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Biochemical Society / Wellcome Trust Focused Meeting

26—27 January 2009

The Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Hinxton, Cambridge



Organizers:
Michael Sternberg (Imperial College London, UK)
Janet Thornton (EMBL-EBI Wellcome Trust Genome, UK)
Roman Laskowski (EMBL-EBI Wellcome Trust Genome, UK)
Sponsors:

Protein Sequence, structure and function

Chair:
Michael Sternberg (Imperial College London, UK)
Monday 26 January 2009
10:00 - 11:30 Registration (with coffee/tea)

11:30 - 11:40
Meeting introduction
Janet Thornton (EMBL-EBI Wellcome Trust Genome, UK)
11:40 - 12:15
Structural and functional restraints in the evolution of protein families and superfamilies
Tom Blundell (University of Cambridge, UK)
12:15 - 12:50
Separating derived from ancestral features of the mouse and the human genomes
Chris Ponting (MRC, University of Oxford, UK)
12:50 - 14:00 Lunch

14:00 - 14:35
Multi-substrate-activity space and quasi-species in enzyme evolution
Bengt Mannervik (Uppsala University, Sweden)
14:35 - 14:50
Phylogenetic analysis of haem peroxidases and catalases reveals the occurrence of unknown enzyme (sub)families
Selected oral communication - Marcel Zamocky (University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences, Austria)
14:50 - 15:05
Evolution of primate orphan proteins
Selected oral communication - Macarena Toll-Riera (Universitat Pompeu Fabra- FIMIM, Spain)
15:05 - 16:15 Poster session 1 (odd numbers) - with coffee/tea

Medal Lectures

Chair:
Janet Thornton (EMBL-EBI Wellcome Trust Genome, UK)
Monday 26 January 2009
16:15 - 17:00
Early Career Research Award
Araxi Urrutia (Cardiff University, UK)
16:15 - 17:00
Transcriptome evolution: shaping genes, genomes... and proteins
Araxi Urrutia - Early Career Research Award (University of Bath, UK)
17:00 - 18:15
Medal Lecture
Louise Johnson (University of Oxford and Diamond Light Source, UK)
17:00 - 18:15
The regulation of protein phosphorylation
Louise Johnson - Medal Lecture (University of Oxford and Diamond Light Source, UK)
18:15 - 19:45 Poster session 2 (even numbers) - with drinks reception

19:45 - 21:00 Conference Dinner

Protein Sequence, structure and function 2

Chairs:
Richard Goldstein (NIMR, UK)
Bengt Mannervik (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Tuesday 27 January 2009
09:00 - 09:35
A domain family perspective on the evolution of protein functions
Christine Orengo (University College London, UK)
09:35 - 09:50
Evolution of duplicated and non duplicated vertebrate proteins
Selected oral communication - Romain Studer (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland)
09:50 - 10:25
The evolution of protein domain families
Alex Bateman (Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK)
10:25 - 11:00 Coffee/tea break

11:00 - 11:35
Why there is more to protein evolution than protein function: splicing, nucleosomes and dual-coding sequence
Laurence Hurst (University of Bath, UK)
11:35 - 11:50
Evolution of the SNARE protein family in fungi
Selected oral communication - Carl Nickias Kienle (Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Germany)
11:50 - 12:25
Protein evolution - a reconstructive approach
Dan Tawfik (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
12:25 - 13:30 Lunch

Protein systems

Chairs:
Chris Ponting (MRC, University of Oxford, UK)
Christine Orengo (University College London, UK)
Tuesday 27 January 2009
13:30 - 14:05
Protein-evolution in bacterial stress response
Michael Stumpf (Imperial College London, UK)
14:05 - 14:20
metaTIGER: a metabolic evolution resource and its application to horizontal gene transfer
Selected oral communication - John Whitaker (University of Leeds, UK)
14:20 - 14:35
Evolution of spectrin function in cytoskeletal and membrane networks
Selected oral communication - Anthony Baines (University of Kent, UK)
14:35 - 15:00 Coffee/tea break

15:00 - 15:35
Evolution in protein interaction networks: duplication, rewiring and coevolution
David Robertson (University of Manchester, UK)
15:35 - 16:10
Dissection of polyvalent ligand-receptor interactions
Mike Tyers (University of Edinburgh, UK)
16:10 - 16:50
Meeting close
Michael Sternberg (Imperial College London, UK)