Biological Structures Group

Winter Meeting

Structural Biology of Pathogens

18 December 2006

University of Birmingham

Organisation: Dr. Klaus Fütterer (k.futterer@bham.ac.uk). 

Venue: School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK. 

Meeting programme

9.30    Registration and Coffee
 
10.30  Session 1: Viruses
 
Keynote Speaker: David Stuart (Oxford) Virus identity crisis: can crystallography help?
 
Rolf Hilgenfeld (Lübeck) “Structural proteomics of coronaviruses and drug design”

Stephen Fuller (Oxford) “Cryo-electron microscopy of HIV” 
 
12.15  AGM of Biological Structures Group
 
12.45  Lunch, Poster Session and Exhibition
 
14.00  Session 2: Parasites and Bacteria 
 
Bill Hunter (Dundee) “Picking pockets to feed drug discovery
 
Del Besra (Birmingham) “Dissecting cell wall synthesis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis”
 
Kate Brown (Imperial) “Structure-function studies of catalase-peroxidase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis”

15.30  Coffee Break, Exhibition and Posters
 
16.00  Session 3: Bacterial Secretion Systems
 
 Susan Lea (Oxford) “Needles and their tips - structural stories from the top of a type three secretion system”
 
Gabriel Waksman (Birkbeck) “Structural Biology of Pilus Biogenesis and Bacterial Attachment”                            
 
Rebecca Conners (Bristol) “Recognition of human epithelial cells by Moraxella pathogens”

Thomas Wollert (Braunschweig) “Structure-based pathogen design – extending the host specificity of Listeria monocytogenes. 

17.30  Close