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Symposia organized by the SSB
Every year the Committee of the Swiss Society of Biochemistry organizes one or two Symposia within the frame of the annual meeting of USGEB. Listed below is the content of the most recent Symposia.
Symposium within USGEB 2012
Shaping ligands by proteases
- Stefan Kunz, University of Lausanne: "Targeting host cell proteases for anti-viral therapy"
- Oliver Schilling, University of Freiburg, Germany: "How to probe proteolytic events in the cellular context with proteomic strategies"
- Markus Gruetter, University of Zurich: "Analysing the structure, regulation and function of caspases using designed ankyrin repeat proteins"
Short oral presentations
- Giovanna Crisante, University of Lausanne: "In vivo and in vitro inhibition of the membrane-bound serine protease
CAP1/Prss8 by serpins". (Poster Abstract # 1) - Bruno Filippi, EPFL: "Tracking Furin activity within the cell". (Poster Abstract # 32)
- Nourdine Faresse, University of Lausanne: "Differential ubiquitylation of the mineralocorticoid receptor is tightly regulated by aldosterone-induced phosphorylation". (Poster Abstract # 38)
Symposia within USGEB 2011
Imaging Molecules
- Jan Löwe, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK: «Bacterial dynamin-like Proteins»
- Achilles Kapanidis, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK: «Delicate Fingers: conformational Dynamics of DNA Polymerase»
- Roland Riek, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich: «Structure-Activity Relationship of Protein Aggregates»
Exploring Biological Matter by Different Imaging Modalities
- Christoph Cremer, Kirchhoff-Institute for Physics and Bioquant Center, University of Heidelberg, Germany: «Light Optical Nanoscopy of Nuclear Architecture»
- Ohad Medalia, Department of Biochemistry, UZH: «From the nuclear Periphery to Cell Adhesion by cryo-electron Tomography»
- Daniel J. Mueller, ETH Zurich, Biosystems Science and Engineering, Basel: «Probing Cell and Molecular Mechanics by Atomic Force Microscopy»