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Polymers and Self Assembly: From Biology to Nanomaterials
Program
Polymers and Self Assembly: From Biology to Nanomaterials
Windsor Excelsior
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
October 25-30, 2015
PROGRAM
The meeting will take place at the Windsor Excelsior Hotel. Scientific sessions will be held in
the Plaza/Excelsior room and the poster sessions in the Mar da Barra room.
Sunday, October 25, 2015
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16:00 – 18:00
Registration/Information
Lobby Miramar
18:00 – 20:00
Opening Reception
Miramar
Monday, October 26, 2015
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8:00
AM
– 17:00
Registration/Information
Foyer of Mar da Barra
Session I
Louise Serpell, University of Sussex, United Kingdom, Chair
9:00 – 9:15
Welcome/Opening Remarks
9:15 – 9:45
Gillian Fraser, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Building a Flagellum on the Bacterial Cell Surface
9:45 – 10:15
Marie-France Carlier, Centre National de La Recherche
Scientifique (CNRS), France
Self-Assembly of Actin in Cell Motility: From Molecules to
Movement
10:15 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:30
Enrique De La Cruz, Yale University, USA
Cation Release Modulates Actin Filament Mechanics and Drives
Severing by Vertebrate Cofilin
11:30 – 11:45
Frederico Gueiros Filho, Instituto de Quimica-USP, Brazil
Filament Capping Regulates the Bacterial Tubulin-like
Cytoskeleton*
11:45 – 13:30
Lunch on own
*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts