Molecular Mechanisms and Manipulation in Archaea
Organizers:
Dr Edward L. Bolt (University of Nottingham, UK)
Dr Thorsten Allers (University of Nottingham, UK)
DNA replication in Methanothermobacter thermoautotrophicus
DNA replication in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus
Stephen Bell (Cambridge, UK)
10:30 - 11:00 Tea/ Coffee
The role of solvent in dictating specificity in protein-DNA interactions
Archaeal chaperones: Genetic and biochemical analysis of the CCT chaperone machine in Haloferax volcanii
Peter Lund (Birmingham, UK)
Protein secretion in archaea: a genomic survey of the secretome of Halobacterium salinarum
Abert Bolhuis (Warwick, UK)
Nucleotide excision repair in the third domain revisited
Malcolm White (St. Andrews, UK)
Repair of UV damage in Halobacterium salinarium
Shirley McCready (Oxford Brookes, UK)
Uracil recognition and repair in archaea
Bernard Connolly (Newcastle, UK)
New helicases that unwind branched DNA in Methanothermobacter
Genetic analysis of homologous recombination in Haloferax volcanii
Thorsten Allers (Nottingham, UK)
17:00 - 18:00 Poster Session with cheese and wine