EMBO Members Workshop
Frontiers of Molecular Biology

Draft Programme
Barcelona, Spain. October 26 – 29, 2007

Meeting Booklet

The order of the speakers will be announced only at the start of the meeting to encourage participation for the complete meeting. Please refer to the separate list of speakers for information on the presentations.
The meeting will take place in the Gran Hotel Torre Catalunya.

Please note, registration for this meeting is now closed.

Friday, 26th October
	14:00	Opening – Hermann Bujard
	14:15	EMBO Members Forum An opportunity to discuss any aspect of EMBO activities
	16:00 -16:30	Coffee Break
	Session 1: Chair: Miguel Beato
	16:30 - 17:00	Talk 1
	17:00 - 17:30	Talk 2
	17:30 - 18:00	Talk 3
	18:00 - 18:30	Talk 4
		Free evening
Saturday, 27th October
	Session II: Mini-symposium on "Human Disease" - Chair: Ramón Serrano
	09:00 - 09:30	Talk 5
	09:30 - 10:00	Talk 6
	10:00 - 10:30	Talk 7
	10:30 - 11:00	Talk 8
	11:00	Coffee Break
	Session II: Mini-symposium on "Human Disease" continued -Chair: Ferran Azorin
	11:30 - 12:00	Talk 9
	12:00 - 12:30	Talk 10
	13:00 - 13:30	Talk 11
	13:30 - 14:30	Lunch
	14:30 - 16:45	City tour of Barcelona
	17:00 - 18:00	EMBO Nobel Lecture: Aaron Ciechanover - University Hall
	18:00 - 19:00	EMBO Gold Medal 2007 Talk Jan Löwe - Molecules of the Bacterial Cytoskeleton
	19:00 - 20:00	Reception
		Transfer to restaurant
	20:30	Dinner
Sunday, 28th October
	Session III – Chair: Juan A. Subirana
	09:00 - 09:30	Talk 12
	09:30 - 10:00	Talk 13
	10:00 - 10:30	Talk 14
	10:30 - 11:00	Talk 15
	11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
	Session IV -Juan Valcarcel
	11:30 -12:00	Talk 16
	12:00 -12:30	Talk 17
	12:30 -13:00	Talk 18
	13:00 -13:30	Talk 19
	13:30	Lunch and departure for PRBB auditorium
	Session V – Venue: PRBB Auditorium – Chair: Miquel Coll
	15:30 - 16:00	Talk 20
	16:00 - 16:30	Talk 21
	16:30 - 17:00	Coffee Break
	17:00 - 19:30	Special Science & Society Session: “Dealing with difficult topics in public: a communication workshop focussed on controversial issues in science”
		Free evening
Monday, 29th October
	Session VI -Chair: Pere Puigdomenech and Miguel Angel Penalva
	09:00 - 09:30	Talk 22
	09:30 - 10:00	Talk 23
	10:00 - 10:30	Talk 24
	10:30 - 11:00	Talk 25
	11:00 - 11:30	Coffee Break
	Session VII – Chairs: Jordi Casanova and Luis Serrano
	11:30 - 12:00	Talk 26
	12:00 - 12:30	Talk 27
	12:30 - 13:00	Talk 28
	13:00 - 13:30	Talk 29
	13:30 -14:30	Lunch
	Session VII – Chairs: Enrique Cerdá-Olmedo
	14:30 - 15:00	Talk 30
	15:00 - 15:30	Talk 31
	15:30 - 16:00	Talk 22
	16:00	Departure and close