Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting | Ascona, Switzerland

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

Program Schedule

Session VII

Special Evening Lecture Horst Vogel, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, Chair

20:00 – 20:50

Gunnar von Heijne, Stockholm University, Sweden Cotranslational Protein Folding

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Registration/Information Main Entrance

8:30 – 12:30

Session VIII

Helen R. Saibil, Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom, Chair

8:45 – 9:20

Wolfgang Meier, University of Basel, Switzerland Biomimetic Block Copolymer Membranes

9:20 – 9:55

Andreas Kuhn, University of Hohenheim, Germany* Reconstituted Membrane Insertion of Single Proteins in Real Time

Coffee Break

Spazio Roccia

9:55 – 10:25

10:25 – 10:40

Sonia Troeira Henriques, University of Queensland, Australia* Cyclotides, Stable Drug Scaffolds Use Phosphatidylethanolamine Lipids as a Switch to Internalize Inside Cells Burkhard Bechinger, University of Strasbourg/CNRS, France* The Role of Membranes during Polyglutamine Self Aggregation of Huntingtin Daniel Müller, Eidgenössische Techniche Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland Folding Steps of Single Polypeptides into Membrane Proteins Christian Eggeling, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Advanced (Super-Resolution) Optical Microscopy to Determine Plasma- Membrane Dynamics

10:40 – 10:55

10:55 – 11:30

11:30 – 12:05

Lunch

Sala Luce

12:30 – 14:00

Session IX

Daniel Müller, Eidgenössische Techniche Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland, Chair

14:00 – 14:50

Phyllis Hanson, Washington University, USA Membrane Remodeling by ESCRT-III and Friends

Free Evening for Networking

14:50 – 18:30

Dinner

Sala Luce

19:00 – 20:00

* Contributed talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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