ALAMY_3 - PROGRAMME

 

 

 

    SUNDAY – 23 September 2007

 

 

15:00                     Registration Desk Open

                              Mounting of Posters

 

17:00 – 18:00        Conference buses from Bratislava and Vienna arrive at Smolenice Castle

 

19:45                     Opening words - Stefan Janecek

 

20:00 – 22:00        Opening Reception

 

 

    MONDAY – 24 September 2007

 

 

 

07:30 – 08:30        Breakfast

 

08:55                     Announcements

 

09:00 – 12:25        Chairmen: Birte Svensson and Kwan-Hwa Park

 

09:00 – 10:00        Keynote ALAMY_3 Lecture - L1

Bauke W. Dijkstra (Groningen, The Netherlands): Structural and functional characterization of a glucansucrase (DN-GTF180) from Lactobacillus reuteri 180, a GH family 70 enzyme.

 

                              Session: The clan GH-H

 

10:00 – 10:40        L2

Pedro M. Coutinho (Marseille, France): Division of α-amylase-related families and its importance for genomic analysis.

 

10:40 – 11:10        Coffee/Tea Break and Posters

 

11:10 – 11:35        L3

Wataru Saburi (Fuji, Japan): Structure-function relationship and engineering of dextran glucosidase from Streptococcus mutans.

 

11:35 – 12:00        L4

Nushin Aghajari (Lyon, France): Insights into sucrose isomerization from various sucrose isomerase structures.

 

12:00 – 12:25        L5

Natarayan Ramasubbu (Newark, NJ, USA): Unique molecular features of human salivary α-amylase for its multiple functions in the oral cavity.

 

12:25 – 14:00        Lunch Break

 

14:00 – 16:00        Poster Session I.

 

16:00 – 18:10        Chairmen: John F. Robyt and Carsten Andersen

                              Session: The families GH31 and GH57

 

16:00 – 16:40        L6

Tadayuki Imanaka (Kyoto, Japan): New GH57 branching enzyme from Thermococcus kodakaraensis.

 

16:40 – 17:20        L7

Leila Lo Leggio (Copenhagen, Denmark): Structure and substrate binding by the GH31 α-glucosidase MalA from Sulfolobus solfataricus.

 

17:20 – 17:45        L8

Duncan Stanley (Norwich, U.K.): Probing the role of α-glucosidase (GH31) in the endosperm of germinating barley (Hordeum vulgare).

 

17:45 – 18:10        L9

Eva Nordberg Karlsson (Lund, Sweden): Differences and similarities between neopullulanase-like enzymes isolated from thermophilic bacteria.

 

19:00 – 22:00        Supper at the court of the Castle with country music

 

 

    TUESDAY – 25 September 2007

 

 

07:30 – 08:30        Breakfast

 

08:55                     Announcements

 

09:00 – 12:05        Chairmen: E. Ann MacGregor and Jack Preiss

                              Session: The clan GH-H

 

09:00 – 09:40        L10

Rachel M. van der Kaaij (Haren, The Netherlands): What the annotators could not know; novel family GH13 enzymes in fungi and their unexpected functions in cell wall metabolism.

 

09:40 – 10:20        L11

Yoann Brison (Toulouse, France): How to synthesize the rare α-1,2 glucosidic linkage with an enzyme derived from a GH70 family glucansucrase?

 

10:20 – 10:50        Coffee/Tea Break and Posters

 

10:50 – 11:15        L12

Kazuhisa Sugimoto (Osaka, Japan): Sucrose phosphorylases catalyze novel transglycosylation reaction on carboxylic compounds.

 

11:15 – 11:40        L13

Maher Abou Hachem (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark): Calcium binding to barley α-amylase isozymes and its implications on stability and activity.

 

11:40 – 12:05        L14

Slavko Kralj (Haren, The Netherlands): Determinants for glucosidic bond specificity in glucansucrase enzymes of glycoside hydrolase family 70 (GH70).

 

12:05 – 14:00        Lunch Break

 

14:00 – 23:00        Trip to Bratislava (conference buses leave for Bratislava)

 

19:00 – 22:00        Dinner in the Vinum Galeria Bozen (Matyšαk) in Pezinok

 

~ 23:00                  Arrival at the Smolenice Castle

 

 

    WEDNESDAY – 26 September 2007

 

 

 

07:30 – 08:30        Breakfast

 

08:55                     Announcements

 

09:00 – 12:05        Chairmen: Takashi Kuriki and Bauke W. Dijkstra

                              Session: Metabolism of starch and glycogen

 

09:00 – 09:40        L15

Kwan-Hwa Park (Seoul, Korea): Role of carbohydrate-hydrolyzing and -debranching enzymes in sugar utilization of Bacillus subtilis.

 

09:40 – 10:20        L16

Andreas Blennow (Copenhagen, Denmark): Modulation of the degradability of the starch granule.

 

10:20 – 10:50        Coffee/Tea Break and Posters

 

10:50 – 11:15        L17

John F. Robyt (Ames, IA, USA): Mechanisms involved in the biosynthesis of starch.

 

11:15 – 11:40        L18

Jack Preiss (East Lansing, MI, USA): Crystal structure of the closed conformation of Escherichia coli glycogen synthase: critical amino acids involved in substrate binding and catalysis.

 

11:40 – 12:05        L19

Jean-Luc Da lage (Gif sur Yvette, France): Where do animal a-amylases come from? An interkingdom trip.

 

12:05 – 13:30        Lunch Break

 

13:30 – 15:30        Poster Session II.

 

15:30 – 16:35        Chairman: Marc J.E.C. van der Maarel

                              Session: Applied aspects of starch hydrolysis

 

15:30 – 16:10        L20

Carsten Andersen (Bagsvaerd, Denmark): Amylase development for industrial applications.

 

16:10 – 16:35        L21

Margaret Slupska (San Diego, CA, USA): An evolved archaeal α-amylase with performance and mode of action tailored for the ethanol industry.

 

16:35 – 17:00        Coffee/Tea Break

 

17:00 – 18:00        Chairman: Štefan Janeček

                              Special ALAMY_3 Lecture - L22

 

Manuel Palacνn (Barcelona, Spain): The structure of human 4F2hc ectodomain provides a model for homodimerization and electrostatic interaction with plasma membrane.

 

18:00 – 19:00        Refreshment Break

 

19:00 – 20:00        Chairman: Birte Svensson

                              Banquet ALAMY_3 Lecture - L23

 

Richard Haser (Lyon, France): When structural biology helps to understand sugar-processing enzymes and to stay in touch with the sweet α-amylase family.

 

20:00 – 24:00        Symposium Banquet with Awards

 

 

    THURSDAY – 27 September 2007

 

 

07:30 – 08:30        Breakfast

                              Vacation of the rooms; Removing of Posters

 

08:55                     Announcements

 

09:00 – 10:45        Chairman: Richard Haser

                              Session: Starch-binding domains as CBM families

 

09:00 – 09:40        L24

David Stapleton (Parkville, VIC, Australia): New insights into the structure and function of the AMPK glycogen-binding domain.

 

09:40 – 10:20        L25

D. Wade Abbott (Victoria, BC, Canada): Structural insights into the recognition of α-glucans by carbohydrate-binding modules.

 

10:20 – 10:45        L26

Margaret Dah-Tsyr Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan, China): Correlation and characterization of functions and secondary/tertiary structures of carbohydrate binding modules.

 

10:45 – 11:15        Coffee/Tea Break

 

11:15 – 12:05        Chairman: Magali Remaud-Simeon

                              Closing ALAMY_3 Lecture - L27

 

Birte Svensson (Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark): An enzyme family reunion – similarities, differencies and eccentricities in actions on α-glucans.

 

12:05 – 12:15        Closing words - Stefan Janecek

 

12:15 – 13:30        Lunch and Farewell

 

12:30 – 13:00        The 1st Conference Bus leaves for Bratislava and Vienna

13:30 – 14:00        The 2nd Conference Bus leaves for Bratislava and Vienna