Preliminary Program

TENTATIVE PROGRAM (Subject to change)

27/2 (Thursday):         Arrival

            20:00   Opening lecture (45 min + 15min discussion): Sharon Terry

                        A Patient Perspective: ABC Transporters and Therapeutics

Lectures: 35 min plus 10 min discussion

28/2:   8:30     Cristina Paulino

Bacterial resilience: multi-level hierarchical regulation of the osmolyte importer OpuA

            9:15     Atsushi Kodan

Direct visualization of ABCA1-mediated nascent HDL generation by high-speed AFM

            10:00   Coffee break

            10:30   Jochen Zimmer

                        Diverse mechanisms of glycolipid translocation by ABC transporters

            11:15   Michael Gottesman
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            12:00   Lunch

                        Evening for poster bullets and poster viewing

1/3:     8:30     Maofu Liao
                        Structural basis of specific and nonspecific ABC transporters

9:15     Emad Tajkhorshid
            Impact of lipids and genetic modulations on the transport cycle and drug interaction of ABC

            transporters

            10:00   Coffee break

            10:30   Maria Zoghbi
            Studying the molecular mechanisms of ABC transporters under physiologically relevant
                  conditions

11:15   Katarina Mikusova
Mycobacterial galactan exporter Wzm-Wzt – from discovery to structural insights
                                   

            12:00   Lunch

Evening Keynote lecture (45 min + 15min discussion):

Laszlo Csanady

2/3:     8:30     Markus Seeger
                        Mycobacterial ABC transporter IrtAB imports iron-loaded siderophores via a non-canonical transport route

            9:15     Hasane Mchaourab
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            10:00   Coffee break

10:30   Thomas Tomasiak
Phosphoregulation of an ABC transporter through transient states of an intrinsically disordered

                  region

            11:15   Zoya Ignatova
                        CFTR – the most strange ABC pore

            12:00   Lunch

            Evening lecture (35+10): Marc Liesa

The role of ABCB10 controlling mitochondrial redox in health and disease

            Poster viewing

3/3:     8:30     Peng Zhang
                        Structure and mechanism of Plant hormone ABC transporters

            9:15     Rachelle Gaudet
                        Structural analyses of a peptidase-ABC transporter that activates specialized bacterial metabolites

            10:00   Coffee break

            10:30   Ute Hellmich
                        Allosteric interdomain in ABC multidrug transporters

            11:15   Christian Frankhauser
                        A member of the ABCG family is required for intercellular air channel maintenance and directional
                        light sensing in plants

            12:00   Lunch

            End afternoon Perspective lecture (45 min + 15min discussion): Karl Kuchler

tba
Dinner and farewell