Program

Tuesday 11. November
14:00 – 15:00	Registration & Welcome Coffee
15:00 – 15:10	Opening Words
Session 1
15:10 – 15:40	Basil Greber | Institute of Cancer Research, UK | Mechanistic Insight into the Function of the Human CDK-Activating Kinase
15:40 – 15:55	Short Talk | Florian Puehringer | IMBA, Austria | Evaluation of Selfishness via Recycling of ancestral Protein Interaction Modules
15:55 – 16:10	Short Talk | Annamaria Hlavata | ISTA | Regulation of Cytoplasmic RNA Polymerase II
16:10 – 16:40	Sven Klumpe | Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) Vienna, Austria & Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA) Vienna, Austria | Capturing the Mobile Genome on the Move by Cryo-ET
16:40 – 17:05	Javier Fernandez Collado | ThermoFisher Scientific | A New Age of Automation: Making Cryo-EM More Reproducible and Intuitive with CryoFlow
17:05 – 18:30	Poster Session 1 | Odd Numbers
18:00 – 20:00	Dinner Buffet
20:15	Shuttle Bus | Going to Schwedenplatz, Vienna
Wednesday 12. November
Session 2
09:00 – 09:30	Maya Topf | Centre for Structural Systems Biology, Leibniz Institute of Virology | Integrating AI-based Structure Prediction with Cryo-EM: Lessons from CASP
09:30 – 09:45	Short Talk | Leonie Anton | University of Bern, Switzerland | Using In Situ CryoET to Visualize Intracellular Pathogens
09:45 – 10:00	Short Talk | Igor Kaczmarczyk | Jagiellonian University, Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology, Poland | Molecular Mechanisms of Queuosinylation in Humans
10:00 – 10:30	Ariane Briegel | Institut Pasteur, France | Cryo-Electron Tomography Contributes to our Understanding of Bacterial Interactions with their Environment
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
Session 3
11:00 – 11:30	Beata Turonova |  Max-Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany | Twist and Scout: Analysis and Curation of Particles in Cryo-Electron Tomography Using Point Descriptors
11:30 – 12:00	Manuela Hospenthal | ETH Zurich, Switzerland | Mechanisms of DNA Uptake by Naturally Competent Bacteria
12:00 – 12:30	Carina Oliveira Mann | Technical University of Munich, Germany | Unlocking the Immune System’s Code for Self and Non-Self Nucleic Acid Recognition using cryo-EM
12:30 – 12:55	Roman Renger & Timothy Craggs | Exciting Instruments | Adding Dynamics to Structural Biology: easy-to-use single-molecule Tools to Bring Static Biomolecular Models to Life
12:55 – 15:00	Lunch & Poster Session 2 | Even Numbers
Session 4
15:00 – 15:30	Nikolaus Grigorieff | University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, USA | Extending the Scope of Single-Particle Cryo-EM Using 2D Template Matching
15:30 – 15:45	Short Talk | Disha Gajanan Hiregange | Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel | From RNA Chains to the Protoribosome: Cryo-EM Structural and Functional Insights into the Origin of Life
15:45 – 16:00	Short Talk | Davide Amendola | ETH Zurich, Switzerland | Visual Proteomics of an Unusual Planctomycete Bacterium
16:00 – 16:30	Florian Wilfing | Max-Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany | Transient Structural Motifs in Disordered Regions Control Condensate Material States in Vivo
16:30 – 16:45	Short Talk | Jana Susanne Anton | EPFL, Switzerland | Structural Characterization of Aerolysin in a Membrane-Like Environment
16:45 – 17:15	Short Talk | Sebastian Glatt | University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria | tRNAslational Control of Eukaryotic Gene Expression
17:15 – 17:30	Closing & Poster Awards
18:00	Shuttle Bus | Going to Schwedenplatz, Vienna

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Invited Speakers

Nikolaus Grigorieff | University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School, USA

Ariane Briegel | Institut Pasteur, France

Beata Turonova | Max-Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany

Maya Topf | Centre for Structural Systems Biology, Leibniz Institute of Virology

Florian Wilfling | Max-Planck Institute of Biophysics, Germany

Manuela Hospenthal | ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Carina Oliveira Mann | Technical University of Munich, Germany

Basil Greber | Institute of Cancer Research, UK

Sven Klumpe | IMP, IMBA Vienna, Austria

Sebastian Glatt | University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria