Biophysical Society Thematic Meeting - October 13-15, 2015
Biophysics of Proteins at Surfaces: Assembly, Activation, Signaling
Program
Session II:
Interfacial Catalysis Chair: Félix Goñi, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain Juan Carmelo Gomez-Fernandez, University of Murcia, Spain Membrane Surface Activation of Protein Kinases C
15:00 – 15:25
15:25 – 15:50
Banafshe Larijani, Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science and Universidad del País, Vasco, Spain Protein Kinase B (PKB) and Phosphoinositide Dependent Kinase 1 (PDK1) Regulation at Membranous Compartments
Coffee Break
15:50 – 16:20
16:20 – 16:35
Mary Gertrude Gutierrez, University of Southern California, USA* Elucidating GPCR Functional Dependence on Plasma Membrane Composition Using Giant Unilamellar Protein-Vesicles Daniel G. Capelluto, Virginia Tech, USA* Tom1 Modulates Binding of Tollip to Phosphatidylinositol 3-Phosphate via a Coupled Folding and Binding Mechanism Nathalie Reuter, University of Bergen, Norway* Interplay between Weak Nonspecific Electrostatics and Cation- π Interactions Governs the Peripheral Membrane Binding of a Bacterial Phospholipase Sarah Perrett, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China* Self-Assembly of Protein Nanofibrils that Display Active Enzymes Patrick C. Van der Wel, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, USA* Interfacial Interactions with Cardiolipin-containing Membranes Cause Cytochrome C’s Peroxidase Activity Required for Mitochondrial Apoptosis without Unfolding the Protein
16:35 – 16:50
16:50 – 17:05
17:05 – 17:20
17:20 – 17:35
Keynote Lecture Introduced by Félix Goñi, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain Joshua Zimmerberg, NIH, NICHD, USA Liquid/Protein Interactions in Membrane Fusion and Fission
17:35 – 18:35
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Registration/Information
Outside Main Lecture Hall
9:00 – 17:00
Plenary Lecture Introduced by Jesus Pérez-Gil, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Allen Minton, NIDDK, NIH, USA Effects of Molecular Crowding and Reversible Adsorption on Macromolecular Self-Assembly: A Mesoscopic Analysis
9:00 – 10:00
Session III:
Shifting from a 3D to a 2D World for Regulation and Signaling Chair: Jesus Pérez-Gil, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
10:00 – 10:25
Marek Cieplak, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Aqueous Amino Acids and Proteins near Solid Surfaces and Air-Water Interfaces
*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts
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