Kalina Hristova, Johns Hopkins University, Subgroup Chair

Membrane Structure & Assembly Subgroup 2012 Symposium
Saturday, February 25, 2012
San Diego, California 

How Membrane Properties Define Protein Function

1:00 Antoinette Killian, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Model Transmembrane Peptides: From Basic Design towards Function

1:35 Emad Tajkhorshid, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Accelerating Membrane Insertion of Peripheral Proteins with a Novel Membrane Mimetic Model

2:10 Michael Brown, University of Arizona
Flexible Surface Model for Membrane Lipid-Protein Interactions

2:45 Coffee Break

3:10 Mark Sansom, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Multiscale Simulations of Signaling at Membranes

3:45 Sin Urban, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Rhomboid Proteolysis: Why inside the Membrane?

4:20 Anne Kenworthy, Vanderbilt University Medical School
Role of Glycolypid-binding Bacterial Toxins in the Assembly and Function of Membrane Domains

4:55 Kalina Hristova, Johns Hopkins University
Closing Remarks

5:00 Subgroup Business Meeting