Keystone Symposia Conference | Molecular Basis for Biological Membrane Organization and Dynamics

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Sunday, January 10
3:00 - 7:30 PM	Registration	Ballroom Lobby
6:30 - 7:30 PM	Refreshments	Ballroom Lobby
7:30 - 8:30 PM	Keynote Address Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/10/2009	Ballroom 2-3
	* Tom A. Rapoport, Harvard University Medical School, USA
	Randy W. Schekman, University of California, Berkeley, USA Mechanism of Transport Vesicle Budding and Cargo Sorting
Monday, January 11
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Golden Cliff/Eagles Nest
8:00 - 11:45 AM	Membrane Protein Structure Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/10/2009	Ballroom 2-3
	* Randy W. Schekman, University of California, Berkeley, USA
	Poul Nissen, University of Aarhus, Denmark Structure and Function of the P-ATPase Ion Pumps
	Jue Chen, Purdue University, USA Alternating Access of the Maltose Transporter
	Thomas Wollert, National Institutes of Health, USA Short Talk: Molecular Mechanism for Multivesicular Body Biogenesis by the ESCRT Complexes
	Ramanujan S. Hegde, NICHD, National Institutes of Health, USA Mechanisms of Membrane Protein Insertion into the ER
	Roland Beckmann, University of Munich, Germany Lessons from EM Structures of Ribosome-Translocon Complexes
	Thomas U. Schwartz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Structural Commonalities between the Lattice Scaffolds of Vesicle Coats and the Nuclear Pore Complex
	Kyle D. Brewer, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA Short Talk: NMR Analysis of Synaptotagmin-1 on Nanodiscs
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Ballroom Lobby
11:45 AM-	On Own for Lunch and Recreation
11:45 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Superior/Wasatch/Maybird
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Superior/Wasatch/Maybird
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Ballroom Lobby
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Membrane Curvature in Vesicle Building Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/10/2009	Ballroom 2-3
	* Kai Simons, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany
	Harvey T. McMahon, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK Sculpting Clathrin-Coated Vesicles
	Beverly Wendland, Johns Hopkins University, USA A New Family of Endocytic Adaptor Proteins Coordinates Membrane and Actin Dynamics
	Gregory A. Voth, University of Utah, USA Short Talk: Multiscale Computer Simulation of Membrane Remodelling by Proteins
	Bruno Antonny, Institut de Pharmacologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, France Sensing Membrane Curvature with ALPS Motifs
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Superior/Wasatch/Maybird
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 1 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/10/2009	Superior/Wasatch/Maybird
Tuesday, January 12
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Golden Cliff/Eagles Nest
8:00 - 11:15 AM	Shaping Organelles Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/10/2009	Ballroom 2-3
	* Sandra L. Schmid, The Scripps Research Institute, USA
	Jodi Ina Nunnari, University of California, Davis, USA How Mitochondria Divide and Fuse
	Robert G. Parton, University of Queensland, Australia New Insights into Caveola Formation and Function
	Gia Voeltz, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA Shaping the Tubular ER
	Michael Kozlov, Tel Aviv University, Israel Theory of Membrane Shaping and Remodeling by Proteins
	Yoko Shibata, Harvard Medical School/HHMI, USA Short Talk: A Class of Dynamin-like GTPases Involved in the Generation of the Tubular ER Network
	James A. McNew, Rice University, USA Short Talk: Characterization of Atlastin-Mediated Fusion in vitro
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Ballroom Lobby
11:15 AM-	On Own for Lunch and Recreation
11:15 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Superior/Wasatch/Maybird
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Superior/Wasatch/Maybird
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Ballroom Lobby
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Functional Organization of Membrane Domains I Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/10/2009	Ballroom 2-3
	* Joshua Zimmerberg, National Institutes of Health, USA
	Patricia Bassereau, Institut Curie, France Physical Aspects of Lipid and Protein Sorting
	Deborah A. Brown, Stony Brook University, USA Caveolin-1-Induced Membrane Tubules in Human Breast Cancer Cells
	Tobias Meyer, Stanford University Medical Center, USA Signaling Systems Biology
	Donatienne Tyteca, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Short Talk: Three Unrelated Sphingomyelin Analogs Spontaneously Cluster into Plasma Membrane Micrometric Domains
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Superior/Wasatch/Maybird
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 2 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/10/2009	Superior/Wasatch/Maybird
Wednesday, January 13
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Golden Cliff/Eagles Nest
8:00 - 11:15 AM	Functional Organization of Membrane Domains II Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/10/2009	Ballroom 2-3
	* Patricia Bassereau, Institut Curie, France
	Phyllis I. Hanson, Washington University School of Medicine, USA ESCRTs and Membrane Domains
	Kai Simons, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany Lipid–Protein Interactions Governing Raft Partitioning in Membranes
	Sarah L. Veatch, Cornell University, USA Short Talk: Correlation Function Analysis Corrects Artifactual Self-Clustering and Reveals Significant Co-Localization of FcepsilonRI and Lyn in Resting RBL-2H3 Mast Cells
	Stephen G. Sligar, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Elucidating the Structure and Function of Membrane Proteins through Nanotechnology
	Dylan M. Owen, University of New South Wales, Australia Short Talk: PALM Microscopy and Cluster Analysis of Raft and Non-Raft Proteins
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Ballroom Lobby
11:15 AM-	On Own for Lunch and Recreation
11:15 AM- 1:00 PM	Poster Setup	Superior/Wasatch/Maybird
1:00 - 10:00 PM	Poster Viewing	Superior/Wasatch/Maybird
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Ballroom Lobby
5:00 - 7:00 PM	Lipid Transport and Organelle Transport Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/10/2009	Ballroom 2-3
	* William T. Wickner, Dartmouth Medical School, USA
	Dennis R. Voelker, National Jewish Medical and Research Center, USA Protein and Lipid Complexes Regulating Aminoglycerophospholipid Transport in Eukaryotes
	William A. Prinz, NIDDK, National Institutes of Health, USA Lipid-Regulated Sterol Transfer Between Closely Apposed Membranes by Oxysterol-Binding Protein Homologs
	Gerrit van Meer, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Sphingolipid Dynamics and Membrane Protein Function
	Tobias C. Walther, Max-Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Germany Short Talk: Mechanism of Plasma Membrane Organization by Eisosomes
7:00 - 8:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Superior/Wasatch/Maybird
7:30 - 10:00 PM	Poster Session 3 Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/10/2009	Superior/Wasatch/Maybird
Thursday, January 14
7:00 - 8:00 AM	Breakfast	Golden Cliff/Eagles Nest
8:00 - 11:15 AM	Mechanisms Governing Membrane Fusion and Fission Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/10/2009	Ballroom 2-3
	* Michael Kozlov, Tel Aviv University, Israel
	William T. Wickner, Dartmouth Medical School, USA Mechanisms of Yeast Homotypic Vacuole Fusion
	Josep Rizo, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA Synaptic Vesicle Fusion
	Marta K. Domanska, University of Virginia, School of Medicine, USA Short Talk: Fast Single Vesicle SNARE-Mediated Membrane Fusion Assay in Planar Supported Bilayers Reveals Details about Fusion Mechanism
	Joshua Zimmerberg, National Institutes of Health, USA Membrane Morphological Transformations in Models for Exocytosis and Endocytosis
	Yoshinori Ohsumi, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Molecular Machinery for Autophagosome Formation
	Eric G. Bend, University of Utah, USA Short Talk: Unc18 and SNARE Interactions during Vesicle Fusion
9:20 - 9:40 AM	Coffee Break	Ballroom Lobby
11:15 AM-	On Own for Lunch and Recreation
4:30 - 5:00 PM	Coffee Available	Ballroom Lobby
5:00 - 7:15 PM	Membrane Dynamics in Endocytosis Registered attendees for this meeting can view Abstracts for this session starting on 12/10/2009	Ballroom 2-3
	* Harvey T. McMahon, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, UK
	Matthew N.J. Seaman, University of Cambridge, UK Retromer-Mediated Endosome-to-Golgi Retrieval
	David G. Drubin, University of California, Berkeley, USA A Yeast Killer Toxin Screen Provides Insights into A/B Toxin Entry, Trafficking and Killing Mechanisms
	Emanuele Cocucci, Immune Disease Institute, Harvard Medical School, USA Short Talk: The First 2 Seconds in the Life of a Clathrin Coated Pit
	Min Wu, Yale School of Medicine, USA Short Talk: Synergistic Action of Clathrin and Membrane Tubulation in a Cell Free System
	Sandra L. Schmid, The Scripps Research Institute, USA Dynamin-Mediated Membrane Fission
8:00 - 9:00 PM	Social Hour w/ Lite Bites	Ballroom 1-2
8:00 - 11:00 PM	Entertainment	Ballroom 1-2
Friday, January 15
	Departure
*=Session Chair †=Speaker invited, not yet responded.

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National Institutes of Health
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Grant No. 1R13GM088852-01

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Cellular membrane biology is a major area of research. Membrane proteins function as receptors, ion channels, or transporters, while the lipids provide not just a barrier between aqueous compartments, but also serve as signals. Lipids and proteins combine in as yet not fully understood ways to establish and maintain membrane organization and specific membrane domains. This meeting will address major questions in membrane biology that remain unanswered, including the structure of membrane proteins (we only know ~100 structures, but 25% of all proteins are membrane proteins!), the mechanisms driving membrane organization and curvature, mechanisms of organellar biogenesis and the transport between organelles, and how membranes undergo fusion and fission. In addition, the meeting will cover emerging techniques. A major goal of the meeting is to bring together cell biologists, biophysicists and theoretical biologists, which in the past had little interaction.

Molecular Basis for Biological Membrane Organization and Dynamics (A5)