Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting - November 16-20, 2015

Biophysics in the Understanding, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Infectious Diseases Program

12:00 – 12:20

Ross Douglas, University of Heidelberg Medical School, Germany* Using Molecular Biophysics to Understand Plasmodium Actin Dynamics and Cell Motility

Excursions

13:00

Thursday, November 19, 2015

Registration/Information

Auditorium Foyer

8:00 – 17:00

Session VI

Chair: Helen Saibil, Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom

8:30 – 9:10

Gabriel Waksman, University College London & Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom Structural and Molecular Biology of Type IV Secretion Systems

9:10 – 9:50

Wolf-Dieter Schubert, University of Pretoria, South Africa Bacterial Infections at Atomic Resolution

9:50 – 10:10

Tarakdas Basu, University of Kalyani, India* Calcium Phosphate Nanoparticle (CPNP)-entrapped Tetracycline: A Potential Drug against Diarrheal Diseases

Coffee Break

10:10 – 10:40

10:40 – 11:20

Neeraj Dhar, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Microengineering for Microbiology Frederick Balagaddé, KwaZulu-Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV, South Africa Drug Tolerance in Mycobacteria Replicating in a Microdialyser Mediated by an Efflux Mechanism Lizbe Koekemoer, Stellenbosch University, South Africa* Elucidating the Differences between Eukaryotic and Prokaryotic Type II Pantothenate Kinases

11:20 – 12:00

12:00 – 12:20

Lunch

Riverside Terrace

12:20 – 14:20

Session VII

Chair: Valerie Mizrahi, University of Cape Town, South Africa

14:20 – 15:00

Sarah Fortune, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, USA Post-Translational Modification of a Nucleoid Associated Protein Regulates Cell State in Mycobacteria Frank von Delft, University of Oxford, United Kingdom XChem: From Crystals to Potent Molecules with X-Rays and Poised Synthesis

15:00 – 15:40

15:40 – 16:00

Tom Solmajer, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia* Structure-based Discovery of Novel DNA Gyrase B Inhibitors

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break *Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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