Second Annual Meeting
Membrane Proteins: Structure and Function

Bentley University
Waltham, MA
May 4, 2007

8:30 am	Registration and light Breakfast
9:20 am	Introductions Rajiv Chopra Morning Session Chair Andreas Loew
9:30 am	How bacteria clean up our mess: xenobiotics transport across the outer membrane Bert van den Berg, University of Massachusetts Medical School
10:15 am	Protein Interactions at the bacterial cell surface James W. Coulton, McGill University
11:00 am	Break
11:15 am	A Tale of Molecular Warfare, Membrane Deformation and Impossibly Small Holes — Applications of CryoEM in Membrane Biology Vinzenz Unger, Yale University
12:00 pm	Lunch
	Afternoon Session Chair Christopher Koth
1:00 pm	NMR Studies of Structure and Interactions of the Mitochondrial Protein VDAC Gerhard Wagner, Harvard Medical School
1:45 pm	A Quantitative View of Protein-Protein Interactions on the Cell Membrane Adrian Whitty, Biogen Idec
2:30 pm	Break
2:45 pm	From structure to function of rhomboid intramembrane proteases Sinisa Urban, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
3:30 pm	Working with membrane proteins Larry DeLucas, University of Alabama at Birminigham
4:15 pm	Mixer