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