Satellite Workshop: Nuclear Pore Complex: Biology, Physics and Nano Technology

Website: http://cnls.lanl.gov/npc

Venue and lodging info: http://conferenceservices.sjcsf.edu/cnfservnuclear.htm

Agenda

Friday, Aug 8 and morning Saturday, Aug 9

arrival and settling in.

Saturday Aug 9

Afternoon

14:00-14:10: CNLS organizers: greeting and logistics announcements

Chair: Reiner Peters

14:10-15:00: Ueli Aebi "Nuclear Pore Complex, structure, conservation and plasticity - an update"

15:00-15:50: Susan Wente "In vivo determinants of FG nup function"

15:50-16:40: Murray Stewart "Integrating mRNA export"

16:40-16:50: Break

Chair: Susan Wente

16:50-17:40: Michael Rexach "Distinct structural categories of nucleoporin FG domains

17:40-18:30: Reiner Peters "Reduction-of-dimensionality model revisited"

18:30-20:30: Banquet and the dinner lecture at the q-bio conference

20:30 and on: Posters and informal discussions

Sunday Aug 10

Chair: Murray Stewart

09:00-09:50: Sigfried Musser "What can single-molecule studies tell us about nuclear transport?"

09:50-09:55: Break and computer change

09:55-10:45: Michael Elbaum "Surprising simplicity in the thermodynamic system for active transport"

10:45-10:50: Break and computer change

10:50-11:40: Roderick Lim "On the generality of selective gating beyond the Nuclear Pore Complex"

11:40-13:45: Lunch, posters and informal discussions

Chair: Ueli Aebi

13:45-14:35: Dirk Gorlich "Reconstitution of the permeability barrier of nuclear pores"

14:35-14:40: Break and computer change

14:40-15:30: Klaus Schulten "Gating mechanisms of the Nuclear Pore Complex studied through molecular dynamics"

15:30-16:00: Break

Chair: Yitzhak Rabin

16:00-16:50: Tijana Jovanovic-Talisman "Artificial nanopores that mimic the selectivity of the Nuclear Pore Complex"

16:50-16:55: Break and computer change

16:55-17:45: Anton Zilman "Selective transport through narrow channels - Nuclear Pore Complex and beyond"

17:45-18:00: Break

18:00-19:00: Buffet dinner

19:00-20:00: Open panel discussion and summary of the workshop

20:00 and on: posters and informal discussions

Workshop ends

Tentative Poster Titles

The posters will be presented throughout the whole workshop.

Presenters

Geza Ambrus-Aikelin "Small molecule inhibitors of nucleo-cytoplasmic transport"

Yaron Caspi "A Chemical Mimic of the Nuclear Pore Complex"

Ramya Gamini TBA

Lingling Miao TBA

Jeremy Phillips TBA

Daniel Russell TBA

Paul Welch "Cross-linked layer of grafted filaments: computational model of the FG nups"