Bioenergetics Subgroup
Dianne McGavin
The Bioenergetics Subgroup Program
Structural Analysis of Membrane Proteins: Realizing the Mitochondrion*s Potential will be held at the New Orleans Convention Center Saturday, February 12, 2000.
Session I: Electron transport: Three-
dimensional structural determination
of cytochrome bc1 and cytochrome b6f
complexes
Edward A. Berry, Organizer and
Co-chair
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Chang-An Yu, Co-chair
Oklahoma State University
8:30 am Chang-An Yu
Correlation Between Intramolecular
Electron Transfer Rates and Structural
Data of Cytochrome bc1 Complex
9:00 am Edward A. Berry
Quinone Binding Sites in the Avian
Cytochrome bc1 Complex
9:30 am So Iwata, Uppsala University
Uppsala, Sweden
Rieske FeS Protein Motion in the
Bovine Cytochrome bc1 Complex
10:00 am Carola Hunte, MPI-
Biophysik Frankfurt, Germany
To be announced - On the Structure of
Fungal bc1 Complex
10:30 am Cecile Breyton, MPI-
Biophysik Frankfurt, Germany
Structural Analysis of the Cytochrome
b6f Complex by Electron
Crystallography
11:00 am William A. Cramer
Purdue University
Unique structure-function aspects of
the cytochrome b6f complex.
Discussion: 11:30 - 11:40
Session II: Presentation of Annual
Young Investigator Awards
Lunch
Session III: Structural and Functional
Studies of Mitochondrial
Transporters
Ronald S. Kaplan
FUHS/The Chicago Medical School
Maureen W. McEnery (co-chairs)
Case Western Reserve University
School of Medicine
Speakers
1:00 pm Martin Klingenberg, University
of Munich, Germany
The Mitochondrial Carrier Family*
a Special Breed
1:45 pm John E. Walker, Medical
Research Council, Cambridge
Identification and Functions of
New Transporters in Mitochondria
2:30 pm Hartmut Wohlrab, Boston
Biomedical Research Institute and
Harvard Medical School
Phosphate Transport Across the Inner
Mitochondrial Membrane.
How Does PTP Do It?
3:15 pm Ronald S. Kaplan, FUHS/The
Chicago Medical School
Structure/Function Relationships
Within the Mitochondrial Citrate
Transport Protein
4:00 pm Theo Wallimann, Institute for
Cell Biology, ETH
Hönggerberg, Zurich, Switzerland
Involvement of Mitochondrial Creatine
Kinase in Energy Channeling and
Permeability Transition: Explanations
for the Neuroprotective Actions of
Creatine
Discussion: 4:45 to 5:00 pm
Session IV: Roundtable Discussion.
Lessons From the Solved Structures
of Integral Membrane Proteins:
Methodology and Structural
Principles
(Speakers from both symposia will be
asked to participate.)
John E. Walker, Chair
Medical Research Council, Cambridge
Bioenergetics Subgroup Annual Dinner and Business Meeting
Bioenergetics Subgroup Dinner will take place at Olivier's Creole Restaurant, 204 Decatur Street, New Orleans (504-525-7734), Saturday, February 12, 2000, 7:30 cash bar, 8:00 dinner with house wine (see menu listed on the BESG website http://physiology.cwru.edu/~besg/).
The price will be $34 for reservation received before Friday, February 4 (reservations received after that date will be charged an extra 15% in accordance with restaurant policies).
Please send check, payable to The Biophysical Society (Bioenergetics Dinner) to:
Carmen Mannella
New York State Department of Health
Wadsworth Center
Empire State Plaza, Box 509
Albany, NY 12201-0509
tel (518) 474-2462
fax (518) 486-4901
email: ca...@health.state.ny.us