Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting | Bucharest 2026

Biophysics of Membrane Reactions in Brian

Speaker Abstracts

Session III

Understanding the Aqueous and the Membrane Environments Chair: Mariana Pinteala, Institute for Macromolecular Chemistry, RAS, Romania William Wimley, Tulane University, USA PH-Responsive Peptide Nanoparticles Deliver Macromolecules to Cells via Endosomal Membrane Nanoporation Ingela Parmryd, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Membrane Topography Variations and Quantitative Biology - Pitfalls and Solutions Elena Pohl, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Austria Mitochondrial Uncoupling Protein 4 in Brain: Putative Functions and Molecular Mechanisms Nicolas Vitale, Institute of Cellular and Integrative Neurosciences, CNRS, France * Illuminating Neurosecretion: Optogenetic and Click Chemistry Novel Tools to Highlight the Multiple Roles of Phosphatidic Acid in Neurotransmitter Release

11:00 – 11:25

11:25 – 11:50

11:50 – 12:15

12:15 – 12:30

12:30 – 14:00

Lunch & Posters

Session IV

Signaling in the Brain Chair: Kumiko Hayashi, The University of Tokyo, Japan

14:00 – 14:25

Rohit Menon, University of Regensburg, Germany Differential Oxytocin Receptor Signaling Drives the Reversal of Social Trauma Induced Avoidance in Mice

14:25 – 14:50

Christoph Fahlke, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Germany Molecular Physiology of Vesicular Glutamate Transporters

14:50 – 15:05

Jan Steinkühler, Kiel University, Germany * Lipid Nanotubes A Model System for Neuron Signaling and Morphological Plasticity Katharina Duerr, University of Oxford, United Kingdom * Structural Mechanism of Membrane Transport and Allosteric Regulation in KCC2, A Key Regulator of Neuronal Inhibition

15:05 – 15:20

15:20 – 15:40

Coffee Break & Posters

Session V

Signaling Across the Membrane Part I Chair: Ching-Ju Tsai, Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland

15:40 – 16:05

Leonid Sazanov, Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA), Austria How the Twin-Arginine Translocase (Tat) System Transports Folded Proteins Across Membranes Without Leaking Protons? Matthias Buck, Case Western Reserve University, USA Understanding Protein-Protein and Protein-Membrane Interactions in the Plexin Transmembrane Receptor for Axon Guidance: A Perspective from Structural Biology, Binding Biophysics and Molecular Dynamics Simulations as Well as AI Based Modeling

16:05 – 16:30

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