Biological Membranes: Current Challenges

BENASQUE CENTER FOR SCIENCE

Biological Membranes: Current Challenges

2005, July 31-August 19



Monday, August 01
  • 18:30h
    		• General meeting.
     Seminar room.

    Tuesday, August 02
    • 12:00h
      		• Current challenges in biological membranes
       J. Israelachvili
    • 18:00h
      		• Hydrodynamics of vesicles and cells in shear and capillary flows
       G. Gompper

      Wednesday, August 03
      • 12:00h
        		• Budding, adhesion and fusion
         R. Lipowsky
      • 18:00h
        		• Synchrotron X-ray studies of biomimetic membranes
         D. Vaknin

        Thursday, August 04
        • 12:00h
          		• Solid-like domains on fluid membranes
           V. Gordon
        • 18:00h
          		• Simulations of lipid bilayers using coarse-grained models
           M. Stevens

          Friday, August 05
          • 12:00h
            		• Peptide induced structures in lipid bilayers
             H. Huang
          • 18:00h
            		• Continuum model for fusion and fission
             M. Kozlov

            Monday, August 08
            • 12:00h
              		• Implicit solvent coarse-grained modeling of membranes
               O. Farago
            • 18:00h
              		• Open discussion on the problems of membrane fusion and fission
               

              Tuesday, August 09
              • 12:00h
                		• DNA translocation through membrane channels
                 A. Grosberg
              • 18:00h
                		• Domains in lipid mixtures
                 R. Mukhopadhyay and P. Olmsted

                Wednesday, August 10
                • 12:00h
                  		• Analytical results for thermodynamic characteristics of lipid bilayers
                   S. Mukhin and S. Baoukina
                • 18:00h
                  		• Electrostatic effects in amphiphilic systems
                   A. Travesset

                  Thursday, August 11
                  • 12:00h
                    		• Solvent-free model, properties, and applications
                     M. Deserno
                  • 18:00h
                    		• Wrinkling in biological membranes
                     S. Chaieb

                    Friday, August 12
                    • 11:00h
                      		• Sailing the surfactant sea. Dynamics of rigid and flexible bodies in interfaces and membranes
                       A. Levine
                    • 12:00h
                      		• Order and dynamics on curved surfaces
                       M. Bowick

                      Monday, August 15
                      • 12:00h
                        		• Explicit solvent effects in the electrostatics of Newton black films: evidence from computer simulations
                         J. Faraudo

                        Tuesday, August 16
                        • 12:00h
                          		• Microscopic model of ternary mixtures: cholesterol with saturated and unsaturated lipids
                           M. Schick
                        • 18:00h
                          		• Stress and geometry in fluid membranes
                           J. Guven

                          Wednesday, August 17
                          • 11:00h
                            		• First order phase transition in the tethered surface model on a sphere
                             H. Koibuchi
                          • 12:00h
                            		• Structure and dynamics of membranes studied by neutron scattering techniques
                             J. Lal

                            Thursday, August 18
                            • 12:00h
                              		• Colloidal (hydro)dynamics at fluid interfaces
                               I. Pagonabarraga