Program

Sunday, June 30th, 2019

17 : 00 Registration
19 : 00 Welcome mixer
20 : 00 Dinner

 

Monday, July 1st, 2019

07 : 30 - 08 : 30 Breakfast

08 : 45 - 09 : 00

M.B./I.R., Welcome and announcements

Session I: Materials in biological milieu

09 : 00 - 09 : 45

Andrea Salis
Department of Chemical & Geological Sciences, University of Cagliari, Italy.
Specific effects of electrolytes at biointerfaces.

 

09 : 45 - 10 : 30

Tobias Weidner
Department of Chemistry, Aarhus, Denmark
How proteins nucleate materials - a molecular view at the interface.

 
10 : 30 - 11 : 00 Coffee break & poster set-up

11 : 00 - 11 : 45

Francesca Baldelli Bombelli
Department of Chemistry, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Nanoparticle-protein conjugates: design, characterization, and biointeractions.

 

11 : 45 - 12 : 05

David Cheung
National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland
Effect of surface structure and chemistry on protein adsorption

 
12 : 15 - Lunch and free time
15 : 00 - 16 : 00 Coffee & meet the speakers of session I

16 : 00 - 16 : 40

Wilbur A. Lam
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology & Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
Development and Clinical Translation of Engineered Microsystems for Hematologic Diseases.

 

16 : 45 - 17 : 05

Birgit Fendl
Danube University Krems, Austria
Association of CRP With Extracellular Vesicles.
Session II: Lipid Interfaces

17 : 05 - 17 : 50

Tommy Nylander
Department of Physical Chemistry, Lund University, Sweden
Bimolecular interaction at the lipid aqueous interface of non-lamellar liquid crystalline phases.
17 : 50 - 18 : 20 Coffee Break & poster viewing

 

18 : 20 - 19 : 05

Peter Tieleman.
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, AB, Canada.
Increasing complexity and realism in computer simulations of biological membranes.

 

19 : 05 - 19 : 25

Sarah Waldie
Institute Laue-Langevin, Grenoble, France.
Cholesterol Deuteration and Exploitation for the Study of HDL/LDL Exchange Phenomena in Atherosclerosis.
19 : 30 - Dinner

20 : 30 -

Poster Session I

 

Tuesday, July 2nd, 2019

07 : 30 - 08 : 30 Breakfast
Session II: Lipid Interfaces

09 : 00 - 09 : 45

Maikel C. Rheinstädter
Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada
Neutrons and X-Rays for Health and Disease

 

09 : 45 - 10 : 05

Saara Lautala
University of Helsinki, Finland
A potent partial agonist of PKC orients in membranes like the biological activator diacylglycerol.

 

10 : 05 - 10 : 20

Carmen Pettersson
JPK BioAFM, Bruker Nano Surfaces, Berlin, Germany
Investigating Dynamic Biological Processes with High-Speed, High-Resolution Correlative AFM-Light Microscopy.

 

10 : 20 - 10 : 30

Sponsor Pitch Talks
Insplorion, Microvacuum
10 : 30 - 11 : 00 Coffee Break & poster viewing

11 : 00 - 11 : 20

Kaori Sugihara
University of Geneva, Switzerland
The mechanism of antimicrobial peptide synergy.

 

11 : 20 - 11 : 40

Dayane Alvares
National University of Cordoba, Argentina; and São Paulo State University - UNESP-IBILCE, Brazil
Impact of an antimicrobial peptide on the membrane fluidity of host membranes: Influence of cholesterol and a hopanoid.

 

11 : 40 - 11 : 55

Claudio Soares
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
FEBS Presentation.
12 : 15 - Lunch and free time

 
15 : 30 - 16 : 00 Coffee & meet the speakers of session II and III
Session III: Biological Membranes

16 : 00 - 16 : 45

Patricia Bassereau
CNRS/Institut Curie, Paris, France
Linkers at the interface plasma membrane-cortical actin: only linkers?

 

16 : 00 - 16 : 45

Natalie Elia
Department of Life Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel.
Cytokinetic membrane abscission mediated by the ESCRT complex.
17 : 30 - 18 : 00 Coffee Break & poster viewing

16 : 00 - 16 : 45

Susan Daniel
School of Chemical and BIomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
Biologically complex supported cell membranes and their applications in hostpathogen interactions.

 

18 : 45 - 19 : 05

Hudson Pace
Umeå University, Sweden.
Next-Generation Model Membrane Architectures for Investigating Host-Pathogen Interactions.

 

19 : 05 - 19 : 25

Natalia Baranova
Institute of Science and Technology (IST) - Vienna, Austria.
In vitro reconstitution of bacterial cell division.
19 : 30 Dinner

20 : 30 -

Poster Session II

 

Wednesday, July 3rd, 2019

07 : 30 - 08 : 30 Breakfast
Session IV: Cells and Tissue Interfaces

09 : 00 - 09 : 45

Manuel Salmeron-Sanchez
Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK.
Engineered 3D environments to control stem cell differentiation

 

09 : 45 - 10 : 30

Viktoria Weber
Department of Biomedical Research and Christian Doppler Laboratory for Innovative Therapy Approaches in Sepsis, Danube University Krems, Krems, Austria.
The blood-biomaterial interface.

 
10 : 30 - 11 : 00 Coffee Break & poster viewing

 

11 : 00 - 11 : 45

Thomas Crouzier
Division of Glycoscience, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden.
Evading the foreign body reaction with immune-modulating mucin hydrogels.

 

11 : 45 - 12 : 05

Rami Mhanna
American University of Beirut, Lebanon.
The sulfation of biomimetic glycosaminoglycans controls growth factor binding and subsequent cell proliferation and differentiation.

 

12 : 05 - 12 : 15

Ralf Richter
University of Leeds, UK.
Multivalent Recognition at Fluid Surfaces: The Interplay of Receptor Clustering and Superselectivity.

 

12 : 25 - 12 : 45

Delphine Gourdon
Biomedical Engineering Department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA and the Department of Physics, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Boundary mode lubrication of articular cartilage with a biomimetic diblock copolymer.
12 : 45 - Lunch and excursion. Free time.

 
19 : 30 Dinner

 

20 : 30 -

Poster Session III

 

 

Thursday, July 4th, 2019

07 : 30 - 08 : 30 Breakfast
Session IV: Cells and Tissue Interfaces: cont'd.

09 : 00 - 09 : 45

Joachim Rädler
Faculty of Physics and Centre for Nanosciences, Ludwig Maximilians Universität München, Germany.
Structured interfaces for the study of cell migration phenotypes.

 
Session III: Biological Membranes: cont'd.

09 : 45 - 10 : 30

Petra Schwille
Max Plank Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried, Germany.
How membranes catalyze protein self-organization.

 
10 : 30 - 11 : 00 Coffee Break & poster viewing

 

12 : 05 - 12 : 15

Chris Lorenz
King's College London, UK.
The effect of oxidised cholesterol on model red blood cell membranes.

 

12 : 05 - 12 : 15

Adree Khondker
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
A Molecular Mechanism for Polymyxin-induced Membrane Damage that predicts Bacterial Resistance.

 

12 : 05 - 12 : 15

Jorge Royes Mir
ENS Chimie, Paris, France.
Teaching nanomaterials to bacteria: bioproduction of chemically modifiable proteoliposomes.

 

12 : 05 - 12 : 15

Ferra Pinnock
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
On-chip synthesis of Ganglioside GM1 for the Treatment of Huntington's Disease.

 
12 : 30 - Lunch and free time
15 : 00 - 16 : 00 Coffee & meet the speakers of session IV and V
Session Session V: Organs on a chip.

16 : 00 - 16 : 45

Milica Radisic
Institute of Biomaterials & Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto, ON, Canada.
Advances in organ-on-a-chip engineering.

 

16 : 45 - 17 : 30

Robert Passier
Applied Stem Cell Technologies, University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands.
Human heart-on-chip models for modelling cardiovascular disease.

 

17 : 30 - 18 : 45

Forward Look round-table session

 

19 : 30 Conference Dinner

 

Friday, July 5th, 2019

07 : 30 Breakfast
08 : 00 Departure

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Sponsors

FEBS

JPK Instruments

Insplorion

Microvacuum Ltd.

Avanti Polar Lipids

Advanced Wave Sensors

Biointerphases

ProChimia Surfaces

Biochim. Biophys. Acta - Biomembranes

 

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