Workshop I: Membrane Protein Science and Engineering - IPAM

Workshop I: Membrane Protein Science and Engineering

Part of the Long Program Cells and Materials: At the Interface between Mathematics, Biology and Engineering
March 27 - 31, 2006

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, March 27, 2006

Morning Session

08:00-08:45
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:45-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-10:00
David Needham (Duke University)
Red Blood Cell as a Product: Part I Biodesign Methodology and Materials Selection
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
11:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

14:00-15:00
Jemal Guven (National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM))
Stress and geometry in fluid membranes
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Markus Deserno (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Lipid membranes between nano and micro: A solvent-free coarse-grained simulation model -- and what we can learn from it.
16:30-17:30
Petia Vlahovska (Dartmouth College)
“Vesicle micro-hydrodynamics”
17:30-19:00
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, March 28, 2006

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Sahraoui Chaieb (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Morphology, Kinematics and Dynamics of Wrinklesomes
10:00-11:00
Roland Netz (Technishche Universtitat München)
Polymers and Proteins at Membranes far from Equilibrium
11:00-12:00
Jay Groves (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Rewiring the T cell signaling network using solid-state nanostructures

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Jason Hafner (Rice University)
“Probing Membrane Electrostatics with the Atomic Force Microscope”
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Kirill Katsov (UC Santa Barbara)
Variations on Bilayer Membrane Fusion Mechanism

Wednesday, March 29, 2006

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Alex Levine (UCLA)
Title not available
10:00-11:00
Gary Ayton (University of Utah)
New multiscale approaches for examining the structure and dynamics of membrane bound proteins.
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

Afternoon Session

12:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)
13:30-14:30
Maria McGee (Wake Forest University)
Blood coagulation:at the interface between physical and chemical kinetics.
14:30-15:30
Philip Pincus (UC Santa Barbara)
HETEROGENEOUSLY CHARGED MEMBRANES
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Robert Raphael (Rice University)
Electromechanical Coupling in Cells and Membranes: Theory and Experiment
17:00-18:30
Dinner (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, March 30, 2006

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Huey Huang (Rice University)
How do peptides make holes in the membranes?
10:00-11:00
Ka Yee Lee (University of Chicago)
Poking and Sealing Holes: Interactions of Antimicrobial Peptides and Poloxamers with Lipid Membranes
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.

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Frank Brown (University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara))
Simple models for biomembrane structure and dynamics
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-16:30
Dennis Discher (University of Pennsylvania)
Expansion of nature's toolbox with block copolymer membranes - Polymersomes

Friday, March 31, 2006

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Jacob Schmidt (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Enabling Membrane Protein-based Single Molecule Sensors
10:00-11:00
William Foster (University of Houston)
PIPs, pattern formation, and the regulation of the cytoskeleton
11:00-12:00
Steven Boxer (Stanford University)
Imaging Supported Membranes Beyond the Diffraction Limit: Interferometry and Mass Spectrometry

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Conclusion and Lunch (on your own)
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