4th EMBL International PhD Students Symposium:

A life of Encounters
Recognition in Biology

Heidelberg, November 20th to 22nd, 2003

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Programme

Thursday, 20th of November

Morning:  09:00 - 13:30: Registration of participants and poster set up 12:30: Lunch 13:30: Opening remarks by Frank Gannon, Executive Director EMBO. 13:40: Opening remarks by Matthias Hentze, Dean of Graduate Studies, EMBL. 13:50: Conference details by Christiane Jost, PhD Symposium Committee.

Afternoon: Session I: Molecular and Biochemical Recognition 14:00: Venki Ramakrishnan (MRC-LMB, UK). The EMBO Lecture: “Decoding the Genetic Message: How the Ribosome Recognizes the Correct tRNA.” 15:00: Titia K. Sixma (The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands) “DNA Mismatch Repair Protein MutS, an Asymmetric ATPase.” 16:00: Coffee break 16:30: Tim Clausen (IMP Vienna, Austria), EMBO Young Investigator. “Crystal Structure of DegP (HtrA) Reveals a New Protease-Chaperone Machine”. 17:30: Shoshana J. Wodak (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)                          "Automatic Design of Peptides that Inhibit Protein-Protein Interactions" 18:30: Dinner 19:30: Poster session with wine and refreshments

Friday, 21st of November

Morning: Session II: Cell-to-Cell Recoginition 08:30: Barry Dickson (IMP Vienna, Austria), The EMBO Young Investigator           .            Lecture: “Axon Pathfinding in the Drosophila Central Nervous System.” 09:30: Paul Williams (University of Nottingham, UK) “Chemical Communication and Collective Behaviour in the Bacterial World.” 10:30: coffee break 10:45: Willie J. Swanson (University of Washington, USA) “Species-Specific Sperm-egg Recognition: Functional Inferences from Rapidly Evolving Reproductive Proteins.” 11:45: June Nasrallah (Cornell University, USA) “Recognition and Rejection of Self in Plant Reproduction.” 12:45: Lunch

Afternoon: Session III: Immunity and the Recognition of Self 13:45: Jules Hoffmann (CNRS, Université Louis Pasteur, France) “The Drosophila Host Defense : A Paradigm for Innate Immunity.” 14:45: Michael Neuberger (MRC-LMB, UK) “Antibodies: A Paradigm for the Evolution of Molecular Recognition.” 15:45: coffee break 16:00: Pamela S. Ohashi (University of Toronto, Canada) “Self /Nonself Discrimination: Understanding T lymphocyte Decisions between Self Tolerance and Activation.” 17:00: Polly Matzinger (NIH, USA) "An Innate Sense of Danger" 18:00: coffee break 18:30-20:00: Panel Discussion: title to be annouced.  20:00: Dinner

Saturday, 22nd November

Morning: Session IV: Organismic Recognition and Behaviour 09:00: Joan E. Strassmann (Rice University, USA) “Mechanisms of Kin Recognition: a Green Beard Cell Adhesion Gene in Social Amoebae and Cuticular Hydrocarbon Profiles in Social Wasps.” 10:00: Catherine Dulac (Harvard University, USA) “Molecular Architecture of Pheromone Sensing.” 11:00: coffee break 11:30: John O’Keefe (University College London, UK) "Spatial Memory, Navigation and the Role of Hippocampal Neurons" 12:30: Christoph von der Malsburg (USC, USA and Ruhr-Universität Bochum,             Germany) “Face Recognition: From Molecules to Cognition.” 13:30: Poster award presentation  13:45: Concluding remarks: Nils Metzler-Nolte, Prodekan der Universität              Heidelberg.   14:00: Lunch

Afternoon: Free

Evening: 21:00: End-of-Conference Party

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