Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting | Ascona, Switzerland

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

Program Schedule

17:25 – 18:00

Suzanne Eaton, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany Lipoprotiens in Hedgehog Release and Signaling

Dinner

Sala Luce

19:00 – 20:00

Session XII

Special Evening Lecture Lukas Tamm, University of Virginia, USA, Chair

20:00 – 20:50

Matthew Wood, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Extracellular Vesicles for Trans-Blood Brain Barrier Drug Delivery

Friday, September 17, 2016

Information Main Entrance

8:30 – 13:00

Session XIII

Jay T. Groves, University of California, Berkeley, USA, Chair

8:45 – 9:20

Sarah L. Keller, University of Washington, USA Colocalization of Lipid Domains across the Two Faces of a Membrane Petra S. Dittrich, Eidgenössische Techniche Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland Microfluidic Methods to Study Lipid Membrane Permeation, Deformation, and Fusion

9:20 – 9:55

Coffee Break Spazio Roccia

9:55 – 10:25

10:25 – 10:40

Wye Khay Fong, Monash University, Australia* Dynamic Creation of Nanostructured Lipid Self-assembled Mesophases via Invertase Digestion Triggers Controlled Release of Encapsulated Drug

10:40 – 10:55

Roy Ziblat, Harvard University, USA* Membrane Decoys as Anti-Viral Nanomedicine

10:55 – 11:30

Chen-Yu Zhang, Nanjing University, China Exosomes Sufficiently Deliver Secreted Small RNA to Recipient Tissues Gisou van der Goot, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Function and Dynamics of Protein Palmitoylation Closing Remarks & Biophysical Journal Poster Awards Presentation Horst Vogel, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland CSF Poster Award

11:30 – 12:05

12:05 – 12:30

Lunch

Sala Luce

12:30 – 14:30

* Contributed talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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