Thursday, November 1
2:00 PM – 6:00 PM Registration
6:00 PM – 6:45 PM Opening Session
7:30 PM Mixer and Dinner
Friday, November 2
8:30 AM – 6:00 PM Registration
SESSION 1
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Anthony Watts, University of Oxford, UK
Lipid Dependence of GPCR Oligomerization and Activation – The Neurotensin Receptor Type 1 as an Example
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Thomas Sakmar, Rockefeller University, USA
Probing Receptor Function Using Unnatural Amino Acid Mutagenesis
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
B. George Barisas, Colorado State University, USA
Nanoparticle Probes of Molecular Motions on Cell Surfaces
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Break
SESSION 2
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Erwin London, State University of New York, USA
Progress in Detecting Cellular Membrane Domains and Understanding Domain-Protein Interactions
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Lukas Tamm, University of Virginia Health Science Center, USA
Structure, Function, and Antibiotic Resistance of the Outer Membrane of Pseudomonas Aeruginosa
12:30 PM – 1:00 PM
Toshihide Kobayashi, RIKEN, Japan
A Role for Sphingomyelin-rich Lipid Domains in the Accumulation of Phosphatidylinositol-4,5-Bisphosphate to the Cleavage Furrow During Cytokinesis
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Poster Session
SESSION 3
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Gregory Voth, University of Chicago, USA
Membrane Remodeling by Proteins
4:30 PM – 4:50 PM
Durba Sengupta, National Chemical Laboratory, India
Influence of Cholesterol on Membrane Receptor Dynamics and Association
4:50 PM – 5:20 PM
Paul O’Shea, University of Nottingham, UK
Protein-Protein Interactions and Membrane Microdomain Formation
5:20 PM – 5:45 PM
Rachel Kraut, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Optically Invisible Properties of Membrane Organization Revealed by TIRF-FCS on a Sphingolipid-interacting Probe
5:45 PM – 6:05 PM
Thomas Pucadyil, IISER, India
Membrane Fission Catalyzed by the Dynamin Family of Proteins
7:30 PM Dinner
Saturday, November 3
SESSION 4
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
William Dowhan, University of Texas-Houston Medical School, USA
Protein Gymnastics in the Lipid Bilayer: Lipids as Determinants of Protein Structure and Function
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Frederick Maxfield, Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
Transport of Cholesterol into and Within Cells
10:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Akihiro Kusumi, Kyoto University, Japan
Transient GPI-anchored Protein Homodimer Rafts Are Basic Units for Raft Organization and Function
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Break
SESSION 5
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Sadashiva Karnik, Cleveland Clinic, USA
Fishing with the Angiotensin Receptors
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Amitabha Chattophadhyay, Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, India
GPCR-Cholesterol Interaction: A Multidimensional Approach
12:30 PM – 12:55 PM
Evgeni Ponimaskin, Hannover Medical School, Germany
Palmitoylation of the Serotonin 5-HT1A Receptor Is Critically Involved in Regulation of Receptor's Function
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Poster Session
SESSION 6
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Robert Stroud, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Structures of a Hinging Membrane Enzyme Access Membrane-Resident Lipid to Produce Lipid X in the Synthetic Path to Lipid A
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Jean-Marie Ruysschaert, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
Emerging Roles for Lipids in Structure and Function of Multidrug Transporters
5:00 PM – 5:25 PM
Laurence Salomé, CNRS, France
Mu Opioid Receptors: Functional State and Dynamic Organization in the Membrane
5:25 PM – 5:55 PM
John Baenziger, University of Ottawa, Canada
Uncoupling Binding from Gating in the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor: A Possible Role for Lipids Modulating Synaptic Function
7:30 PM Banquet
Sunday, November 4, 2012
SESSION 7
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Boris Martinac, Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, Australia
Differential Effects of Lipids and Lyso-Lipids on the Mechanosensitivity of MscL and MscS
10:00 AM – 10:25 AM
Irena Levitan, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Structural Determinants of Cholesterol Regulation of Inwardly-rectifying K+ Channels
10:25 AM – 10:45 AM
George Pabst, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Physical Control of Ion Channel Function in Lipid Domains
10:45 AM – 11:05 AM
Sandro Keller, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Functional Reconstitution of Membrane Proteins by Isothermal Titration Calorimetry
11:05 AM – 11:30 AM Break
SESSION 8
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Manuel Prieto, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
Amyloid-like Fiber Formation Driven by Lipid-Protein Interaction: Structure and Dynamics from Homo-FRET, FLIM ,and FCS
12:00 PM – 12:25 PM
Diego de Mendoza, Universidad National de Rosario Argentina
Regulation of the Cold-Sensor DesK Reconstituted into Liposomes
12:25 PM – 12:45 PM
Ari Gafni, University of Michigan, USA
Characterization of Alzheimer’s Aβ Peptide Interactions with Model and Cell Membranes Using Single Molecule Imaging
12:45 PM – 1:05 PM
Christine Ziegler, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Structural Evidence for Functional Interaction of Betaine Transporter BetP with Anionic Lipids
1:05 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Poster Session
SESSION 9
4:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Roger Koeppe, II, University of Arkansas, USA
Assessing Single Residue Ionization and Contribution to Lipid-Protein Interactions
4:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Frances Separovic, University of Melbourne, Australia
Membrane Interactions of Amyloid Abeta 42 Peptide from Alzheimer's Disease
5:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Antoinette Killian, Ultrecht University, The Netherlands
Synthetic Transmembrane Peptides as Models for Membrane Proteins
5:30 PM – 5:55 PM
Mibel Aguiler, Monash University, Australia
Defining the Mechanism of Peptide-Membrane Interactions Through Membrane Structure Change and Recovery
5:55 PM – 6:25 PM
Francisco Barrantes, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Argentina
Acetylcholine Receptor Protein-Lipid Crosstalk
7:30 PM Dinner
Monday, November 5, 2012
SESSION 10
9:30 AM – 9:55 AM
Hassane Mchaourab, Vanderbilt University, USA
Transporter Conformational Dynamics from Spin Labeling EPR Spectroscopy
9:55 AM – 10:20 AM
Andrew Clayton, Swinburne University, Australia
Protein-Protein and Protein-Lipid Interactions Probed Using the Many Dimensions of Fluorescence
10:20 AM – 10:40 AM
Anirban Banerjee, The Rockefeller University, USA
Structural Basis of Inhibition of Voltage-dependent K+ Channels by Pore-blocking Toxins from Animal Venom
10:40 AM – 11:00 AM
Daniel Wüstner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Time-resolved Image Cytometry of Sterol and Protein Transport in Niemann-Pick Type C2 Fibroblasts
11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Break
SESSION 11
11:30 AM – 11:55 AM
Andrew Brown, University of New South Wales, Australia
How Is Cholesterol Sensed to Maintain Its Own Homeostasis?
11:55 AM – 12:20 PM
Musti Swamy, University of Hyderabad, India
Lipid-Protein Interactions and Chaperone Activity of the Major Protein of Bovine Seminal Plasma, PDC-109
12:20 PM – 12:40 PM
Cedric Govaerts, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Lipids Modulate G Protein-coupled Receptor Function
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM Tour (Optional)
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