Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting | Ascona, Switzerland

Liposomes, Exosomes, and Virosomes: From Modeling Complex Membrane Processes to Medical Diagnostics and Drug Delivery

Program Schedule

Session V

Donald M. Engelman, Yale University, USA, Chair

8:45 – 9:20

Wolfhard Almers, Oregon Health & Science University, USA Secretory Granules and Their Syntaxin Clusters in the Plasma Membrane Horst Vogel, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Ligand-gated Ion Channels: Structures and Functions

9:20 – 9:55

Coffee Break Spazio Roccia

9:55 – 10:25

10:25 – 10:40

Muhmmad Omar Hmeadi, Uppsala University, Sweden* Plasma Membrane PI(4,5)P2 Is Critical for Secretory Granule Exocytosis Christopher Stroupe, University of Virginia School of Medicine, USA* Using Liposomes as a Model System for Probing the Biochemical Mechanisms of Intracellular Membrane Tethering David Alsteens, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium Imagining Individual Receptors while Extracting Kinetic and Thermodynamic Parameters Using FD-based AFM Jay T. Groves, University of California, Berkeley, USA Signal Transduction on Membrane Surfaces: The Roles of Space, Force, and Time Philippe Bastiaens, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany, Chair Anne K. Kenworthy, Vanderbilt University, USA Targeting Proteins to Lipid Rafts: Mechanisms and Consequences Nikhil R. Gandasi, Uppsala University School of Medicine, Sweden* Assembly of the Secretory Machinery during Insulin Granule Docking Joël de Beer, Eidgenössische Techniche Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland * Fusion of Synthetic Lipid Carriers to Exosomes Produces Hybrid Vesicles Harnessed for the Delivery of Biomolecules Raya Sorkin, VU University, Netherlands* Mechanics of Extracellular Vesicles from Plasmodium Falciparum Infected Red Blood Cells Lunch

10:40 – 10:55

10:55 – 11:30

11:30 – 12:05

Sala Luce

12:30 – 14:30

Session VI

14:30 – 15:05

15:05 – 15:20

15:20 – 15:35

15:35 – 15:50

Coffee Break & Poster Session II Balint Salon

15:50 – 17:25

17:25 – 18:00

Anthony Hyman, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany Phase Transitions: An Emerging Principle in Cytoplasmic Organization and Neurodegeneration

Dinner

Sala Luce

19:00 – 20:00

* Contributed talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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