10:00                    Registration in the foyer of lecture hall 6J, building 26.41.00

11:00                    Welcome by Prof. Dr. Dr. H. Michael Piper,
                            President of the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf

                            Welcome by Prof. Dr. Detlev Riesner, Chairman of the Entrepreneur
                            Foundation for the Advancement of Science and Young Researchers, HHU

                            Welcome by Lutz Schmitt, Chairman of the
                            NRW Research School BioStruct

11:15 - 12:15      2 Short-Talks of doctoral researchers:

   11:15              Thomas Classen, BioStruct, AG Pietruszka:
                         "Multicopper oxidase CueO from Rhodococcus erythropolis"

   11:40               Jendrik Marbach, BioStruct, AG Birkmann:
                          "Enroute to expression and structural analysis of Prion Protein
                          in Pichia pastoris"


12:15 - 13:15      Lunch

13:15 - 15:00       Peter Cherepanov,  ‘The mechanism of HIV integration and its
                              inhibition by strand transfer inhibitors: lessons from
                              X-ray crystallography studies using a convenient model system

15:00 - 15:15      short break

15:15 - 16:15      3 Short-Talks of doctoral researchers:

   15:15                 Leonid Rapatskiy, BioStruct, AG Lubitz
                           "Detection of water binding sites in the oxygen evolving complex
                           of Photosystem II poised in the S2 state using high field (94 GHz)
                           17O-ELDOR-detected NMR spectroscopy"

   15:35                 Iris Gawarzewski, BioStruct, AG Schmitt
                           "Purification and crystallization of the His-tagged AIDA-I ß-barrel
                            in the outer membrane of E. coli"

   15:55                 Imadeldin Elfaki, Duisburg-Essen
                            "Analysis of Parvulin14/17"

16:15 - 16:45      Tea/Coffee break

16:45 - 18:30       Ulrich Benjamin Kaupp,  ‘An ion channel that encodes single-molecule
                                                                        sensitivity in sperm'  [Ion channels]

09:00 - 10:45       Christine Ziegler,  ‘Monitoring conformational changes in secondary
                                                              transporter  activation by 2Dand 3D crystallization'
                                                              [Electron microscopy and X-ray]

10:45 - 11:15      Tea/Coffee break

11:15 - 12:15      Poster session (odd numbers)

12:15 - 13:15      Lunch

13:15 - 15:00       Oliver P. Ernst,  ‘Ligand interaction: Light induced conformational changes'
                             

15:00 - 15:30      Tea/Coffee break

15:30 - 17:15       Crina Nimigean,  ‘'Investigating ion channel gating and selectivity with
                                                             structural techniques!
                                                             [Multiple strategies for structure determination:
                                                              X-ray, NMR and EM]


18:30      Guided City Tour through Düsseldorf's Old Town 'The Brewery Path'
                                  Düsseldorf Altstadt

20:00      Congress Dinner at Old Town Restaurant "Brauerei Zum Schiffchen" for Speakers
              and registered participants
                                  Restaurant "Brauerei zum Schiffchen"

Today including the 2011 annual meeting of


09:00 - 10:45       Martin Blackledge, ‘Exploring Multiple Timescale Motions in Folded and
                                                                 Intrinsically Disordered Proteins using NMR'
                                                                 [Liquid state NMR]

10:45 - 11:15      Tea/Coffee break

11:15 - 12:15      3 Short-Talks of doctoral researchers:
                           
   11:15              Peixiang Ma, Jülich:
                         “Characterization of membrane anchored GABARAP using nanodiscs”

   11:35              Sameer K. Singh, Jülich:
                         “Solution NMR study of the interaction between human CD4 and HIV-1 VpU”

   11:55              Sabu Varghese, Düsseldorf:
                         "Solid state NMR studies of the membrane binding heme protein nitrophorin 7
                          from Rhodnius prolixus"

12:15 - 13:15      Lunch

13:15 - 14:00      Poster session (even numbers)

14:00 - 15:45       Hartmut Oschkinat,  ‘Structure determination of proteins in a native
                                                                  environment by solid state NMR'
                                                                  [Solid state NMR]

15:45 - 16:15      Tea/Coffee break

16:15 - 18:00       Knud Nierhaus,  ‘3D-Structure and Function: The tricks of the ribosome
                                                             to be fast and precise”
                                                             [Modelling]

19:00      BBQ at the Botanical Garden for attendees with previous notice
                                 Botanical Garden

09:00 - 10:45       Jakob Piehler,  ‘Diffusion and interaction in type I interferon signalling'
                              [Ligand interaction]

10:45 - 11:15      Tea/Coffee break

11:15 - 12:15      3 Short-Talks of doctoral researchers:
                             
   11:15               Harish Chandra Thakur, BioStruct, AG Piekorz:
                          "Biophysical, biochemical, and functional characterization of the
                          centrosomal protein TACC3"
                             
   11:35               Simon Sindbert, BioStruct, AG Seidel:
                          "Structure determination of an RNA four-way junction via
                          Super Resolution FRET (SuRF)"
                             
   11:55               Arpita Roychoudhury, BioStruct, AG Häussinger/Oesterhelt:
                          "Observing the protecting effect of organic osmolytes in action
                          at the single molecule level" .

12:15 - 13:15      Lunch

13:15 - 15:00       Matthias Rief,  ‘Exact title to be announced
                              [AFM]

15:00 - 15:30      Best Poster Award and Closure by Prof. Dr. Dieter Willbold,
                         Chairman of NRW Research School BioStruct