Registration for UNIK Synthetic Biology Third Workshop at Sørup Herregård (www.sorup.dk) on April 14-16, 2010.

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Program

Wednesday, April 14
09:30-10:15 Registration
10:15-10:30 Welcome address by Thomas Bjørnholm
CHALLENGE 1 (Chair : Lise Arleth)
10:30-10:45 Short overview of central achievements in year 1 of challenge 1.
Plans and ideas for year 2 (Lise Arleth)
10:45-11:35 Results of year 1:
- Determination of the solution structure of nanodiscs
(Nicholas Skar-Gislinge)
- Using charged lipids to tune the interactions between between nanodiscs
(Jens Bæk Simonsen)
- Understanding nanodiscs near the air-water and other interfaces
(Marité Cardenas/Torsten Lauridsen/Maria Svensson)
11:35-11:50 1-2 minute poster presentations from all challenges
11:50-12:30 Prestentation by new UNIK Assoc. Prof. at KU-SCIENCE Tom Vosch
"Light on Synthetic Biology"
12:30-14:00 Lunch and Poster Session
Challenge 1 Pilot results and ideas for year 2 will be presented in this poster session.
14:00-15:00

Group discussions - plans for next year
Discussion with focus on plans for challenge 1

Workgroup 1: Status and identification of problems related to the preparation of belts, selection and preparation of membrane proteins incl. model systems (bacterorhodopsin) (Chair: Peter Naur)

Workgroup 2: Status and identification of problems related to the incorporation of membrane proteins into nanodiscs and liposomes (Chair: Thomas Pomorski)

Workgroup 3: Status and identification of problems related to the development/adaptation of methods for biophysical and structural investigations in challenge 1 (SANS/SAXS, X/N-reflectometry, direct space techniques) (Chair: Marité Cardenas).

15:00-16:00 Plenum follow-up
16:00-16:30 Coffee Break
16:30-17:00 Presentation by new UNIK Assoc. Prof. at KU-LIFE Seong Wook Yang: "Plants"
17:00-18:00 Guest speaker: Stephen Sligar
18:00 Dinner & Poster Session (same contents as lunch session)
20:00 Social Program
Thursday, April 15
CHALLENGE 3 (Chair: Jesper Nygård)
09:00-11:00 Interfacing biology with electronics
(where nothing else is noted, talks are 15 min incl. Q&A)
- Progress in nanowire growth and arrays for probing of cells
(Morten Hannibal Madsen - CLIPS guest speaker)
- Fabrication of nanowire sensors (Shivendra Upadhyay)
- Immobilization of histidine tagged proteins on functionalized nanowires (Nathalie Rieben/Yi-Chi Liu)
- Modelling nanowire Bio-FET response - BioFET-SIM (Luca De Vico)
- Nanowires prepared in water (Titoo Jain, 10 min)
- Photosystem-1 - talk I (Sune Klamer Jørgensen/Yanhong Tong, 10 min)
- Photosystem-1 - talk II (Lærke Münter-Lassen, 10 min)
- Photosystem-1 - talk III (Kenneth Jensen, 25 min)
11:00-12:00 Group discussions - plans for next year
12:00-13:30 Lunch & Poster Session
13:30-14:30 Plenum follow-up
14:30-15:30 Guest speaker: Mark Reed
15:30-16:00 Coffeebreak & Poster Session
CHALLENGE 2 (Chairs: Karen Martinez & Kenneth L. Madsen)
16:00-16:10 Short overview of Challenge 2 (Karen Martinez)
16:10-16:40 Surface immobilization of functional membrane proteins using amphipols (Karen Martinez)
16:40-17:00 Towards the Reconstitution of an active signalosome in nanodiscs (Bo Højen Justesen)
17:00-18:00 Guest speaker: Bertil Andersson
18:00-20:00 Dinner & Poster Session
20:00-21:00 Guest speaker: Nathan Nelson
21:00-21:30 Self-assembled fluorescent tubes (Bo Wegge Laursen)
Friday, April 16
CHALLENGE 2 (continued)
09:00-09:20 Reconstitution of ATP-driven pumps in liposomes (Gerdi Kemmer)
09:20-09:40 Reconstitution and structural dynamics of bacterial homologues of neurotransmitter transporters (Dinna Barthold Krüger)
09:40-10:00 Structural properties of BAR domain interaction with lipid vesicles (Thor Thorsen)
10:00-10:30 Screening biomolecular interactions on arrays of single nanoscale liposomes (Nikos Hatzakis)
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break & Poster Session
11:00-11:20 NADPH-Cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase: protein conformations and catalytic properties (Thomas Larsen)
11:20-12:20 Poster session, group discussions - plans for next year
12:20-13:00 Ethical issues (Sune Holm)
13:00-14:00 Lunch
Departure  
14:30-15:30 Advisory Board Meeting for Advisory Board and Steering Group