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Viruses represent a source of wonder as the miniaturized entities that permeate and cross-interact with the entire biosphere and are
by far the most numerous organisms on earth. The workshop aims to offer an overview of the field by gathering international and
national speakers with some of the most recent and exciting developments in structural virology.

Speakers Registration

June 4 The workshop is open to PhD students and

postdocs. There are no registration fees
Alasdair Steven (NIAMS, USA) but accomodation and travel costs at the
participant's expense.
Jonathan G. Grimes (University of Oxford, UK)
6 travel-awards of up to 400 Euros are
Diego Guerin (University Pais Vasco, Spain) available to strongly motivated PhD students.

June 5 Details of the registration, travel award

and workshop programme are below.
Dennis Bamford (University of Helsinki, Finland)

Carmen San Martin (CNB, Spaln) New Deadline for Registration: May 25, 2009

Nicola G. Abrescia (CIC bioGUNE, Spain) New Deadline for Travel Award: May 25, 2009

Ignacio Fita (IBMB, Spain)

Petr Leiman (EPFL, Switzerland) Sponsors:

Mauricio G. Mateu (CBM, Spain)

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Francisco J. Blanco (CIC bioGUNE)
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Centrode Investigación Cooperativa en Biociencias
 III WORKSHOP ON STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY

CIC bioGUNE
Parque Tecnológico de Bizkaia. Edif. 800
48160, Derio- Bizkaia

June 4-5, 2009

PROGRAM

JUNE 4, 2009 JUNE 5, 2009

12.00 H Welcome Lunch 09.00 H Special Lecture 2

Prof. Dennis Bamford. Univ. Helsinki
12.50 H Introduction by Dr. Nicola Abrescia. (Finland)
Structural biology Unit. CIC bioGUNE How virus structures help in organizing
the viral world
13.00 H Special Lecture 1.
Prof. Alasdair Steven. NIH (USA)
Thinking Inside the Box: Mapping the
Asymmetric Interiors of Icosahedral Capsids 10.00 H Dr. Carmen San Martín. CNB (Spain)
Adenovirus structure: recent advances
and open questions

14.00 H Dr. Jonathan Grimes. Oxford Univ. (UK)

11.00 H Coffee-break
Structural studies on viral polymerases
11.45 H Dr. Nicola GA Abrescia. CIC bioGUNE
15.00 H Dr. Diego Guerin. UPV/EHU ( Spain)
(Spain)
Structural, biochemical, biological, and
Viruses as “living fossils”:
technological studies on the insect virus TrV
chasing the ancestors
through structural virology

13.00 H Lunch

15.00 H Special Lecture 3

Prof. Ignacio Fita. IBMB (Spain)
Protein Shells with and without
Icosahedral Symmetry: Viruses & Vaults

16.00 H Dr. Peter Leiman. EPFL

(Switzerland)
Structure, function, and assembly of
macromolecular machines involved in
infection of bacterial and eukaryotic cells

17.00 H Coffee-break

17.45 H Dr. Mauricio Mateu. CBM (Spain)

"Manipulation of the mechanical
properties of a virus by protein
engineering".

18.45 H Dr. Francisco Blanco. CIC bioGUNE

(Spain)
“NMR Studies on the Structure of HIV-
Rev Protein Free and Bound to its Target
RNA

19.45 H Close by Dr. Mato, General Director

of CIC bioGUNE

SPONSORED BY:
CIC bioGUNE III Structural Virology Workshop on June 4-5, 2009.

Registration

The workshop is open to PhD students and postodcs. Accommodation and travel
costs are at the participants’ expense and there is no registration fee.

To register please send an A4-letter including First and Last Names, Affiliation,
Predoc/Postdoc status and an outline of the research interests as a PDF file via e-
mail to the sbworkshop@cicbiogune.es with “Registration” in the subject line.
Deadline extended to May 25, 2009.

Accepted attendees will be notified by email by May 26, 2009.

Venue

The workshop will be held at the CIC bioGUNE Structural Biology Unit, Building 800
(http://www.cicbiogune.es/secciones/el_centro/donde_estamos.php?idioma=en).

Travel Award

6 travel awards of up to 400 € are available for doctoral students against travel
expenses and accommodation costs.

Candidates for a travel award in addition to registration details must include an A4

motivation letter with a brief career review.

Applications for travel-awards should also be sent to sbworkshop@cicbiogune.es

with ‘Registration & Travel Award” in the subject line. Deadline extended to May
25, 2009. Successful candidates will be notified by May 26, 2009.

Accomodation

Attendees must arrange by themselves travel and accommodation. However

attendees booking at the AISIA DERIO Laia Hotel will receive CIC bioGUNE fares.
The AISIA DERIO Laia Hotel is located at 5 minutes from the CIC bioGUNE (for
hotel booking, please see http://www.aisiahoteles.com).

For those lodging in Bilbao there will be a dedicated bus leaving the Hotel Hesperia
Bilbao

Contact

For further information, please contact sbworkshop@cicbiogune.es