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Impressions of the annual meeting 2014

Paul Rösch of the University Bayreuth had accepted the invitation of the bio-N³MR network and presented the keynote lecture on 09-19-2014. He reported the impressive activities of his team on characterization of structure and dynamics of protein complexes that play crucial roles in transcription and translation. Description of the bacterial protein RfaH, the first and up to day the only representative of the class of "transformer proteins", which was postulated by the Rösch lab, was without doubt one of the highlights of the talk. The bio-N³MR network meeting 2014 was held for the first time in Essen. The meeting was hosted by Peter Bayer, who, like Dieter Willbold and quite a few other colleagues organized in the network, started his scientific career in the lab of Paul Rösch in Bayreuth.

Peter Bayer (upper photo) introduced keynote speaker Paul Rösch (2nd photo).

Prof. Paul Rösch vividly encouraged his audience to question apparently well-known but often only seemingly understood phenomena and to study them anew using today's state-of-the art biophysical, biochemical and cellular biology tools in order to gain new insights.

The annual network meeting 2014 took place in a lecture room at the newly built university campus Essen.

Dr. Christine Beuck, Postdoc in the team of Prof. Peter Bayer at the University Duisburg-Essen, spoke on her NMR studies aimed at characterization of RNA-binding proteins.

Dr. Franziska Trusch, Postdoc in Aberdeen, UK, presented her results on the structure of the N-terminus of UBXD1 and on regulation of the ATPase activity of p97.

Franziska Weirich, Jülich, studies fibril forming proteins in the group of Prof. Henrike Heise using solid state NMR spectroscopy.

Participants discussed their projects and exchanged ideas during the coffee break.

Dr. Ute Marx, Bruker Biospin, provided insights into brand new products and solutions currently offered by the NMR spectrometer manufacturer.

Dr. Aldino Viegas, Düsseldorf, develops time-optimized multidimensional pulse sequences for NMR spectroscopy experiments in the team of Dr. Manuel Etzkorn.

Vineet Panwalkar, Jülich, studies structure and dynamics of WW domains in the group of Dr. Andrew Dingley.

Christina Möller, PhD student in the team of Dr. Philipp Neudecker at the Research Centre Jülich characterizes conformational dynamics of the protein GABARAP at various time scales using NMR spectroscopy.