Engineering Approaches to Biomolecular Motors

Engineering Approaches to Biomolecular Motors: From in vitro to in vivo

Program Schedule

16:45 – 17:15

Jens Gundlach, University of Washington, USA Subangstrom Single-Molecule Measurements of Motor Proteins Using a Nanopore Cassandra Niman, University of California, San Diego, USA* Tools for Control and Observation of Synthetic Molecular Motors Using Micro- and Nanofluidics

17:15 – 17:30

Dinner (on own)

17:30 – 19:30

Poster Session II

Segal Centre

19:30 – 21:30

Friday, June 17, 2016

Registration/Information

Outside Fletcher Challenge Theatre

8:00 – 17:30

Session IX

Nanodevices II: Harnessing Motors to Perform Functions in Devices Heiner Linke, Lund University, Sweden, Chair

9:00 – 9:15

Session Introduction - Heiner Linke

9:15 – 9:45

Stefan Diez, B CUBE, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Application of Biomolecular Transport Systems for Optical Imaging

9:45 – 10:15

Henry Hess, Columbia University, USA Engineering with Kinesin Motors

10:15 – 10:30

Janet Paluh, SUNY Polytechnic Institute CNSE, USA* Manipulating Kinesin-Tubulin-MTOC Interactions for Engineering Polarized Networks

Coffee Break

Harbour Centre Concourse

10:30 – 10:50

Session X

From Nanodevices to General Theory to Living Cells Heiner Linke, Lund University, Sweden, Chair Dan Nicolau, Jr., Molecular Sense, Ltd., United Kingdom Doing Maths with Autonomous Biological Agents

10:50 – 11:20

11:20 – 11:50

Alf Månsson, Linnaeus University, Sweden Chemomechanical Models for the Rational Design and Studies of Engineered Molecular Motors

11:50 – 12:05

David Sivak, Simon Fraser University, Canada* Efficient Molecular-Scale Energy Transmission Lene Oddershede, Niels Bohr Institute, Denmark Measuring Force and Viscoelasticity inside Living Cells

12:05 – 12:35

12:35 – 13:50 Lunch break (on own) *Contributed talks selected from among submitted abstracts

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