Organizers:
Stephen Bell (University of Oxford, UK)
Finn Werner (University College London, UK)
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Session 1 DNA metabolism
Chair:
Finn Werner (University College London, UK)
12:00 - 14:00 Registration and lunch
Archaeal Nucleotide Excision Repair: finally getting more incisive
Malcolm White (University of St Andrews, UK)
DNA replication in Thermococcus kodakaraensis
Zvi Kelman (University of Maryland, USA)
A novel archaeal model for minichromosome maintenance genes in eukaryotes
Selected oral communication - James Chong (University of York, UK)
The architectural role of Cren7 in crenarchaeal chromatin organization
Selected oral communication - Remus T Dame (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Nucleoid Compaction is Part of the Mre11-Rad50-mediated DNA Damage Response in Haloferax volcanii
Thorsten Allers (University of Nottingham, UK)
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee/tea break
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Session 2 Molecular anatomy of transcription
Chair:
Stephen Bell (University of Oxford, UK)
Molecular anatomy of transcription in the Archaea - structure, function and dynamics of RNA polymerase
Finn Werner (University College London, UK)
Role of the protruding stalk of the archaeal RNA polymerase in crystal packing and biophysical analysis of the Rpo13 subunit
Nicola Abrescia (CIC BioGUNE, Spain)
Localization of basal factor TFE in the preinitiation complex
Selected oral communication - Dina Grohmann (University College London, UK)
Robotic dissection of the catalytic center of archaeal RNA polymerases
Robert Weinzierl (Imperial College London, UK)
18:15 - 20:00 Drinks reception and poster session 1
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Session 3 The virus/host arms race
Chair:
Christa Schleper (University of Vienna, Austria)
Co-evolution of viruses, plasmids and their hosts in Archaea
Patrick Forterre (Institut Pasteur, France)
Prokaryotic antiviral defence mediated by CRISPR RNA
John van der Oost (University of Wageningen, The Netherlands)
Replication of the hyperthermophilic archaeal virus AFV1
Selected oral communication - Mery Pina (Institut Pasteur, France)
Crenarchaeal CRISPR immune systems
Shiraz Shah (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee/tea break
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Session 4 Responses to DNA damage
Chair:
Thorsten Allers (University of Nottingham, UK)
Genome caretakers: a novel Holliday junction resolution activity by reverse gyrase
Maria Ciaramella (CNR, Italy)
The HerA bipolar helicase from hyperthermophilic archaea
Christiane Elie - CANCELLED (University of Paris Sud, France)
PELDOR on DNA bending and conformational states of helicases PcrA and Hel308
Selected oral communication - Olav Schiemann (University of St Andrews, UK)
Mapping physical interaction of Hel308 with RPA: evidence for a loading role that might control homologous recombination
Selected oral communication - Edward Bolt (University of Nottingham, UK)
Structure and function of a novel endonuclease acting on branched DNA substrates
Selected oral communication - Hannu Myllykallio (INSERM, France)
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Session 5 Structures at the cell membrane
Chair:
Bettina Siebers (University of Essen, Germany)
Assembly of the archaeal flagellum
Sonja Albers (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany)
The Sulfolobus information processing and cell division machinerie
Stephen Bell (University of Oxford, UK)
Ignicoccus hospitalis: 3D architecture, subcellular distribution of the ATP synthase, and spatial separation of metabolic processes
Selected oral communication - Reinhard Rachel (University of Regensburg, Germany)
15:15 - 16:00 Coffee/tea break
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Session 6 Global approaches to physiology
Chair:
Sonja Albers (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany)
Challenges of life at high temperature
Bettina Siebers (University of Essen, Germany)
Genomics of the novel phylum Thaumarchaeota
Christa Schleper (University of Vienna, Austria)
Metaproteomics of a cold-methane seep sediment at Nyegga, Mid-Norwegian margin
Selected oral communication - Runar Stokke (University of Bergen, Norway)
Selected oral communication - Jorg Soppa (Goethe-University, Germany)
Thermophilic archaeal enzymes and their applications in biocatalysis
Selected oral communication - Jennifer Littlechild (University of Exeter, UK)
17:45 - 20:00 Drinks reception and poster session 2
20:00 - 22:00 Conference Dinner
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Session 7 From transcript to folded protein
Chair:
Patrick Forterre (Institut Pasteur, France)
Regulatory RNAs in Haloferax volcanii
Selected oral communication - Anita Marchfelder (Ulm University, Germany)
Temporal gene regulation of Sulfolobus islandicus rudivirus 2 and the S. solfataricus host cells during virus infection cycle
Selected oral communication - Xu Peng (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Translation initiation in archaea: what's new
Paola Londei (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
Archaeal insights into chaperone-mediated protein folding
Peter Lund (University of Birmingham, UK)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee/tea break
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Session 8 Genetics and mobile genetic elements
Chair:
Malcolm White (University of St Andrews, UK)
Genetic analysis of the promoter of the arabinose-binding protein gene in Sulfolobus islandicus
Qunxin She (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Investigating the archaeal chromosomal DNA apparatus using a tryptophan-repressible promoter system
Selected oral communication - Agnieszka Swiatek (University of St Andrews, UK)
Characterization of a homing endonuclease in the halophilic archaeon Haloferax volcanii
Selected oral communication - Uri Gophna (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
Structure of the primase minimal domain of the pRN1 replication protein
Georg Lipps (University of Applied Sciences of Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland)
STIV-Sulfolobus interactions and their relationship to eukaryotic ESCRT proteins
Mark Young (Montana State University, USA)
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