Monday, 9th February 2004
08:00-09:00 Registration - Welcome Coffee
09:00-09:15 Welcome by Sine Larsen, ESRF Director of Research
Chairman: S. Larsen
09:15-10:00 Introduction into Nuclear Structure

C. Cremer
University of Heidelberg, Germany

10:00-10:30 DNA transitions/fibre diffraction

T. Forsyth
ILL Grenoble, France

10:30-11.00 Coffee  
Chairman: T. Forsyth
11:00-11:30 The 30 nm filament: facts, fictions and speculations

M. Koch
EMBL Hamburg, Germany

11:30-12:00 Individual Chromatin Fibre: Cryo-electron Microscopy and Optical Tweezers Approach

J. Bednar
UJF Grenoble, France

12:00-12:30 Assembly and structure of mitotic chromosomes

S. Dimitrov
UJF Grenoble, France

12:30-14:00 Lunch in the ESRF canteen  
Chairman: W. Shepard
14:00-14:45 Nucleosome core and chromatin higher-order structure T. Richmond
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich Switzerland
14:45-15:15 Structural studies of a Nucleosome Remodeling Factor

C. Müller
EMBL Grenoble, France

15:15-15:45 Phase diagrams of nucleosome core particles

S. Mangenot,
Laboratoire de Physique des Solides,Université Paris Sud, Orsay

15:45-16:00 Coffee  
16:00-16:30 New insights into nuclear pore complex structure B. Fahrenkrog
University of Basel, Switzerland
16:30-17:00 Molecular interactions in nuclear trafficking M. Stewart
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge UK
17:00-17:30 Structural studies of mRNA nuclear export E. Conti
EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
17:30-18:00 Dissociation of nuclear transport complexes I. Vetter
MPI Dortmund, Germany
18:00-19.30

Refreshments & Poster session

19:30-21.30

Workshop Dinner

Tuesday, 10th February2004
 
Chairman: C. Riekel
09:00-09:30 Fluorescence microscopy techniques for exploring the cell nucleus structural and functional organization

M. Robert-Nicoud
UJF Grenoble, France

09:30-10:00 Fluorescence imaging & chromatin dynamics

J. Langowski
German Cancer Research Center Heidelberg, Germany

10:00-10:30 CEMOVIS (Cryo-electron microscopy of vitreous sections): cell nucleus and other structures

J. Dubochet
University of Lausanne, Switzerland

10:30-11:00 Coffee  
11:00-11:30 X-ray microscopy & cell structure

G. Schneider
Bessy, Germany

11:30-12:30 Round Table Discussion  
12:30-14:00 Lunch in the ESRF canteen