A Biochemical Society Focused Meeting
Proceedings (invited speakers) will be published in Biochemical Society Transactions
Abstract submission deadline: 4 February 2008
Abstract submission is now closed.
A 250 poster prize, sponsored by Portland Press, will be offered to the best poster.
The Portland Press Poster Prize has been awarded to Dr Volker Zimmerman.
Volker Zickermann studied Biochemistry at the University of Hannover, Germany, and obtained his PhD in Biochemistry from the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, with a thesis on cytochrome oxidase. After a post-doctoral fellowship in Finland at the Helsinki Bioenergetics group with Marten Wikstrm and Moshe Finel, he started structural work on mitochondrial complex I in Ulrich Brandts group in Frankfurt am Main.
The Keilin Memorial Lecture - Hartmut Michel (Max-Planck Institute of Biophysic, Germany) will take place during this meeting.
Oral communication slots are available at this meeting. All attendees, particularly researchers in the early stages of their career, are invited to submit a poster abstract for consideration as an oral communication.
Student Travel Grants are available for this meeting.
Accommodation information.
German students and junior post-docs (<32 years of age) can apply for a limited number of Travel Awards from the GBM. To apply please send a short CV, a copy of your poster abstract and a short recommendation letter from your P.I. to Professor Ulrich Brandt (brandt@zbc.kgu.de).
The aim of this meeting is to stimulate British/German collaborative research in bioenergetics, an area in which both countries have great strengths, by following up the first meeting held in Naurod, Germany from 20th to 24th March 2005. This first meeting attracted more than 130 participants, initiating many new contacts between UK and German laboratories and resulting in a set of 14 review articles that were published in Biochemical Society Transactions. A full report of the meeting also appeared in the June 2005 edition of The Biochemist. We believe this follow-up meeting will capitalise on the momentum created from the first conference and further promote research interactions between Germany and the UK .
In the post-genomic era, the sequences of vast numbers of proteins involved in bioenergetic processes have become available. The determination of the structures of some of these proteins is also advancing rapidly. Thus background structural data for understanding how proteins facilitate energy transduction is becoming more widespread. In order to derive full value from this burgeoning mass of data, the functional consequences of structures must be understood and this can be approached by integrating information from spectroscopy, kinetics and thermodynamics with structural data. This meeting will bring together key scientists from the UK and Germany whose research is at the forefront of these areas.
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