XXXII Membrane Transport Conference
Sümeg 2002
Program
Tuesday, May 21
14.00 - 17.00 Registration
17.00 - 19.00 Opening ceremony [In
Hungarian]
17.00 Ferenc Rátosi, The Mayor of
Sümeg
17.05 Miklós Kellermayer, President of the Organizing Committee
17.15 Attila Lipcsey - The importance of membrane
research for the medical practice
17.25 Romhányi-prize
award ceremony. This year's awardee: Miklós Kellermayer
17.30 Miklós
Kellermayer, awardee - Nucleic acids observed using polarization microscopy
18.20 Kovács
Tibor-prize awards.
19.00 - 21.00 Reception party
Wednesday, May 22
8.30 - 10.35 Presentations of the
Hungarian Biophysical Society [In Hungarian]
8.30 Katalin Blaskó
Cyclic lipopeptides - their
interaction with biological and model membranes
9.00 Balázs
Szalontai
Intention and reality:
structure and dynamics of genetically manipulated membranes
9.30 János
Szöllősi
Role
of lipid rafts in EGF receptor signaling mechanisms
10.00 Csaba
Bagyinka and Judit Ősz
Reaction kinetics of the
membrane-bound hydrogenase of Thiocapsa roseopersicina
11.00 - 13.30 Poster section I.
13.30 - 14.30 Lunch
15.00 - 21.30 Bus trip to the
Káli-medence National Park (see pictures at
http://www.kali.hu/index2.html)
Sightseeing in the beatyful small villages, horse carriage-drive, visiting a natural stone monument, and many more. Group dinner in Kővágóörs.
Thursday, May 23
8.30 - 12.30 The Living State -
Albert Szent-Györgyi Symposium
8.30 Miklós
Kellermayer
(Department of Clinical
Chemistry, University of Pécs, Hungary)
Introduction
8.35 Gerald
H. Pollack
(Division of Bioengineering,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
Cells, gels and the engines of
life: a fresh paradigm for cell function
9.30 James S. Clegg
(Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of
California at Davis, Bodega Bay, CA, USA)
What is the 'cytosol'? - an examination of what we
know (and don't know)
about the nature of cytoplasm
9.50 Carlton
F. Hazlewood
(Department of Molecular Biology, Baylor College
of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA)
Cellular function: the forgotten role(s) for water
10.10 Ferenc
Gallyas
(Department of Neurosurgery,
University of Pécs, Hungary)
Gel-to-gel
phase-transition in mammalian cells
10.30 Coffee
break / Kávészünet
10.40 Ivan
L. Cameron and Gary Fullerton
(Department
of Cellular and Structural Biology, University of Texas Health Science Center
at San
Antonio, San Antonio, TX, USA)
State
of water in cells and on tendon
11.00 Denys
N. Wheatley
(Department of Cell Pathology,
University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK)
From
random to preset - organization and cell survival
11.20 Péter
Csermely
(Department of Medical
Chemistry, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary)
Stress proteins, as possible
organizers of the cytoplasm
11.40 Vladimir
Matveev
(Institute of Cytology, Russian
Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia)
Evidence of a new type of
protein-protein interaction demostrated by actomyosin
12.00 General
discussion
12.30 - 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 15.30 The Living State -
Calcium and other ions in biological systems
13.30 Richard B. Marchase
(Department of
Cell Biology,
Capacitative calcium entry: its
mechanism and importance to cardiac physiology
13.50 Péter Friedrich
(Institute of Enzymology,
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary)
Regulation of
the calpain system by calcium
14.10 David M. Bedwell
(Department of
Microbiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA)
Calcium transport and signaling
in a yeast model system
14.30 Attila Miseta
(Department of
Clinical Chemistry, University of Pécs, Hungary)
Lithium,
calcium and phosphoglucomutase in human and in yeast
14.50 Gyula Kispál
(Department of
Biochemistry, University of Pécs, Hungary)
Activation and
function of Rli1p, a cytosolic Fe/S protein
15.10 General discussion
15.30 - 18.00 Poster section II.
19.00 - 21.00 Group dinner in the
Sümeg Castle (see pictures at http://www.hotelkapitany.hu/aindex.htm)
Friday, May 24
8.30 - 10.50 Presentations: best
posters of the last 2 years [In Hungarian]
10.15 - 10.30 Coffee break
10.30 - 12.00 Presentations: best
posters of the last 2 years [In Hungarian]
12.00 - 12.30 Closing ceremony