Unfortunately Bruno Antonny, Université Nice, Valbonne, France is unable to attend the meeting; he will be replaced by Bruno Mesmin, a colleague of his research group.

Andrea Ballabio, TIGEM & Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Federico II University, Naples, Italy Department of Molecular and Human Genetics,
Baylor College of Medicine & Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute, Texas Children Hospital, Houston, TX/USA

Francis Barr, Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, UK

Philippe Bastiaens, Department of Systemic Cell Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany

Ineke Braakman,  Bijvoet Center for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht University, The Netherlands

Günther Daum, Institute of Biochemistry, University of Technology Graz, Austria

Scott Emr, Weill Institute for Cell and Molecular Biology, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY/USA

Unfortunately Johanna Ivaska (Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Finland) had to cancel her attendance.

Benoît Kornmann, Institute of Biochemistry, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Jesper Velgaard Olsen, The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Proteomics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Linda Partridge, Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, Cologne

Unfortunately, Albert Sickmann, ISAS-Institute for Analytical Sciences, Dortmund, is unable to attend the meeting; he will be replaced by his colleague René Zahedi, Department of Bioanalytics, ISAS-Institute for Analytical Sciences, Dortmund

Willem Stoorvogel, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University Utrecht, The Netherlands

Vinzenz Unger, Chemistry of Life Processes Institute & Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL/USA

Daniël Van Damme, Department of Plant Systems Biology, Ghent University, Belgium

Tobias Walther, Harvard School of Public Health, MA/USA

Thomas Willnow, Molecular Cardiovascular Research, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Dennis Winge, Departments of Medicine and Biochemistry, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah/USA

Alfred Wittinghofer, Department of Structural Biology, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund, Germany

Thomas Wollert, Molecular Membrane and Organelle Biology, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany

Unfortunately Matthew Wood, University of Oxford, UK, had to cancel his participation.