Membrane Proteins: Structure & Function
Suzhou, China
May 16 - 20, 2011

www.csh-asia.org

Arranged by:

Charles Sanders, Vanderbilt University, USA
Yigong Shi, Tsinghua University, China
Carola Hunte, University of Freiburg,Germany

We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Membrane Proteins: Structure & Function which will be held at the Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center in Suzhou, China. The conference will begin at 7:30pm on the evening of Monday May 16th, and will conclude after lunch on Friday, May 20th, 2011.

This conference retains the essence of the prestigious Cold Spring Harbor NY meetings series, a program now in its 76th year. The conference will include eight oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in membrane proteins research. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.

Abstract:

We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow’s talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.

Fellowship:

We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit http://www.csh-asia.org/stipends.html  .

Major Topics:

- Biochemistry and structural biology of GPCR
- Primary transporters
- Secondary transporters
- Ion channels
- Membrane protein folding and design
- Microbe/Virus-Specific Membrane Proteins
- New approaches in membrane biology

For the most updated information, please visit our web site at www.csh-asia.org

Keynote Speakers

Gunnar von Heijne, Stockholm University,SWEDEN
Brian Kobilka, Stanford University, USA

Invited Speakers

Ernst Bamberg, Paula Booth, Martin Caffrey, Timothy Cross, Charles Deber, David Drew, Karen Fleming, Vsevolod Gurevich, Peter Henderson, Junjie Hu, John Hunt, Carola Hunte, Werner Kuhlbrandt, Huilin Li, Jianfeng Liu,Hassane Mchaourab, Daniel Müller, Matthias Müller, Robert Nakamoto, Hartmut Oschkinat, Bert Poolman, Scott Prosser, Eitan Reuveny, Charles Sanders, Mark Sansom, Gebhard Schertler, Yigong Shi, Dimitrios Stamou, Kenton Swartz, Chris Tate, Lynmarie Thompson, Tomitake Tsukihara,Michael Wiener, William Wimley, Nieng Yan