Visitors at the cryo-transmission electron microscope

Opening Symposium Core Facility for Cryo-Electron Microscopy of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin at Max Delbrück Center

With great pleasure we announce the official opening of the Core facility for cryo-electron tomography of the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin at the Max Delbück Center on Campus Berlin Buch.

To celebrate this, and the opening of the Isolde-Dietrich-Haus, our dedicated research building, we cordially invite you to a one-day scientific symposium to Berlin.
Register free of charge and join us for a full day of scientific presentations from a panel of excellent speakers,
all related to cryo-electron tomography.

Invited Speakers:

Helen Saibil, Birkbeck London (keynote)

Kay Grünewald, CSSB Hamburg

Friedrich Förster, Utrecht University

Ariane Briegel, Leiden University

Jürgen Plitzko, MPI Martinsried

Venue

MDC
Robert-Rössle-Straße 10
Axon
13125 Berlin
Germany

Time

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Campus Plan

Program

Scientific Symposium – Morning Session(Chair: Michael Kudryashev)

09:00 - 13:00

09:00

Welcome

Christian Spahn, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin
09:15

Protein folding, unfolding and disaggregation by Hsp60 and Hsp70 chaperones

Helen Saibil, Birkbeck, University of London
10:00

Breaking Borders - implications for cryoEM

Tarek Hilal, FU Berlin
10:20 Coffee Break
10:40

A viral guide to the cell by integrative structural biology

Kay Grünewald, CSSB Hamburg 
11:10

Investigation of a mitochondrial intermembrane space protein complex with relevance for bioenergetics and disease

David Schwefel, TU Berlin
11:30

Structure and conformational variability of RyR1 in native membrane

Vasilii Mikirtumov, Max Delbrück Center, Berlin
11:50

Understanding the molecular mechanisms of Fusobacterium nucleatum attachment to the human colon via the bifunctional adhesin Fap2

Felix Schöpf, FMP, Berlin
12:10 Lunch
Opening of Facility/Naming of Research Building 94.2(Chair: Christoph Diebolder)🇩🇪 ​​​​​​Please note this part of the event will be held in German.

13:00 - 14:30

13:00
Begrüßung
Christoph Diebolder, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin
13:10

Dr. I. Dietrich - Physikerin, Stifterin und Mensch
Svetlana Marian, Isolde-Dietrich-Stiftung

13:25 Einrichtung einer State of the Art Facility für in situ kryo-Elektronentomographie
Thiemo Sprink, Max Delbrück Center, Berlin
13:40 Eröffnung des Isolde-Dietrich-Hauses
Holger Gerhardt, Max Delbrück Center, Berlin
13:45 Eröffnung der CFcryo-EM
Christian Hagemeyer, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin
13:50 Feierliche Eröffnung
Holger Gerhardt, Max Delbrück Center Berlin &
Christian Hagemeyer, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin
14:00 Facility Tour
Metaxia Stavroulaki, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin

 

Scientific Symposium – Afternoon Session(Chair: Daniel Roderer)

14:30 - 19:00

14:30 Tale of a Tail - Structural Insights into Protein Biogenesis in the ER
Friedrich Förster, Utrecht University
15:00 Eukaryotic translation visualized in situ
Magdalena Schacherl, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin
15:20 Latest updates for Smart EPU and Tomography software: Increasing automation and ease of use for Cryo-EM data acquisition
Julio Ortiz, Thermo Fisher Scientific
15:40 Coffee Break
16:00 Bacteriophages revisited: Zooming in on structurally elusive aspects of phage-host interactions
Ariane Briegel, Leiden University
16:30 tba
Patrick Scheerer, Charité- Universitätsmedizin Berlin
16:50 En route to the molecular anatomy of whole organisms using Cryo-ET
Jürgen Plitzko, MPI Martinsried
17:20 Closing
Oliver Daumke, Max Delbrück Center, Berlin
17:30 BBQ, Posters & Facility Tours

 



Organizers

Christian Spahn, Magdalena Schacherl, Christoph Diebolder (Charité)

Misha Kudryashev, Oliver Daumke, Thiemo Sprink (MDC)

Daniel Roderer (FMP)


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