Monday, 4th August 2014 International Biophysics Congress

• Serial femtosecond nanocrystallography opens anew avenues for structural biology - Petra Fromme

• CryoEM image analysis of macromolecular motor assemblies - Keiichi Namba
• Cryo-ET of large mitochondrial protein complexes - Karen Davies
• Structural dissection of architecture of caveolar protein coat - Oleksiy Kovtun
• Mechanistic insight into mitofusin-mediated membrane fusion - Xiaoyu Hu
• Edge detection and segmentation of organelles, membranes and macromolecular complexes - Ben Hankamer

• Dissecting oncogenic RAS signaling by NMR - Mitsu Ikura
• Examining the allosteric properties of key metabolic enzymes - Emily Parker
• Targeting of a natural killer cell receptor family by a viral immunoevasin - Richard Berry
• Ligand interactions and dynamics of a malaria protein that plays a key role in erythrocyte invasion - Raymond S. Norton

• Chromatin structure and dynamics - Enrico Gratton
• Single-molecule studies of DNA replication: From in vitro to in vivo - Antoine M. van Oijen
• A single-molecule view on kinesin motor-protein cooperation in intraflagellar transport in living C. elegans - Erwin J.G. Peterman
• Imaging the diffusive route of transcription factor activity in live cells by fluctuation analysis - Elizabeth Hinde
• Solvent relaxation in Golgi membrane by Phasor-FLIM approach - Alireza Lajevardipour
• Molecular tools for targeted covalent labeling and light-induced activation of biopolymers - Saulius Klimasauskas

• Structural studies of the gating mechanism in a pentameric ligand-gated ion channel - Marc Delarue
• Visualizing GPCRs at the single molecule level to reveal subtleties of signaling mechanisms - Anthony Watts
• New paradigms in GPCR organization and dynamics - Amitabha Chattopadhyay
• Conformational dynamics of a G protein coupled receptor at the single-molecule level - David P. Millar
• Label-free optical detection and super-resolution imaging of single proteins - Marek Piliarik

• A structural systems-biology approach to cell biology by electron microscopy: Multiscale structural analysis from bulk tissue to the full proteome of a single cell - Henning Stahlberg
• CryoEM and CryoET studies of protein structure and dynamics - Steven Ludtke
• Gating in channelrhodopsin - Joachim Heberle
• Interrelationship between H₂ cycling and proton motive force generation in Escherichia coli during glycerol fermentation - Karen Trchounian

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• Determination of relations between hemarehology, lipid peroxidation, antioxidant defence and trace elements in COPD - Mehmet Can Akyolcu
• Incorporation of amphiphilic cyclodextrins in biomimetic lipid assemblies - Angelina Angelova
• Eumelanin as a bioelectronic material - Shermiyah Baguisa
• Unraveling a network of interactions involved in the trafficking of virulence proteins in P. falciparum-infected erythrocytes - Steven Batinovic
• Biophysical changes facilitate cellular invasion during metastasis: An in vitro model  - Shalmoli Bhattacharyya
• Mechanisms of infrared stimulation of auditory neurons in vitro - William G.A. Brown
• Analysis of the hydration water around bovine serum albumin using terahertz coherent synchrotron radiation - Robert J. Falconer
• Characterization of fusion between mammalian tumor cells and mouse sperm - Qiang Chen
• Vesicles, queues and insulin-responsive glucose trafficking - Adelle C.F. Coster
• Artificial polymer brush film mimics the physiological and rheological behaviors of bronchial epithelial cilium - Linhong Deng
• Study on changes of coagulation factors activity in different periods of pregnancy - Xu Hairong
• Probing the membrane-inserted form of CLIC1 using fluorescence spectroscopy - Joanna E. Hare
• Senescence of long-term G2 arrested melanoma cells - Jinpeng He
• Herpes simplex virus capsid protein encoding genes UL18 and UL19: A promising antiviral targets for RNA interfernce-based therapeutic approach - Fujun Jin
•  Effect of glycosidic linkage on the sugar specificity of Jacalin - Abhinav K.V.
• Targeting double stranded RNA with spermine and 1-naphthyl acetyl spermine: A comparative biophysical investigation - Ayesha Kabir
• In situ structures of Salmonella injectisome and flagellar type III secretion systems by electron cryotomography - Akihiro Kawamoto
• A particle dynamics model of cell-cell rotation and morphological behavior - Fong Yew Leong
• Magnetic resonance biomarkers of altered lipid metabolism during liver cancer development - Sami Alghamdi
• The intracellular architectures of filopdoia were observed by cryo-ET at molecular resolution - Shinji Aramaki
• Utility of F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET-CT in the management of Iodine-131 scan negative thyroid cancer with raised thyroglobulin - Anish Bhattacharya
• A multimodal approach to the study of magnetic nanoparticles interaction with breast cancer cells - Jose L. Carrascosa
• Nano-scale spatial-temporal dynamics of paxillin and actin in 3D collagen matrices - Michelle Digman
• Characterization of CEACAM1 structure and dynamics by correlated homo-FRET and dSTORM imaging - Amine Driouchi
• Phase change nanoemulsions for cancer therapy and imaging - Donald A. Fernandes
• Microfluidic isolation of protein complexes from cell lysates for visual analysis by quantitative electron microscopy - Dominic Giss
• Xinjiang Uygur herbs image feature extraction and discriminant analysis based on color and textural feature - Murat Hamit
• Abnormal Savda Munziq, a formulation of Uighur medicine ameliorates memory impairment by improves cholinergic system an alleviates oxidative stress in the Tg-APPswe/PS1dE9 mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease   - Nurmuhammat Amat
• Charge at the 46^th residue of Cx50 is critical for the gap junctional unitary conductance and transjunctional voltage-dependent gating - Donglin Bai
• An experimental validation of calculated liquid junction potentials for monovalent ion solutions and problems that can arise with solution mixtures of different ion valencies - Peter H. Barry
• Choline activates and modulates low-sensitivity α₄β₂neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors - Ladislas Bizimana
• The origins of ion selectivity in a bacterial sodium channel revealed by µs-long simulations - Celine Boiteux
• The γ subunit of Na⁺,K⁺-ATPase, FXYD2, is involved in inflammatory pain - Bing Cai
• Brain iron accumulation exacerbates the pathogenesis of MPTP-induced Parkinson's disease - Yan-Zhong Chang
• Age-dependent expression of duodenal cytochrome B561, divalent metal transporter 1 and ferroportin 1 in duodenum of rats - Yan-Zhong Chang
• Potent and specific blockers of ASIC1a with potential for treatment of stroke - Irene Chassagnon
• Multiple ligand-binding fine-tunes TRPV1 response to the pungent stimulant capsaicin - Huai-hu Chuang
• A new target for the alpha-conotoxins: The GABA(B) receptor - Richard J. Clark
• The analgesic sea anemone peptide APETx2 interacts with both ASIC3 and hERG via overlapping pharmacophores - Ben Cristofori-Armstrong
• The GABA_A receptor γ1 subunit influences inhibitory synaptic currents via receptor clustering - Christine L. Dixon
• Local sequence of protein ß-strands influences twist and bend angles - Kazuo Fujiwara
• Inhibitory effects of angiotensin II on BK_Ca channels in podocytes via oxidative stress - Na Gao
• Voltage-dependent block of cardiac sodium channels expressed in Xenopus oocytes by bupivacaine - Yonghua Ji
• Potential action of low intensity ultrasound on iGluRs and AQP4 membrane localization to inhibit brain edema formation in rats - Mrigendra Bir Karmacharya
• Unsaturated fatty acids drastically accelerate the channel opening of voltage-gated proton channel - Akira Kawanabe
• Peptides derived from the transmembrane domain of Bcl-2 proteins as potential mitochondrial priming tools - Mibel Aguilar
• The effect of exogenous melatonin on the salinity-induced noise in salt-sensitive Characeae Chara australis - Sabah Al Khazaaly
• Permeability and mechanism of transport of cisplatin across lipid membranes - Nasma Almansouri
• Membrane permeabilization induced by sphingosine: Effect of negatively-charged lipids - Alicia Alonso
• Protein-induced millisecond structural transitions in lipid membrane nanoparticles - Angelina Angelova
• Role of a unique arginine residue on the assembly of the translocator domain in a trimeric autotransporter - Eriko Aoki
• Structure prediction of GPCRs using piecewise homologs and application to the human CCR5 chemokine receptor: Validation through agonist and antagonist docking - Karthik Arumugam
• Exploring curvature in-vitro on in-vivo lengthscales - Hanna M.G. Barriga
• Functional and structural characterization of PlyC-B at lipid membrane interface - Marilia Barros
• Molecular mechanism for atlastin-mediated homotypic fusion of endoplasmic reticulum membranes - Xin Bian
• VCA1008: A new anion-selective trimeric porin of vibrio cholerae - Paulo Mascarello Bisch
• A method to gain insight into the functioning of Colicin A - Ana Bouchet
• Triggering dynamic structural changes in model lipid membranes using pressure jump technology - Nick J. Brooks
• How does isoprene protect plants from heat stress? Investigation using model lipid membranes - Gary Bryant
• Probing the interaction dynamics between a model antimicrobial peptide and giant unilamellar vesicles - Matthew G. Burton
• The interface between the transport and the trimerisation domains of a human glutamate transporter mediates chloride permeation - Rosemary J. Cater
• Effect of Mg²⁺ ions on the Na⁺/K⁺-ATPase conformation - Petra Cechova
• Pair-wave heterodyning SPR study of amyloid beta molecule interaction with membrane mimic of raft constituency - Wei Ju Chen
• Structural and biophysical studies of the e. Coli Mechanosensitive channel of large conductance - Gamma Chi
• A novel 'outward-occluded' conformation of an antibacterial peptide ABC transporter - Hassanul G. Choudhury
• Lipid-protein interplay in the mechanism of the sodium pump - Ronald J. Clarke
• Computer-aided drug discovery: development of a method for G protein-coupled receptor binding pocket refinement - Thomas Coudrat
• Membrane induced structure of novel human tachykinin hemokinin-1 (hHK1) - Sudha Cowsik
• Nano-scale ion sequestration using tethered lipid bilayers to determine the polarity selectivity of ion channel conductance - Charles G. Cranfield
• Arf1 induced membrane remodeling and morphological changes studied by cryoEM, confocal microscopy and Langmuir film balance - Sebastian Daum
• Attempting homology modeling, energy optimization and structural validation of a difficult target SERAC1: The protein involved in an inborn error of metabolism, MEGDEL syndrome - Surajit Debnath
• Targeting multidrug resistance in breast cancer: Structural and functional investigation of BCRP - Chandrika Deshpande
• Functional and structural characterisation of the L-type amino acid transporters - Josep Font Sadurni
• Transporters of the multidrug resistance: Reconstitution into proteoliposomes and biophysical characterisation - Hans-Joachim Galla
• Biophysical investigations of the structure and function of the meibomian lipid films and the effect of ectoine - Hans-Joachim Galla
• Comparison of solute profile of simple sugars between lamellar stacks of dioleoylphosphatidylcholine by neutron membrane diffraction - Christopher J. Garvey
• Reactivity of cysteins on the large cytoplasmic segment (C45) of Na+/K+-ATPase - Jaroslava Geleticova
• Capsaicin disorders and fluidifies DPPC model membranes  - Juan C. Gomez-Fernandez
• Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring of dynamic viscoelastic changes of tobacco BY-2 cells under different osmotic conditions - Zongxing Chen
• Spectroscopic studies of the super relaxed state of skeletal muscle - Roger Cooke
• sADAM33 modulation alters mechanical behaviors of airway smooth muscle cells through phenotype transition - Linhong Deng
• Excessive TGFβ signaling and matrix metalloproteinases activity contributes to genetic thoracic aortopathy - Candice L Dilworth
• Activation of nicotinic receptor channels guides keratinocyte migration toward acetylcholine (ACh) gradient in the direct current (DC) electric field - Sergei Grando
• Mechanism of electricity-mediated change of cellular uptake and intracellular trafficking - Kentaro Kogure
• Interaction of triplex forming oligonucleotide with a promoter region of hmga1 and its anti-cancer activity associated with decreased HMGA1 expression - Md. Zahid Akhter
• Disorder and (dis)orientation - Jane R. Allison
• Protein nanoparticle bioconjugate: BSAn-Emodin, structure-function and in vivo toxicity - Silvia del V Alonso
• Structural characterisation of conotoxin Geo3330 by 2D-NMR - David A. Armstrong
• Peptide-based isolation of circulating tumor cells by magnetic nanoparticles - Linling Bai
• Fullerenol 16(OH) inhibits Aβ_1-40 amyloid aggregation - Zuzana Bednarikova
• Mechanisms of allosteric regulation and communication - Igor N. Berezovsky
• Structure and interactions of dok1 PTB domain with b2 cytosolic tail of integrin - Surajit Bhattacharyya
• A novel antiviral therapeutic target: The Vacuolar Protein Sorting 4 AAA-ATPase - Lou Brillault
• Critical role of TLRs and MicroRNAs in radiation-induced carcinogenesis - Jianming Cai
• Crystal structure of enterovirus 71 RNA-dependent RNA polymerase complexed with its protein primer VPg: Implication for a trans mechanism of VPg uridylylation - Cheng Chen
• Crystallization, preliminary X-Ray crystallographic and Cryo-electron microscopy analysis of a bifunctional enzyme fucokinase/L-fucose-1-P-guanylyltransferase from B. Fragilis - Chongyun Cheng
• Manifestations of molecular self-organization in single molecule reactions - Leonid N. Christophorov
• Solution structure of a phytocystatin from Sesamum indicum and its intermolecular interaction with cysteine proteases - Chia-Lin Chyan
• Structural studies to elucidate the catalytic mechanism of Diaminopropionate ammonia lyase - Geeta Deka
• The residues V210 and F224 is the key interaction sites between δ-COP and its sorting motif and the structure analysis of δ-COP C-terminal domain - Kai Deng
• Crystal structure of the Rab9A-RUTBC2 complex reveals the binding specificity of Rab9 with its effectors  - Jianping Ding
• Role of calcium binding in T. gondii glideosome - Marta Enciso
• Phosphorylation of cardiac calsequestrin enhance its interaction with junctin - Xuexin Fan
• Imidazolium-based ionic liquids as triggers of lysozyme amyloid fibrillization - Diana Fedunova
• Functional studies of 16S rRNA methyltransferase RsmF from Thermus thermophilus using transcriptomic and proteomic techniques - Jingyuan Feng
• Comparison of heme degradation patterns during interaction of hemoglobin with n-alkyl sulfates - Leila Fotouhi
• Structural diversity of a novel family of cyclic plant peptides - Bastian Franke
• Role of the flexibility of antigen binding site in high affinity antibody elucidated by surface plasmon resonance - Natsuki Fukuda
• The artificial assembly of the bacterial flagellar motor switch complex - Lorraine Ganuelas
• Design of novel gp41-based immunogens for HIV-1 vaccine development - Guofen Gao
• Differential cytotoxic effect in response to polymorphism of amyloid fibrils - Zuzana Gazova
• Crystal structure of Rot, a global regulator of virulence genes in Staphylococcus aureus  - Yuwei Zhu
• Coupling scheme of the rotary motor thermophilic F₁ - Kengo Adachi
• Millisecond time-resolved small-angle X-ray scattering revealing the kinetic pathways of lipid membrane complexes formation with DNA and proteins - Angelina Angelova
• DNA aptamers as theranostic tools to detect and regulate apoptosis - Md Ashrafuzzaman
• Single-molecule enzymology with ClyA nanopores - Annemie Biesemans
• Double-strand DNA-templated copper nanoparticles as electrochemical probes for glutathione detection - Ya Cao
• Smart Droplet Microtools: An optically controlled platform for single-cell sampling and payload delivery - Duncan Casey
• Biodegradable DNA nanoparticles for efficient in vivo thymulin gene delivery in experimental chronic allergic inflammation - Adriana L. da Silva
• Temperature dependence of DNA hairpin disorder: Effects of adsorption onto gold - Kurt L.M. Drew
• Application to protein structure stabilization of fragment obtained from FBDD approach - Kei Fukushima
• Flavonolignans and their antioxidant properties - Michal Biler
• In silico studies of enzimes from indole-3-acetic acid metabolic pathways in the endophytic bacterium gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus - Paulo Mascarello Bisch
• Describing space-temporal patterns produced by a bistable switch in developmental gene regulatory network - Paulo Mascarello Bisch
• In silico single-molecule manipulation of DNA with rigid body dynamics - Bertrand Caré
• Molecular dynamics investigations of protein barrel flexibility and oxygen diffusion pathways in the red fluorescent protein mCherry - Prem Chapagain
• Based on structural and pseudo-amino acid composition information to predict the anti- and pro-apoptosis proteins - Yingli Chen
• Is flexibility P-glycoprotein's superpower? - Karmen Condic-Jurkic
• How protein ligands affect the conformation of the erythropoietin receptor dimer - Michael Corbett
• Is more information always better? What type of experimentally-derived restraints are most effective in the docking of a ligand: Protein complex - Evelyne Deplazes
• Magnetoferritin nanoparticles for cancer diagnosis - Kelong Fan
• The emptied bacteriophage T4 capsid: A novel nanoparticle vehicle to efficiently deliver genes into the body - Guofen Gao
• A switching hydrogen bond explains the bathochromic shifts observed in mPlum - Bernard Gerstman
• Computational approaches for inhibition of mammalian tyrosinase - Sangwon Jung
• Effects of calmodulin on calcium activation of cardiac ryanodine receptor  - Ye Win Oo
• Probing the role of spatial anisotropy and heterogeneity in contractility and adhesion distribution during cell steering - Soumya S S
• A systematic muscle model simulating the fast ramp stretches in the muscle fibres - Youjiro Tamura
• ABCB1-overexpressing MDCK-II cells are hypersensitive to 3-bromopyruvic acid - Izabela Sadowska-Bartosz
• Studies on electrical hysteresis in Gorgon nut - Mohammed Sye
• Simultaneous and efficient introduction of multiple µm-sized objects into live cells by a novel cell-GUV electrofusion technique - Akira C: Saito
• Self gravitation bio: Some convincing evidences on astrophysical principles - Iresh Ranjan Bhattacharjee
• Study on the Relationship between Histone Modifications and Gene Expression Levels in the Human H1 cell line - Qian-Zhong Li
• Stabilizing the open state of Kv4.2 by BmP02 - Bin Wu
• Influences of native energetic heterogeneity and many-body interaction in φ value analysis of protein folding - Zhuqing Zhang

• Molecular insights into the regulation of T cell signalling with single molecule localisation microscopy - Katharina Gaus

• Cell-free synthesis and crystallographic structural analyses of integral membrane proteins  - Shigeyuki Yokoyama
• Crystal structure determination of the integral membrane diacylglycerol kinase - David Aragao
• Insulin's interaction with its receptor - a complex choreography of conformational change - Mike C. Lawrence
• N-Glycosylation determines structural arrangement of Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor on a membrane - Karol Kaszuba
• Interactions of Dok7 with anionic lipid bilayers studied by multiscale MD simulation - Amanda Buyan

• Protein structure determination using nano crystals and MicroED - Tamir Gonen
• X-ray Free-Electron Lasers – a bright future for structural biology - Ilme Schlichting
• Label-free imaging using intrinsic photonic signatures - Shan Shan Kou
• Nanodiamonds as fluorescent quantum probes in biology - Lloyd C.L. Hollenberg

• Activity-dependent neural plasticity from bench to bedside - Muming Poo
• pH modulation of neuronal excitability involves a pyramidal cell axon initial segment NaV1.2 channel specific mechanism - Steven Petrou
• Channelrhodopsin et al.: Photoreceptors for optogenetic applications - Georg Nagel
• Neurobiophysics of excitotoxicity of IgGs and mSOD1 as humoral factors of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis pathophysiology - Pavle R. Andjus
• Structural and functional studies of the a4b2 nAChRs using wild-type and engineered acetylcholine binding proteins as structural surrogates   - Thomas Balle

• The puzzling phenotype of calsequestrin-1 knockout mice: What have we learned? - Feliciano Protasi
• Triadin and junctin – their role in regulating skeletal muscle calcium release - Nicole Beard
• Ca²⁺ uptake by the tubular (t-) system of skeletal muscle fibres - Bradley S. Launikonis
• Comparison of simulated calcium sparks and calcium sparks recorded in intact amphibian skeletal muscle - Janos Vincze
• Controlling vascular contractile responses with novel small molecule inhibitors of zipper-interacting protein kinase - Justin A. MacDonald

• Challenges in bio-molecular research: On comparing simulated with experimental data - Wilfred F. van Gunsteren
• Bacterial models as tools for sodium channel mechanistic discovery - Toby W. Allen
• Elucidation of catalytically competent protonation states of key residues in glycoside hydrolases - Haibo Yu
• Hamiltonian replica-permutation method and its application to Aβ fragments - Satoru G. Itoh
• Designing hydrophobic gates into biomimetic nanopores - Jemma L. Trick

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