Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting| Padova 2019

Quantitative Aspects of Membrane Fusion and Fission

Program Schedule

Quantitative Aspects of Membrane Fusion and Fission Padova, Italy May 6-10, 2019 PROGRAM

Monday, May 6, 2019 16:30 – 18:30

Registration/Information

Foyer

Welcome Reception

Terrazzo, Upper Level

17:30 – 19:30

Tuesday, May 7, 2019 8:00 – 18:00

Registration/Information

Foyer

8:30 – 8:40

Morten Gram Pedersen, University of Padova, Italy Opening Remarks Exocytosis I Sebastian Barg, Uppsala University, Sweden, Chair

Session I

8:40 – 9:10

Arun Anantharam, University of Michigan, USA Synaptotagmin-7 Endows a Population of Chromaffin Granules with Distinct Calcium Sensing and Fusion Properties Ben O’Shaughnessy, Columbia University, USA Coarse-Grained Mathematical Modeling of Neurotransmitter Release Yongli Zhang, Yale Unviersity, USA* Sec1/Munc18 Proteins Catalyze SNARE Assembly by Templating SNARE Folding and Association Alex Kreutzberger, University of Virginia, USA* Reconstitution of Regulated Exocytosis of Different Secretory Vesicle Types

9:10 – 9:40

9:40 – 10:00

10:00 – 10:20

Coffee Break

Sala delle Colonne

10:20 – 10:50

Session II

Systems Dinah Loerke, University of Denver, USA, Chair

10:50 – 11:20

Jens Rettig, Saarland University, Germany Molecular Insights Into Exo- and Endocytosis of Cytotoxic Granules Tomas Kirchhausen, Harvard University, USA Imaging Subcellular Dynamics from Molecules to Multicellular Organisms Belinda Akpa, North Carolina State University, USA* Multiscale Modeling of Plant Vacuole Fusion in Guard Cells: Positioning HOPS as the Key Regulator of Stoma Morphology

11:20 – 11:50

11:50 – 12:10

Lunch

Sala delle Colonne

12:10 – 13:10

Session III

Fusion Pore I Jakob B. Sørensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Chair

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