day Structural Biology Symposium. During this one day symposium new results and key questions and issues in structural biology and imaging will be addressed, in particular:
- High-resolution 3D structures of macromolecules and macromolecular complexes using X-ray diffraction, Cryo-EM and Electron microdiffraction
- Protein-Protein and Protein-Nucleic acid interactions
- Drug design
- Diffuse Scattering
Speakers:
Our keynote speaker will be Meindert Lamers (PhD from NKI, former group leader @ MRC Cambridge, now Associate Professor at the LUMC), who will be speaking about : “Structural features of high-fidelity DNA replication. “
Moreover we will have the following speakers:
- Loes Kroon-Batenburg (Universiteit Utrecht): Rigid body motion is the main source of diffuse scattering in protein crystallography
- Albert Guskov (Universiteit Groningen): Towards time-resolved crystallography on glutamate transporters
- Shebab Ismail (The Beatson Institute for Cancer Research): The role of Arl proteins in counteracting entropy
- Joost Uitdehaag (Netherlands Translational Research Center (NTRC)
Inhibitor complexes of Arginase-1, a target for cancer immunotherapy - Max Clabbers (Stockholms universitet): Macromolecular structure determination by micro-crystal electron diffraction
- Kenneth Verstraete (VU Gent): Structural basis for cytosolic acetyl-CoA production by ATP citrate lyase
- Antonella Fioravanti (VU Brussel): Discovering and targeting Bacillus anthracis’ Achilles heel: the new way to fight anthrax
For a detailed list of speakers and abstracts, click here.
Conference location:
The meeting will be held in the O|2 Labbuilding of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, de Boelelaan 1108, 1081 HZ Amsterdam, which is a 15 minute walk from the train station Amsterdam-Zuid (see map below).
Registration:
Registration is possible using a registration form, that can also be used to submit an abstract for a poster (and possibly be elected for one of the talks to be anounced). Members of the NVK get a € 10,– discount on the registration fee. The deadline for registration will be on May 16th. You can register by going to this page.