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Workshop I: Membrane Protein Science and Engineering

March 27 - 31, 2006

IPAM Building
Room 1200

Printable Version

Monday, March 27, 2006

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:45 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:45 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 10:00

David Needham (Duke University)

"Red Blood Cell as a Product: Part I Biodesign Methodology and Materials Selection"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation Files (Zip Archive)

10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30

David Needham (Duke University)

"Red Blood Cell as a Product: Part II RBC Properties and Component Design"
Presentation Files (ZIP Archive)

11:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Jemal Guven (National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM))

"Stress and geometry in fluid membranes"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Markus Deserno (Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research)

"Lipid membranes between nano and micro: A solvent-free coarse-grained simulation model -- and what we can learn from it. "
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

4:30 - 5:30

Petia Vlahovska (Max Planck Institute for Colloids and Interfaces)

"“Vesicle micro-hydrodynamics”"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)

5:30 - 7:00 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Sahraoui Chaieb (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

"Morphology, Kinematics and Dynamics of Wrinklesomes"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

10:00 - 11:00

Roland Netz (Technishche Universtitat München)

"Polymers and Proteins at Membranes far from Equilibrium"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:00 - 12:00

Jay Groves (UC Berkeley)

"Rewiring the T cell signaling network using solid-state nanostructures"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Jason Hafner (Rice University)

"“Probing Membrane Electrostatics with the Atomic Force Microscope”"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Kirill Katsov (UC Santa Barbara)

""Variations on Bilayer Membrane Fusion Mechanism""
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)


Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Alex Levine (UCLA)

 
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

10:00 - 11:00

Gary Ayton (University of Utah)

"New multiscale approaches for examining the structure and dynamics of membrane bound proteins."
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

11:00 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:30

Jie Liang (University of Illinois at Chicago)

"The nature of membrane protein assembly and applications in structure prediction"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PDF File)

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

1:30 - 2:30

Maria McGee (Wake Forest University)

"" Blood coagulation:at the interface between physical and chemical kinetics.""
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

2:30 - 3:30

Philip Pincus (UC Santa Barbara)

"HETEROGENEOUSLY CHARGED MEMBRANES"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00

Robert Raphael (Rice University)

"Electromechanical Coupling in Cells and Membranes: Theory and Experiment"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

5:00 - 6:30 Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Huey Huang (Rice University)

"How do peptides make holes in the membranes?"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

10:00 - 11:00

Ka Yee Lee (University of Chicago)

"Poking and Sealing Holes: Interactions of Antimicrobial Peptides and Poloxamers with Lipid Membranes "
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:00 - 12:00

Wladimir Urbach (École Normale Supérieure)

"Lateral mobility in membranes. Characterization of protein-protein interactions in a versatile system of model membranes."

12:00 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00

Frank Brown (UC Santa Barbara)

""Simple models for biomembrane structure and dynamics""
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30

Dennis Discher (University of Pennsylvania)

"Expansion of nature's toolbox with block copolymer membranes - Polymersomes"
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)


Friday, March 31, 2006

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 10:00

Jacob Schmidt (UCLA)

"Enabling Membrane Protein-based Single Molecule Sensors"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

10:00 - 11:00

William Foster (University of Houston)

"PIPs, pattern formation, and the regulation of the cytoskeleton"
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

11:00 - 12:00

Steven Boxer (Stanford University)

"Imaging Supported Membranes Beyond the Diffraction Limit: Interferometry and Mass Spectrometry"

12:00 - 2:00 Conclusion and Lunch (on your own)

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