Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting| Padova 2019

Quantitative Aspects of Membrane Fusion and Fission

Program Schedule

14:30 – 14:50

Henry Nguyen, University of California, San Francisco, USA* Cryo-EM Structures Reveal Progressive Membrane Constriction by the ESCRT- III Proteins IST1 and CHMP1B

Coffee Break/Poster Session II

Sala delle Colonne

14:50 – 16:20

Session VI

Synapses Morten Gram Pedersen, University of Padova, Italy, Chair

16:30 – 17:00

Takeshi Sakaba, Doshisha University, Japan Comparison of the Transmitter Release Properties Between the Calyx of Held Synapse and Mossy Fiber-CA3 Synapse Alexander Walter, Leibniz-Institut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), Germany Release Site Recruitment and Activation as Mechanisms of Presynaptic Plasticity Stephanie Gupton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA An Unbiased Classification Approach Reveals Multiple Fusion Categories of VAMP2-Mediated Exocytosis

17:00 – 17:30

17:30 – 18:00

Break

18:00 – 18:15

Session VII

Superresolution Dinah Loerke, University of Denver, USA, Chair

18:15 – 18:45

Susan Cox, King’s College London, United Kingdom Faster and Better: Taking Localization Microscopy into Live Cells Katharina Gaus, University of New South Wales, Australia Single Molecule Localization Microscopy of Receptor Signaling Dinner on own

18:45 – 19:15

Thursday, May 9, 2019 8:00 – 19:00

Registration/Information

Foyer

Session VIII

Fusion Pore II Sebastian Barg, Uppsala University, Sweden, Chair

8:30 – 9:00

Ling-Gang Wu, NINDS, NIH, USA Visualizing Membrane Structural Remodeling During Fusion and Fission in Live Cells

9:00 – 9:30

Manfred Lindau, Cornell University, USA The Structure of the Fusion Pore

9:30 – 9:50

Raya Sorkin, Vrije Univit Amsterdam, The Netherlands* Membrane Binding, Bending, and Remodeling by Synaptotagmin-1 and Doc2b Rafael Lira, Max Planck Institute, Germany* How and How Much Has It Fused? Detecting Fusion Intermediates and Quantifying Fusion Efficiency

9:50 – 10:10

Coffee Break

Sala delle Colonne

10:10 – 10:40

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