Preliminary Program of 3rd Asia Pacific Protein Association (APPA) Conference

The 3^rd Asia Pacific Protein Association (APPA) Conference

May 6-9, 2011, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China

Preliminary Program

May 6, 2011 (Friday)
Afternoon

Student/postdoc session  14:00-16:30

Speakers will be selected from those submitting abstracts.

Venue: The Lecture Hall of the Library, Shanghai University.

 17:30-18:00 Opening Ceremony

Venue: The opening ceremony and all other activities described below, if not specified, will be held in the main auditorium of Shanghai University.

18:00-18:40 Keynote lecture 1

Peter Wright, The Scripps Research Institute, USA.

Tentative title: Folding, regulation, and interactions of intrinsically disordered proteins.

  18:40-20:00 Reception

(19:30-21:00 Dinner banquet for the Joint Sino-UK Protein Symposium)  

May 7, 2011 (Saturday)
Morning

Session 1: Protein and Drug Discovery
(This is an overlapping session of the 3^rd APPA Conference and the Joint Sino-UK Symposium)

8:30-9:10 Keynote Lecture 2

Tom Blundell, University of Cambridge, UK.

Tentative title: Structural Biology, and drug discovery: modulating multiprotein regulatory assemblies.

9: 10-9:35  

John Overington, University of Cambridge, UK.

Tentative title: to be announced. 

9:35-10:00

Po-Huang Liang, Inst. Biological Chemistry, Chinese Taipei.

Tentative title: Targeting Cysteines: from anti-virus to anti-cancer drug discovery.

10:00-10:25               

Yongzhang Luo, Tsinghua University, China.

Tentative title: Targeting blood and lymphatic vessels: personalized therapy of endostatin. 

10:25-10:50

Luhua Lai, Peking University, China.

Tentative title: to be announced.

Session 2: Protein biosynthesis, trafficking and quality control

11:00-11:25

Lloyd Ruddock,University of Oulu, Finland.

Tentative title: Mechanisms and applications of disulfide bond formation.

11:25-11:50

Galina Karpova, Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Russia.

Tentative title: Human ribosome: structural organization of the functional sites.

11:50-12:15

Roberto Sitia, Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele, Italy.

Tentative title: Structure and regulated activity of ERp44, a multifunctional chaperone of the early secretory compartment.

12:15-12:40

Enduo Wang, Shanghai Institute of Biological Sciences, China.

Tentative title: Modular pathways for editing non-cognate amino acids by human cytoplasmic leucyl-tRNA synthetase.  

12: 40-13:30

Lunch (Free of charge to all registered attendees)

May 7, 2011 (Saturday) Afternoon

13:30-14:10 Keynote lecture 3

Keiji Tanaka, The Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Medical Science, Japan.

Tentative title: In-depth study of structure and functions of Eukaryotic Proteasomes.

 

Session 3: Protein folding, structure and dynamics

14:10- 14: 35

Raymond S. Norton, Monash University, Australia 

Tentative title: Malaria surface proteins as vaccine candidates and drug target.

14:35-15:00

Jooyoung Lee, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, Korea.

 Tentative title: Protein structure prediction by global optimization and its applications. 

15:00-15:25

Fumio Arisaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan.

Tentative title: Mechanism of the strict sequential assembly of the baseplate wedge of bacteriophage T4.

15:25-15:50

Hon Cheung Lee, University of Hong Kong, China.

Tentative title: Structure and functions of a novel calcium signaling enzyme-CD38.

Session 4: Protein post-translational modification and activity modulation

16:00-16:25

Joel Mackay, The University of Sydney, Australia.

Tentative title: Structural insights into the mechanisms underlying eukaryotic gene regulation. 

16:25-16:50 

Alex Law, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Tentative title: Release of constraint as a general mechanism of protein activation. 

16:50-17:15

Tai-Huang Huang, Academia Sinica, Chinese Taipei.

Tentative title: Coupling of sumoylation and phosphorylation in Daxx- SUMO recognition and Daxx function

17:15-17:40

Robert Robinson, Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore.

Tentative title: Actin filaments in eukaryotes and prokaryotes.

 

17:40-18:05

Yunyu Shi, China University of Science and Technology,China.

Tentative title: Structure and dynamics investigation of proteins related with gene regulation. 

19: 00-20:00

Banquet (Free of charge to all registered attendees)

May 8, 2011 (Sunday)Morning

8:30-9:10 Keynote Lecture 4

Yang Shi, Harvard Medical School, USA.

Tentative title: Histone demthylases:mechanism of action and link to human disease.

Session 5: Protein interaction, network and proteomics

9:10-9:35

Richard J. Simpson, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Walter & Eliza Hall of Medical Research, Australia.

Tentative title: Secretome/Exosome-based proteome strategy for uncovering novel cancer biomarkers.

9:35-10:00

Lemmuel Tayo, Mapua Institute of Technology, The Philippines.

Tentative title: Proteomics and drug discovery - the case of conopeptides.

10:00-10:25               

Hongzhe Sun, University of Hong Kong, China.

Tentative title: Metalloproteomics for identification of metallodrug binding proteins.

10:25-10:50

Jiahuai Han, Xiamen University, China.

Tentative title: The p38 pathway in regulation of cell growth.

Session 6: Protein machinery and action mechanism

11:00-11:25

Michael Ryan, La Trobe University, Australia.

Tentative Title: Structural and functional dissection of the mitochondrial Tim9-Tim10 chaperone complex.

11:25-11:50

Kunihiro Kuwajima, Okazaki Institute for Integrative Bioscience, Japan.

Tentative title: Structural fluctuations and functional expression of the chaperonin GroEL/ES complex.

11:50-12:15

Pimchai Chaiyen， Mahidol University, Thailand.

Tentative title: Oxygenation mechanism of p-hydroxyphenylacetate hydroxylase, a two-component flavin-dependent monooxygenase.  

12:15-12:40

Ruiming Xu, Institute of Biophysics, China

Tentative title: Structural study of spliceosome assembly.

12:40-13:30

Lunch (Free of charge to all registered attendees)

May 8, 2011 (Sunday) Afternoon

13:30-14:10 Keynote Lecture 5

Wolfgang Baumeister, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Germany.

Tentative title: Electron cryomicroscopy: from molecules to systems. 

Session 7: Protein design and engineering

14:10-14:35               

Daniel Raleigh, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA.

Tentative title: Amyloid formation by intrinsically disordered proteins.

14:35-15:00               

Ch. Mohan Rao,Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India.
Tentative title:  heat shock proteins in health and disease.

15:00-15:25               

Wayne Patrick, Massey University, New Zealand.

Tentative title: Directed evolution of protein structures and functions.

15:25-15:50

Kyeong Kyu Kim, Sunkyunkwan University, Korea.

Tentative title: Structural bases for the regulatory mechanisms of proteolytic enzymes.

Session 8: Protein real time and quantitative detection, and single molecule study

16:00-16:25

James Chou, Harvard University, USA ; Affiliation with PekingUniversity, China.

Tentative title: Structure and dynamics of mitochondrial carriers.

16:25-16:50

Kyou-Hoon Han, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Korea.

Tentative title: Understanding pre-structured motifs (PreSMos) in intrinsically unfolded proteins.

16:50-17:15

Joël Janin, Université Paris-Sud, France.

Tentative title: Protein-protein binding affinity and conformation changes: a structure/affinity benchmark.

17:15-17:40

Won-Ki Huh, Seoul National University, Korea.

Tentative Title: Comprehensive in vivo analysis of protein-protein interactions in yeast.

17:40-18:05  

Sen-Fang Sui，Tsinghua University, China.

Tentative title: Functional oligomerization of DegP (HtrA) on membranes.

18:05-19:30

Dinner (Free of charge to all registrated attendees)

19:30-21:00

Art Performances (Free of charge to all registered attendees)

May 9, 2011 (Monday)Morning

8:30-9:10 Keynote Lecture 6

Sunney Xiaoliang Xie, Harvard University, USA; affiliated with Peking University, China.

Tentative title: Life at the Single Molecule Level.

Session 9: Protein applications in biotechnology and therapeutics

9:10-9:35

Juliet A. Gerrard, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
Tentative title: Proteins as supramolecular building blocks?

9:35-10:00

Raja Noor Zaliha Raja Abd. Rahman, Universiti Putra，Malaysia.               

Tentative title: Enhancing properties of locally isolated thermostable  enzymes.

10:00-10:25

Jisnuson Svasti, Mahidol University, Thailand. 

Tentative title: Structure-function relationships in Thai Plant Beta-Glucosidases.

10:25-10:50  

Feng Shao, National Institute of Biological Sciences, China.

Tentative title: Learning eukaryotic signaling mechanisms from bacterial virulence factors.   

Session 10: Interdisciplinary study of proteins

11:00-11:25

Young Kee Kang, Chungbuk National University, Korea.

Tentative title: Conformational preferences and reaction mechanisms of protein models studied by quantum-chemical Methods.

11:25-11:50

Jianxing Song, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Tentative title: Structural and dynamical mediation of the catalytic machinery of the SARS 3C-like protease by its evolutionarily acquired extra-domain. 

11:50-12:15

Wei Wang, Nanjing University, China.

Tentative title: Dynamics of protein folding and dimerization.

12:15-12:40

John Zenghui Zhang, East China Normal University, China.

Tentative title: The Effect of electrostatic polarization on structure, dynamics and interaction of proteins.

12:40-13:10

Closing ceremony

13:10-14:10

Lunch (Free of charge to all registered attendees)

May 9, 2011 (Monday) Afternoon

14:10-17:30

Tour to the site of World Expo Shanghai 2010 (Free of charge to all registered attendees)

 

Contact us

The Secretariat, APPA Conference School of Life Sciences,
Shanghai University 99 Shangda Road ,
Shanghai 200444, China
Tel: +86-21-66132665
Fax: +86-21-66137541
Email: protein@shu.edu.cn
www.APPAconference2011.org  
www.shu.edu.cn/APPAconference2011  

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