Speakers

Matthias Müller

Universität Freiburg, Germany
Following the path of a twin-arginine precursor along the TatABC translocase

Tassos Economou

IMBB, Iraklio-Crete, Greece
Structure, catalytic priming and activation of preprotein translocase

Thomas J. Silhavy

Princeton University, USA
Outer membrane biogenesis in Gram-negative bacteria

Davis Ng

University of Singapore, Singapore
Targeting mechanisms in protein quality control

Ramanujan Hegde

NIH, Bethesda, USA
Regulating protein entry into the mammalian ER

Jack Taunto

University of California, San Francisco, USA
Substrate-selective inhibitors of the Sec61 translocon

Gunnar von Heijne

University of Stockholm, Sweden
Dual topology membrane proteins

Stephen High

University of Manchester, UK
Bespoke protein synthesis and N-glycosylation at the endoplasmic reticulum

Nikolaus Pfanner

Universität Freiburg, Germany
Cooperation of translocases in mitochondrial protein import

Lin Randall

University of Missouri, Columbia, USA
Sites of Interaction between SecA and its Binding Partners

Reid Gilmore

University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, USA
In vivo kinetics of membrane protein integration

Nica Borgese

Institute for Neuroscience, Milan, Italy
Targeting and sorting of tail-anchored proteins

Karin Römisch

University of Trento, Povo (Trento), Italy
Interaction partners of the Sec61 channel in the ER membrane

Colin Robinson

University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
Mechanisms of substrate selection by the Tat protein transporter

Arnold Driessen

University of Groningen, Haren, The Netherlands
Mechanisms of Sec-mediated protein translocation and membrane protein insertion

Richard Zimmermann

Universität des Saarlandes, Homburg, Germany
Mechanisms and pathologies of protein transport into the ER

Doron Rapaport

University of Tübingen, Germany
Biogenesis of mitochondrial outer membrane proteins

Carol Deutsch

Department of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania, USA,
Tunnel Vision

Olivera Francetic

Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Testing the pseudopilus function in type II secretion

Jürgen Soll

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany
Metabolic redox regulation of protein import into chloroplasts.

Gabriel Waksman

Birkbeck College, University of London, UK
Pilus assembly at the outer-membrane usher

Carla Koehler

University of California, Los Angeles, USA
New tools for studying protein translocation in mitochondria

Walter Neupert

Max-Planck Institute, Martinsreid, Germany
The TIM23 complex:: a molecular machine that moves in mysterious ways