Deadline for submission of abstract is September 15, 2008.

WELCOME !

We are please to announce ZOMES V - the Fifth International Symposium on the COP9 signalosome, proteasome, and eIF3, which will be held on November 11-14, 2008, at the RIKEN Yokohama Institute, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan (www.yokohama.riken.go.jp/indexE.html).

ZOMES V follows the tradition of the ZOMES I, ZOMES II, ZOMES III, and ZOMES IV conferences held in Europe and the United States, and encourages participants to present their unpublished data to continue our open fruitful discussion. In addition to the invited speakers, many oral presentations will be selected from the submitted abstracts. We are particularly interested in the topics such as

-Mechanism of SCF
-Functions and interactions of CAND1 and Nedd8
-Targets of Nedd8/Rub1 modification
-DeNeddylation enzymes
-Biological targets of the CSN action
-Role of CSN in human disease
-Structure and function of the PCI and MPN proteins
-Interactions between eIF3, CSN and proteasome
-Proteasome auxiliary factors and regulation of the proteasome activity
-Links between Ribosome and the ubiquitin/proteasome system

In addition to the senior scientists, postdocs and graduate students who are actively working on the ZOMES are strongly encouraged to attend. The previous meetings have been successful in meshing between perspective postdocs and advisers and in fostering collaborations. We hope again to maintain this tradition. For this purpose, RIKEN Yokohama Institute provides wonderful facilities and a very nice academic atmosphere. Furthermore, Yokohama is within easy access of Narita International Airport, so that oversea participants will reach the place without trouble.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Japan.

Organizing Committee
Jun-ya Kato, NAIST
Kazuhiro Iwai, Osaka University
Minami Matsui, RIKEN
Keiji Tanaka, RINSHOKEN
Michael Glickman, The Technion
Ning Wei, Yale University
Daniel Chamovitz, Tel Aviv University

3 Steps to Join ZOMES V

ZOMES V is hosted by

RIKEN

and additionally supported by

ProteolysisGrant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Priority Areas "Proteolysis in the Regulation of Biological Processes" from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan.

Uehara


The Logo of ZOMES V was designed by Dr. Michael Glickman.

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