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Speakers:
(in alphabetical
order)
| Tim Clausen |
Group Leader, Research Institute of Molecular
Pathology (IMP),
Vienna, Austria.
Recognition of misfolded protein by DegP and discrimination between
proteins that can be refolded or have to be degraded |
Barry Dickson
|
Group
Leader,
Research Institute of Molecular
Pathology (IMP),
Vienna, Austria; EMBO Young Investigator.
Molecular recognition during brain development:
mechanisms of axon guidance. |
|
Catherine Dulac |
Professor,
Department of
Molecular and Cellular Biology,
Harvard University, USA.
Molecular and Developmental Biology of Sensory
Systems |
Jules A. Hoffmann
|
Head,
Institut
de Biologie Moléculaire
et Cellulaire, CNRS, Université
Louis Pasteur,
Strasbourg,
France
Innate Immunity
in Drosophila melanogaster. |
Christoph von der Malsburg
|
Head,
Institute of Neuroinformatics, Ruhr-Universität
Bochum, Germany;
LCBV, University of Southern California, USA.
Computer Vision and
facial recognition: Development of high-performance face-recognition computational
systems for scientific and security applications. |
Polly
Matzinger
|
Section
Head, National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH,
Bethesda,
USA.
“The Danger Model”: Recognition
of harmful agents by the immune system. |
June
Nasrallah
|
Professor,
Department of Plant Biology, Cornell University,
USA.
Recognition
of pollen: self-incompatibility in plants. |
Michael Neuberger
|
Group Leader,
Laboratory of
Molecular Biology, MRC-LMB,
Cambridge,
UK.
Evolution of molecular
recognition in the immune system: Molecular mechanism of antibody production. |
Pamela S. Ohashi
|
Professor,
Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto,
Canada.
Recognition of
self vs. non-self: molecular mechanism of T-cell selection and immunological
tolerance. |
John O'Keefe
|
Professor,
Institute of Cognitive
Neuroscience and Department of Anatomy,
University
College London,
UK.
Spatial
memory, navigation and the role of hippocampal
neurons in humans and rats. |
Venki Ramakrishnan
|
Goup Leader,
Laboratory of
Molecular Biology, MRC-LMB,
Cambridge, UK.
Molecular
recognition of tRNA and mRNA by the small ribosomal subunit. |
Titia
K. Sixma
|
Group
Leader, The Netherlands Cancer Institute,
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
DNA repair: Recognition
and binding of DNA mismatches by MutS. |
Joan E. Strassmann
|
Professor,
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,
Rice
University,
Houston,
USA.
Kin selection: odor recognition
in interactions between social insects, and cell adhesion "green beard" proteins
in interactions between unicellular colonial organisms. |
Willie J. Swanson
|
Assistant
Professor, Department of Genome
Sciences,
University of Washington,
USA.
Co-evolution of proteins
involved in egg-sperm recognition. |
Paul Williams
|
Director,
Institute of Infections & Immunity, Queen’s Medical
Center, University of Nottingham
,
UK.
Cell density recognition:
Quorum sensing in bacteria. |
Shoshana Wodak
|
Head
SCMBB and
Associate
Professor,
Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium,
and Group Leader, EBI, Great Britain.
Protein-ligand
interactions and modeling of binding surfaces. |
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