Membrane Proteins: Structure & Function
Suzhou Dushu Lake Conference Center
May 16 - 20, 2011
Abstract Deadline:March 25, 2011

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

We are pleased to announce the 2nd 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 is similar in design to the famous Cold Spring Harbor meetings series, a program now in its 75th year. The conference will include eight oral sessions and two poster sessions 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.

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

Keynote Speakers:
Brian Kobilka, Stanford University, USA
Gunnar von Heijne, Stockholm University,SWEDEN

Invited Speakers:
Ernst Bamberg Max-Planck-Institute of Biophysics USA
Paula Booth Bristol University UK
Martin Caffrey,Trinity College Dublin,IRELAND
Timothy Cross,Florida State University,USA
Charles Deber,University of Toronto,CANADA
David Drew,Imperial College London,UK
Karen Fleming,Johns Hopkins University,USA
Vsevolod Gurevich,Vanderbilt University Medical Center,USA
Peter Henderson,University of Leeds,UK
Junjie Hu, Nankai University, China
John Hunt,Columbia University,USA
Carola Hunte,University of Freiburg,GERMANY
Werner Kuhlbrandt,Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysics,GERMANY
Huilin Li,Brookhaven National Laboratory,USA
Jianfeng Liu, Huazhong University of Science & Technology. China
Daniel Muller,ETH Zürich,SWITZERLAND
Matthias Müller,Universität Freiburg,GERMANY
Robert Nakamoto,University of Virginia,USA
Hartmut Oschkinat,FMP,GERMANY
Bert Poolman,University of Groningen,THE NETHERLANDS
Scott Prosser,University of Toronto Mississauga,CANADA
Eitan Reuveny,Weizmann Insitute of Science,ISRAEL
Charles Sanders,Vanderbilt University,USA
Gebhard Schertler,Paul Scherrer Institut,SWITZERLAND
Yigong Shi,Tsinghua University,CHINA
Dimitrios Stamou,University of Copenhagen,DEBMARK
Kenton Swartz,NINDS/NIH,USA
Chris Tate,MRC,UK
Lynmarie Thompson,University of Massachusetts Amherst,USA
Tomitake Tsukihara,University of Hyogo,JAPAN
Michael Wiener,University of Virginia,USA
William Wimley,Tulane University,USA
Nieng Yan,Tsinghua University,CHINA

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 Stipends

We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in May 2011.

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1. The early & normal price will be available if the full payment is finished before the exact due date.
For USD participants, we will automatically change your package price to the update one if we could not successfully charge the full payment from your registered credit card before the deadline.
For CNY participants, we will automatically change your package price to the update one if our bank account could not receive your full payment by wire transfer before the deadline.

2. For Student Package registered participants, please add your roommate requirement during the online registration. Otherwise, we’ll assign you a roommate among other student participants.

3. For late registrations, your housing & registration materials may not be guaranteed since the order is usually made in advance.

4. Please inform us your request on extra day (USD 75/CNY 500 per day) and food (vegetarian, kosher…etc.) during the online registration or email us as early as possible so that we could make relevant arrangement accordingly.

5.We offer CSHA endowed student package for graduate students (student ID is required). This special offer only includes the meeting session pass. Housing, food and social activities are not included in the package.

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