1st New Zealand Structural Biology Meeting

The 1st New Zealand Structural Biology Meeting will be held at Duders of Devonport on Auckland's North Shore on 18th-19th March 2006.

Duders is at 34 King Edward Parade, just a short walk from the Devonport Ferry terminal. Details about the venue can be found at www.duders.co.nz and below is a map that should get you from the ferry terminal (Devonport Wharf) to the venue (red arrows).

Registration

The full registration fee for the meeting is $150, which includes lunch on Saturday and Sunday, and the conference dinner on Saturday evening. The registration fee is waived for graduate students. Partners of delegates are welcome to attend the conference dinner; the cost will be $45.

If you have not yet registered, or you would like to book a place for your partner at the dinner, please email Sevda Madatova at smad019@ec.auckland.ac.nz ASAP.

Posters and Abstracts

Posters

Please try to ensure that your poster is no more than 1 m wide if possible.

Abstracts

The final date for submitting poster abstracts has now passed. Sorry, too late!

Timetable

Saturday

8.45 - 9.45 am Registration

9.45 am Opening remarks - Ted Baker

10.00 - 10.50 Guy Dodson "Structure and mechanism in biology or
why aren't we all at the beach?"

11.00 - 11.30 Coffee

11.30 - 12.30 Session One. Chair: Shaun Lott

11.30 - 11.50 Emily Parker "Using structure to decipher mechanism"

11.50 - 12.10 Renwick Dobson "Investigating catalytic and regulatory mechanisms in dihydrodipicolinate synthase"

12.10 - 12.30 Geoff Jameson "Avoiding Auckland-like traffic jams: A water taxi solution for proton transfer from bulk solvent to active site in manganese superoxide dismutases"

12.30 - 2.00 Lunch: Walk to McHugh's (Cheltenham Beach)

2.00 - 3.30 Session Two. Chair: Peter Metcalf

2.00 - 2.20 Shaun Lott "A structural genomics approach to TB"

2.20 - 2.40 Celia Webby "Structural and functional characterisation of DAH7P synthase from M. tuberculosis"

2.40 - 3.00 Peter Mace "A disulfide-rich experience"

3.00 - 3.20 Chris Squire "From wee ones to big ones"

3.20 - 3.50 Coffee

3.50 - 5.20 Session Three. Chair: Gill Norris

3.50 - 4.10 Elaine Chiu "Intracellular protein crystals: crystallographic studies of CPV and baculovirus polyhedrin micro-crystals"

4.10 - 4.30 Peter Metcalf "Recent data collection experiences at SSRL and SLS"
Kurt Krause "New dual wavelength crystallography facility at the University of Otago"

4.30 Introduction - Sue Cutfield

4.35 - 5.25 Eleanor Dodson "Approaches to structure determination - the critical importance of good data"

5.30 - 6.30 Refreshments and Poster Session

7.30 Dinner at Duder's


Sunday

9.30 - 9.35 Opening remarks - Vic Arcus

9.35 - 10.30 Catherine Day "Bcl-2 proteins and apoptosis: A structural perspective"

10.30 - 11.00 Coffee

11.00 - 12.30 Session Four. Chair: Kurt Krause

11.00 - 11.20 Richard Kingston "Organisation and assembly of rous sarcoma virus"

11.20 - 11.40 Matt Templeton "Structural basis for rodlet assembly in fungal hydrophobins"

11.40 - 11.55 Steven Pascal "Mapping an EF-hand protein's potential metastatic surfaces via NMR-based calcium titration and relaxation studies"

11.55 - 12.10 Stephen Headey "Protein-RNA interactions involved in human rhinovirus replication"

12.10 - 12.30 Andrew Sutherland-Smith "Calponin homology domains and human disease: missense mutations as markers for protein function?"

12.30 Closing remarks and discussion

12.45 Lunch and finish

Instructions for speakers

Please bring your presentation as a PowerPoint file on a USB memory stick. We will have have both Mac and PC laptops available. If your presentation requires any extra software (e.g. PyMol) please let us know now.

On the day, Richard Bunker will be tending the laptops and can help you load your presentation.

This is Richard:












Please be nice to him and give him your file well in advance of your presentation.