Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting - October 13-15, 2015

Biophysics of Proteins at Surfaces: Assembly, Activation, Signaling

Program

Biophysics of Proteins at Surfaces: Assembly, Activation, Signaling Madrid, Spain October 13 – 15, 2015 PROGRAM Scientific sessions will be held in the Main Lecture Hall at the Biology Faculty, and the poster sessions in the Hall of the main building of the Biology Faculty in the Complutense University of Madrid unless otherwise noted. Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Registration/Information

Outside Main Lecture Hall

8:30 – 17:00

Opening Session

9:00 – 10:00

Session I:

Oriented Protein Assembly at Biological Surfaces Chair: Marisela Vélez, ICPQ CSIC, Madrid

10:00 – 10:25

Gregor Anderluh, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia Affecting Membrane Assembly and Insertion of a Cholesterol-dependent Cytolysin Listeriolysin O Adam W. Smith, University of Akron, USA Resolving Membrane Protein-Protein Interactions in Live Cells with PIE-FCCS Kabir Biswas, National University of Singapore* E-cadherin Junction Formation Involves an Active Kinetic Nucleation Process Nadja Hellman, University of Mainz, Germany* Surface Induced Oligomerisation—The Case of the Alpha-Toxin from S. aureus Bárbara Olmeda, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain* Supramolecular Assembly of Pulmonary Surfactant Protein SP-B Ensures Proper Dynamics and Structural Stability of Multilayered Films at the Respiratory Air- Liquid Interface Manuel Prieto, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal* Quantifying the Membrane Assembly of Amphitropic Proteins by homo-FRET Analysis Dimitrios Morikis, University California, Riverside, USA* Ligand-specific Conformational Changes in CCR7 Coupled to Selecting Different Signaling Pathways upon CCL19 and CCL21 Ligand Binding Coffee Break

10:25 – 10:50

10:50 – 11:20

11:20 – 11:35

11:35 – 11:50

11:50 – 12:05

12:05 – 12:20

12:20 – 12:35

Lunch

12:35 – 13:30

Poster Session I

Hall of Biology Faculty

13:30 – 15:00

*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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