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  • " Biology of Protein Conjugation: Structure and Function "
    Organizers: Yoshinori Ohsumi, NIBB
    Winfried Weissenhorn, EMBL Grenoble
    Venue: Okazaki Conference Center, Okazaki, Japan
    Date: December 3 (Sun) - 5 (Tue), 2006

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** Program
December 2 (Sat)
19:00-20:00 Registration for Invited Speakers (Okazaki New Grand Hotel)
 
December 3 (Sun)
08:40- Registration (Okazaki Conference Center)
09:05-09:10 Opening Remarks : Yoshitaka Nagahama (Vice President, NIBB, Japan)
09:10-09:50 Plenary Lecture : Takao Kondo (Nagoya University, Japan)
" KaiC as the Primary Pacemaker of Cyanobacterial Circadian Clock "
Session 1: SUMO      Chair: Christopher D. Lima
09:50-10:20 Hisato Saitoh (Kumamoto University, Japan)
" Involvement of SUMO-SIM Interaction in MBD1- and MCAF1-Mediated Heterochromatin Formation "
10:20-10:40 Coffee break
10:40-11:10 Ken-ichirou Morohashi (NIBB, Japan)
" Regulation of Ad4BP/SF-1 by SUMO "
11:10-11:40 Helle D. Ulrich (Cancer Research UK, UK)
" Function of the Ubiquitin System in Replicative DNA Damage Bypass "
11:40-12:10 Masahiro Shirakawa (Kyoto University, Japan)
" Structures of SUMO-1- and SUMO-3- Conjugated Thymine DNA Glycosylase "
12:10-13:30 Lunch
Session 2-1: Membrane Biology 1      Chair: Winfried Weissenhorn
13:30-14:00 Simona Polo (IFOM, The FIRC Institute for Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy)
" Molecular Mechanisms of Coupled Monoubiquitination "
14:00-14:30 Thomas Sommer (Max-Delbruck-Center for Molecular Medicine, Germany)
" Protein Quality Control by the HRD-Ligase Complex "
14:30-15:00 Scott D. Emr (UCSD, USA)
" Ubiquitin, PIPs and ESCRTs in Receptor Down-Regulation "
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
Session 2-2: Membrane Biology 2      Chair: Scott D. Emr
15:30-16:00 Winfried Weissenhorn (EMBL Grenoble, France)
" Structural Biology of Endosomal Vesicle Formation "
16:00-16:30 Pernille Rørth (EMBL Heidelberg, Germany)
" Guidance Mechanisms for Invasive Migration of Cell Cluster "
16:30-17:00 Soichi Wakatsuki (KEK, Japan)
" Structural Insights into Ubiquitin Recognition in Intracellular Transport "
17:00-21:00 Mixer and Poster Session
 
December 4 (Mon)
Session 3-1: Ubiquitin 1      Chair: Rachel E. Klevit
09:00-09:30 Hiroyuki Kawahara (Hokkaido University, Japan)
" Proteasomal Ubiquitin Receptor RPN-10 Controls TRA-2-Mediated Sex Determination in Caenorhabditis elegans "
09:30-10:00 Kazuhiro Iwai (Osaka City University, Japan)
" Identification of a Ligase Complex Polymerizing Linear Polyubiquitin Chains and Its Physiological Role "
10:00-10:30 David Fushman (University of Maryland, USA)
" Structural Studies of Polyubiquitin Chains: Conformation, Dynamics, and Ligand Binding "
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:20 Shigeaki Kato (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
" Functional Regulation of Nuclear Steroid Hormone Receptors through Protein Degradation "
11:20-11:50 Ivan Dikic (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany)
" Ubiquitin Signaling Pathways "
11:50-13:10 Lunch
Session 3-2: Ubiquitin 2      Chair: Kazuhiro Iwai
13:10-13:40 Takumi Kamura (Nagoya University, Japan)
" VHL-Box and SOCS-Box Domains Determine Binding Specificity for Cul2-Rbx1 and Cul5-Rbx2 Modules of Ubiquitin Ligases "
13:40-14:10 Rachel E. Klevit (University of Washington, USA)
" New Insights into the Role and Mechanism of E2 Ubiquitin-Conjugating Enzymes "
14:10-14:40 Kylie J. Walters (University of Minnesota, USA)
" The Interpreters of Ubiquitylation: How Do Ubiquitin Receptor Proteins Deliver Substrates to the Proteasome? "
14:40-15:10 Keiji Tanaka (RINSHOKEN, Japan)
" Multiple Chaperones Assist the Assembly of Mammalian 20S Proteasomes "
15:10-15:40 Coffee break
Session 4: Mechanism of UBL Conjugation      Chair: Thomas Sommer
15:40-16:10 Brenda A. Schulman (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, USA)
" Insights into the Specificity of Ubiquitin-Like Protein Transfer Cascades "
16:10-16:40 Christopher D. Lima (Sloan-Kettering Institute, USA)
" Structural Insights into Protein Modification by SUMO "
16:40-17:00 Yoshinori Ohsumi (NIBB, Japan)
" Two Ubiquitin-Like Conjugation Systems Essential for Autophagy "
17:00-17:20 Hitoshi Nakatogawa (NIBB, Japan)
" Membrane Tethering and Fusion Mediated by Atg8, a Ubiquitin-Like Protein Required for Autophagosome Formation "
17:20-17:50 Fuyuhiko Inagaki (Hokkaido University, Japan)
" Structural Biology of Autophagy "
18:20-21:00 Social Party at Kikyu
 
December 5 (Tue)
Session 5: Modification by Lipid & Sugar      Chair: Koichi Kato
09:00-09:30 Akio Kihara (Hokkaido University, Japan)
" Palmitoylation of Sphingosine Kinase and Sphingosine 1-Phosphate Receptor 1 by DHHC Cys-Rich Domain-Containing Palmitoyltransferases "
09:30-10:00 Minoru Yoshida (RIKEN, Japan)
" Protein Lysine Acetylation as a Molecular Modulator for Cellular Functions "
10:00-10:20 Coffee break
10:20-10:50 Roger S. Goody (Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Physiology, Germany)
" The Mechanistic And Structural Basis of Rab-GTPase Prenylation and Recycling "
10:50-11:20 Tadashi Suzuki (Osaka University, Japan)
" Deglycosylation of Newly Synthesized Glycoproteins by Cytoplasmic Peptide:N-glycanase (PNGase) "
11:20-11:50 Koichi Kato (Nagoya City University, Japan)
" NMR Views of Protein Conjugation with Ubiquitin and Sugar "
11:50-12:00 Closing Remarks : Yoshinori Ohsumi (NIBB, Japan)

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