Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting - October 13-15, 2015

Biophysics of Proteins at Surfaces: Assembly, Activation, Signaling

Program

10:25 – 10:50

Alicia Alonso, Unidad de Biofisica CSIC, UPV/EHU, Spain The Interaction of Autophagy Proteins with Lipid Surfaces Marisela Vélez, ICP CSIC, Spain A Surface to Twist the Filament: A Good Strategy to Generate Force

10:50 – 11:15

Coffee Break

11:15 – 11:45

11:45 – 12:00

Aurelia Honerkamp-Smith, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom* Fluid Flow as a Biophysical Method for Sorting and Localization of Membrane Proteins Fabio Fernandes, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal* FRET Analysis of the Nanoscale Organization of PI(4,5)P2 in Living Cells Jannik B. Larsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark* Membrane Curvature Enables N-Ras Lipid Anchor Sorting to Liquid- ordered Membrane Phases Anabel-Lise Le Roux, University of Barcelona, Spain* Biophysical Studies of Myristoylated Unique and SH3 Domains of Src Kinase and Their Interaction with Lipid Membranes Jennie Ringberg, Biolin, Sweden* QCM-D: A Powerful Surface Analysis Tool for Protein Studies Integrating Proteins and Surfaces in Biomaterials Chair: Marjorie Longo, University of California, Davis, USA Ana García-Saéz, University of Tubingen, Germany Oligomerization of Pore Forming Proteins in Membranes at the Single Molecule Level Marjorie Longo, University of California, Davis, USA Nanolipoprotein Particles Confined within Nanoporous Sol-Gel or Bound to GUVs Alexey Ladokhin, KUMC, USA PH-Triggered Conformational Signaling on Membrane Interfaces Lunch Poster Session II

12:00 – 12:15

12:15 – 12:30

12:30 – 12:45

12:45 – 13:00

13:00 – 13:45

Hall of Biology Faculty

13:45 – 15:30

Session IV:

15:30 – 15:55

15:55 – 16:20

16:20 – 16:45

Coffee Break

16:45 – 17:15

17:15 – 17:30

Ivan Lopez-Montero, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain* Structural and Nanomechanical Features of Reconstructed Spectrin— Actin Membrane Cytoskeletons for Artificial Cell Realizations: An Atomic Force Microscopy Characterization

*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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