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Programme as of July 9, 2015 – subject to change

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Saturday,
18 July

Sunday,
19 July

Monday,
20 July

Tuesday,
21 July

Wednesday,
22 July

 

08:00

Foyer | Registration opens

09:00-09:45

Plenary Hall | Plenary 2

Chair: Manuel Prieto, PT

  • Forces in the mitotic spindle
    Iva M. Tolić, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Division of Molecular Biology, HR

09:50-10:40

Plenary Hall | S01 Protein Structure and Function

Chairs: Stefan Raunser, DE & Angela M. Gronenborn, US

  • Single particle electron cryo microscopy of membrane proteins
    V. Kutti Ragunath, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Structural Studies Division, UK
  • Molecular mechanisms in outer membrane protein biogenesis
    Sebastian Hiller, University of Basel, Biozentrum, CH

Hall 1 | S02 Synthetic Biology and Nanobiophysics

Chairs: Petra Schwille, DE & Hagan Bayley, UK

  • Programmable on-chip DNA compartments as ‘artificial cells’
    Roy Bar-Ziv, Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Materials and Interfaces, IL
  • Soft and triggerable synthetic biological systems: from DNA to enzymes and membrane proteins
    Damien Baigl, École Normale Supérieure, Department of Chemistry, FR

Hall 2 | S03 Live Imaging and Optical Microscopy

Chairs: Jörg Langowski, DE & Elina M. Ikonen, FI

  • Super-resolution imaging of nucleosome organization
    Melike Lakadamyali, ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Advanced fluorescence imaging and biophysics group, ES
  • Quantitative imaging of membranes and synapses
    Silvio O. Rizzoli, University Medical Center Göttingen, Department of Neuro- and Sensory Physiology, DE

10:40-11:10

Exhibition | Coffee break

11:10-12:20

Plenary Hall | S01 continued Protein Structure and Function

  • Protein structure and dynamics using X-ray free-electron lasers
    Ilme Schlichting, Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, Department of Biomolecular Mechanisms, DE
  • Tailed bacteriophage architecture from a combination of liquid & solid state NMR and EM data
    Sophie Zinn-Justin, Institute for Integrative Biology of the Cell (I2BC), FR
  • Cryo-EM structure of the 55S mammalian mitochondrial ribosome
    Daniel Boehringer, ETH Zurich, Department of Biology, Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, CH
  • Correlated atomic force microscopy and single molecule localization microscopy
    Pascal Damian Odermatt,  École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, Laboratory for Bio- and Nano-Instrumentation, CH

Hall 1 | S02 continued Synthetic Biology and Nanobiophysics

  • We do it our (path)way: Using biochemistry and synthetic biology to establish synthetic CO2-fixation
    Tobias J. Erb, Max-Planck-Institute for terrestrial Microbiology, Research Group Biochemistry & Synthetic Biology of Microbial Metabolism, DE
  • Folding pathways: DNA origami as a model system
    Andrew J. Turberfield, University of Oxford, Department of Physics, UK
  • The value of a binary fitness landscape for the origin of molecular life
    Moritz Kreysing, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, DE 
  • Molecular team-building using a family of protein-superglues enables programmable cell triggering
    Mark Howarth, University of Oxford, Department of Biochemistry, UK

Hall 2 | S03 continued Live Imaging and Optical Microscopy

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    Jörg Langowski, German Cancer Research Center, DE
  • Timing the process of bacterial division with nm spatial and ms temporal precision
    Georg E. Fantner, École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne, Interfaculty Institute for Bioengineering, CH 
  • Dissecting subunit assembly by single molecule imaging of membrane protein complexes
    Maximilian H. Ulbrich, University of Freiburg, BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies and Institute of Physiology, DE
  • Advanced microscopy studies of the true resting state of T-cells
    Jorge Bernardino de la Serna, University of Oxford, The Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, MRC-Human Immunology Unit, UK

12:20-14:45

Exhibition | Lunch break & poster session

13:00-13:30 | Hall 2 |

Industry talk: Applied Photophysics Ltd.
The Future of CD Spectroscopy – The Power of Quantitative Circular Dichroism
Dr. Anna Łęczkowska, Applied Photophysics Ltd, UK

14:00-14:30 | Hall 2 |

Industry talk: Nanion Technologies GmbH
Measure More Membrane: HTS Compatible Giga-Seal Patch Clamp, Cardiomyocytes and Artificial Bilayers
Ekaterina Zaitseva & Gerhard Baaken, Nanion Technologies GmbH, DE

14:45-15:30

Plenary Hall | Plenary 3

Chair: André Matagne, BE

  • Mechanics of single protein molecules
    Matthias Rief, Technical University Munich, Department of Physics, E22 Chair – Protein Folding and Molecular Motors, DE

15:30-15:55

Plenary Hall | New and Notable 1

Chair: Helmut Grubmüller, DE

  • Single replication machines at work: the coordination of daughter strand synthesis
    Karl Duderstadt, University of Groningen, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, Single Molecule Biophysics, NL

15:55-16:25 

Exhibition | Coffee break

16:25-17:15 

Plenary Hall | S04 Photobiophysics and Biological Electron and Proton Transfer

Chairs: Klaus Gerwert, DE & Pavol Miškovský, SK

  • Molecular mechanism of ion-transporting microbial rhodopsins
    Hideki Kandori, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Department of Frontier Materials, JP
  • Chromophore photophysics and dynamics in fluorescent proteins of the GFP family
    G. Ulrich Nienhaus, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Applied Physics and Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN), DE

Hall 1 | S05 Molecular Motors

Chairs: Stefan Diez, DE & Iva Tolić, HR

  • Structural determinants of myosin mechanosensing
    E. Michael Ostap, University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, Pennsylvania Muscle Institute, US
  • Pivoting of microtubules facilitates formation of microtubule bundles and kinetochore capture
    Nenad Pavin, University of Zagreb, Department of Physics, HR

Hall 2 | S06 Supramolecular Assemblies and Aggregation

Chairs: Daniel Huster, DE & José Carrascosa, ES

  • Kinetics of protein aggregation
    Tuomas P. J. Knowles, University of Cambridge, Biophysics & Biophysical Chemistry, UK
  • Influenza virus nucleocapsid polymorphism determined by cryo-electron microscopy
    Jaime Martín-Benito, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Macromolecular Structures, ES

17:15-17:25 

Foyer | Break

17:25-18:35 

Plenary Hall | S04 continued Photobiophysics and Biological Electron and Proton Transfer

  • Ferryl intermediates of heme-copper oxidases
    Marián Fabian, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, Center for Interdisciplinary Biosciences, SK
  • Elucidating the proton transfer mechanism of the respiratory complex I using molecular dynamics
    Juan A. Bueren-Calabuig, University of Dundee, UK
  • Coupling of H+/e- transfer in proteins from respiration studied by electrochemistry and SEIRAS
    Petra Hellwig, Université de Strasbourg, Chimie de la matičre complexe, Laboratoire de bioelectrochimie et spectroscopie, FR
  • Infrared Spectroscopy on Channelrhodopsin-2 reveals ultrafast deprotonation of E90
    Jens Kuhne, Ruhr-University Bochum, Department of Biophysics, DE

Hall 1 | S05 continued Molecular Motors

  • DNA and RNA helicase single molecule assays
    Vincent Croquette, École normale supérieure, Physics Department, ABCD biophysics Lab, FR
  • Structure-dependent force generation and stepping of cytoplasmic dynein
    Arne Gennerich, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, US
  • The working stroke of the kinesin-14, ncd, comprises at least two substeps of different direction
    Andrej Vilfan, J. Stefan Institute, SI
  • Characterization of the translocation mechanism of a replicative DNA polymerase
    Borja Ibarra, Instituto Madrileńo de Estudios Avanzados en Nanociencia, IMDEA Nanociencia, ES

Hall 2| S06 continued Supramolecular Assemblies and Aggregation

  • Solid-state NMR and molecular modeling provide structural information on amyloid-β protofibrils
    Torleif Härd, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, SE
  • Biomimetic S-layer – lipid self-assemblies as platform for membrane-active peptides and proteins
    Bernhard Schuster, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Institute for Synthetic Bioarchitectures, AT
  • Self-assemblies of a new amphiphilic cyclodextrins and their interactions with model membranes
    Aurélien L. Furlan, Université Picardie Jules Verne, Génie Enzymatique et Cellulaire, FR
  • Thioflavin-T: application for α-synuclein aggregation kinetics
    Alex I. M. van der Wateren, University of Cambridge, Department of Chemistry, UK

19:00-20:00

Main entrance Congress Center | Optional tour through the inner city of Dresden 


Types of lectures: Plenary - 45 minutes  |  Invited Talk - 25 minutes  |  Short Talk - 15 minutes

Please note that only the presenting author is mentioned in the online programme. Co-authors will be listed in the book of abstracts / European Biophysics Journal.

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Important Dates

July 8, 2015
End of online registration - only on-site registration is possible

July 18 to 22, 2015
10th European Biophysics Congress

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