October 3rd

19.00

20.30

Morros Special Keynote Lecture  - Peter Walter (UCSF, USA)
The unfolded protein response in health and disease

21.30

October 4th

9-10:30

Ramanujan Hegde (NIH, USA)
Mechanisms of tail-anchored membrane protein biosynthesis

Nica Borgese (CNR-IN, Italy)
The response of the ER to increased levels of resident transmembrane proteins

Ineke Brakkman (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Glycoprotein folding in the ER

10:30-11:30

11:30 -13:00

Randy Hampton (UCSD, USA)
The HRD ERAD pathway in metabolic regulation and cellular stress management

Hidde Ploegh (Whitehead Inst., USA)
Host pathogen interactions and (glyco) protein quality control

Gisou Van der Goot (Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Molecular mechanisms by which mutations in anthrax receptor 2 lead to Hyaline Fibromatosis Syndrome

Short talk to be chosen from abstracts

13:00

15:00-16:00

16:00-17:00

EMBO "Science & Society" Lecture
Valda Vinson (Senior Editor, Science)
Publishing multidisciplinary research

17:30-19:00

Gerardo Lederkremer  (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
N-glycan processing in the control of nascent glycoprotein fate

Marcus Aebi (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Switzerland)
Glycosignals: N-linked protein glycosylation in the ER

Taroh Kinoshita (Osaka University, Japan)
Remodeling GPI-anchored proteins during biosynthesis in and transport from the ER

Short talk to be chosen from abstracts

19:00

20:00-22:00

October 5th

9-10:30

Yoshifumi Jigami (AIST, Japan)
Remodeling of GPI anchors during biosynthesis and after transfer to proteins and its biological function in yeast

Neil Bulleid (University of Manchester, UK)
The consequences of disulfide formation in the mammalian endoplasmic reticulum

Deborah Fass (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
Disulfide Disco: PartnERs Linked for a Post-ER Performance

10:30-11:30

11:30 - 13:00

Joost Holthuis (Utrecht University, Netherlands)
Control of mitochondrial apoptosis by a ceramide sensor in the ER

Tony Futerman (Weizmann Institute, Israel)
Ceramide synthesis in the ER: functional and regulatory aspects

Peter Espenshade (Johns Hopkins, USA)
SREBP controls adaptation to hypoxia in fungi

Vassily Hatzimanikatis (Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne, Switzerland)
Pathway modeling and analysis in lipid research

Short talk to be chosen from abstracts

13:00

19:00

20:00-21:30

EMBO YIP LECTURE: Tobias Walther (Max Planck, Germany)
Cell biology of neutral lipid storage: Lipid droplet formation and regulation

Chris Loewen (UBC, Canada)
Lipid signaling regulated by pH: phosphatidic acid as a pH biosensor

Liz Miller (Columbia U., USA)
Quantitative pheontyping reveals novel aspects of ER quality control in yeast

Short talk to be chosen from abstracts

October 6th

9-10:30

Richard Lewis   (Stanford, USA)
The control of calcium entry at ER-plasma membrane junctions

Mathias Seedorf (ZMBH, Germany)
Coupling of the endoplasmic reticulum and the plasma membrane

Rajini Rao (JHU, USA)
The long reach of the ER: Ion homeostasis from ER and beyond

10:30-11:30

11:30 - 13:00

David Ron (Cambridge University, UK)
ER stress and oxidative protein folding

Julie Hollien (University of Utah, USA)
Regulation of mRNA turnover at the ER membrane

Short talk to be chosen from abstracts

13:00

15:00-16:00

16:00-17:00

EMBO “Women in Science” Lecture
Gerlind Wallon
A persistent problem: Traditional gender roles hold back female scientists

17:30-19:00

Jeff Brodsky (University of PIttsburgh, USA)
The selection and ubiquitination of substrates targeted for ER associated degradation

Linda Hendershot (St. Judes Research Hospital, USA)
Protein folding in the ER: life and death decisions

Peter Cresswell (Yale, USA)  
Chaperone functions in the MHC class I peptide loading complex

Short talk to be chosen from abstracts

19:00

20:00-22:00

October 7th

9-10:30

Anne Spang (University of Basel, Switzerland)
Vesicle fusion at the ER

Vivek Malhotra  (CRG, Spain)
Packing collagens at the ER exit site for export

Sean Munro (MRC, UK)
What can transmembrane domains tell us about the secretory pathway?

Short talk to be chosen from abstracts

10:30-11:30

11:13:00

Benoit Kornman (Walter lab, UCSF, USA)
Molecular connections between the ER and the mitochondria

Martin Hetzer (Salk Institute, USA)
Transient rupturing of the nuclear membrane in rapidly dividing cancer cells

Viki Allan (University of Manchester, UK)
ER dynamics in vertebrate cells

Short talk to be chosen from abstracts

13:00

15:00-16:00

16:00-17:30

Fran Platt (University of Oxford, UK)
Lysosomes and their relationship with the ER: insights from rare diseases

Ari Helenius (ETH, zurich, Switzerland)
Role of ER in virus cell entry

Catherine Rabouille (UMC, Netherlands)
Modulation of the functional organisation of the ER exit sites by signalling

Short talk to be chosen from abstracts

18:00

October 8th