2nd CBR Forum

Industry-Academy Minisymposium on 
G-protein-coupled receptors

April 15, 2008

The Center for Biomembrane Research is an SSF-funded initiative at Stockholm University (www.cbr.su.se). The mission of the CBR Forum is to disseminate knowledge and technical expertise and to bring together academic and industrial researchers with common interests in biomembrane-related problems.

Program

09:00-09:30 Registration/Coffee.

09:30-09:40 Welcome by Gunnar von Heijne.

09:40-10:30 Ray Stevens (SCRIPS, USA) Structures and Function of Adrenergic Receptor Signaling

10:30-11:20 Reinhard Grisshammer (NIH, USA) Structure and function studies of a G-protein-coupled neurotensin receptor

11:20-12:10 David Myzska (University of Utah, USA) SPR analysis of GPCRs

12:10-13:30 Lunch: Sandwiches, coffee, tea.

13:30-14:20 Andreas Plückthun (University of Zurich, Switzerland) The taming of the shrew: evolving GPCRs for higher stability and selecting binding proteins

14:20-15:00 Gebhard Schertler (MRC, UK) Structure of a β1 Adrenergic Receptor: Progress in obtaining recombinant G protein Coupled Receptor Structures by High Brilliance Micro Crystallography

15:00-> Poster session/Coffee/Tea

Location: G-salen, Stockholm University (map: http://www.cbr.su.se/).

G-salen is in the G-building of the Arrhenius laboratories on the ground floor (just follow the signs).

Registration deadline: April 5.

Information and registration: degier@dbb.su.se.

See you on the 15th of April!

Gunnar & Jan-Willem