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Programme as of July 9, 2015 – subject to change

Overview

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 4

Chair: László Mátyus, HG

  • Metabolic prostheses – synthetic biology-inspired treatment strategies for metabolic disorders
    Martin Fussenegger, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE), CH

09:50-10:40

Plenary Hall | S07 Membrane Structure and Domains

Chairs: Claudia Steinem, DE & John M. Seddon, UK

  • From lipid rafts to bacterial membranes
    Kai Simons, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, DE
  • Frontiers in membrane biophysics
    Maikel C. Rheinstädter, McMaster University, Laboratory for Membrane and Protein Dynamics, CA

Hall 1 | S08 Single Molecule Biophysics

Chairs: Daniel Müller, DE & Thomas Schmidt, NL

  • Mapping and quantifying individual interactions using FD curves based AFM
    David Alsteens, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Department Biosystems Science and Engineering, CH
  • DNA supercoiling sharpens an epigenetic switch
    Lene Oddershede, Niels Bohr Institute, Optical Tweezers Group, DK

Hall 2 | S09 Material Science in Biophysics

Chairs: Erik Reimhult, AT

  • Label-free optical waveguide biosensors: novel configurations and biophysical applications
    Robert Horvath, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, NanoBioSensorics “Lendület” Group, HU
  • Quantitative 3D cellular imaging by cryo-scanning transmission electron tomography (CSTET)
    Michael Elbaum, Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Materials and Interfaces, IL

10:40-11:10

Exhibition | Coffee break

11:10-12:20

Plenary Hall | S07 continued Membrane Structure and Domains

  • Phase separation in ternary mixture membranes: effect of adhesion and protein adsorption
    Rumiana Dimova, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces Department of Theory and Bio-Systems, DE
  • Imaging patterns in lipid membranes through the use of molecular rotors
    Michael Dent, Imperial College London, Department of Chemistry, UK
  • Membrane curvature enables N-Ras lipid anchor sorting to liquid-ordered membrane phases
    Jannik Larsen, University of Copenhagen, Department of Chemistry, Nano-Science Center, Bio-Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine Laboratory, DK
  • Structure and dynamics of membrane lipid nanodomains using high-speed atomic force microscopy
    Pierre-Emmanuel Milhiet,  Center of Structural Biochemistry Montpellier (CNRS/INSERM), FR

Hall 1 | S08 continued Single Molecule Biophysics

  • Second-generation biosensors to measure piconewton forces in cells
    Carsten Grashoff, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Research Group Molecular Mechanotransduction, DE
  • Optical trapping reveals that the dynamics of hairpins is closer to equilibrium for DNA than for RNA
    Mathilde A. Bercy, ESPCI ParisTech, Nanobiophysics Laboratory, FR
  • Single molecule approach to study membrane pore formation by Bcl-2 proteins
    Katia Cosentino, University of Tübingen, Interfaculty Institute of Biochemistry, DE
  • Analyzing force propagation through an ultrastable protein complex with experiments and simulation
    Michael A. Nash, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Chair for Applied Physics, DE

Hall 2 | S09 continued Material Science in Biophysics

  • Tissue-like materials from communicating droplet networks
    Hagan Bayley, University of Oxford, UK
  • Polymer functionalization of gold surfaces for use in biointerface science
    Gustav Emilsson, Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Applied Physics, SE
  • Biosystems interfaced to memristors: Early evidences to study neuromorphic architectures
    Leon J. Juarez-Hernandez, CNR-IBF, IT
  • Scaffold biocompatibility with respect to biopolymer mobility and cell adhesion dynamics
    Rok Podlipec, “Jožef Stefan” Institute, Condensed Matter Physics Department, Laboratory of Biophysics, SI

12:20-14:45

Exhibition | Lunch break & poster session

13:00-13:30 | Hall 2 |

Industry talk: Malvern Instruments Ltd
Innovative Technologies for Advanced Characterization of Protein Aggregates
Jeffrey W. Hall, Malvern Instruments, US

14:00-14:30 | Hall 2 |

Industry talk: Mad City Labs GmbH
Modular Microscopy Systems for Single Molecule Imaging
Eric A. Drier, Mad City Labs Inc., US

14:45-15:30

Plenary Hall | Plenary 5

Chair: Christian Griesinger, DE

  • An ingenious cloak for subterfuge – the HIV capsid structure
    Angela M. Gronenborn, University of Pittsburgh, Department of Structural Biology, US

15:30-15:55

Plenary Hall | New and Notable 2

Chair: José Carrascosa, ES

  • Principles of lipid scrambling: Structural insights from a TMEM16 family member
    Janine D. Brunner, University of Zurich (UZH), Department of Biochemistry, CH

15:55-16:25 

Exhibition | Coffee break

16:25-17:15 

Plenary Hall | S10 Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions

Chairs: Ulrich Nienhaus, DE & Anthony J. Wilkinson, UK

  • Co-translation folding of proteins in and out of the ribosome exit tunnel
    Marina V. Rodnina, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Physical Biochemistry, DE
  • Condensation of DNA by the bacterial centromere binding protein Spo0J/ParB
    Fernando Moreno Herrero, Centro Nacional de Biotecnología (CNB-CSIC), Molecular Biophysics of DNA repair nanomachines lab, ES

Hall 1 | S11 New Methods for Computational Biophysics

Chairs: Gerhard Hummer, DE & Ilpo Vattulainen, FI

  • Biomolecular simulation on multiple scales: approaches and challenges
    Christine Peter, University of Konstanz, Department of Chemistry, DE
  • Simulating rare events in molecular dynamics simulations using reversible Markov models
    Frank Noé, Free University Berlin, Computational Molecular Biology Group, DE

Hall 2 | S12 Biospectroscopy, EPR and NMR

Chairs: Christian Griesinger, DE

  • Tracking conformations of proteins by Gd3+ distance measurements: from in-vitro to in-cell
    Daniella Goldfarb, Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Chemical Physics, IL
  • Hybrid NMR and EM models of bacterial supramolecular protein assemblies
    Adam Lange, Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharma-cology (FMP), Department of Molecular Biophysics, DE 

17:15-17:25 

Foyer | Break

17:25-18:35 

Plenary Hall | S10 continued Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions

  • 3D folding mechanisms of bacterial chromosomes
    Marcelo Nollmann, Center for Structural Biochemistry (CNRS/INSERM), Department of Single-Molecule Biophysics, FR
  • Single-molecule chromatin dynamics: HP1a multivalency governs heterochromatin assembly
    Beat Fierz, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Institute of chemical sciences and engineering, Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry of Macromolecules, CH
  • A novel mechanism of negative supercoiling by DNA gyrase without double-strand breaks
    Dagmar Klostermeier, University of Muenster, Institute for Physical Chemistry, DE 
  • Deciphering the physicochemical determinants of mRNA-driven localization of proteins
    Anton A. Polyansky, Max F. Perutz Laboratories & University of Vienna, Department of Structural and Computational Biology, AT

Hall 1 | S11 continued New Methods for Computational Biophysics

  • Investigating allosteric regulation through enhanced sampling simulations
    Francesco Gervasio, University College London, Department of Chemistry, UK
  • Sampling rare biomolecular events with adaptive pulling simulations
    Viveca Lindahl, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE
  • GromEx: Electrostatics with chemical variability for realistic molecular simulations on the exascale
    R. Thomas Ullmann, Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Theoretical and Computational Biophysics, DE
  • An all-atom/coarse-grained hybrid approach to study membrane processes
    Samuel Genheden, University of Southampton, School of Chemistry, UK

Hall 2 | S12 continued Biospectroscopy, EPR and NMR

  • NMR spectroscopy of large complexes: correlating protein motions with function
    Remco Sprangers, Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, NMR Spectroscopy of Large Complexes, DE
  • Light-induced switching of HAMP domain conformation and dynamics by time-resolved EPR spectroscopy
    Daniel Klose, ETH Zurich, CH
  • Conformational flexibility of POTRA domains from cyanobacterial Omp85 studied by PELDOR spectroscopy
    Denise Schütz, Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Biomolecular Magnetic Resonance, DE
  • EPR- and IRRAS studies on α-Synuclein
    Anna Weyrauch, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Institute of Chemistry, Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, DE

19:00-20:00

Plenary Hall | EBSA General Assembly


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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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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