12:00

Common Lunch in the EAT Restaurant

13:30

Opening

13:40

Section: Modelling I – Chair: Colin Robinson

Gunnar von Heijne (Stockholm)

Prediction of protein subcellular localization

Joel Beaudouin (Heidelberg)

Diffusion-reaction model to characterise nuclear protein mobility visualized by photoactivation

15:10

Section: Microscopy & Imaging I –

Chair: Colin Robinson

Ilan Davis (Edinburgh)

The mechanism of apical mRNA localization and anchoring in the Drosophila blastoderm embryo

15:55

Coffee & Tea Break

16:20

Section: Protein Translocation I – Chair: Colin Stirling

David Evans (Oxford)

Dynamics of the nuclear envelope and associated endomembranes in the plant cell cycle

Stephen High (Manchester)

Making membrane proteins at the endoplasmic reticulum

17:50

Wine & Snacks in the Common Room

9:00

Modelling II – Chair: Ilan Davis

Matthias Weiss (Heidelberg)

Focus on the secretory pathway - from microscopy to models

Reinhart Heinrich (Berlin)

Modelling vesicular transport

10:30

Coffee & Tea Break - Poster

11:00 

Mixed Section – Chair: Ian Collinson

Ohad Medalia (München)

Three-dimensional insight into cells and organelles by cryo- electron tomography

Martine Ben-Amar (Paris)

Budding and fission of a multiphase vesicle

Torsten Fischer (Heidelberg)

The nuclear pore complex as a permeability barrier, kinetic study and mathematical modelling

12:25

Lunch Break

14:00

Section: Protein Translocation II –

Chair: Bert van den Berg

Steven Theg (UC Davis)

The energetics of protein transport across the chloroplast thylakoid membrane

Ian Collinson (Bristol)

Studies on membrane protein integration

15:30

Coffee & Tea Break - Poster

16:30

Mixed Section – Chair: Rainer Pepperkok

Blanche Schwappach (Heidelberg)

Are all 14-3-3 proteins created equal?

Cornelia Wilson (Manchester)

Elucidating the roles of ribophorin I and STT3A/B in N-glycosylation

Alison Baker (Leeds)

The peroxisomal membrane proteins PEX10 and PEX2 are not trafficked to peroxisomes via the ER in plant cells

Ben Abell (Manchester)

Posttranslational targeting of tail-anchored proteins to the ER

20:00

Conference Dinner 

9:00

Section: Protein Translocation III – Chair: Stephen High

Bert van den Berg (WorcesterMA)

X-ray structure of the SecY protein translocation channel

Colin Stirling (Manchester)

The role of Sec63p in protein translocation in the yeast ER

10:30

Coffee & Tea Break 

11:00

Modelling III – Chair: Stephen High

Markus Kirkilionis (Warwick)

Numerical approaches for simulating protein distributions

11:45

Conference discussion: “Do quantitative approaches help to understand protein translocation?”

12:30

Lunch break

14:00

Section Microscopy & Imaging II – Chair: Steven Theg

Rainer Pepperkok (Heidelberg)

Coupling ER exit to microtubules

14:45

Section: Protein Translocation IV – Chair: Steven Theg

Colin Robinson (Warwick)

15:30

Closing of the conference

Eve.

Conference event for those staying overnight