Program and Schedule 2022

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The Murnau Lecture 2022, Chair: Stefan Raunser
Wolfgang Baumeister (MPI Martinsried) – "Structural Biology in situ: the power of seeing the whole picture"

Yifan Cheng (University of California San Francisco) – "Single particle cryo-EM of TRPV1: from structural snapshots to gating mechansim"

Günter Fritz (University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart) – "Cryo-EM and X-ray structures of NADH:quinone oxidoreductase of Vibrio cholerae reveal conformational coupling in redox-driven Na+ translocation"

Lin Zhang (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg) – "Mechanistic insights into the biogenesis and regulation of nitrous oxide reductase"

Cristina Paulino (University of Groningen) – "A true chimera: transport mechanism and regulation of the KdpFABC complex"

Wei Lü (Van Andel Institute Grand Rapids MI) – "Molecular basis for ion channels involved in taste perception"

Janosch Hennig (University of Bayreuth and EMBL Heidelberg) – "Structural basis of non-coding roX RNA remodelling during dosage compensation"

Mathias Girbig (EMBL Heidelberg and MPI Marburg) – "Structural analysis of human and yeast RNA polymerase III transcription"

Klemens Wild (Universität Heidelberg) – "A thermophilic eukaryotic ribosome and its co-translational chaperone"

Tanja Mittag (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis TN) – "Interactions mediating phase separation in prion-like low-complexity domains and transformation of condensates into pathogenic fibrils"

Kulkarni Madhurima (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore) – "An intrinsically disordered protein functions through a conformationally excited state"

Helmut Grubmüller (MPI Göttingen) – "Three routes to molecular movies"

Naoko Mizuno (NIH, NHLBI, Bethesda MD) – "Molecular neurobiology by cryo-ET"

Morris Degen (University of Basel) – "The structural basis for mediated plasma membrane rupture in inflammatory cell death"

Rhythm Shukla (Utrecht University) – "Two-fold attack of Teixobactin on the bacterial membrane"

Gaia Pigino (Human Technopole Milan) – "Structural cell biology of cilia and eukaryotic flagella"

Xizhou Zhang (MPI Göttingen) – "Transmembrane signaling of sensor kinase CitA"

Theresia Dunzendorfer-Matt (Medical University of Innsbruck) – "Structural basis of activation of the tumor suppressor protein neurofibromin"

Juli Feigon (UC Los Angeles) – "Structural biology of telomerase mechanism and interactions at telomeres"

Yanick Fleischmann (ETH Zürich) – "In-cell NMR of the intrinsically disordered protein Prothymosine Alpha reveals its native dynamic histone 1 interaction in cells"

Dovile Januliene (University of Osnabrück) – "The ABC transporter MsbA adopts the wide inward-open conformation in living cells"

Andrea Musacchio (MPI Dortmund) – "Chromosome segregation: intrinsically divisive"

Dmitry Shvarev (University of Osnabrück) – "Structure of the lysosomal membrane fusion machinery"

Gavin Rice (MPI Dortmund) – "TomoTwin: generalized 3D localization of macromolecules in cryo-electron tomograms with structural data mining"

Walk to Brauhaus Griesbräu

Hashim Al-Hashimi (Columbia University New York) – "The ensemble revolution: quantitative and predictive structural biology"

Julian Folz (Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf) – "FRET measurements resolving structures, dynamics and transitions of various biomolecules"

Volker Dötsch (University of Frankfurt) – "The molecular switch that guarantees genetic quality in oocytes"

Alexander Belyy (MPI Dortmund) – "Actin as the target and activator of bacterial toxins: a structural perspective"

Carolyn Moores (Birkbeck, University of London) – "Exploring cellular complexity through cytoskeleton regulation"