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Biophysics of Proteins at Surfaces: Assembly, Activation, Signaling
Program
Biophysics of Proteins at Surfaces: Assembly, Activation, Signaling
Madrid, Spain
October 13 – 15, 2015
PROGRAM
Scientific sessions will be held in the Main Lecture Hall at the Biology Faculty, and the
poster sessions in the Hall of the main building of the Biology Faculty in the Complutense
University of Madrid unless otherwise noted.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
8:30 – 17:00
Registration/Information
Outside Main Lecture Hall
9:00 – 10:00
Opening Session
Session I:
Oriented Protein Assembly at Biological Surfaces
Chair: Marisela Vélez, ICPQ CSIC, Madrid
10:00 – 10:25
Gregor Anderluh, National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia
Affecting Membrane Assembly and Insertion of a Cholesterol-dependent
Cytolysin Listeriolysin O
10:25 – 10:50
Adam W. Smith, University of Akron, USA
Resolving Membrane Protein-Protein Interactions in Live Cells with PIE-FCCS
10:50 – 11:20
Coffee Break
11:20 – 11:35
Kabir Biswas, National University of Singapore*
E-cadherin Junction Formation Involves an Active Kinetic Nucleation Process
11:35 – 11:50
Nadja Hellman, University of Mainz, Germany*
Surface Induced Oligomerisation—The Case of the Alpha-Toxin from S. aureus
11:50 – 12:05
Bárbara Olmeda, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain*
Supramolecular Assembly of Pulmonary Surfactant Protein SP-B Ensures Proper
Dynamics and Structural Stability of Multilayered Films at the Respiratory Air-
Liquid Interface
12:05 – 12:20
Manuel Prieto, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal*
Quantifying the Membrane Assembly of Amphitropic Proteins by homo-FRET
Analysis
12:20 – 12:35
Dimitrios Morikis, University California, Riverside, USA*
Ligand-specific Conformational Changes in CCR7 Coupled to Selecting Different
Signaling Pathways upon CCL19 and CCL21 Ligand Binding
12:35 – 13:30
Lunch
13:30 – 15:00
Poster Session I
Hall of Biology Faculty
*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts