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Biophysics of Proteins at Surfaces: Assembly, Activation, Signaling
Program
Session II:
Interfacial Catalysis
Chair: Félix Goñi, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
15:00 – 15:25
Juan Carmelo Gomez-Fernandez, University of Murcia, Spain
Membrane Surface Activation of Protein Kinases C
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
15:50 – 16:20
Coffee Break
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
16:35 – 16:50
Daniel G. Capelluto, Virginia Tech, USA*
Tom1 Modulates Binding of Tollip to Phosphatidylinositol 3-Phosphate via a
Coupled Folding and Binding Mechanism
16:50 – 17:05
Nathalie Reuter, University of Bergen, Norway*
Interplay between Weak Nonspecific Electrostatics and Cation-
π
Interactions
Governs the Peripheral Membrane Binding of a Bacterial Phospholipase
17:05 – 17:20
Sarah Perrett, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China*
Self-Assembly of Protein Nanofibrils that Display Active Enzymes
17:20 – 17:35
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
17:35 – 18:35
Keynote Lecture
Introduced by Félix Goñi, Universidad del Pais Vasco, Spain
Joshua Zimmerberg, NIH, NICHD, USA
Liquid/Protein Interactions in Membrane Fusion and Fission
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
9:00 – 17:00
Registration/Information
Outside Main Lecture Hall
9:00 – 10:00
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
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