FEBS

COMBINED PRACTICAL AND LECTURE COURSE

CHEMISTRY OF METALS IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS

Relais Mercure, Louvain-la-Neuve

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Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve

15th - 22th May, 2011

Sunday 15th May Registration/Opening lectures

13h00 Registration

15h00 Robert CRICHTON - Opening lecture- Metals in Biology

17h00 Ernesto CARAFOLI - Calcium and cell signalling

19h00 Get together party

Monday 16th May Introductory Lectures

8h30 Frank NEESE - Ligand Field Theory

10h30 Margarida ARCHER - X-ray crystallography of

metalloproteins

12h30 Lunch

14h00 Rob ROBSON - Molecular biological approaches to Metalloproteins

16h00 Christophe LEGER - Electrochemical methods for the

functional analysis of metalloproteins

18h00 Fred HAGEN - EPR spectroscopy

19h00 Dinner

20h00 Poster presentations

Tuesday 17th May Spectroscopic techniques

9h00 Eckhard BILL- Mössbauer spectroscopy

11h00 Ricardo LOURO - Metals and biomolecular NMR

13h00 Lunch

14h30 Martin FEITERS - EXAFS spectroscopy

16h30 Ralf MENDEL - Molybdenum enzymes

19h00 Dinner

20h00 Roland SIGEL- Metal-nucleic acid interactions

Wednesday to Friday Tutorial/Practical Sessions

18th to 20th May Bioelectrochemistry (3h) Christophe Leger

EPR spectroscopy (3h) Fred Hagen

EXAFS spectroscopy (3h) Martin Feiters

Molecular Biology (3h) Rob Robson

Mössbauer spectroscopy (3h) Eckhard Bill

NMR spectroscopy (3h) Ricardo Louro

9h00 Tutorial 1 to 6 for groups of 8 students in rotation

12h30 Lunch

14h00 Tutorial 1 to 6 for groups of 8 students in rotation

19h00 Dinner

Tuesday: 20h30 Karl WIEGHARDT - What can we learn from biommimetics?

Wednesday: 20h30

Thursday: 18h00 Round table discussions of the Tutorial sessions

Saturday 21st May Applications

9h00 Ricardo LOURO - Electron transfer in multicentre redox proteins

10h30 Peep PALUMAA - System biology approach in functional studies of

cellular copper(I)-proteome

12h00 Lunch

13h30 Peter KRONECK - Copper proteins

15h00 William RUTHERFORD - Manganese proteins and photosynthesis

16h30 Robert CRICHTON - Metal homeostasis

20h00 Banquet, presentation of poster prizes and conclusions

Sunday 22nd May Departure