The Astbury Conversation

Event schedule

Monday 23 March

10:00 – 10:30 Arrival and registration
10:30 – 12:30 Morning session
Including:
- Welcome and introduction
- Bridget Carragher, New York Structural Biology Center
“Challenges and Opportunities for Automated CryoEM”
- Speakers selected from Abstracts
- Flash Presentations
12:30 – 13:45 Lunch
- Anthony Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics
“Phase separation in biochemistry and disease”
- Wendy Barclay, Imperial College London
“Inside the cell with influenza virus.”
- Speakers selected from Abstracts
- Flash Presentations
Including:
- Marc Baldus, Utrecht University’s Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research
“A magnetic resonance view of cellular life and disease”
- Speakers selected from Abstracts
17:30 – 18:00 Photo session
18:30 – 19:00 Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
“Recent innovations in cryoEM”

19:00 – 21:00 Poster session with beer and Pizza

Tuesday 24 March

08:30 – 9:00 Arrival and coffee
09:00 – 10:30 Morning Session 1  
Including:
- Bernd Bukau, Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University
"Mechanisms of folding and assembly of newly synthesized proteins"
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45 Morning Session 2
Including:
- Wanda Kukulski, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
“Native membrane architectures studied by correlative microscopy and electron cryo tomography”
- Speakers selected from Abstracts
12:30 – 14:30 Lunch and posters with exhibitors and CCPs
14:30 – 15:45 Afternoon session
Including:
- Syma Khalid, University of Southampton
“Focussing the Computational Microscope on the Cell Envelope of Gram Negative Bacteria”
- Speakers selected from Abstracts
15:45 Closing remarks and prizes
15:55 Refreshments (Exhibition will be open)
16:30 – 17:30 Richard Henderson, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Plenary lecture “Zooming in on the molecules of life”

17:30 Public engagement, exhibition and wine reception
19:00 Close