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New Biological Frontiers Illuminated by Molecular Sensors and Actuators
Program
Wednesday, July 1, 2015
Session 10
Physical Approaches to Illuminate Novel Cellular Properties (I)
Discussion Leader:
Sanjay Kumar, University of California, Berkeley, USA
8:30 – 9:00 AM
Maxime Dahan, Institut Curie, France
Magnetic Control of Intracellular Signaling
9:00 – 9:30 AM
Yves de Koninck, Institut Universitaire en Santé Mentale de
Québec, Canada
Novel Fibreoptics Probes for in vivo Optogenetics: From Single
Cells to Hard-to-Get-to Areas of the Nervous System
9:30 – 9:45 AM
Hang Yin, University of Colorado Boulder, USA *
Chemical Biology Sensors for Membrane Curvature and Lipid
Composition
9:45 – 10:00 AM
Yi
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Lan Chen, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
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Observing the Helicase Activity of Ribosome 30S during
Translation Initiation by Using Optical Tweezers
10:00 – 10:30 AM
Coffee Break
Socrates Lobby
Session 11
Physical Approaches to Illuminate Novel Cellular Properties
(II)
Discussion Leader:
Maxime Dahan, Institut Curie, France
10:30 – 11:00 AM
Cees Dekker, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Nanofabrication as a Tool to Study the Effects of Cell Shape on
Chromosome and Protein Organization in Bacteria
11:00 – 11:30 AM
Sanjay Kumar, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Cutting the Tension with a Laser: Biophotonic Dissection of Stress
Fibers and Contractile Signaling
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Zoher Gueroui, École Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France
Engineering Spatial Gradient of Signaling Proteins Using
Magnetic Nanoparticles
12:00 PM
Closing Remarks and
Biophysical Journal
Poster Awards
*Short talks selected from among submitted abstracts